Jak and Daxter better than Crash? Ha, ha, ha!! No way... Jak and Daxter has nothing on Crash. Well, the first game, "Jak and Daxter" was well done, but "Jak 2" and "Jak 3" were not nearly as good, and it shows in the reviews.

Crash Bandicoot 2, Crash Bandicoot 3, and Jak and Daxter (the first one), all got about 9.0/10.0. However, Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2, and Crash Bandicoot 3 all sold about 7 million copies each, while Jak and Daxter only sold about 3 million copies.

Crash Bandicoot was more popular than Jak and Daxter. Also, the games were funner (in my opinion).

All together, the original Crash Bandicoot series did get somewhat better reviews than the Jak and Daxter series.

I personally liked the Playstation platform games better than the Playstation 2 platform games. Ratchet, Jak, and Sly are your typical platformers, like Rayman, Pac-Man, TY the Tasmanian Tiger, Bubsy, Bonk, Kirby, Spyro, Conkey, Banjo, and Blinx. Then you've got Mario, Sonic (before he left the Dreamcast), Crash (before he left the Playstation), and Donkey Kong (before Rare was sold off to Microsoft), the most famous of them all. But at the very end, only Mario stayed true to platforming. Not a single one of his platforming games (excluding Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2) got reviews of less than 4.0/5.0. We all know what happened to Donkey Kong (Donkey Konga), Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog), and Crash Bandicoot (Crash Twinsanity). Oh well...

All those franchises still have potential though. Donkey Kong could come back sometime later...I know there's a new Donkey Konga or whatever coming out, and I'm sure there's more DS games somewhere along the line, but we all know it's not the same as it used to be. But I think it could get a revival sometime, perhaps with the Wii. Same with Sonic and Crash...Sonic sucks lately, though Secret Rings wasn't awful, and Mario and Sonic might be a fun game...Sonic could make a decent comeback very soon. Crash, who knows...it's been out of the game for a while, I loved those games though.

No, I want them to finish Uncharted, then move on to Jak the Lost Fronteir. In my opinion, the Jak games were close to being the best games for PS2 (I believe IGN gave them all above 9/10, pretty impressive)

What if you look at game franchises like... sports franchises? Every so often, a franchise moves cities, and if you have a big enough city you can get more than one franchise, and although few ever die, every franchise goes through its ups and downs. Crash is stuck in a sort of limbo right now... we're not going to see much out of him for a while, but that doesn't mean that a lucky lottery pick later, he can't be a serious playoff contender. You're always going to have your Yankees, where a mediocre season is a failure (Mario), and you're going to have your Marlins, where they win it all one year, and go below 500 the next (Spyro), and of course, everything in between. But, like any sports team, what's important is the name, more than who's on the roster, or what city they happen to be in at the time.

See, there you go... "Donkey Konga." Nobody likes Donkey Konga. Well, at least not more than Donkey Kong Country. I don't want another Donkey Kong, I want a Donkey Kong Country 4, or Donkey Kong Adventures. I want a real platformer, not a stupid music game. Why did Rare have to leave? They aren't even as good on Microsoft as they were on Nintendo. There is Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, but it's the worst Donkey Kong platformer, partly because it wasn't made by Rare, and you practically have to use those stupid drums again. Although the game isn't bad, it's not as good as the Donkey Kong Country games, or Donkey Kong 64.

All of the Donkey Konga games got reviews of less than 80%. And any game that has reviews of less than 80% is considered descent. Not great, but just descent. But we're talking Donkey Kong here, one of the earliest video game characters (Pac-Man predated it). He shouldn't be descent, he should be fantastic.

When Donkey Konga came out, I dismissed it as a spin-off title.

"Okay," I thought to myself. "The Donkey Kong 64 sequal should be next."

Well... No... Donkey Konga 2 came out...

"Okay," I thought to myself. "Now the sequal to Donkey Kong 64 will soon be out."

