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Nintendo Reveals More DS Games, Publishers
StrikerObi writes "Over at Planet GameCube, we've posted an expanded list of Japanese-announced Nintendo DS titles currently in development for their new dual-screened handheld system. Highlights include a new 'Mana' game from Square-Enix and a new RPG from Game Arts, the makers of the Grandia series." GameSpot's Japanese correspondent provides the full list of games, including the games "previously announced at E3", and also comments: "Among the more interesting developments, Konami Japan will release a Boktai game, while Konami Tokyo will release a Castlevania game for the DS."
I can't speak for everyone else, but when I say that Nintendo has gotten complacent with the gameboy, I usually put it this way: Name me the original games that Nintendo has put out for the Gameboy.
Make sure that you are getting Nintendo games, not just "gameboy" games.
The vast, vast majority of the Nintendo releases are: All Super Marios ever made, a number of other Super Nintendo retreads, and the latest, the downright insulting re-release of mostly-crappy Nintendo games at $20 apiece. Puh-leaze... I might have paid $20 for the bunch, but apiece?
(Don't forget the stupid E-Reader, either, with its own bumper crop of overpriced Nintendo games.)
Now, Nintendo has made at least a couple originals, but compared to the flood of shovelware, it doesn't much matter. (And most, if not all, of those originals have to tie into the Gamecube to... do something innovative? expand our gameplay horizons?... no, flip a couple of fucking bits so I can access all that I've actually already bought.) I'm still waiting for a new Super Mario game.
Compare this with Sega, who is on their third new Sonic the Hedgehog game. That is what we want from Nintendo.
I find it ironic that while I own a GBASP and am quite fond of it as a gaming platform, I find myself avoiding the Nintendo offerings like a plague. I don't have a Gamecube, have no intention of getting one, would still be offended at their transparent and shameless attempts to punish my Gameboy ownership without the corporate-approved Gamecube tie-ins, and am offended by the implication that I want to pay full price for games like Super Mario World * that I've already conquered on other platforms.
"Complacency" sums it up. "We've already made games, let the public buy them again." Fuck that, man. Thanks for the hardware, but I'll buy only the good stuff, and to date it isn't really coming from Nintendo.
Might not be your style (they're not mine), but they are definitely Gameboy-first games, with the Gamecube offerings being very secondary.
They sold a few copies of those games, too.
He decided to just watch the government, and kind of scale it down to size, and run his life that way. --Laurie Anderson
Pokemon: Hey, I didn't say no originals... but note they still do that crap with "Connect to the opposite color to have all the fun."
Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Yes.
the Golden Sun series: No, that is by Camelot Co, Ltd. (Own the first one, not my style but a solid game.)
Advance Wars: Intelligent Systems, not nintendo. (Own the first one, haven't beat it yet. Would probably have gotten the second by now.)
Fire Emblem: Also Intelligent Systems.
Metroid Fusion: Yes, but Zero Mission: Remake, albeit one with actual effort.
Zelda: Four Swords: I had been under the impression that this was a remake of A Link to the Past that had multiplayer; I see now I was wrong. (But add A Link to the Past to the remake list...)
Now, please stop reading into what I said. Never said it was bad to do the remakes. I have Doom 2 and it's cool. But they've released like 20 remakes, maybe more if you count each E-Reader game seperately, to like 4 or 5 original games... that's about one original a year. Frankly, all they have to do to make me happy is to take the engine from Yoshi's Island, and make a new game from it. The content coming out of Nintendo is quite complacent.