What I will say is that a trip is scheduled, we are going soon, and sometime in the next several years we will write a story or multiple stories based on said trip.
On a related note, that Silicon Knights announcement today was a surprise, huh? Didn't see that one coming. I wonder if SEGA is going to publish Too Human. Could be that Too Human will be handled by another publisher and SEGA and SK will work on an entirely new franchise. No way to tell yet, but regardless, I'd be shocked and even awed if either showed up on Revolution. Based on the company philosophy, I really believe that the developer's next works will show up on Xenon and not a Nintendo system. I suppose I could be wrong -- I've certainly been before (*ahem* backward compatibility *ahem*), but in this case, I don't think so.
Place your bets.
Matt responds: Ivan can talk a big game, but deep down he knows that all it'd take is one piercing glance from Reggie and he'd start sobbing like a hysterical schoolgirl at a Beatles concert. Then he would be like, "Thank you for looking in my direction, Reggie, sir! Please, my lord, all I ask is that you touch my pants. I'm begging you!" But alas, the all-knowing and powerful Fils-Aime would naturally have already been privy to Ivan's mailbag, and so the executive's only reaction would be to kick the editor's ass so hard that his foot would burst forth from the poor soul's chest, kind of like an alien. Afterward, Reggie would of course take Sulic's name, jotting it down on a handy notepad with the still-flowing blood of the fallen editor.
At least, that's the way I see it happening in my daydreams, which seem to occur more frequently ever since I starting injecting heroin and repeatedly watching Faces of Death.
To answer your question directly, though, I really have no idea why Ivan would feel the need to target Reggie in his mailbag. I can only assume that it has something to do with extreme penis envy. On the other hand, because I am in contrast very secure in my sexuality -- you have to be to drive a Beetle -- I do not feel the need to bash high-ranking Sony executives. However, I have no problem whatsoever taking potshots at fellow employees.
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Matt responds: Strange as it sounds, this news appears to be true. For now, at least, Soul Calibur III seems to be a PlayStation 2 exclusive. My head spun when I first read that, and again when I confirmed it, because it frankly doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense. I hope Sony is rewarding Namco with a fat, juicy paycheck to dismiss much stronger sales of the title on GameCube. My feeling at this point is that this is probably a time-stamped exclusive, meaning that Sony will get it for three or four months, and then Namco will bring it over to GameCube, Xbox (or Xenon). I think that's going to backfire in a big way, though, particularly where GameCube owners are concerned. The rule of thumb for Nintendo fans seems to be that if they don't get it first, or with some form of exclusivity, they don't want it at all.
Matt responds: Who better to judge geekdom than the very king of all geeks? You wrote it yourself: I am a man (allegedly) who gets paid to make various Kraig-a-roo mock-ups, scratch my butt, and play videogames. I believe this makes me the ultimate nerd, and therefore highly qualified to make such a call. Admittedly, there are hordes of EverQuest users who outrank me in the geek hierarchy. I can't compete with people that forego showers and accept eternal virginity so that they can raid a virtual village for eight hours a day, and I will not cease to point out that fact. It makes me feel just a little bit better about myself, and so I will cling to it as though it were a dangling ladder from a burning building. Still, that does not negate the fact that I am a supreme geek in my own right and perfectly capable of pointing out other, possibly bigger nerds.
Man, that was a really lame response to a really lame question. And you know what? You'll never get those 45 seconds back.
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