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Their credibility is completely laughable. Let's not spiral this into a 100+ comment poopfest.

Everyone and their mother deserves a chance to play Ikaruga, although I don't know if my mom could handle the bullet-hell madness.

I already have this for GC, but Live Arcade is quickly stacking up to be one of the biggest selling points of a 360, IMO.

Fred T. wrote:
"Fact: Mario Party 4, 5, and 6 outsold (individually) RE4 on the GC .. RE4!!!

When a collection of lame mini-games outsells an award-winning, flagship game of a AAA franchise.. then you know you have serious problems."

Also fact: The PS2 port for RE4 was announced shortly before the GC release of the game.

It's a good read, though it has nothing that stands out from standard corporate speak. Still, I give Reggie credit for backing down at the baited opportunities to slam Microsoft and Sony, and especially for being honest on the last question:

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GP: Of the new Wii games announced so far, which ones are your personal recommendations to GamePro readers and why?

Fils-Aime: Every one of them! Remember, I'm a marketer by training.

For everyone complaining about the whole maraca-shake thing -- you've never played a Tiger Woods game before, eh? They've had this doofy "hold a direction and tap R2 as fast as possible to amplify spin" mechanic that breaks realism for years now.

And please, everyone just shut up about the whole graphics and gameplay comparison:

1) Still screens of Nintendo systems have always looked bleh, but they look much, much better in motion (they're not as gussied up as Sony/MS stills; I think it's a part of the hardware). So wait until you see it in person.

2) If this is indicative of the final product's graphics, then yes, EA is being lazy, taking the PS2 version of '07 and just working on Wiimote controls. The Wii can handle far, far more than this, and you all well know it. I'll poop on EA long before I poop on Nintendo for this, especially after seeing how nice and clean Super Swing Golf looks. (With poor frame rate, but still.)

While I'm a huge Tiger fan, this reeks of a rush job, especially since '08 is probably coming out in, oh, 9-10 months. Personally, I'll stick with Super Swing Golf and wait for '08 and hopeful online implementation.

>>Yeah, same thing happened when they did that Final Fantasy day. Final Fantasy 3 for DS was said to be $20 but magically was unavailable the WHOLE day. Next day price and availibity was the same until later it said product in stock but price went back to $40.

I think they are lying to the public and just hide the consoles during those periods of time.

** BlindSideDork -- I got FF3 and FF12 with no problems at my TRU. It's not really the store's fault if the deal is so overadvertised on VG-deal Web sites that people descend in droves to snap up the games first thing in the morning.

When I bought both games, I got there only about 40 minutes after the store opened, and the register worker told me, "Yeah, we've had people coming in all morning with these coupons."

lol oldtendo

This ... is completely normal, and makes perfect sense. There are plenty of people who actually have reward points saved up in their accounts, you know.

I just got married, so I've got tens of thousands of reward points on my AmEx. I typically redeem them for gift cards to clothing stores and what-not, but if I could use it straight-up for a gaming system with no cash involved, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

If you haven't cashed in points in months or years, you'd easily have 46,000 points set up. Way to overreact, though.

This is kind of an interesting juxtaposition with the "10 Gaming Myths" story from ExtremeTech claiming that "you don't need a $500 graphics card."

Common Sense wrote:
"So to say the least, this is not impresive. When I see the new splinter cell as an exclusive for the wii, or even games like ghost recon or rainbow six, then id care, but come on, nintendo fans stop pretending, these are the same games that if they came out on ps2 youd say they are crap."

Yes, probably. Because the whole excitement factor of playing something on the Wii is the controller, in case you hadn't noticed. I quite enjoy FPSes but can't stand using analog-stick controls. To have something more akin (and possibly superior) to a KB+M setup for a console is beautiful, and it's the majority of why this news is 10 gallons of excitement in a 5-gallon jar.