Ravenprose said:

SEGA thinks Nintendo could drop the Wii price to $80 and still make money

Sega said:

“The interesting thing is Nintendo, they make money off of every console they sell. I think one of the big things that we found out is it really is a mass market product where mom or whoever goes out, the 80% of the people out there who go out and buy a Wii box are happy with Wii Sports and they don’t really need another game. Or if they do need another game, they’ll buy Wii Resort because it comes with a free Wiimote or Wii Play…So, honestly I don’t know…You can obviously see that profits are down for Nintendo. I think the Wii is on its tail slide, unless they drop the price to like 80 bucks then you’ll start seeing it flying off the shelves.And I believe they’ll still make money if they drop it to 80 bucks…Point being is they have the ability to lower the price on the Wii [...] where Sony and Microsoft cannot do that.” - SEGA's Constantine Hantzopoulos

Has that reverse-engineering company ever figured out what the components of the Wii cost? (I'll look it up). 

I was hosting a party this weekend, that became one of the biggest pains in the asses I've experienced and made me so bitter that if I never see any of my friends again I won't complain.  So as a result I didn't get much gaming in.  I played a little bit of Rabbids Go Home, but mainly to show off the "Rabbid Trapped in the WiiMote" feature that managed to entertain a dozen drunken guests.  I also failed in trying to explain how to play New Super Mario Bros Wii to someone.  How the hell can you not figure out that game??  

So not much gaming for me.  Mainly cooking, decorating, and trying to get mooching guests to go the hell home.  I hate the world right.  Let me tell you, Dark Robio is just itching to come out and take it out on someone.  

robio said:

I was hosting a party this weekend, that became one of the biggest pains in the asses I've experienced and made me so bitter that if I never see any of my friends again I won't complain.  So as a result I didn't get much gaming in.  I played a little bit of Rabbids Go Home, but mainly to show off the "Rabbid Trapped in the WiiMote" feature that managed to entertain a dozen drunken guests.  I also failed in trying to explain how to play New Super Mario Bros Wii to someone.  How the hell can you not figure out that game??  

So not much gaming for me.  Mainly cooking, decorating, and trying to get mooching guests to go the hell home.  I hate the world right.  Let me tell you, Dark Robio is just itching to come out and take it out on someone.  

I hosted a party recently. I survived by being in charge of the kids, so between backyard cricket (that is not a euphemism) and the video games, my faith in humanity was retained.

ASK_Story said:

Hey guys!

I'm glad to hear that the stuff that happened have gotten resolved...well, it seems like everything is okay. I had no idea all that happened. I was so busy with the holiday week with other things I was out of the loop for awhile.

Yeah, this site is great! Hate to see a cool thing end. We don't have to deal with turds on the internet when we discuss here. I can truly be myself without dealing with annoying trolls and dumb mods modding me for even the slightest misstep.

Well, with that said here's what I've been playing lately:

Call of Juarez Bound in Blood 

Speaking for myself,  I appreciate you being here ASK.  Yeah it turned out not to be a big drama, just some organizational issues -- more details to follow -- but certainly all of the good things you like about the site, as mentioned above, will be the same.

Bound in Blood -- did you play the first one?  I di dnot have good memories of it, though at the time I was playing it on SDTV. 

Ravenprose said:

SEGA probably won't do more Mature games for Wii

I listened to the podcast, and it's just painful this painful almost egoistic machoism that seems to permeate with games and in particular the perception of Wii.  He goes from one point in the podcast saying how he plays in a band for fun and loves The Beatles Rock Band, to when the Wii gets mentioned, saying how he doesn't want to "flail around" or "stand up to play".  What kind of insane cognitive dissonance is required for this kind of stupidity?

