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"Nintendo 64"

Here a question.

How long do people think the N64 has left to live?

With games like Perfect Dark, Zelda: The Continuing Sage, Turok 3, A Resident Evil game, Top Gear Rally 2, and a bunch of other wicked games this year. How long will the N64 live for? Specially with the PS2 and Dolphin on the horizon how much longer can the N64 last?

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Tomb Raider? Crash Bandicoot? Good games? When will you learn that stupid games aren't good? Cutesy games such as Kirby, Mario, Digdug, etc. are much better than stupid blood, gore, violence, and high age ratings. Take Contra, for example. Violent, and entirely stupid. Cutesy games aren't childish, they are simply not trying to make modern day kids get into violence, go on killing sprees, and destroy the world someday. And music is better in cutesy games than in violent ones. Now to diss the Gaystation. I have never seen an appealing Playstation game in any store. Never. Blah, blah, blah, Playstation stinks, blah, blah blah...

If you're saying who cares, why did you bother replying?

As a Nintendo fan it hurts me to say this, but both the Gamecube and PS2 are gonna be crap, the future is the X box! Sony don't stand a chance against Microsoft and the PS2 will fall first, Nintendo will battle using the likes of Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong to create great games, but in the end it'll come down to the price, MIcrosoft plan to sell at a loss, no-one can stop them now, I just hope Nintendo can prove me wrong.

Game Cube will k.o the ps2 if the games are good but i dont care either way as i will get one anyway. But will they use cardboard boxes again, i pray not. LONG LIVE SHIGSY.

Diss, Diss, Diss that's all you say about the gamecube.
It's looks ugly, yes but it looks pretty good as well, the controllers look dodgy, yes but they are only a prototype.
Wake up and watch the demos and you'll find a good machine.
Not a machine that can play DVD's. Like the Rock says't doesn't matter. We want a machine made for games not DVD's.
It's like F1 cars they look very shabby but they go at mighty speeds.

Nintendo has Mario,Zelda, StarFox, Metroid and the ISS series to thank for a good success on their machines.
Sony has Final Fantasy, Tekken and Metal Gear Solid. The gamecube is a aimed at gamers not people looking for a cheap DVD player.
At not even the PSX2 looks very good as well. Nintendo is aiming for a top games machine with all the old favourites to make it a good all round console. And at 200 quid you can't miss out.
Who wouldn't want to miss out on a movie like Zelda or a Starfox.
It may not be so powerful but it's got the games in it.

People who are buying the PS2 now are taking a very large gamble. They are presuming many good games will come, but there are not that many good games for release. Hardly any at all. And how come we don't hear of any new games coming for the PS2, no new game annoucments? Thats because there aren't any, and there won't be for a loong time. By the time there is a small collection of excellent games on the PS2, the Gamecube and X-box will both be out, with a powerful line up of release games.
Please Seek Sanity? (I know thats two s's, but you think of a better one.)

You read too slow Edgy, there have been people that read books faster than that! and if the console has the same sales profits as the original PS(can someone think of a name for that, because it's really annoying) it won't be because it plays movies, because even if I did want to buy a PS2 but didn't like the games, I would rather save myself £150 and buy a DVD player with loads more functions! so if it sells as many as its predeccessor(which it will, as many have been sold already, and it's still a month a way) then it will be because they don't know that the console will be rubbish, and they are too stubburn to change to a DC or GC, and this is the most likely reason, they can't be bothered to wait for the better DVD consoles to come out, so they take the easy option, you never know Sony might delvelop some good games, but the consoles might only last a year or two, we just don't know, and we won't be sure until this time next year.

Errr, who cares? All the playstation owners I know are puffs (or Poofs for those playstation owners who don't know how to spell). But the point is, most playstation owners just want a game they can complete by sitting there reading a players guide, if they find that fun, fair play to them. But the rest of us know, Nintendo make the best games, have the best console and are known to be the only company in the games industry to make high quality stuff all the time. So why not just end the argument. To answer the question, Nintendo fans probably think the playstation is so popular that no-one will make games for the N64 and so try to convince the playstation puffs that their machine is crap.

At no point in my comment did I say anything bad about the N64. I own both consoles, and I like each of them.
I, personally, am not actually bothered about the childish nature of most N64 games, because I believe that gameplay counts most of all when playing a game. I am bothered, however, by the select few N64 fans who share the same the simplistic ideology as the Official Nintendo Magazine, in that just because something is good, all similar products are therefore bad.
The problem with the Nintendo 64 is that Nintendo are the only company with enough money and skill to do much with the N64 - which is why most good games on the N64 are made or published by Nintendo, and why the N64 controller is far more ergonomic, as you rightly point out, than the PlayStation one. However, Nintendo have always been a family-friendly company, because whereas anyone can buy a game with no age rating, having a game with an age rating will wipe out most of Nintendo's target audience - children. This is why I make my point that most good games are childish ones, but as I said, this doesn't bother me at all.

What is the point of buying a PS2???? It plays dvd's but that is stupid....do you pause/play/stop a film with a controller?
Of course you don't....that is why Nintendo have succesfully created the Dolphin. It has a different sized disc so that it will be hard to copy. Also Sony have kept the same controller as lats time. What IS THE POINT? IT IS RUBBISH. The new gamecube controller, however looks cool.

NINTENDO RULES