Aaaaand here we go again...

Alundra was not developed by Sony, but by Matrix Software. Doesn't ring a bell? Well, they also made the FFIII and FFIV remakes for the DS. So unless Sony has a habit of buying every IP they publish, I'd say it's up to Matrix to bring Alundra to life again. Sony only published it and even that only in Japan. As always, my source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... <- took me 15 seconds to find

Wild Arms! Never played it myself, but I was always interested in it. I'm sad to say it wasn't developed by Sony, but by Media.Vision. They also made games for XBox and the DS, so I wouldn't say they are Sony exclusive. Published by them, yes, but some games of the series were also published by other companies, such as Agetec in the US. Since we all love it so much...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Although I wanted to buy it, I still don't own Rogue Galaxy. Still, I have an eye on it, though, especially since it was developed by Level-5, which I take as some sort of quality seal. Most people think Level-5 and Sony go hand in hand, but I have to burst that bubble. They make DS games, Dragon Quest IX for example. The also make the Professor Layton series. Plus, as most people don't know, they made a MMO for MSFT back in the day when the XBox (the original one) was around, which was canceled in '04. So, for the last time tonight...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Again, as I wrote in the paragraph about Alundra: I don't know if Sony owns the rights of these games. All I know (from a 20 minute research) is that they published them, somewhere, sometime. Unless they bought every single new - and unproven at that - IP, it is not entirely up to them to just churn out a new game in the series.

Do I want to see some of these games again? Sure. I wouldn't mind a new Cool Boarders or a sequel to Rogue Galaxy, or even a new Wild Arms. Do I want Sony to "raise them from the dead"? Nope. I want the developers to come up with new ideas for these, because it's their game. Their wit, their humor, their skill. They know where they want their games to go, which makes them unique.

If anybody can clarify the legal stuff about the rights of the games I mentioned ,or any other of that list for that matter, please do so - I want to know if I can count on a new game somwhere down the road. View

Should we accept delays?

No of course not, we should create a party that goes to every developer that delays a game and tell them they are very bad people. Then we bake a cake and eat it in front of them, without sharing it with them!

Seriously, if a game is delayed, it's delayed. Be it because it sucked, it isn't ready yet, they don't want to release it along with other big titles to sell more, or because they gave each other piggyback rides the last years, we can't do sh't. What am I supposed to do? Not buying the game? That means I would have missed games like MGS4 and Twilight Princess.

Bottomline: Delays suck - but not as much as crappy games. View

Really? A board game? WTF? View

Every time you call a Manga a Comic, a Mangaka dies.

That aside, I remember watching the Angel Sanctuary anime. I found it quite... disturbing. Not because he loves his sister, but rather due to the quite drastic showcase of brute violence (there was a scene where a demon rips him apart, literally). Dunno, this kinda killed the whole thing for me. View

http://www.gamefaqs.com/sea...

Hmm... do you hear that sound? Like silence fading in, slightly, like the suns light on a warm summers day, filling you with satisfaction?

It's the sound of people that don't know what they are talking about, shutting up. View

Almost everywhere in Berlin, for all I know. Every major retailer for electronics (Saturn, MediaMarkt) does that, but only for a short period after release, judging from the flyers. Dunno the prices in the rest of the country, though. View

Oh my god! They dare selling it for less than others, so that more people can afford it easier! Fast, call Konami, MGS4 officially flopped!

A little story for everyone:
When MGS4 was released here (Germany), many retailers sold the game (the normal edition) for 45 Euros. Today, most retailers here sell it for anywhere between 55 and 69 Euros. So, did they release it as a "bargain bin" game? No. They do the same with most titles over here (Halo 3, Super Mario Galaxy, GTAIV, all cheaper the first day).

