Well, last week it was announced that a special edition Final Fantasy XIII bundle was on the way but now there are pictures of it (thanks be to RPGSite)!

The following pictures depict the 250 GB Super Elite console.

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Well, you can’t fault him for his honesty at least. Speaking at a Japanese press conference today, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata admitted that the Wii is in an “unhealthy condition” in Japan.

“The Wii is in the most unhealthy condition since it hit the Japanese market,” he said at the conference, taking into consideration that the console was, for the first time in its history, outsold by the PS3 last week.

“The current condition in the Japanese market is not the one we want,” Iwata said, adding that there was little to no chances of a Wii price cut soon, “A price cut in a difficult economy cannot really excite the market and drive up sales.”

“As of now I really don’t think that a price cut is a good option for us.”

It looks like the console race just got a lot more interesting.

It seems Bioware’s influence reaches far and wide.

Michael de Plater, creative director of Ubisoft Shanghai, recently spoke with videogaming247, explaining his team’s take on the RTS genre, follows the path Bioware forged with Knights of the Old Republic.
Their upcoming game EndWar will lead on console, before heading to PCs.

“It’s not that we don’t want to do a PC version, and it’s not that it wouldn’t be a good PC game,” he said, when asked why EndWar would appear on consoles first.

“I think that really we’re kind of following in the footsteps of BioWare in regards to what hey did on RPGs with Knights of the Old Republic, where they had their PC background and experience with Neverwinter Nights and other RPGs, then when they did Knights they shifted the camera down, used their control scheme, made it much more cinematic and used the Star Wars license…
“And then subsequent to that, they could do Knights of the Old Republic on PC and it’s no problem.”

Finally, he added: “We basically followed their model.”