I'd import some Japanese games! First off, they need to let me ship Sakura Taisen out of Amazon.jp! Then they need to release The Last Remnant on PS3! Come on Japan, we'll demand if you'll supply!

we already are in a recession here in the US and no one wants to admit it- i was just in canada last week and they seem pretty close as well

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Yes, whormongr, Canada is pretty f*cked at the moment. Especially in Saskatchewan (represent). My dad owns a log hauling company, and his business just went under a few days ago because most of his wood gets sold to the states for greedy Americans to use to build their multi-million dollar homes. No one wants to buy our wood anymore because everyone is too poor and took out too big of mortgages for their houses, and now they can't pay them off.

Yay!

As in, FUCK.

Has Japan been OUT of a recession in the last 20 years?

@garison sorry to hear that - totally sucks- though I have to say that not all of us are greedy- nor can we afford to buy a home at all- though where I live (san francisco) pretty much every home is a multi million dollar home because jackass speculators and rich real estate investors bought everything up and jacked the prices so high that no one can afford a home here- If I want to own a home at some point I will probably have to leave my city behind- which is sad since I have lived here for around 20 years. People in the system keep talking about trying to stabilize housing prices, but as it is if the prices don't drop people just plain and simple don't have the $ to own anything, it is unrealistic to think that a middle income can afford $3500++ in mortgage a month since that is less than the average person takes home.

What do you mean, "the US is expected next"? The US was the country that precipitated the current global recession.

In other news, I hear they're making a Dragonball Z movie.

@microwavefood

Bring on the zombie apocolypse!

@lubczyk

-Nintendo said no to DLC!!!

How is adding on to a current game you like bad? Nobody forces you to buy that stuff, it's only stuff that you, in theory, want. EA is the lone exception, with it's high price's on sometimes ridiculous content... and here's the solution: You don't buy it.

-Nintendo said no to patches!!!

I bet Nintendo wish they could patch Zelda, so everyone couldn't, in 2 minutes, install the homebrew channel. Treated. Again, patching is not ALWAYS a bad thing. I in no way support releasing games before they're done and having the dev promise to "patch it later," but nine times out of ten it's usually related to balance in an online game, lag or server issues. Something Nintendo doesn't do... because Nintendo doesn't even understand what people want out of an online game.

-Nintendo said no to $60 games!!!

Gamecube games were online 50 bucks to start with, why would the Wii be any different? On top of whihc, yeah, lower price games are great. Fantastic 20 dollar releases like WWII Aces, and Game Party. Boy, that isn't crap shovelware, that's for sure.

-Nintendo said no to Hard Drives!!!

How is this a good thing? At all?

-Nintendo said no to multiple SKUs!!!

Again, not a bad thing. If someone isn't gonna use all the stuff in the premium 360 console, then hey, buy the 200 dollar one. The choice is with the consumer. That's what they want.

-Nintendo said no to $600 or $400 console launch pricing!!!

Of course they did, they didn't need too. The tech in the Wii is ancient compared to the 360 and PS3, they were selling for a profit even at the 250 price point.

Also, Wii Sports, Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart Wii, Super Paper Mario, Twlight Princes, Metroid Prime 3 and Brawl were all great... when they were released. How's this holiday line up looking for ya? Enjoy your Wii music and gimped version of Call of Duty.

Oh and Game Party 2. Don't go and have to much fun now.

Nintendo will use this time and droppage of stocks to buy japan as they are the only ones not effected.

then microsoft will buy the usa and we wil be owned.

This was obviously going to occur, A lot of Japans manufacturing plants are in Europe.

lubczyk:

Firstly, what the hell with the Bungie shit? I hate Halo. Halo 1 was okay, with the same three levels repeated over and over and over again. Halo 1.2 and 1.3 are just more of the same overhyped crap.

Also -

Wii Sports - LOL

Mario Kart Wii - LOL

Metroid Prime 3 - Not bad, Prime original and Echoes were both better

Super Paper Mario - Meh.

Twlight Princess - There hasn't been a 'great' Zelda game since Ocarina of Time. TP is okay though.

Brawl - Fun for 10 minutes.

Super Mario Galaxy - The only truely amazing game on the console.

But sure, Nintendownsyndrome is awesome!