This is offcourse no big surprise.
They hardware and software numbers are down across the boards around the world.

It just goes to show that everyone is affected buy the economic downturn.

People do not have less money but they do not dare to spend it. It is a tricky situation because economics is a game of trust and confidence. Nothing has changed around the world, no money is lost, it is all numbers on a board.

But when people stop buying goods, start selling bonds and stocks, and stuffing away the money they have, then it becomes a problem.

If we are going to get out of the economic slump, people must stop watching TV, star spending like they always have, and support their countries this holliday trough spending. Spend money on christmas gifts this season and you will see that the confidence will grow and the news will get better.

Do not be afraid, do some shopping and pay tax ^_^
It will all work out just fine!

Fantastic, not to steep specs, most of the PC gamer crowd out there has a dual or quad core these days, and if you don`t, they are not too expensive to buy.

Please folks, try and support the PC plattform, buy the game on PC, get great graphics, better controls and a much more immersive experience ^_^

Also, do not download the game from any torrent site or client, try and report user who do so. Remember, this is about economics, and if we want games to still be great, without getting flaws and bugs, buy the game, support the developers and stop this piracy thing.

It is stealing, there is no two ways about it, a game on a disc is still the same game on a server/harddrive. The code is the same.

Wonderful!

I use Metaboli and can recommend it for everyone, just see that you don`t use your firewall and virus protection at the same time.

You can play alot of games, both new and old for the cost of one game a month. It is a great way to play games when your economy isn`t at it`s best ^_^

Edge, you have the best team out there. Fantastic review, great use of language and the highest praise to you for using words like "game dynamics" ^_^

You are the best and most serious source out there, keep up the great work!
And keep suporting the "MDA framework" ^_^

I have never played SC before, I won`t be picking this one up either, because, you guessed it, I am waiting for Street Fighter. The series that has followed me since the late 80`s.

To Mr: Rendszer

Well, the FFXIII announcment was a big "talker" around the net, indeed. But I do not think that the announcment is worth talking about, in many lines.

Microsoft paid for the titles, they have developed a financial relationship with Square and for Squares point of view, this is the only reasonable, financial decision they could take. FFXIII will now ship around 5 million units, on the Xbox 360 alone, the PS3 could never offer them that.

That would be all there is to say about this.

Another thing, this will surely hurt the deveopment, but budget wise and quality wise. It is always harder to deliver a well balanced game to multiple plattforms, I think the title will suffer because of this.