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Kworn, they're only cutting the price in Japan.

GamerG,

Nintendo has the Japanese market for sure this time around. Sony and Microsoft will fight for second place there. Microsoft recently cut the price of its 360 in Japan, so Sony is doing the same.

LOL, those are great! :)

While the HDMI is exciting news, I think it must be repeated that the price drop is for JAPAN ONLY. Read comment 34

That's weird. I was only going to approve one of those. :( Oh well.

This will rock for Marble Madness. Can't wait to get one.

This will kick ass for Marble Madness. Can't wait to get one.

You're right on the money, Chris. There are so many titles that Konami could be focusing on releasing for the Live Arcade instead of some of these bizarre choices that it's insane. (And the same goes for the Virtual Console by the way. Konami better get its classic beat-em-ups on there.)

Adam (#23), I didn't know that. Good to know.

C. Grant, yes I'm being serious, and yes, you are out of touch (and what's worse is that you're smug about it too).

Here's the reality: People haven't been clamoring for DVD playback in their game systems. Your average consumer doesn't give a rip about that. And people haven't been clamoring for weather and news channels on their game systems. No one has been clamoring for either, nor did I suggest that such a thing was going on. However, I can see our hypothetical "grandma" looking at the Wii and thinking that she'd like that weather and news capability long before she'd care about the DVD playback especially considering the fact that she most likely already has a DVD player that was given to her by a family member.

You are more than welcome to dismiss the reaction of your readership* as being non-representative of the market if you want, but let's at least be honest that in this day and age DVD playback is not a big deal when everyone already has a DVD player. The news that the Wii will not have DVD playback was not in the least bit disappointing.

*When Nintendo announced that there wasn't going to be DVD playback, you'll notice that very few of your readers cared. Most could have given a rat's behind and they openly stated so. Only a handful said the news was disappointing.