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Thanks for the most dull conference ever, Nintendo.

gerrid wrote:
> Dringo wrote:
> They make the ones we care about. They've made the best games of
> this
> generation. Sunshine, Wind Waker, Double Dash!!, Pikmin, Prime and
> Paper Mario 2.
>
> The best game on the Nintendo console wasn't even made by Nintendo.
> What does that tell you? Out of my top 10 GC games only 3 or so are
> actually Nintendo games (4 if you count Metroid).

My top 10 are:

Wind Waker
Super Mario Sunshine
Pikmin 2
Paper MArio 2
Resident Evil 4
Metroid Prime (haven't REALLY played 2 much).
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Timesplitters 3
Harvest Moon
Beyond Good and Evil.

6 made by Nintendo, 7 published.

Not a bad result, especially as Nintendo are the top 4.

I'm sticking with them because I love the games.

If you don't like Nintendo games then you're in the wrong forum.

[URL]http://www.cube-europe.com/games/e32005/3.jpg[/URL] - "I call it, 'the circle of revolution'"

Dringo wrote:
> All I want is quality games.
>
> I didn't buy my Gamecube and think "Well now i've bought it E3
> better be good every year".

No, but I bought it and thought 'Yeah, this Baby is going to have tonnes of classic games in it'

Once I cracked open its plastic frame, I found out I was wrong.

Shame there were hardly any quality games on show. 2 that you've mentoned, 3 if you include Geist.

mattributé wrote:
> FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> What games have Ninty actually made themselves recently?
> Mario Party: Lameophone Edition?
>
> Nah, that was Hudson, wasn't it?
>
> And no, not you, Ben.

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Nintendo will always have the 'OMG LAME' reputation on the playgrounds. Unfortunately.

gerrid wrote:
> What I hope is that the cheap development costs of the Revolution, and
> a big enough early adoption, mean that 3rd parties flock to it and use
> it as a plaform for launching a myriad of new games, the most
> successful of which can be ported to 360 and PS3 at greater cost.
> Hopefully the sheer quantity of the games on offer would allow
> Nintendo to do what Sony did with the playstation, whereby the games
> on the PS3 and 360 may be of higher quality, but there is much less
> choice, so the Revolution becomes the home of the casual gamer. It'll
> never happen, but we can always dream.

That's the plan. Not sure it'll work. But hey, if not, Nintendo can become niche.

mattributé wrote:
> Dringo wrote:
> You do demand an awful lot.
>
> Yeah, that kind of happens when I'm spending hundreds of pounds on
> something.

All I want is quality games.

I didn't buy my Gamecube and think "Well now i've bought it E3 better be good every year".

What I hope is that the cheap development costs of the Revolution, and a big enough early adoption, mean that 3rd parties flock to it and use it as a plaform for launching a myriad of new games, the most successful of which can be ported to 360 and PS3 at greater cost. Hopefully the sheer quantity of the games on offer would allow Nintendo to do what Sony did with the playstation, whereby the games on the PS3 and 360 may be of higher quality, but there is much less choice, so the Revolution becomes the home of the casual gamer. It'll never happen, but we can always dream.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> What games have Ninty actually made themselves recently?
> Mario Party: Lameophone Edition?

The last Nintendo made game that was released was Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat with Zelda: Four Swords before that. .

The rest, third/second parties.

Mario TEnnis was made by Camelot.
Resident Evil 4 Capcom.
Mario Party 6 Hudson.
Starfox Assault Namco.

The next one is Donkey Konga and that's Namco too.

In fact most of them are third party leased this year.

Bar Pokemon XD and Zelda. Coincidentally my most anticipated games of the year.