A must-have if we ever *can* have it.

Today I was surfing through the intarwebs trying to fill big holes in time at work and avoid doing any actual work when I came across something interesting on Achieve 360 Points, a listing for achievements available in the Non-Western game Tetris: The Grand Master Ace, a game that I've been hoping for on the 360 since seeing the amazing things that Nintendo is doing with their Tetris DS title. I've been craving the immense fun of playing Tetris on my Xbox 360 with my wife and against my good friends IcarusFountain and his wife over Live, but my hopes were asploded upon seeing that this Tetris title is for Japan only. Now, I'm not racist or anything by any means, this is probably just plain greed and selfishness, but I ask why do the Japanese get Tetris and not us (me)? We (I) *love* Tetris, there's a huge market for it (consider how many iterations of it have sold in this country), and being able to play on Live would be a huge attraction to those who otherwise wouldn't be interested in playing games online, people such as my wife. And not only that, but for people like me who had to finnick a bit in order to actually convince their spouse to let them purchase a 360, it would make the purchase all that much more justified, or even considered a "good purchase". Then, of course, I started thinking some slightly nastier thoughts, such as how the Japanese market as a general whole doesn't seem to give a rat's ass about the Xbox 360 and wouldn't care if it never came to their shores, however *they* still get Tetris. Sorry to say, but a $40-$50 version of Tetris isn't going to make them shell out $350 for the Xbox 360. They'll wait for it to come out on Playstation 3. Bring me my Tetris!

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