I would suggest that the writers of the article look at what games were recently released, what had the same release date and what was coming out when Shadow of the Colossus and Ico showed up. It's entirely possible that the games was overlooked by something more 'popular' or 'generic'. Figure if SotC was released at the same time as Resident Evil Whatever, gamers would buy the latter (that's just hypothetical).

It's like movies being released on disc or in the theater. Marketing people know better than to release against big name or hyped up movies. It's not like any movie in their right mind was released when the Star Wars prequels showed up, right? I'm sure video games are the same way. Releasing a game like SotC against Gears of War or Halo would be suicide.

And of course, marketing helps. Maybe airing the ads during WWE RAW is aiming at the wrong crowd?

Oh, wasn't the Doom movie based on Doom4?

And Mortal Kombat1 was deemed good mainly because it was compared to StreetFighter which sucked all over. Seeing how, back then, those were the two biggest fighting games, it was about which movie would be most 'faithful'. Mortal Kombat won out because it was darker, it had better action sequences, characters were fairly faithful and the story was better.

I remember when MK2 came out. Saw it in theaters. Everyone thought the writers (and director) were on crack for that animality scene. Sub-zero's entrance was, let's face it, bizarre. Still, it was nice to look at Kitana and Sonya.

Being a casual gamer, I wouldn't have recognized the relation between movie and game. Far Cry in particular. I wonder how many times that has shown up on SYFY.

I held my psp slim (psp3000? whatever it's called. The darth vader edition) to my screen. Is the PSP GO that is photographed for our viewing pleasure a real-size GO?

Hey! I LIKED Wakka!

I thought the PS1 was more defined by Final Fantasy7 or Gran Turismo.

PS2 was Gran Turismo again (these are just my assumptions).

Xbox = Halo (?)

N64 = GoldenEye (?)

That's how I always thought of things.

I get this strange sense that the WII really is a kiddy-oriented console. Wasn't it last year people wanted more adult games? So Nintendo does it and it flops? Bummer.

Thanks for the pros/cons. I'm not interested in one myself. I just got mine... Well, it's been almost 2 years now and I'm quite happy with my Darth Vader version. (ok, wish it were black w/ i dunno, a different screen thingy).

My own complaint w/ the psp remains that you can't play it under natural light.

That looks like so much fun!

I love Doom64!!!

Uh, the screenshot from SegaSega (1st game) has the babilicious yet dead Nei from Phantasy Star2. Rika from Phantasy Star4 looked a lot like her but wasn't her. And for those that played the PSO/PS-Whatever games, them's numans tho they weren't called anything specific back then.

I got one when it was in cheapo mode and that was for PSO. I never did play online, just solo'd it and had fun. I don't know what to think of the DC. I guess it was fine. I loved the Genesis and I did enjoy my Saturn. I believe the Saturn had the ultra cool rpg Dragon Force game.

NOw... back to the DC. Wasn't there a game called Enemy Zero? It was an human vs alien game not unlike, I dunno, Dead Space. BUt this article was talking about creative endeavors and THIS game was dependent on sound. So you had to pay attention to where the sounds were coming from to know wher eht alien would be coming from. Wasnt' a big hit, but it creeped me out!

I am so there. I'm so glad that they dropped the price. Now this is far more realistic for my pathetic budget. Maybe I WILL be able to play FF13 when it comes out! And I better start buying BluRay movies instead of dvds now. Hmmmmm... :D

Dont' need to be EARLY teens for that one, PokeTrainer!

oh hey. i'm confused. there's a listing for 2 voice actors for Rikku. I assume that Marika Matsumoto is the Japanese dub and Tara Strong was for US?

And I'll still take Rachel Leigh Cook anyday.

OMG! Yuna's voice actor is incredible!

But I wanna see who did Lulu's voice (FFX, FFX2)!!!

Hello there...

I love this game. I'm not very far and I keep spending my pang on probably the wrong stuff. But it's so fun! and cute! And it seems a little more fair than Hot Shots Golf : Open Tee2 in that the aztecs (balls) won't go all crazy during your short game.

Gotta love the opening story when the girl gets taken away.

"You were watching me sleep???"

Kasumi. And the only fighting she'd be doing is who'll be on top. ;)

Whatever. I think Sony has the best stuff coming out, be it for psp or ps3. Sure, there are millions and millions of N marks but c'mon, I saw NOTHING that looked ALL THAT!