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@007craft - you didn't buy a Wii, but you still want Nintendo to cater to you? Geez, demanding!

Great article there ballistic. That just wasted my lunch hour.

So they can win a copy of a game that they're already really good at? And they have to pay $25 to enter? Sounds like a freaking rip off to me.

Your Wii has been collecting dust lately? Seriously? If Brawl isn't going to make you happy, just get rid of the thing. It's never going to make you happy. (Unless you're keeping it just to say it's collecting dust).

No way do reviewers represent a 'cross section of the public at large'. Find me more than a handful that aren't aged between 20 and 40 and aren't male. And I'll bet there's a whole heap of other quite narrow social categories into which all reviewers fall.

Time, methinks, for an academic investigation of the topic. (Though I'm not going to do it - anyone else out there want to?)

Totally agree... But that ain't gonna happen.

And these 3rd generation PS3 games will cost developers a bucketload, sell bugger all to a tiny install base, and never come within coo-ee of making a profit. And developers will learn from that.

(sorry for the excessive Australianisms)

Seriously, I don't hate it. I just hate willful self-delusion. Your favourite game isn't everyone's favourite game, and isn't going to be the biggest title of the year. I'm sure Halo 3'll be great, but discounting the people that love Pokemon because they are children or Japanese won't change the numbers.

Nah, I don't hate it - and I recognise that this post says anticipated. An earlier post said 'biggest'; I only commented here because I was surprised at two posts in quick succession that seemed a little too... enthusiastic, shall we say.

Yeah louiedog, all very well. But you ignored my argument. Anticipation may be mad amongst certain quarters, but if Halo 3 outsells Pokemon Diamond / Pearl, I'll eat my hat. So I would say that 'biggest title of the year' can either be worked out on quantitative statistics, or you can qualify it by saying how anticipated it is 'amongst Halo fanboys'.