gamingeek said:

Europe and Japan are.

WTF. I have never seen a console miss out on so many games, what is with NA Nintendo, this is moronic. If I buy a console I expect every relevant game to be releases. By rule if it is out in EU it needs to be in NA.

Great game or GREATEST game?

The magestic graphics.

All that bear needs is a staff and hat and he could be Gandalf at the bridge of Khazadum.

That wolf is screwed. But hey, tigers don't hang around in packs.

Holee shiiiit. Read this:

"For some awesome reason Tokyo Jungle has dinosaurs like a tyrannosaurs rex and, according to this week’s issue of Famitsu, a pterandon. Tokyo Jungle also lets players be a salmon (?!)"

USA boxart.

Worst boxart I've seen in a while, its like japanese rpg obscure artwork. It looks nothing like the game or anything Ghibli related.

gamingeek said:

So Game UK is the largest game retailer franchise in the UK and pretty much the whole retail store market presence. They are fucked at the moment, they have credit problems, sales are down 25% and they aren't even stocking new titles like any of Ubisofts Vita games and now the Last Story too.

Do you guys in America or Austrailia have a big retailer like this and can you imagine it in a situation where they didn't even stock new titles?

Ive seen a few mom and pop stores do stuff like that but I've never seen a major retailer do it. That cannot be a good sign for them.

gamingeek said:

So Game UK is the largest game retailer franchise in the UK and pretty much the whole retail store market presence. They are fucked at the moment, they have credit problems, sales are down 25% and they aren't even stocking new titles like any of Ubisofts Vita games and now the Last Story too.

Do you guys in America or Austrailia have a big retailer like this and can you imagine it in a situation where they didn't even stock new titles?

GAME is in deep trouble. In North America we have GameStop, which bought up all the smaller chains, and as you know from the stories we post they are doing great every quarter.  In Australia we have GAME and another place called Games for Less or something like that.  GAME is identical to GameStop.  The second chain I mentioned is nicer, they carry old consoles and games.

As I hear on the UK podcasts GAME is the only dedicated gaming retailer in the UK right?  Like Stores like "HMV" and "Tessco" stock other things like movies and groceries but also games?

In any case, if GAME goes online only (which looks like the pattern) that sucks for UK gamers.

Marvel Characters in Kingdom Hearts would be a great idea. Unfortunately that won't be happening for a while. The Marvel video game rights are still all over the place right now. Going to be a while before Disney finally gains ultimate control of all of the Marvel properties.

*cough* THQ *cough*

Maybe they'll get some love when they figure out how to sell the 1.4 million units they could not sell at full price.  Incidentally, what where they thinking? Why not start out with, say, 200,000, then make more from there?

As I was saying, THQ made a real mistake trying to sell it on the HD systems.....

Seriously though it was a dropped ball.  When it was released during the 2010 holiday season, it was one of the must-own Christmas gifts, and it sold over a million units at near full price. It was a hit.  Hopefully the marketing analyst who decided it would sell just fine on the HD systems has been fired. I'm sure there's enough room for him to decide what games NOA should release or Sony will surely have a job for him to market pretty much anything they sell.