Thats premature to call the points system a rip off of XBLA, especially considering.... a) the VC is a combination of Nintendo games, and correct me if im wrong but they were out a good 10 years before Microsoft was in the busuiness b) There arent achievements, its simply retail prepaid cards c) what did you expect them to do? They cant have it be just credit card payments or they would make little busuiness, and points are their only other option. Plus, cut Nintendo some slack, companies oft copy and rip off Nintendo's ideas cough*PS3 controller*cough so let them have their turn

why does nobody pay attention to the fact that Nintendo has an equally important press event today in Japan..... 3 hours and counting.... however i predict that they will only announce Japan specific things their

that=$700 right? wow, sony is definitely gonna lose some market share over that one.....