This news is more exciting than the fact that the Nintendo Wii is outselling the Playstation 3 7:1. It is news so explosive that it is likely to make people like Fraser, Dean, and my brother shit themselves with excitement, only to gorge themselves on Cheetos so they can do it all over again.

Nintendo has purchased Monolith Soft, the creators of Baten Kaitos and Xenosaga. Well, it was not an outright purchase. Nintendo holds 80% of the controlling stock, while Namco Bandai only owns 16% (of a former 96%). Can anyone grasp the magnitude of it?

First of all, it means that characters like Kalas and KOS-MOS have a chance at being featured in the next Super Smash Bros. iteration (I doubt that they will make it into this one). Also, it means that the amazing epic that is Xenosaga will not be released on the Playstation (as it has been in the past), but will instead see a successful release on a Nintendo platform. Isn’t it amazing that Sony is losing out on so many of its greatest franchises, while Nintendo is swelling? Swelling?!

Nice buy Nintendo. Very nice.