don't mind the well-dressed japanese gentleman in that tree. it's just hirokazu hamamura, president of famitsu publisher enterbrain, going out on a limb to predict that final fantasy xiii's arrival on december 17 in japan will help sell a whole bunch of ps3s. he's talking 500,000 more of sony's system sold during ffxiii's launch period alone. crazy talk!

unless, that is, you consider the fact that final fantasy is a franchise that's popular enough in japan (and around the world) to prompt the purchase of a console. oh, and that there was this kind of significant ''''''new ps3, hardware price cut'''''' thing that just happened. okay, so hanamura isn't nuts ... he just makes a lot of sense. we like this guy!