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Zelda On The DS, Sega on the Revolution
At the Nintendo Keynote today, Company President Iwata reiterated the same 'think differently' ideas that he espoused at last year's GDC. This time he had concrete data to back up his industry disruption message, detailing the millions in sales their 'Brain Training' line of games have racked up. Along with his message, he announced a new Zelda title on the DS, and the fact that Sega Genesis games will be on the Revolution, a part of the online library of games they're offering.
There have been three GDC writeups so far, including one from the Sony keynote, and all of them fairly lengthy.
Nintendo's keynote gets what, three sentences?
Here's a link a page where you can view the released trailer for the announced Zelda DS game. Can't wait to get my hands on this!
If you told me 15 years ago that the Sega Genesis library would be available for Nintendo I'd never believe you. Not because I didn't think it was possible, but because I don't believe in time travellers.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
While lacking the details some of us were hoping for, such as an official name or any extra info on the Revolution itself, this is still some damned good news.
With all that Nintendo is bringing out this year, such as Metroid Prime: Hunters, The New Super Mario Bros, (supposedly) new Pokemon games, and now Phantom Hourglass, it makes me weep softly at my lack of funds. At least I have even more reason to wait until DS Lite hits the shores. Between all that, Twilight Princess, and the Revolution, Nintendo is most likely going to get all of my free income this year, and rightly so.
The announcement that Genesis games will be on the Revolution is completely awesome; even though Sega has put out the classic Sonic games 18 times over, it will still be fun to play them on the Rev. Plus, you have games like Echo the Dolphin, Road Rash, and more. Even better, this could pave the way for 32X, Sega CD, and Sega Saturn games. I doubt we'd ever see Dreamcast games; while the Revolution will certainly be more powerful than the Dreamcast, would it be able to emulate the Dreamcast?
So, while these might be more minor announcements in the face of other things coming from Nintendo, but it's Good News none the less.
Although, we still don't have a specific state side release date for the DS Lite, do we? Dammit.
Actually I was totally stoked to see them using cel-shading again and it was one of the first things I noticed on the trailer.
Wind Waker's art was awesome and inspired. I can't say the same about Twilight Princess unfortunately.
not to mention sony's "in game advertisement is an important part of the PS3's future"
haha screw that!
Alice has a transcript of the keynote. Missing a couple of phrases and names, but otherwise appears complete if you want to read what Iwata actually said.