You + friends =/= 'most people' <.<; As well, what if come mid next year FFXIII gets pushed to Spring 2009? Are your friends still going to buy their PS3s mid 2008 after knowing this? Seems more to me that your friends are simply planning their purchase around the current 'window' of the game's release, and will most likely change their mind if the release date of FFXIII gets pushed back again. This is why *official* statements are important factors when choosing to buy a console. And to add, FFXIII coming out late 2008 is *another* speculation that has had no official comment by Square-Enix or Nomura.
That's if 'Early 2008' was actually legitimate. Level 5 has not given an official statement on the "Early 2008" release. Those are merely fan speculations. "Most people" if you ask me, wouldn't buy a console because of a fan speculation. Fan speculation has been the root of the *many* 'release dates' for games like Super Smash Bros Brawl--release dates that included Late 2006, Jan 2007, March 2007, May 2007, June 2007, September 2007, December 31st 2007, then finally the first official statement by Nintendo that said December 3rd 2007, which was then pushed again to February 10, 2008. I wouldn't be surprised to see the same thing happen to White Knight Story with all these fan speculations going around. As well, if time wasn't an issue, and if people thought "I'll get the PS3 because I know 'someday' White Knight Story will come out", they would've already bought their PS3 a long time ago. And for those who might've wanted to play White Knight Story, but found the launch price ever-so-daunting, the release of the 40GB might've been the clincher to send them to pull out their wallets.
Sure, but let's go back to your original post. You attributed the recent pick up in JP PS3 sales with White Knight Story. That in itself is highly unlikely and is the entire point of my rebuttal. As well, if White Knight Story is going to spark an increase in sales, it will most likely do so only after a release date is confirmed.
They've been speculating "Early 2008" since before E3. Sales only picked up recently--more notably after the 40GB model was introduced. White Knight Story has very little to do with the recent increase in PS3 sales if you ask me.
White Knight Story doesn't even have a release date yet. It's been "TBA 2008" for a long time and still remains to be. Level 5 has been quiet about White Knight Story for quite some time. All they had was a playable demo at TGS 2007, and that was it.
Not really. If that were the case, sales should've been picking up from the beginning because White Knight was declared a PS3 exclusive since before launch. Price drops and the 40GB have been a major part of the increase in PS3 sales overall; definitely more so than White Knight Story.
Only the FF cameo characters belong to Square-Enix. All the original characters created for KH belong to Disney. SE agreed to this deal.
Lmfao. 1000 max stats. High-rates are so PvP/WoE-oriented.
I live in Toronto too. Well I hope your wireless hub is only feet away from your Wii, because other than that, wired > wireless in terms of reliability. There will have been nothing crappier than having a signal drop during a league match in Brawl. *facepalm*
It was said many months back that there would be a shortage of Wiis this holiday season. Many of us Smash Bros enthusiasts made jokes about this in the Brawl thread (when Brawl's release date was still December 3rd) saying how all of us would be ready for Brawl the moment it came out whereas 'the slackers' would be crap out of luck. Of course that statement is now sort of false, but it's already been stated a looooong time ago that there would be Wii shortages over the holidays.
The Wii on its own doesn't have an ethernet port for wired internet. The Wii on its own does not support wired internet connection. However, you can buy their LAN Adapter via the Nintendo Store which allows you to do this. I'm planning to get one before Brawl comes out because WIRED IS THE WAY TO GO WITH ONLINE GAMING.
