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Nintendo Gaming / RE: ign pans nintendo's e3 conf
« on: May 09, 2006, 07:44:53 PM »
I created a monster with this thread...
I'm surprised at all the angst here. Who cares what the price is, it is almost certanly either 199 or 249, both of which are perfectly reasonable given a modest hardware upgrade, wifi and a hugely complex and likely expensive controller.
The conference blew me away. The energy in the crowd and onstage was great, the gameplay demos were great, and the tenis game at the end was a lot of fun. Nintendo is absolutely right to hold on to a few cards, both to keep the hype going, and also to give them some wiggle room should Sony or MS change course last minute.
What the whiners on e3 are missing, and I think people here are too, is that the main point that Nintendo delivered on in spades is their continued dedication to excellent games. Just look at the boards from the last few months to see that this was absolutely in doubt, with people worried about a cheapening of Metroid, Zelda and a focus on non-games. Nintendo showed us that they were dead serious about the kind of 4 star game quality we've come to expect from it's flagship hardware, but this time with the energy and innovation that comes from a new control scheme.
If they can pull off metroid, zelda and mario by christmas 2006 then I think they'll be #1 in 2006/2007.
ps - in contrast, Sony showed us their dedication to nothing but frills and hardware horsepower. Other than the tilt control, we saw nothing innovative in the games at all. And even the tilt control did not inovate in the game _play_, just how the controller was used. A joystick already can move a plane in the same manner.
I'm surprised at all the angst here. Who cares what the price is, it is almost certanly either 199 or 249, both of which are perfectly reasonable given a modest hardware upgrade, wifi and a hugely complex and likely expensive controller.
The conference blew me away. The energy in the crowd and onstage was great, the gameplay demos were great, and the tenis game at the end was a lot of fun. Nintendo is absolutely right to hold on to a few cards, both to keep the hype going, and also to give them some wiggle room should Sony or MS change course last minute.
What the whiners on e3 are missing, and I think people here are too, is that the main point that Nintendo delivered on in spades is their continued dedication to excellent games. Just look at the boards from the last few months to see that this was absolutely in doubt, with people worried about a cheapening of Metroid, Zelda and a focus on non-games. Nintendo showed us that they were dead serious about the kind of 4 star game quality we've come to expect from it's flagship hardware, but this time with the energy and innovation that comes from a new control scheme.
If they can pull off metroid, zelda and mario by christmas 2006 then I think they'll be #1 in 2006/2007.
ps - in contrast, Sony showed us their dedication to nothing but frills and hardware horsepower. Other than the tilt control, we saw nothing innovative in the games at all. And even the tilt control did not inovate in the game _play_, just how the controller was used. A joystick already can move a plane in the same manner.
