Our close friend Steven Kent takes a hard look at the gaming war going on. So who's winning, and who's losing? Finally, main stream press that doesn't suck.
MSNBC have posted an article looking at the no-holds barred competition of consoles. Is Nintendo the clear cut winner? The article doesn't actually name who the champ is, but it does explain what Nintendo is doing wrong right now, and what they can do to get back out on top. Okay, it's a bunch of editors talking about how Nintendo is messing up. But, it's got a few words from Peter Main...talking about Zelda? For the full interview click the above link.
“If you hold up TRST to the light of day,” said Main, “you would say that we are clearly behind Microsoft by a couple of hundred thousand units. We’ll see how they do in Japan in the next month. From a corporate standpoint, we’re thinking about it globally, and we’ve shipped 2.6 million. We rolled all the dice last year in both re-launching Game Boy and launching GameCube in two different markets.”
For Nintendo to succeed, it will need to rely on its established game properties, and one piece of news that will come as a relief to many gamers is that Nintendo is re-thinking the cel-shaded version of The Legend of Zelda that was unveiled last August at its Spaceworld trade show. “You mean that contentious look? What Miyamoto [Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s top game designer] ends up with will truly reflect all of the words he has heard, but the sentiments that he holds true to make sure that Zelda continues to titillate all the fans that it has attracted over the years,” said Main.
