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Well would you look at this. The fellow Nintendo monkeys running around crying because they wanted to see Revolution.
You were told before the show it wasn't going to be there. Why the surprise.
It's the PS3 and X-box 360 show. In fact it is pretty much just the PS3 show. Hence the reason Microsoft did that silly MTV party thing.
What can overshadow the biggest console announcement ever?
No... Nintendo cannot do that.
X-box's gimmick is customisable games, complete with snap on facias. Sony, ultra-realism.
Great ideas but they come at a price. And that price is ours. EA have already stated game prices could rise to as much as £60. And that publishers will have a hard time this generation.
Nintendo's suggestion is different. For starters they haven't cranked up the graphics to a pointless notion that most games developers (sorry all) won't be bothered to meet. But most importantly, Online is free.
The console, games, and online service will be as cheap as a cheap thing that is very cheap. And that's cheap.
Nintendo plan for a 2006 launch alongside Sony. Nintendo are working very hard to reach that. But they don't have anything to show us yet. They don't have time to order their minions to mock up videos and demos. They haven't even finalised the sodding controller yet.
Yet Nintendo fans. Us. Are once again throwing a fit because there wasn't anything concrete on show.
It just isn't the time. It really isn't. Maybe a September Spaceworld will do. But trust me, it makes sense, why show a console that will be overshadowed and ignored because Sony have announced theres.
Nintendo are talking about online plans. They've showed the greatest Zelda demo ever. A handfull of new Gamecube and DS games. And even a new, if slightly pointless, Gameboy... to further attack the PSP.
But still not happy.
The reason why the conference didn't have the impact of last years is because there isn't actually anything to show. I'm not surprised. I'm not happy but nor am I dissapointed. Nintendo's spotlight is still to come.
And I await with baited breath.
Dringo.
You were told before the show it wasn't going to be there. Why the surprise.
It's the PS3 and X-box 360 show. In fact it is pretty much just the PS3 show. Hence the reason Microsoft did that silly MTV party thing.
What can overshadow the biggest console announcement ever?
No... Nintendo cannot do that.
X-box's gimmick is customisable games, complete with snap on facias. Sony, ultra-realism.
Great ideas but they come at a price. And that price is ours. EA have already stated game prices could rise to as much as £60. And that publishers will have a hard time this generation.
Nintendo's suggestion is different. For starters they haven't cranked up the graphics to a pointless notion that most games developers (sorry all) won't be bothered to meet. But most importantly, Online is free.
The console, games, and online service will be as cheap as a cheap thing that is very cheap. And that's cheap.
Nintendo plan for a 2006 launch alongside Sony. Nintendo are working very hard to reach that. But they don't have anything to show us yet. They don't have time to order their minions to mock up videos and demos. They haven't even finalised the sodding controller yet.
Yet Nintendo fans. Us. Are once again throwing a fit because there wasn't anything concrete on show.
It just isn't the time. It really isn't. Maybe a September Spaceworld will do. But trust me, it makes sense, why show a console that will be overshadowed and ignored because Sony have announced theres.
Nintendo are talking about online plans. They've showed the greatest Zelda demo ever. A handfull of new Gamecube and DS games. And even a new, if slightly pointless, Gameboy... to further attack the PSP.
But still not happy.
The reason why the conference didn't have the impact of last years is because there isn't actually anything to show. I'm not surprised. I'm not happy but nor am I dissapointed. Nintendo's spotlight is still to come.
And I await with baited breath.
Dringo.
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It was like 'oh, yeah, Revolution too' and they kind of quickly pointed in its general direction, gave a dry cough, and carried on playing with their electronic puppies.
"It's great!" says Dringo, "They don't want to overshadow their existing products!"
And it's everyone else's turn to give a dry cough and turn away.
"It's great!" says Dringo, "They don't want to overshadow their existing products!"
And it's everyone else's turn to give a dry cough and turn away.
There was nothing to whet my appetite because there wasn't anything that I didn't already know that I actually cared about. Nintendo haven't really done much to create anticipation around the Revolution, they didn't seem that bothered with it, really - they were more keen on showing off electroplankton and nintendogs, neither of which are games.
Rickoss wrote:
> In fact, the all that really grabbed my attention was Mario &
> Luigi 2. A sequel to quite easily my favourite GBA title.
Aye, indeed.
Excellent stuff there - one of the best games I've played in a long while.
Will look forward to this muchly.
> In fact, the all that really grabbed my attention was Mario &
> Luigi 2. A sequel to quite easily my favourite GBA title.
Aye, indeed.
Excellent stuff there - one of the best games I've played in a long while.
Will look forward to this muchly.
It's not that I'm happy with it. It's that I'm not all that fussed because we know there's announcements to come. My appetite has been firmly wetted.
