E3 - Nintendo Shows DS Details, Realistic Zelda

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @10:14AM from the link-it-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following the earlier leak of Nintendo DS pictures, there are hands-on details regarding Nintendo's handheld console over at GameSpot - Cube-Europe also has a list of Nintendo's first-party DS games, including 'Animal Crossing DS, Mario Kart DS, Metroid Prime: Hunters, a new Super Mario Bros game, Super Mario 64X4, and WarioWare Inc. DS'." Elsewhere, xDCDx writes "Nintendo just showed at their E3 conference a trailer of the new Zelda game for the Gamecube [there are also screenshots available], this time using a more mature visual look, rather than a cel-shaded one."

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Re:Nintendo changed zelda before by Pluvius · 2004-05-11 10:29 · Score: 1, Troll

You know that the Spaceworld 2000 demo you're talking about was a tech demo, right?

I've heard this argument before, and it doesn't hold water. There's a difference between making tech demos that obviously wouldn't make interesting games (the ping-pong ball XBox demo, for example) or tech demos that are of already-made games (the N64 FF6 demo) and tech demos that are indistinguishable from new game footage. There's also a difference between making a game that's only slightly different from the tech demo and making a game that's almost completely different from the tech demo.

Rob