In gaming news today, with Persona 4 on the horizon, Persona 2 says, "Not so fast, big brother!" Nintendo says, "Wii, Wii, Wii all the way home... and stay put when you get there."
Atlus' Persona 4 is due out on the PS2 this in jsut a few short weeks. I'm hyped, even though I haven't gotten around to finishing Persona 3 yet. But Atlus, true to form, decided to make a re-releease of the game Persona 2: Eternal Punishment. Old school Atlus fans, true to form managed to sell out the entire reprint run in just under an hour. I was bummed out that I didn't even have a shot at snagging a copy, but then I remembered that I already had one. One more in a big pile of RPGs that I never finished. But that's better than the pile that I never started. A sad, terrible pile indeed.
In other news, Nintendo has apparently decided that it's new Wii Speak peripheral (the one seen being pimped during some of their Animal Crossing commercials) is so cool you should buy it twice. Or as many times as you have consoles, anyway.
According to reports, the Wii Speak comes with a code that lets you download the Wii Speak channel (which you obviously need to do to use the device). The downside? The code can only be used once. That means that the mic is useless if you were to buy one used, which I guess is supposed to be the goal. On the other hand, it also means that you can't take the mic with you on a trip or over to a friend's house with another Wii. In theory, you could take your entire Wii over to their house, but who's really going to bother to do that?
I understand the principle of wanting to restrict secondary market sales, and really this is just a fancy microphone we're talking about here. But this sets a bit of a bad precedent for future hardware as well. Hopefully no one comes up with a nifty party or social game off of any new peripherals that might get handcuffed like this.
A party or social game... on the Wii? Never happen.
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