PlayAsia 15% off till Friday

PlayAsia is having another one of their irregular sales. This time it is their 15% off sales. Looks like with the economic crisis everywhere in the world, everyone is in a bit of a pinch here. PlayAsia seems to be feeling the crunch too, I'd say.

But someone's loss is another one's gain. Maybe I can finally get Metal Solid Gear 4 Special Edition.

Wii Fit, We Fit.

So I went to a friend's place yesterday to play the Wii Fit on his Wii, and boy, was it fun. Besides exercises, there are many mini-games. Two stood out. The first one is a Soccer head butt game. Basically you shift your weight from left to right in order to hit the incoming soccer ball, or dodge incoming shoes or panda head that looks like soccer balls. It was hilarious to see players getting hit by the shoes or panda heads.

The second one is Ski Jumping. Just like the real thing, you have to lean forward going down the hill, and then stand up on to 'jump' in the air, keep in balance and land. Absolute fun, especially when someone else fail some epically rolling down the hill instead.

2 days to go in the Play Asia sales

With only 2 days left in the Play-Asia 25% sales, what did you get? I've scored myself a Wii Remote, a Nunchuck. Both the Ghost Squad Zapper pack and House of the Dead Zapper pack unforunately sold out. The price is back to the normal price.

But I did manage to get Mario Strikers Charged, a DS Pouch and a DS screen protector before they went back to normal price. Now my DS (or what's left of it) is finally protected.

Hurry, only 2 days left in the sale. Grab whatever is left to get.

Animal Crossing on the Wii

Yep, Animal Crossing is coming out on the Wii. The DS version is the first game I've got on my DS. And I loved every second of it. Wii version is probably more of the same, but now comes with a city that you can actually visit, a chat room and an auction site. Interesting.

Looking forward to it.

GTA coming to the DS

So the extremely popular GTA series is making its round to the handheld. It's coming out on the DS. I thought it's a bit strange to release GTA: Chinatown Wars on the DS. Maybe it's because of its wide install base. But I thought over 50% of DS owners are females?

I thought PSP would have been more appropriate. Strange, that. But I guess whatever float the boat.

Sony replacing 40GB with 80GB, nothing else change

At the E3 event, Sony announced that the 40GB PS3 is going to be phased out with the 80GB SKU. What's interesting is that the price pointer will stay at the 40GB. So basically, you will get an PS3 for the same price with double the storage. Hardly anything exciting, if you ask me.

What I'd like to know is if it includes the Dual Shock 3 controller.

In other news, Sony is going to sell a "Family Value Pack" PS2. Yes, PS2. For a cent shy of $150, you get a PS2, Lego Batman and Justice League: New Frontier on DVD. It seems like Sony is the only company still selling an old Gen console. Good thing? Bad thing? Hard to tell. But with the price of PS3 still somewhere north of $1,000. $150 is a very attractive price pointer indeed.

Who would like to play Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox360? Now you can.

Sony's exclusivity reign on argubaly the most famous JRPG that came out of Japan is seemingly over. Final Fantasy XIII is coming to Xbox 360, or so says Yoshinori Kitase, producer of FFXIII.

Maybe it's because of the lack of install base for the PS3 or to make recoup as much money as possible, Sqaure Enix has decided to release FFXIII on the Xbox 360, alongside with the PS3 version. It is still going to be a PS3 game, with the XB360 version being a port of the PS3 version.

But still, I don't know if I should laugh at Sony for losing the exclusivity, or cry over Microsoft's gain.

Either way, no doubt PS3 fanboys are going to cry foul upon hearing the news (much like they did when Capcom annouced DMC4 is coming to XB360).

That said, FFXIII will still be a PS3 exclusive in Japan, seeing that the Xbox 360 install base is anything but big. Each and every Xbox 360 owner might have buy the game twice to justify the cost to port the game over (Shenmue on the Dreamcast, anyone?).

So the timetable is Japan get it first on PS3. US is going to get it on PS3 and XB360 in near simultaneously, and Europe (and whoever else in the PAL region) is going to get it last.

It's still unclear if it will affect the other FFXIII games.