Top 50 Media Create week 51 (December 21-27)

Software 

01. / 02. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) - 506.453 / 2.440.280 (-11%)
02. / 00. [NDS] The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo) - 291.496 / NEW
03. / 03. [NDS] Friend Collection (Nintendo) - 226.920 / 2.316.867 (+37%)
04. / 01. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII (Square Enix) - 188.511 / 1.690.475 (-87%)
05. / 04. [NDS] Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver (Pokemon Co.) - 124.704 / 3.464.577 (+12%)
06. / 05. [WII] Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) - 113.909 / 1.315.167 (+23%)
07. / 06. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven 2: Threat of the Invaders - Fire / Blizzard (Level 5) - 99.175 / 908.000 (+40%)
08. / 11. [WII] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) - 72.355 / 1.568.000
09. / 12. [WII] Taiko Drum Master Wii 2 (Namco Bandai) - 63.845 / 200.000
10. / 08. [NDS] Professor Layton and the Flute of Malevolent Destiny (Level 5) - 63.549 / 559.000 (+17%)

11. / 07. [WII] PokePark Wii: Picachu's Great Adventure (Pokemon Co.)
12. / 09. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable 2 (Sega)
13. / 14. [NDS] Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Nintendo)
14. / 16. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
15. / 13. [NDS] Pen 1 Grand Prix: A Penguin's Trouble Special (Konami)
16. / 18. [PSP] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 (Konami)
17. / 24. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
18. / 27. [WII] Momotaro Railway 2010: Sengoku Ishin no Hero Daishuugou! no Maki (Hudson)
19. / 20. [WII] Samurai Warriors 3 (Koei)
20. / 15. [PSP] Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Gundam Next Plus (Namco Bandai)
21. / 17. [PSP] Naruto: Shippuden Narutimate Accelerator 3 (Namco Bandai)
22. / 22. [NDS] Powerful Pro-Kun Pocket 12 (Konami)
23. / 25. [NDS] Tamagotchi no Narikiri Channel (Namco Bandai)
24. / 19. [PS3] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Square Enix)
25. / 28. [WII] Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Nintendo)
26. / 35. [NDS] Doraemon Baseball 2: Nettou Ultra Stadium (Namco Bandai)
27. / 00. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSP the Best Reprint) (Capcom)
28. / 32. [NDS] Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Square Enix)
29. / 00. [PS2] Little Busters! Converted Edition (Prototype)
30. / 30. [NDS] Metal Fight Beyblade: Bakutan Cyber Pegasus (Hudson)
31. / 10. [PSP] Queen's Blade: Spiral Chaos (Namco Bandai)
32. / 36. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
33. / 33. [NDS] Gokujou!! Mecha Mote Iinchou: MM Town de Miracle Change (Konami)
34. / 00. [PSP] Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines (Ubisoft)
35. / 39. [WII] Karaoke Joysound Wii DX (Hudson)
36. / 34. [WII] Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes W (Namco Bandai)
37. / 00. [PSP] Lucky Star: Net Idol Meister (Kadokawa Shoten)
38. / 31. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 (Konami)
39. / 21. [WII] Tales of Graces (Namco Bandai)
40. / 29. [PS2] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 (Konami)
41. / 23. [NDS] Stitch! DS Rhythm and Ohana Adventure (Disney Interactive)
42. / 38. [NDS] Cooking Mama 3 (Taito Corporation)
43. / 45. [NDS] Fresh PreCure! Asobi Collection (Namco Bandai)
44. / 47. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo)
45. / 43. [WII] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 (Konami)
46. / 37. [NDS] Monster Busters (Namco Bandai)
47. / 46. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo)
48. / 00. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
49. / 00. [NDS] Taiko Drum Master DS: The 7 Island Adventure (Namco Bandai)

Hardware

Wii 215,129
DSi 113,984
PS3 110,519
PSP 105,801
DSi LL 81,430
DS Lite 17,695
Xbox 360 6,489
PSP go 4,192
PS2 3,747

2009 hardware numbers

NDS -- 3 978 953
PSP -- 2 248 171
Wii -- 1 962 367
PS3 -- 1 764 532
X360 -- 373 357
PS2 -- 206 555