I should have specified my comments, Montana. Yes, the Japanese are willing to change drastically to adopt new ideas. But, their old stayed-and-true formulas still run rampant while the western world is going on to bigger and better things. Look at the RPG world; 10 years ago, the WRPG was a joke. Now, it's the becoming the standard. Meanwhile, FFXII and Blue Dragon are doing the old-school thing. Are they wrong? Not necessarily, but you have to admit that western gaming has been slowly bleeding into every genre that you formerly accepted as being Japanese-only.

The Japanese are doing a great job of changing the face of gaming, but the western world has done a great job of improving on the genres that the Japanese created back during the NES days while the Japanese developers have sat on their hands and not done much with their original creations.

You jest?

Maybe it will be end of it's lifespan, but ha, you must be kidding.

I would have to go with Montana with this one. No other handheld or console has released a holy trifecta like MGS/GT/FFVII within a year of each other. That singlehandedly changed gaming forever.

If you mentioned the NES as the best console ever, I might agree.

I just like to make fun of myself and say:

Run-on sentence FTW!

I thought Table Tennis was a budget title, it's at least 30% off here in Sweden. Do you mean that that's still too expensive?

Playstation 2 > DS > Playstation

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Edit: Nintendo Shares Rise on Higher Forecast Expectations

I've said it in another thread before; Most franchises seem to be taaking a hit lately (Good thing, IMO). FF, MGS, Madden, Halo, Pokemon, Mario, Zelda, etc. Gamers are spreading out to more games.

Not every game can succeed in the market, that's what competition is for. I imagine games like madden will pick up over the holidays.

I'm really confused...

-When did Pro Evolution Soccer 6 come out? Vgchartz lists it as selling 1.02 million (.94 others, .00 Japan, .08 US).

-When did Pro Evolution Soccer 2007 come out? IGN says early 07 in the US, late 06 in Europe/Japan. Yet according to vgchartz it has only sold .08 million (all in the US). So .00 others, .00 Japan, .08 US? That doesn't sound right, considering it sold the same as PES6 in the US, one would expect total sales to be quite a bit higher than .08 million.

-So is it Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 that comes out later this year?