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Nintendo Going Online, Releasing New Games
GamesIndustry.biz has an article up about the Big N's future plans. Shigeru Miyamoto stated recently that Nintendo plans to be fully supporting online play within a few years, with the DS leading the way. From the article: "Miyamoto, credited as the design genius behind key Nintendo franchises including Zelda and Mario, told the magazine that online gaming will reach the mainstream within three to four years, and that Nintendo will be moving in that direction as a result." Gamespot also has details on upcoming Gamecube games, including another Mario, the next Legend of Zelda, Donkey Konga 3, Mario Baseball, and a new Kirby game.
Yeah. Nintendo online. We'll see Metroid, Super Smash Brothers, Mario Racers, Mario Golf, and Pokemon. Nothing that I would buy. There goes another horrible console system on the market.
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I guess thats why your post hasn't been modded UP for its terribly factual data, correct? Not. The bulk of what I said is true in the first three paragraphs the rest was fluff until the end. Maybe you were too stupid to realize that, but hey this IS slashdot. Sony was FF VII's publisher, SO WHAT?
The point remains that all the fighting games, RPG's and everything else went to PS1 primarily because Nintendo was not seen as a viable system to make games for as well as money, it wasn't just about economics of CD versus cartridges, many developers were also gamers and knew about the technology lest you forget. Also even with the added costs of cartridges why were there hardly any multiplatform games made for both the PS1 and the N64 with the N64's 30 million installed base? Because the playstation was a better system to make games for and had a much bigger installed base.
I didn't say the N64 sucked or had bad games, but that doesn't mean squat. The PS2 had inferior hardware to both the gamecube and xbox and it raped them both in units sold because of the games and the developers like Konami and square that release Heavy hitters like MGS 2, 3 and FFX, Grand theft auto 3 and up? How many PS2's were sold for just those 3 games, the fighting games and the rpg's, a fuckload. You can bet Nintendo is practically begging to get those developers back to getting good games on their consoles. Go and compare the titles on PS1 to the SNES and you realize that Nintendo got totally raped of all their best 3rd party franchises and developers because not even the N64 got any decent fighting games from Capcom. Nintendo practically had to beg for the one 3D castlevania from Konami that they released for the N64, while you were getting 2D wonders like Symphony of the Night for the PS1 (another great franchise that was formerly for the SNES and went to PS1 exclusivity). If you think the PS1 sucked ass you're simply mistaken every single 2D game made for the ps1 ran circles around the SNES's graphics, I own all the streetfighters for the PS1 and the own the SNES's graphics so hard because I owned the SNES versions of those games as well.