Yeah, it was pretty crappy. You can't just say 'there's more to E3 than Nintendo' because, to someone who owns a GameCube/DS/GBA and is planning on getting a Revolution there was nothing.
Zelda looks nice enough, a few nice new gameplay implementations, but we saw it last year. It was never going to have a huge impact, and while it was 'nice', nothing much to jump up and down about. All we got that was new was new were some crappy Mario spin-off titles (although I'll probably get Soccer), another GBA, only this time utterly pointless, DS games that we know about anyway, and slightly interesting info on Nintendo's online plans, which we already knew about anyway.
Smash Bros online sounds wonderful, as does another Metroid title for the Revolution, but you can hardly get overly excited about something you know absolutely nothing about. That's why the Revolution did nothing to grab my attention. It looks nice and it's small, but there was nothing. And where was Mario 128 (which I'm pretty certain was promised by Nintendo this time around).
In fact, the all that really grabbed my attention was Mario & Luigi 2. A sequel to quite easily my favourite GBA title. You can't excuse Nintendo's show for the fact that there's 'more to E3 than Nintendo'. Did Sony and Microsoft say "Oh, so we're not the only ones there? We may as well not bother, then".
Unless they're just messing us around and there'll be something revealed in the coming days (which there won't), it wasn't so much a disaster, but it was disappointing. I can't believe as a Nintendo fan you're completely happy with it.
Zelda looks nice enough, a few nice new gameplay implementations, but we saw it last year. It was never going to have a huge impact, and while it was 'nice', nothing much to jump up and down about. All we got that was new was new were some crappy Mario spin-off titles (although I'll probably get Soccer), another GBA, only this time utterly pointless, DS games that we know about anyway, and slightly interesting info on Nintendo's online plans, which we already knew about anyway.
Smash Bros online sounds wonderful, as does another Metroid title for the Revolution, but you can hardly get overly excited about something you know absolutely nothing about. That's why the Revolution did nothing to grab my attention. It looks nice and it's small, but there was nothing. And where was Mario 128 (which I'm pretty certain was promised by Nintendo this time around).
In fact, the all that really grabbed my attention was Mario & Luigi 2. A sequel to quite easily my favourite GBA title. You can't excuse Nintendo's show for the fact that there's 'more to E3 than Nintendo'. Did Sony and Microsoft say "Oh, so we're not the only ones there? We may as well not bother, then".
Unless they're just messing us around and there'll be something revealed in the coming days (which there won't), it wasn't so much a disaster, but it was disappointing. I can't believe as a Nintendo fan you're completely happy with it.
Memorandum! wrote:
> If it looked as amazing as you say surely it would have captivated a
> bigger audience than a group of Zelda-lovers?
Read an article on IGN that stated how Wind Waker and loss of RARE meant that a load of Nintendo lovers deserted the console.
Although Wind Waker sold well... people felt Nintendo were letting them down.
So this new Zelda is supposed to counter that. And it looks like it will succeed. And win back many fans.
> If it looked as amazing as you say surely it would have captivated a
> bigger audience than a group of Zelda-lovers?
Read an article on IGN that stated how Wind Waker and loss of RARE meant that a load of Nintendo lovers deserted the console.
Although Wind Waker sold well... people felt Nintendo were letting them down.
So this new Zelda is supposed to counter that. And it looks like it will succeed. And win back many fans.
It's still confusing for some people though, I'll stop the abbreviating and keep it to MSN messenger then.
The-IronFlame wrote:
> This isn't a bloody writing contest, just because I abbreviate some
> words do you have to act like some spelling and punctuaction god?
Yes, yes, your abbreviation. Also that it read like a special child's poetry entry.
> I can't check everything I post as I want to quickly reply someone
> rather than get it mixed with other replies.
But you quoted me.
> This isn't a bloody writing contest, just because I abbreviate some
> words do you have to act like some spelling and punctuaction god?
Yes, yes, your abbreviation. Also that it read like a special child's poetry entry.
> I can't check everything I post as I want to quickly reply someone
> rather than get it mixed with other replies.
But you quoted me.
Last years was probably better because of it's suprise factor but also with all these new screenshots coming out on some magazines it just seems less overwhelming but it still gives people a taste of what is to come.
Dringo wrote:
> If you don't like the Zelda games then you don't know what looked so
> great about them
so it looked good to people who already wanted it anyway?
Score. In that case the trailer was pointless and achieved nothing.
If it looked as amazing as you say surely it would have captivated a bigger audience than a group of Zelda-lovers?
> If you don't like the Zelda games then you don't know what looked so
> great about them
so it looked good to people who already wanted it anyway?
Score. In that case the trailer was pointless and achieved nothing.
If it looked as amazing as you say surely it would have captivated a bigger audience than a group of Zelda-lovers?
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