Anxiously looking forward to this title as well, and even completing a playthrough of Path of Radiance to coincide with the new release as we speak! I do feel that even on Hard mode, the recent Fire Emblem games have been a bit too easy. (I have no idea why Nintendo strips out the ultra-hard Maniac difficulty when porting the games overseas. Silly Japanese and their cultural stereotypes about "stupid Americans"!)
I downloaded and played through some of the Famicom and Super Famicom games (in Japanese, which I definitely don't speak or read!) a while back, I guess in about 2001. Now those games were amazingly difficult; trying to complete some of the levels in Fire Emblem Gaiden had me tearing my hair out. (Some of the enemies could instantly teleport anywhere on the map screen at will and attack - ugh, good luck trying to form a strategy to defend against that!) If you broke your formation for even a single turn, multiple characters would usually die. I'm not sure I'd actually want to go through that frustration again, but it would be nice to have the option.
End of 2008 totals: Wii 42m, 360 24m, PS3 18.5m (made Jan. 4, 2008)
