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"N64 Vs. Gamecube"

I and many others loved the 64, you all go on about how CD’s were better and it was Nintendo’s mistake and there is not grown up games etc… and what did we do? We smiled we didn’t care what they thought we were playing Zelda, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, No Mercy and Conker whilst you played with Metal gear solid, Final Fantasy and Smackdown and after we compare the games we were laughing.

But what can I say despite out beliefs the N64 sold badly. The expensive games, the lack of FMV style graphics, the childish image (even though Nintendo are not), no CD quality sounds, the lack of advertisement and the lack of 3rd party support made this wonder machine falter. It is now time for change and Nintendo are delivering.

Nintendo have kept what made them so huge in the first place their stunning first and second party games (Well those at E3 claim they are stunning) and with new second party developers in the form of Silicon knights and Retro studios are on board to bring more classic Nintendo material. Nintendo are also keeping with their multiplayer image as well which has served them well in the past.

Expensive ha, Nintendo have most defiantly sorted that out with a £150 console, which beats all it’s rivals and games that retail much lower than carts did early on at about £35-40.

FMV and the CD quality sounds are now capable with the move to a disc format and with games like Too human, Eternal Darkness, Perfect Dark 2, Turok Evolution, Conker’s other bad day (probably), the new grown up style Mario and Resident Evil 0 and 4 proves to me that Nintendo’s childish looking era I starting to change.

Advertisement is getting well underway in the form of the Gameboy Advance! It sold tones and those of you who looked will see a Gamecube on the back. If Nintendo can successfully model the Gamecube as an essential to go with the Gameboy Advance then Nintendo’s popularity will rise rapidly.

Now I have been over 3rd party support before and you can see more in the future additions to my developer series of posts but with 12 Acclaim games promised, 3 Namco (including a beat em up), Capcom making a few Nintendo only games, Squaresoft willing to work with Nintendo again, THQ promising tones of games including a wrestling one, Konami hinting at MGS2 on the Gamecube and Silent hill 2 all of which sounds promising and many more I just couldn’t be bothered to list.

Sony fans maybe attacking the yet to be released Gamecube but this time I believe they are worried. The Gamecube is doing what the N64 did well and what the Playstation did well as well. This could be a very promising fight ahead of us.

Here’s to the future

Dringo

I never bought them. What was on the demos seemed OK, but not great. Hence the "good, I suppose".

Very well said Dan erm star whatever!

Pokemon rules.

My friend adores Sony but he loves Pokemon even got a gameboy inorder to play it.

Turbonutter wrote:
> Well, almost every 2D platformer I have ever played I loved. As for
> 3D, well, I can't really say. Croc and Spyro were good I suppose.
> Sonic 3D was ace, if a little short. I also tend to approach Quake 3
> levels from a platformer kind of view.

Crash was a good
> platformer. Crash 1 I really liked, after that it lost its
> charm.

All in all, I do like platformers very much.


Turbonutter you biased scumbag!!! :-D

The likes of Croc and Spyro were more so childish than Nintendo's platformers (i.e. in gameplay as well as graphics) and less playable too.

It's obvious that you made up your mind about Banjo and Mario before you even played them.
As for what you said about Crash, I agree with that.
The first one was a 3D incarnation of DKC on the Snes.
After that, platformers got their childish image so it's sequels were made for kiddies.

And now to finish.

Any true RPG fan will admit that the Gameboy Pokemon games were classics. I wouldn't blame you if you didn't rate them as the best but a PROPER RPG fan would love it all the same.

Hurrah for the Gamecube!
and another great post from Dringo

haha,while nintendo and microsoft battle it out Sony will have the shelfs flooded with top titles and also have the hard drive and modem. hopefully a force feedback controller

no one here's worried about a kiddie platformer console mate haha.

Yeah I agree fully with the original post!!!

Dringo wrote:
> The Gamecube is doing what
> the N64 did well and what the Playstation did well as well. This
> could be a very promising fight ahead of us.

Sony did all this more than 6 years ago with their first console. Why should anyone be worried about the Gamecube? Nintendo trying to play catchup again?

They'll be entering a marketplace where Sony has been sitting and wooing customers for 12 months with the PS2 (including the lucrative Christmas sales, a great time to expand a captive audience), and they'll be entering the marketplace at the same time as the most powerful home console in the world is released, the X-Box, which on paper is the NEXT generation of console after this one has passed.

I think Nintendo are in for a very rocky ride indeed.

later dringo, i'll be off now too then. Later VEron 4.

i said later to myself, becasue no-one else is here to say later to me. I hope that cleared up any confusion caused.

Dringo is of now....

bye.............

See ya.