Square Enix calls Final Fantasy XIII-2 a number of things in this article. “Worth playing” doesn’t seem to be one of them.
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Please stay!
AT&T mulls a return to unlimited data plans—even for those customers who switched to tiered last year.
Last minute addition
Why do I get the feeling that at tomorrow’s event Sony will reveal a PSP2 with a parallax 3D screen hastily duct taped to the front?
History repeating
Hmm
SO I was wrong about the $189 3DS price point, but then again I was wrong about the pessimistic $300 one too.
Is $250 just right? Suppose we’ll have to wait and see how the 5,000 demo units that will be sweeping the U.S. in the lead up to the big 3DS launch March 27 perform in the wild.
Rhetorical
Does anyone talk about Kinect or Move games anymore, or is it just the hacks modders have made with the hardware?
Irrelevant
Add “region-free” to the list of nerd buzzwords (like “open” and “walled garden”) that get in a product’s “negative” category in the months before it comes out and are then are utterly forgotten when everyone realizes 99.9% of the owners couldn’t give a shit.
Big boy pants
Nintendo goes black for “adult” titles in Japan. Weren’t they the ones who always claimed there were no hardcore gamers or casual ones, just people who played video games?
As an aside, what the hell is Sam Fisher really doing to that bad guy on the Splinter Cell 3D box art?
Parallels
It’s weird. You’d think after the drubbing Nintendo has given the industry over the past five years people would learn. You think they’d see the obvious parallels and refuse to allow history to repeat. And yet…
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Musclehead
Either Sony has learned nothing about what the majority of people want from their handhelds and consoles, or they’re positioning the upcoming PSP 2 as a high-powered enthusiast’s device not meant for the masses.