No... Donkey Kong Jungle Beat... (Not a true sequal)

"Now?"

Nope... Donkey Konga 3...

"Okay, no sequal in the Nintendo Gamecube at all... How about the Wii?"

Nope... Donkey Kong Bongo Blast.

"Well, at least Donkey Kong Country 4 will come out in one of the portables. Right?"

Donkey Kong Land, Donkey Kong Land 2, Donkey Kong Land 3...

"Donkey Kong Land 4?"

Nope... Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2, Donkey Kong Country 3 (all for GBA)...

"Yes! Donkey Kong Country 4 is next!"

Nope... DK: King of Swing...

"Okay, now I'm starting to get pissed off."

Nintendo DS: DK: King of Swing 2...

"Like seriously. We could have had a Donkey Kong Country 4 on Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, and Nintendo DS. Instead we get a two series of ports. Yes, TWO! In fact, we have three Donkey Kong Country ports (Donkey Kong Land for Gameboy, and Donkey Kong Country for Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance), a Donkey Kong Land 2, and 3, and a Donkey Kong Country 2, and 3 for Gameboy Advance. Yet, no Donkey Kong Country 4."

So lets see...

No Donkey Kong Country 4 on Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, or Nintendo DS, or the Virtual Console for that matter...

No Donkey Kong 64 sequal on Gamecube, or Wii...

What is this? Out of all of those racing games, Disney games, and hundreds of other games that immediately get ignored, we don't get a Donkey Kong 64 sequal, or Donkey Kong Country 4.

Mario did it too. Nothing but ports on the Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance.

We got 3 Donkey Kong Country games for the Super Nintendo. If this trend were to continue, we would have had Donkey Kong Country 4, 5, and 6 on Gameboy... Donkey Kong Country 7, 8, and 9 on Gameboy Color... Donkey Kong Country 10, 11, and 12 on Gameboy Advance, Donkey Kong Country 13, 14, and 15 on Nintendo DS (or Donkey Kong 64 2), and even Donkey Kong Country 16, 17, and 18 on the Wii Virtual Console. We got 1 Donkey Kong 64 for Nintendo 64. If this trend were to continue, we would have had Donkey Kong 64 2 for the Gamecube, Donkey Kong 64 3 for Nintendo DS (or Donkey Kong Country 13, 14, and 15), Donkey Kong 64 4 for Nintendo Wii, and even Donkey Kong 64 5 on the Wii Virtual Console. Oh, but no... All be get is Donkey Kong Country 1, 2, 3, and Donkey Kong 64. Actually, we could have gotten a Donkey Kong Country series on the original Nintendo, which would have brought the series up to 19, 20, and 21.

Did Donkey Kong die out? Yes... Yes he did...

Geez, going to town on Donkey Kong, are we? The people who made DKC what it was are gone. You're never going to get DKC again. If you do get it, it isn't going to be what you want, trust me. Donkey Konga is its own seperate game, like Mario Party. Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is its own separate game (and personally, my favorite out of all last generation, any console). The portable games... are portable games. It feels a bit like you're just swinging at the wind here, Alex. I mean, you may as well complain that the Rolling Stones don't write music anymore. Or that Guns n Roses went bad after Slash left. There isn't some hidden "trend" as far as DK is concerned: it's multiple separate projects that need to be looked at separately.

I almost want nintendo to make a commercial with the Wii invading Sony's headquarters: "Hey where's your install base now? Your worst nightmare has arrived."

 Those were sad days back in 1997 or whenever that commercial aired and I was still waiting for Zelda to come out on my 64.

And as far as LBP selling systems, probably not on a large scale. But if I bought a PS3, that would be a game I would get for sure.

Uncharted looks very interesting, it's the only non-360 game (other than some games on PC) that I'd really like to try when it comes out.

Nintendo did commercials where 2 guys, one in a Sega sweater and the other in a Sony sweater, held a Nintendo fan hostage. Horrendous at its best.