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I'd say the Virtual Console on the whole has been a success. I do think that it has been flailing in recent years and I'm not quite sure why. There are still plenty of games out there to release, yet nothing does. Weeks come and weeks go and often the Virtual Console sees no new additions.

To an extent, I'm sure Nintendo is holding back, but I'm not sure that they are actively pursuing publishers to bring new content to the service. I don't run their business so I can't quite say what would be profitable for them, but I'd have to think it's in their best interest to try and sign everyone up on the Virtual Console. Surely, Nintendo makes a piece of the profit, and as has been demonstrated, the effort in releasing a title is minimal because they are nothing more than ROM dumps.

While I do think that the Virtual Console has more or less been a success, it hasn't really lived up to my expectations. I was truly hoping that we'd be seeing a wider representation of games by now and I was hoping that more and more out of region games would have been released. Those are what I'm really interested in.

The trend we have seen completely goes against what my expectations were - I figured by year five of the Wii, the Virtual Console would have so many games released and still waiting to be released, no one could possibly keep up with it.

I'll be curious to see what Nintendo does with the service going forward. Clearly, they have trumped Microsoft and Sony in releasing classic games, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume there is some Ace up that sleeve.

I was really upset that this version of Angry Birds came out so bad. I currently have the game on my HTC Incredible and it runs and plays great. Furthermore, it was free on that platform!

It's hard to recommend this version to anyone, as it's such a poor representation of what's actually a very good game.

I look forward to your 3DS coverage on it, Matt.

Kirby's Epic Yarn is an interesting beast.

I really, really enjoyed playing it in spite of the game's extreme ease. In many games, the rewarding part is success, but in KEY, the reward was the voyage. Each level is playful and simple, offering elements of discovery and plenty of little things to do.

My biggest complaint was the co-op, which felt forced in a few levels. Chessa and I found out quickly that some levels just weren't made for it, and we'd have to take turns backing out of the game to complete those levels free of frustration.

This same issue manifested far worse in DKCR, which didn't seem cut out for co-op in the least.

Although I was far more excited for DKCR than KEY coming out of E3, I think I enjoyed the contents of KEY quite a bit more at the end of it all.

Sweet Jesus, I want this thing. Must add more coins...

Hopefully these guys are acquitted and can return back to normal life soon. If Sony sold them the system, these guys own the property they purchased.

People hacking the machine is inevitable, so it's always better to turn a blind eye to it and let this subculture exist. Nintendo seemed to figure this out and have just tried their best to thwart the hackers with a variety of system updates (to no avail, of course).

Honestly, Sony is to blame for all of this hacking anyway. Does anyone think it's a coincidence that the PS3 started being hacked shortly after people were forced to remove Linux from their machines due to a certain update?

The bottom line is this: only a small percentage of system owners will hack their machines to play stolen games and perform unscrupulous acts. More often than not, they are doing it just because they can and would've never materialized to true sales anyway. Heck, Sony probably sells a few extra systems because of it and in the end I'm sure it all works out to be a wash.

So do we hilariously attach this article to LittleBigPlanet 2?

I remember when LBP2 was announced, I immediately searched the site for this article because I could've sworn someone at Media Molecule said they would never do a sequel.

There's no way they weren't working on or at least talking about this sequel at the time of this statement. There must've been rumors of a sequel floating around at the time and this producer went the exact opposite direction on the question to really shoot down any speculation.

This game sounds super awesome to me, I'm going to have to check it out. As usual, I think I have enough on my plate for right now to even consider grabbing it, but I'm adding it to my Wish List (in my PixlBit game collection!) right now.

This looks pretty awesome. I sure hope it doesn't get put off again and never sees the light of day. Based on what's been shown here, that doesn't seem likely, but you never know.

I see the potential of the back touchpad, but I'm guessing it's not going to be used for much more than extra buttons in most cases. A few developers will probably do something cool, but like most of these gimmicky features, the majority of devs will either ignore them or just do something silly.

As for the system overall, I can't say I'm all that impressed. I don't really want another PSP - by that I mean, I don't want another system that's essentially a home console made portable. Handheld games have always had a distinct flavor and the PSP definitely lacked that, and I think this may have the same issue. We'll see when the games come out what's being offered, but for Sony's sake I hope it has some stuff that's not home console-like in design.

$999.99 better be a placeholder price, that's a crazy amount for anything. I'm guessing a more accurate final price will be around $350 - $400.

I do have a bit of an issue with the growing price of handheld devices. I understand that the tech has improved dramatically, but I'm not sure we need such advancement for our handhelds. I hope this market plateaus much like home consoles seem to have at this point.