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Cutting Through The Next-Gen BS
ConfusedFX wrote to mention a great feature at GameDaily that is trying to cut through marketing BS and get to the truth behind the upcoming next-gen systems. From a piece on the Revolution's street-date: "Now Nintendo is saying that a near final version of the Revolution will be on display and working at E3 2006. If the company expects to release in the US before Thanksgiving then it has to have a working model at E3, but exactly what does that mean for attendees of the annual expo? We expect to see Zelda: Twilight Princess running on Revolution with the new features discussed a couple weeks ago, and maybe Smash Brothers and a Mario title with a couple of little mini-games like we saw at the Tokyo Game Show. We may also see a handful of classic Nintendo titles to promote the Revolution download service Nintendo has vaguely discussed in the past. If we can play Smash, Mario and some Nintendo classics on the show floor we'll be happy Nintendo. Don't let us down!"
Tell me if you've heard this before:
"PS2 and X-Box are just mindless corporate sequel factories, churning out iterations of the same tired titles over and over again. Nintendo is a bastion of originality and revolutionary gameplay! Now hurry up with my new Mario game, my new Zelda game, new Smash Brothers game, new Mario Party game, new F-Zero game, and new Mario-Sports games."
Nintendo flogs their franchises just as hard as Electronic Arts does. They may reinvent the concepts for whatever wacky new input method they come up with, but it's still fanboy demand for the various franchises, all over again. If Sony or MS were innovating their controllers, you can bet we'd see the same thing with Madden and Halo... the new hardware doesn't reduce that demand for the same old standards.
THAT is cutting through the next-gen BS. I'm sure the Revolution will have some innovative new concepts, but I'm really getting tired of the plumber, you know..?