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@Tuulenpoika And I guess YOU meant "the North American release"

Gosh, it's weird looking at how young Halford and the boys look there. 2/5 of those guys aren't even in the band anymore. Saw them live a couple years ago and they're quite... well-traveled. Still put on a hell of show though!

I have a CPP and visuals seem good enough for me. I'll probably pick it up on sale, still have quite a backlog to get through.

I think it'll smash that current top stretch goal of $850,000 within a couple of days, so there's still a chance yet. I think the "treasures in the basement" comment is a tease of a stretch goal, just like in the teaser site the line "ironic, that only with your help can I destroy you..." was teasing at crowdfunding.

46 F2P games in a year LOL. This is the best representation of "throwing **** at a wall and seeing what sticks" I've ever seen.

His pure joy in the last 12 minutes of that video is pretty sweet. I don't even remember the last time I was that happy! Good for him.

Yeah, it's possible that they're referring to DLC Pack 2. The fiscal year ended March 31 and the DLC was released in April.

That said, I would happily fork over money for battle arena DLC, like the whale I am.

@ericwithcheese2 Er, both of those quotes have the word "likely" in them... as in "I wasn't making any claim, just that that's a likely case."

@Quorthon I wasn't making any claim, just that that's a likely case. Thanks for the true crime documentary though.

@Quorthon His company kind of went belly up. Most likely quite a bit of debt involved there.

He was supposed to be the savior of JRPGs.

Jokes aside though, I hope he's OK. Most likely just dodging people he owes money, but it could always be worse.

How big is the market potential for a $250 Sonic figure?

@MadAdam81 Well, that's what you get. Traitor.

I am now Ose the Obscene of the Katana clan. Alrighty.

Join the clan, or suffer: http://swordorwhip.com/?c=phWcgLqLuxs9UMK9ZDRJZj1WUYvDV2

@MitchVogel Well, more expansion than actual remake I think. They claim there's double the content of the original. I was actually comparing it to the first Devil Survivor Overclocked though. Seems the combat is mostly unchanged from that game.

Like a cross between FE and Pokemon... orrr, exactly like the first game.

@FragRed Microsoft has a presence in Europe?

@HollywoodHogan You should choose TotalRecall for your next account/name, because it is also a great example of a remake full of pointless dialogue and nothing worth watching.

@HollywoodHogan Ok, which American rock bands since Nirvana haven't been majorly influenced by Nirvana? What hidden gem of the post-grunge scene have I been missing out on?

@DJStarstryker Upon closer inspection, almost all of them are English artists under 25 years old. I guess that explains it.

Alter Bridge appears to be a US 'post-grunge' rock band that's been around for over 10 years though, so a little surprised I've never heard of them. Maybe because almost every American rock band since Nirvana has been Nirvana Junior and they kinda run together after awhile.

Gary Clark Jr. sounds like he might be my jam though, will have to check out some of his songs.

I must be getting old because I have heard of literally zero of these songs or artists.

...no gameplay in the video? Oh well, will keep an eye on it.

At this point, the only news I want to hear about this game is "It's coming to the west on ____."

@faint They lost a lot of money with that price cut. It was supposed to be recuperated in software sales. It wasn't. It was the wrong decision to make. Of course hindsight is 20/20, but now that the Wii U is in a similar position, I hope Nintendo has learned from that failure.

@Faruko Selling 1 product is never a better idea than selling 2 products.

@faint The cut to $99 did almost nothing for the Gamecube, other than force Nintendo to take a loss on every machine they sold.

@Faruko Well, we know from NPD results that Wii U has sold about 260k in USA alone this year and something like 120k in Japan. If it was at 9.5mil shipped on Dec 31, it's certainly above 10mil now.

Surprised at solid charting for Mario Party 10. That's a better opening than Mario Party 9. Happy to see Bloodborne chart so well too.

@firstnesfan Would do nothing for sales. It didn't work for the Gamecube either, and that was one of the most aggressive price cuts in industry history. Nintendo's goal at this point is to maximize profit per unit, which means keeping the price at $300 and selling as many games as they can. Mario Kart has something crazy like 50% attach rate, so I'd say they're at least meeting that goal.

Just the Smash DLC for me I guess. Still waiting on those 1st party GBA titles that EU has and the next Ubisoft sale.

It's on t-shirts and everything. Pretty amusing.

I suppose this is supposed to make me feel better about having to pay $60 for the game at launch. It's doesn't, so I'm not.

Wow those sales are awful right across the board. There are no winners this week, only lesser losers.

Wow, you weren't kidding that the blog post is unapologetic. It's all just making excuses and rambling on about some great vision. I can't even feel sorry for this guy.

Wouldn't it have to have Android/iOS support to reach "a billion devices?" Fat chance of that...

Holy moses @ 87% drop on Bloodborne. What happened?!

I do appreciate the art, but nah. Card collecting is just too expensive and lucrative to get into.

@Kaze_Memaryu Childish is dedicating significant portions of your day to complaining about stuff you have no interested in and doesn't affect you in any way.

Still missing the GBA games that are already out in both JP and EU. No bueno.

Great and well-deserved for Bloodborne. Shame about Disgaea though. Honestly, most of what NIS makes is crap and I wouldn't be sorry to see any of their other games selling so poorly, but Disgaea is a great series. Kind of makes me worry for the future of it. Not really a vote of confidence when their flagship series and first PS4 exclusive sells 22k copies.

Hmm the ones that I wanted, I already bought like 2 years ago.

Ultimate NES Remix, I guess?

Microsoft buying Sega may actually have made sense at the time. Xbox had a great initial push of Japanese support, mostly from former Sega partners and affiliates. Itagaki was probably the most notable advocate of the box.

Neat. Might have to pick this one up.

I would buy if it was hardcover. Oh well.

Etrian Odyssey needs more love.

Actually the whole interview is really interesting. Iwata Asks are always a great read. Kinda got a warm fuzzy when Takahashi was talking about the old SNES days with Sakaguchi and the rest of the Final Fantasy team playing through and cheering at the completion of those old games. I'm glad those days are an influence on Takahashi now.

Best line from the full transcript (page 2):

Iwata: Hahaha. (laughs)

On a positive note, Yuji Himukai's art is as adorable as ever. I would gladly buy a full art book of his work.

@Spoony_Tech I just went to their site to email them. Got a paragraph in before it cut me off with a character limit. No dice.

Nah. Atlus is my favorite developer next to Nintendo, but I'm getting tired of their launch practices. $10-20 more for all of their games at launch with some cheap crap thrown in to fish for pre-orders.

Atlus would get my money Day 1 at $40, without the extras. As it is now, I'll wait for this to go on sale for $30, just out of principle.

This looks cool, but yeah, the amount that it shamelessly rips off Wind Waker is a little unsettling.