How to Take a Name

Reggie Fils-Aime is the President of Nintendo of America.  Phil Harrison does something with the PlayStation 3 for Sony (i.e. I don’t know his position).  They were both at the Game Developer’s Conference this week.  Click below for a look at how executives roll and a lesson in taking someone to the mat.

Infendo - Nintendo Blogging: GDC: Fils-Aime owns Harrison

PS3 Song

Take music from The Fray, a console war, and people with too much time on their hands.  Mix together and you get something funny enough that non-gamers probably get this.

[via Joystiq]

How Do You Make a PS2 Game Look Like a PS1 Game?

By playing it on your PS3, silly!

Not entirely safe for work:

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800 in line, 790 disappointed*

The PlayStation 3 will be released upon us poor Americans in about 30 minutes. A couple of folks got in line in San Francisco to get their system. $500 or $600 (no game included) later for the first few and the rest will go home without the prize.

Is it worth it? The system I’m getting is $250, with a game, and they made enough of the things that I don’t have to wait in line for more than an hour (and that hour will be mostly meet and greet/nerd observation time and buying an extra controller). Is that worth it?

I’m Getting a Wii!!!

First off, stop laughing. I know that post title sounds plain wrong.

Second, on the same day that Gamestop announced that it wouldn’t be getting enough PlayStation 3 systems to fulfill all pre-orders this coming Friday, my phone rang to let me know that my Zune will be available tomorrow (11/14) at GameStop. This was, of course, a mistake. When I pre-ordered my Nintendo Wii, it hadn’t been updated in the computer system yet. So we all reserved Zunes that were later transferred to be Wii’s. The result was that GameStop corporate though I reserved both of them (hence the errant phone call today).

Upon calling my local GameStop to learn all of this, I also learned that they will be receiving enough Nintendo Wii systems to cover every pre-order they made. This isn’t entirely surprising, but nice to have confirmation of. It also sounded like they’d only have enough to cover pre-orders, but time will tell.

This is also a blow to Sony. Having a stellar product means nothing if you can’t even begin to meet demand. Also given that both Sony and Microsoft are selling their systems at a loss (a common practice with video game systems where the system costs more to build than you pay at retail), they are behind Nintendo a fair bit. Nintendo will make a profit on each Wii they sell thanks to not going for the bleeding edge of technology today while still delivering a good gaming experience.

That said, I’m freaking excited about this coming Saturday. I’m set to have a good day, a good night, and a good Sunday going to church, rehearsing for the Feast of Lights, and getting my grubby hands into Zelda.

For those interested, here is a video that really takes the ticket for “Geek Porn” that I described earlier. Complete with 70’s music dubbed in. And for the folks wondering what the deal with Zelda is, 1up is doing a week-long feature with a new article every day.

PS3 and PC Pretty Similar?

If you have to install the game to get it to perform faster, why not just play it on a PC (setting aside the obvious fact that you can’t get this game on a PC)?

And wasn’t the Blu-Ray supposed to have fast enough load times to negate this need?

This is fairly disappointing to see in a launch title.  Usually the games that push limits don’t come out until the end of the life-cycle…

Square Enix not on PS3?

According to 1up, Square Enix may not be exclusively a PS3 developer any more.  This isn’t big news since they’ve been making games for Nintendo and their DS for a while now.  But it may be big news if their flagship games start appearing on consoles not made by Sony.

Really, the only reason I had to buy a PS3 was Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts.  But neither of those are worth the price tag of a PS3.  So I fall into the camp of hoping for more of my favorites on the systems that cost less and deliver what they should: a good gaming experience.

More PS3 Woes

Sony is on defense yet again with regards to their new video game system coming out in November. I completely agree with this guy.

When will they wake up and realize that it doesn’t matter how good the product is. If the majority of talk about it in the run up to launch is negative, it won’t end well. They need to turn this around if they want to reach the expectations they’ve set for themselves (unless that expectation is to run the PlayStation brand into the ground).