I have more than enough computing power to play this, but I won't because it's just a grand waste of space, time, and the game isn't even fun. I will also avoid buying Republic Heroes for being a grand waste of space, time, and the game is also not fun.

Exactly. I can run GTA4 well enough at high settings and this has similar requirements (and also shares the similarity of being a lazy port). But where's the incentive? Because it's Star Wars? I've already got the Best of PC compilation and that's not a name that has proven erroneous since it was released.

I can run GTA4 at a medium setting without any frame drop (I dunno what kind of magical computer you have that can run the thing on high) and I agree about this being a pathetic and unoptimized port (in fact, the GTA 4 sysreqs were much lower). I have a feeling that these system requirements will only be enough to get you into the menu, as games like this often are. Subsequent patches for GTA 4 helped make the game a lot more stable and I enjoy it now (even if I did have to crack the game to bypass SecuROM), and I hope that this game will do so... for the two people who will buy it, and the one out of the two that will download it off Steam... hehe.
Star Wars is analogous to franchise milking, ever since George decided to do the prequel trilogies and piss a lot of people off, and there hasn't been a good Star Wars game since... Republic Commando, which is the name of the shooter, I think. I had high hopes for this game, and when the devs claimed it wouldn't run on PCs (if it runs on a 360, it can't run on a PC?) and the game was rated mediocre by almost everyone worth reading a review by, every bit of hope in me about a Star Wars franchise revival died.

I have a GTX 260 running (presently) on XP with minimal background crap. So that probably helps.
The best hope for Star Wars will come when Lucas no longer has anything to do with it. KotOR proved that many others have far better ideas of where to take the IP than Lucas' increasingly childlike approach. Once someone who respects the original trilogy takes control then we could see something of a Star Wars Renaissance.

No wonder, I use a GTX295 and Vista, installing to 7. Well, it's done now, so I'll try out my games to see if I system performance bump.
Anyway, I totally agree with what you're saying about Star Wars. Right now, it seems like there are the guys who have a good idea about Star Wars (see KOTOR, TOR, Battlefront and those games) and the guys that have no fucking clue (see TFU, Republic Heroes, any film-based Star Wars games, Galaxies). It's like a giant fork.

Vista is probably the main reason you can't crank the settings up. Hopefully Win 7 will reduce the bloatware. But I'm keeping XP as a dual boot for now. In fact, thanks to the 'simplified' installation procedure XP SP2 introduced, it's presently dual booting with itself.
Don't ask.

I can't help but wonder how much of that estimated 23 gigs is really unnecessary bloat considering they managed to shoe horn this title onto the NINTENDO DS.
(I'm kidding, I know it was a remake of the same 'thrilling' adventure)

runs fine on my Wii, no installs, nothing.

Wait....
It takes up more space than Dragon Age Origins. Hmmm.

I'm sure there's a hilarious story behind that, but I won't push you if you don't want to explain that.

Hey, us PS2 owners don't think that is ridiculous at all. In fact it isn't at all ridiculous when you consider that the PS2 is still the console with the largest install base and it was still the third best selling console in 2008, ahead of both the Xbox 360 and PS3. It may be a "last gen" system, but it is not a dead system at all (20 more games still scheduled for release through 2010). Why invest all that money in expensive development on things like the Euphoria engine for a limited potential customer base when you can relatively cheaply develop for the two systems that have similar capabilities (except the controls) and combined represent the absolute largest segment of console gamers out there? Considering the end product was not a very well-reviewed game and didn't sell all that well, it would seem to me they made the right decision.
Perhaps they learned from their bad experience with TFU. It was released on every console possible and while it was both the best-selling and fastest selling Star Wars game of all time, it only sold about 1.5 million copies. That's across all consoles, including hand helds. Even though they did make a "watered down" PS2 version of the game, they focused all of their hype and advertising on the Xbox and PS3 version. I would be willing to bet there are still some of those 138 million PS2 owners today who might be interested in playing TFU but think they can't because they think it is "next gen only". That was a big mistake on LA's part, neglecting such a large potential customer base. Almost as big a mistake as not releasing the game on the PC in the first place. Star Wars games almost always do best on the PC and all of the consoles combined cannot match the potential customer base of the PC market.

I already have it on PS3. It's pretty fun. At least try the demo!
But 23 gigs? GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWD.

It's not exactly interesting. It's just that XP removed the ability to do a repair install (either in Pro or SP2 copies - I had SP0 Home before that) and instead now installs another copy right into the same partition. Which pretty much destroys both copies and is a temporary situation at best. Not that repair installs were whole lot better, mind. But at least it was cleaner.
Anyway, I have a new, clean XP install and this is being posted via Windows 7. Woo! All sorted now. Apart from all the software and games...

That's the whole point. I don't think they actually know it. Developers and publishers are often too stupid to realize when something's not going to work out.

Well, they do claim it won't work with virtual drives and certain optical drives on the system. I'd say that makes them fully aware it's not going to work for everyone and just becuase of their damn stupid attempts to protect themselves from their paying customers.