Man, they really use every little bit against the PS3. I have yet to see a sane person b'tching about a game being not expensive enough. That's just pathetic. View

The only uni-console I can imagine ATM would be a MSFT/Sony product.
Why?
Both go into a very similar direction, I'd say. Both focus on the "hardcore" gamers and make have "some" games for the casual crowd (Lips/Singstar for example). They are essentially the counterpart to Nintendo's Wii. Both are about equal in terms of power, both with their cons and pros (I will so get flamed for this).
Why can I imagine both working together? It's the third-party games. Exclusive games that aren't made by either first or second party developers are becoming scarce on both sides (Eternal Sonata, FFXIII). It simply doesn't work out to only sell it to one audience.
What does KZ2 cost? What did MGS4 cost? I have no f'in clue, but they sure are/were expensive. You know that ONE single game already almost killed a company, due to the sheer cost? ShenMue was touted the most expensive game of all time, it even got the Guiness Record back then. We all know how many (read: how few) people bought it and what happened to the Dreamcast.
Unless MSFT and/or Sony can create a first party line up next to Nintendo's (Pokemon, Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, you know the names) in terms of quantity and quality, there isn't really an economic point in making a console. That, or one of them pulls a PS2 and sells more than 120 mio. units and basically owns everyone with their market shares.
Would I be happy to see a MSFT/Sony console? You bet your ass. No problems with exclusive third party games, no dev that can't handle one console better than the other and, hopefully, no fanboy wars. Do I think it will happen? Maybe, there always is a slight chance for everything, but I won't bet on it. View

Come on, give me a European release date! I don't care if it's English only (I prefer that anyway), just tell me it will be released over here someday.

BTW, SquareEnix, I'm still waiting for Grandia 3. Since about 3 years. View

Thank you! I always thought I was the only one. View

Judging from the last pic, it reminds me of Fired Up for the PSP. View

*makes pistol-hand-thingy*
Bang!

Actually, I might profit from something like that. I bet I wouldn't suck at fighting games as hard as I do now with one of these. View

I never understood how some people can screw with one interview so hard that everybody reports something different. All that was said about a PC and FFXIII is, that it is developed via the Crytsal Tools ON the PC. That's it. No one talked about a PC version. View

Probably March 2010? Ouch. View

English, please..? View

I hope they fixed the slowdowns and the awful controls from AC4. I wanted to buy it, but the demo killed it completely for me. View

Well, it would be useful to have access to cheats or FAQs (both online, think of gamefaqs.com) while gaming... but yeah, the ressources needed would be pretty high. Besides, my Laptop is on pretty much all the time, so I don't need it. Still handy, though. View

I don't really care about the 8-Bit style, I think it's pretty cool, but the MegaMan 7&Bass/8 look would have done it for me as well.
What I really dislike is that they took out sliding and charging... View

Well, I am a big supporter of Homebrew and I can see why nobody - including me - cares about this.
I want the PS3 to be hacked. Yes, I admit it. Why do I want it to be hacked? For the same reason I have a CFW on my PSP. Complete region free-nes and Homebrew.
PS2 and PSX games on the PS3 are region locked. I understand why, lots o' paperwork (i.e. licensing issues, PAL/NTSC stuff, publishing rights, all that). The problem is, I don't really care. I have a console that CAN play my games, but isn't ALLOWED to because I imported them. I paid money for them, games that nevere saw the light of an European day. A CFW for PS3 would easily kill off that problem for me.
Homebrew... whenever you say that nowadays people think of ISO loaders, ripping tools, piracy in general. I don't. I love the idea of having a console that allows people to create their own games/apps. There are games out there that put some development studios to shame.
Search for the Homebrew (!) game "No Gravity". Do it. Download it, play it. It speaks for itself.
The problem is, piracy would harm sales, not of consoles, but of games. I don't pirate games on my PSP and I wouldn't do it with my PS3, but I am hardly the majority. I don't want the same thing that happens to the PSP right now to happen to the PS3. But I'm not naive enough to think hackers would include a "doesn't work with burned games" option. It's a double edged sword.

Java isn't really made for games, not even to speak about emulators. It' doesn't work, except they find some magic workarounds. It won't lead to a whole homebrew scene. It won't make my PS3 finally play my copy of Grandia 3. Java games on PS3 are nothing but a glimpse of what COULD be, but isn't for several reasons. View

Tell that everyone who is trying to play Brawl and actually wants to win. View