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This type of article is why I read Ars Technica. Certainly this battery tech has amazing potential, but it comes at a price. The higher charge rates result in lowered energy density, and also require higher power to charge. Specifically, charging an electric vehicle could take 5 minutes, but according to Ars would require around 180kW.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/03/lithium-breakthrough-could-charge-batteries-in-10-seconds.ars

When I went to see Spiderman 3, the theater sent in a staff member to tell us about their new DLP technology (which is awesome, btw). The info was interesting, but the whole time I was thinking: "Why couldn't they have just made an advertisement for this?"

I'd imagine that this live advert for the Wii is going to be equally as annoying.

It's a good thing only 2 PS3s got sold, otherwise Sony would've gone broke!

JUST KIDDING

Seriously, though, they dropped half a million on this?

Actually, it's Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings, a sequel to FFXII.

Regardless, it's still a mainstream FF RPG that is coming to a Nintendo platform.

Has everyone already forgotten that there is a DS-version of FFXII? Or am I slow, and this has been canned?

As to the article, it's more likely than not that the pres simply meant "We are discussing (*cough* bribing *cough*) the issue of exclusivity for FFXIII."

Let's see, the DS has been out for 29 months total (since November 21, 2004). It has sold 36.8 million units according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS). That makes 1.27 million units per month since its release.

Assuming a linear rate of sales, it would take the DS 65.5 months to sell 120 million. That's five and a half years. It's doable, but it doesn't seem terribly likely, unless Pokemon, DQIX and Phantom Hourglass give it a *huge* sales boost.

I'll say it again: if HD-DVD wants to be truly competitive, they need to get their butts in gear and produce HD-DVD burners for computers. Their lower price would give them a big edge in that market, as $400 is much closer to an external hard drive than $600.

Even then, though, they'd probably struggle due to the size difference between the two.

You know, if they would start focusing on recordable computer drives they could get a HUGE jump on Blu-ray. This would be an excellent medium for computer backup, and the lower price would put it in a decent range to be competitive with external hard drives.

GAH! THIS MAKES ME WANT A 360 FOR THE FIRST TIME!

Yes, I'm being totally serious. No, it doesn't make me want one bad enough to buy one.

Wow, the price is GREAT! At $11/GB this is no more expensive than the average price/GB of a small flash drive; I'd have expected it to be twice as much. It has a ways to go before it can be really good without an HDD used in conjunction, but I'm loving the direction things are going.