Recent content by jarrod

Ghost Squad and HOTD3 were both low budget, offloaded port jobs. Had they been done inhouse and given decent resources, the results would've improved accordingly. Similar ground up genre entires on Wii (RE: Umbrella/Darkside Chronicles, HOTD Overkill, Dead Space Extraction) are all far more...

This is all pretty true. I'm surprised to see some attributing big PS3 growth opportunities on FFXIII's back in Japan and little/none for Wii when it has a much fuller native lineup loaded with (potentially) bigger exclusives for this and next year (Wii Sports Resort, Monster Hunter 3, Wii Fit...

Only confirmed releases with a set publisher (in any region) counted. US releases bolded. Nintendo DS Games -A Boy and His Blob: Jelly's Cosmic Adventure (Majesco) -Advance Wars: Dual Strike (Nintendo) -Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (Majesco) -Animal Crossing to Go! (Nintendo)...

Square Enix is selling total remakes at "full prices" (FF1+2 GBA, Sword of Mana, Romancing SaGa MS, Dragon Quest V, etc) but not the FC/SFC/GB originals. Even the mobile releases of FF1-2 or DQ1-2 feature redone visuals/audio and added content. I can see Square Enix USA going for higher...

Game prices will likely be based on console generation... something like $3 for a NES game $6 for a SNES game and $10 for a N64 game. Some games might buck that though for higher premium pricing, like popular brands (ex: Super Mario Bros), games that get new localizations/translations (ex: Fire...

Here's the online publisher/game list so far... Activision~ Tony Hawk's American Wasteland Atari~ tba Bandai~ Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Digimon World Banpresto~ tba Buena Vista Interactive~ tba Capcom~ tba Eletcronic Arts~ tba From Software~ Tenchu DS Hudson Soft~ Bomberman series ...

I don't see why not really, plenty of PS2 games shipped on CD-roms and 3DM media is already in mass production at 256MB. I don't doubt the next Game Boy will use a solid state solution, there's just too many inherent advantages over optical when it comes to handhelds (drive cost, formfactor...

I agree, SCEI's clearly taking a "step down" approach here... the question though is if the company is really heathly enough to try and force a console model on an overwhelmingly low end marketplace. With Sony's board turnover (resulting directly in Kutaragi losing influence) combined with the...

Pokemon licensing? Mobile gaming has always been a heavily crowded, secondary, almost disposable games market.... there's far more than just Game Boy out there. PSP's novel in that it's taking a high end approach, with a loss taking platform and console sized game budgets. I hope it works...

Correct. It also counts already released titles. Here's the list, with confirmed US releases bolded..... Nintendo DS Games -A Boy and His Blob: Jelly's Cosmic Adventure (Majesco) -Advance Wars 3: Battle for Omega Land (Nintendo) -Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (Majesco) -Animal...

That'd be me, current (pre-E3) announced game counts are 249 for DS and 212 for PSP.

Sega gets the same treatment same on Xbox actually. Game Boy Zelda codevelopment predates the RE deal, but it likely didn't hurt relations between the companies. Capcom also developed 2 Disney games for Nintendo.

Nintendo didn't "pay" for Resident Evil, I doubt Sony did for their exlcusives either. All 3 manufacturers generally use non-cash incentives for exclusive products (IP sharing, advertising support, license fee reductions, etc).

Bunkasha is a Japanese developer, made up of ex-Climax Entertianment staff (Shining Force, Runabout, LandStalker, etc). Not well known really but a solid pedigree.

Actually we don't know yet. The Gc build was based off the PS2 version for the last 2 Splinter Cells but those were all farmed out to UbiSoft Shanghai. This time Montreal's doing the PS2 & GC versions inhouse, alongside Xbox & PC. I'm expecting the GC version to probably be based off...