Don't expect to see too many of these classic Sega consoles lighting up butts. They're only available for order until November 6 and for the steep asking price of 10500 yen, about $114 USD, each. Of course, if you light your cigars with hundred dollar bills anyway, we're sure you won't mind dropping that much on a Sega lighter.

Okay, okay. I hear you, no one's going to do a surprise launch right? Especially Nintendo. What's the point? We all know what happened with Sega's surprise Saturn availability announcement. So why the speculation?

Well, reader Jut wrote in to let us know that he (or she) looked up inventory info on both the PlayStation 3 and the Wii. Everything on the PlayStation 3 database entry looks kosher: ships November 17th, street date is November 17th. (Hey, that beast of a package weighs 15 pounds!)

The Nintendo Wii on the other hand, has a very different kind of entry.

According to the General Item Information on the Wii, Best Buy will be receiving their shipment from Nintendo on October 29th. Yet, no street date is listed, despite Nintendo announcing that the console would go on sale November 19th nearly a month ago.

Will Best Buy be sitting on their inventory for 3 weeks? It's not totally crazy, but maybe a little odd.

Definitely not as odd as Nintendo changing their launch date, but stranger things have happened. If there's one thing we have learned from the upcoming generation of consoles, it's that we can't count on previous generations to set the rules.

Still, this could be nothing more than outdated information or an errant entry, as an earlier than announced launch date sounds suspect at best.

If the console doesn't launch early, at least we'll have that much more time to hopefully trick a blue shirted sucker into breaking the street date. Yeah, consider this pure speculation that most likely won't turn out to be true. But if it does, can I pump my fists in the air and yell "I totally called it!"? Please? Michael McWhertor

Sorry, Saturn fans. This is NOT a post about the excellent turn-based SRPG Dragon Force, but a quick diversion for fans of the speed metal cheeseball shredders from across the pond. Upping the cheese factor once again amidst all the lightning quick squealing of guitars and vocals, Dragon Force does their famous picture-in-picture soloing, but this time with a fighting-game schtick. It's impressive how the effects go from average to laughable during this portion of the video.

Oh, Dragon Force. You are my guilty pleasure!

Thanks for the tip, Henry. Michael McWhertor

Thank (thank?) freeware and emulators for this tragic Sega Saturn 3D version of Super Mario Bros. Way too blocky and anatomically incorrect: Mario doesn't have a nose. Redeeming point? It reminds us of that kickin' Dire Straits music video. This mod dates from 2003, making it older than Kotaku, but not older than Crecente. Nothing is that old. Brian Ashcraft

More Here [Yuukun no Omise] Thanks, Peter!

This is a note to all modder/hackers:

Whenever you film something, turn on the lights. Because when you ask us if we can see something, we can't. It's dark. And no, we don't care if you're room is messy or if you have Stars Wars bed-sheets. We won't judge. We just want to see what the hell you are talking about. Otherwise, you'll just come off as a big phony.

That being said, the above clip has something to do with an adapter that enables a completely unmodified Sega Saturn controller to play Xbox 360 games. The adapter is also wireless and runs on batteries. These days, don't we all? Brian Ashcraft

More Here [Xbox Scene]