Microsoft has some catching up to do in Japan. As of last week, it had sold some 150,000 Xbox 360 console this calendar year, according to Media Create Co., a Tokyo-based gaming market research company. Nintendo sold about a million Wii units during the same period, while Sony sold just under a million.

[Takashi Sensui, head of Microsoft's home and entertainment division in Japan] said Kinect would help Xbox close the sales gap and maybe even surpass rivals "eventually."

Yes, your doofy mini-game-focused two-player might-have-to-be-standing unicorn tear technology might make a dent in that nearly 900,000 unit sales deficit this year. A double deficit, even, standing behind TWO direct competitors.

While we're at it, let's look at worldwide console sales to date...

The DS is poised to pass the PS2 in worldwide lifetime sales. That's amazing considering how gamer communities reacted to the big DS vs PSP fight back in 2004, where the DS was considered DOA. Except for the kiddies, of course.

The PS3 and 360 continue to run neck-and-neck, even with the 360's year head start. Of course, in the Americas the Wii/360/PS3 split is much closer at 34 million, 24 million and 14 million respectively.

Physically, Jack Nicholson's Joker was a mess. A dumpy guy looking at retirement is just not threatening. Joker is lanky and manic. Back then, lanky and manic was Carrey's forte. Carrey-as-Joker could have been his first breakout role.

Arnold Schwarzenegger would have made a better Bane.

I mean, duh. The real sticking point here would be that it's impossible for Arnold to mask his accent.

Tommy Lee Jones would have made a better Mr. Freeze.

Freeze is cold and brilliant, but tortured and redeemable. Jones' deadpan tone and nuanced delivery should have put him in the bald blue head.

Uma Thurman would have made a better Catwoman.

Catwoman is always thinking two steps ahead. No matter where she is, she knows how she is getting out. Uma Thurman's dark gaze would have brought that to the character, rather than Michelle Pfeiffer's sex-kitten parody.

Although in defense of the casting, Poison Ivy's character arc in the fourth movie is identical to Catwoman's role in the second.

Val Kilmer would have made a better Two-Face.

Two-Face was a walking Adonis before the accident. Young and powerful. Val Kilmer's prettyboy half would have made a great contrast with the scarred SFX half.

Michael Keaton would have made a better Riddler.

It's easy to play Riddler as crazy. It's far more interesting and accurate to play him as a genius. Keaton could have combined the intelligence, the darkness and the comic touch that embodies the Riddler. And, blazer only, please. No tights.

Jack Nicholson would have made a better R'as al Ghul.

Seriously. Old and menacing. Old.