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General Chat / Must-see E3 videos: the Nintendo conference and more

« on: May 18, 2005, 07:41:22 AM »

Do you guys know this website?

I couldn´t find any direct videos from Nintendo´s conference elsewhere. All I found was transcripts, which don´t do justice on the real thing. So I suddenly recalled a website I visited last year, which showed so much from E3, it was almost like being there in person (without all the roaring noise, heat and spectacle)! It was that good. Also this year, I found everything on this website, including Reggie showing the GameBoy Micro for the first time!

It´s showing all the events direct from E3 each year, and so much that it´s simply fantastic! I don´t think that any other of the websites can show us so much as this website does. Just keep looking everyday over the next few days and you´ll see they will add more and more as E3 2005 progresses.

So why don´t you click on the link

right now!!!

The people who made this website should be thanked a thousand times. A real E3 website. I don´t think it will get any better than that.  

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General Chat / Great Reggie interview, clearing up a lot on Revolution and GameBoy Next

« on: May 12, 2005, 09:29:02 AM »

Yes, I just have time to put this hot link on the PGC Forums. I really haven´t seen anything like this interview before, so I figured you hadn´t either!

Go figure, for it does clear up a lot about the coming E3 show, and how much they will reveal!

Reggie speaks - again!

(If this doesn´t work, try this instead:  http://www.n-sider.com/newsview.php?type=day&date=2005-03-10#805)  

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Nintendo Gaming / Damn cool website showing something which...could be the genuine Revolution console!

« on: May 12, 2005, 08:11:03 AM »

I was looking around on the internet for possible leaks on the ultra-secret GameCube successor. And lo and behold, I found something which is so cool and so surprising that even though it´s fake it is damn well the most beautifull mock-up I have ever seen! I don´t know how they did it. But it´s pretty!

The controller shown is particularly interesting, and I think it is close to the real deal. They must have had a real drooling appetite for the real thing and just couldn´t wait until the actual thing was shown and had to get creative. But definitely worth a look, if merely to give you an idea of what to expect from Nintendo next week at E3. They also have the Broken Saints Revolution rumours.

UK games website Gamesradar.com did something similar with the DS, made a mock-up with two screens with one of those being a touch screen and the only difference between the mock-up and the real thing was that the screens on the final product was sitting closer to oneanother than speculated in the mock-up. In other words, they got really close to the real thing. Could this be the case here?

You can find it

right here      

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Nintendo Gaming / NDS screens gave me a near black-out: was advised by EB Games staff to do away with it!

« on: April 28, 2005, 03:34:43 PM »

I wanted to tell you guys about something which I experienced recently, and which forced me to sell my Nintendo DS (tears...).

Yes, after playing Super Mario 64 DS for 3 days of 3 hours each, I suddenly felt a strong headache in the left side of my head, and strange lightpatterns intertwined with weird reflections obscured the eyesight in the left part of the left eye. I had to stop playing, and wait until the pain and visual disturbances had gone away. They did, after half an hour or so, sitting in a chair with my eyes closed. I recall how, sitting there with my eyes closed, I could now see even more powerfull light-patterns in all kinds of weird colors, just hoping they would go away so I could get back to playing. So after 30-40 minutes, I resumed playing. Only resulting in immediate return of both the headache and the visual disturbances, even more strongly.

I thought, this is unbelievable! Here I waited over one year to get my hands on a DS, and then after only three days of playing I find I cannot do it! What the heck is wrong? I NEVER had such trouble from either the GameBoy or any other handheld I ever played games on!!

When I went on the train about an hour later, going out in the open to relax and get better, I nearly fainted on the floor of the train! I don´t think people noticed it, but I did! Only because of immediate action which helped me to concentrate, I managed to keep my balance. Even walking out of the train, with no eyesight in the whole left part of the left eye was one terrible experience which made me think I was about to go blind! Whaaaam! And it took the whole of the rest of that day, before I felt well again. Regaining my eyesight in the left eye fully, made me very relieved. After the resumption of play, I must have triggered something worse, I thought later. Because this was way too strange. It never happened before, with any other console I played, not even the ones I play on a tv.

The next day, I went over to the EBGames shop where I bought the DS, and explained about the problem. They immediately looked at me in a very concerned way, flipping open a DS manual, and said that the DS manual had a warning which told of the risk of epileptic seizure found with some people who are sensitive to certain flashes and lightpatterns found in videogames and which could result in all sorts of health problems. So there it was! The problem I had, was that I obviously cannot view the DS screens without sustaining epileptic seizures!!

I requested they give me something else in place of the DS, and knew that it was no problem as there were pixel-errors on the screens of my DS already. I had found two of them, which I had decided to use as a reason for the requested exchange. Incredibly, EB Games staff found three more pixel errors, so that there were five of them alltogether.

Has any of you people ever experienced such a problem playing your DS machines, or know of people/heard of people who did? I really thought how sad it is that I cannot play the DS anymore, and just wondered if any of you know what to do about it, if anything at all possible. Because I really want to play the DS, but fear the consequences in light of the crazy reaction I got from my body!

 

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NWR Feedback / How do I see previous topics not immediately listed?

« on: April 18, 2005, 07:42:59 AM »

I just experienced the strict enforcement of PGC staff, when I posted a topic which was deemed to be out of date as the nature of the topic was apparently already discussed two weeks ago on the Forum. But I fail complete to find that topic two weeks ago as I cannot find a way to go back to say thse two weeks or month or longer back.

Thee used to be a clickable menu line where you could choose how far back you wanted to view topics until a a certain number of months of previously topics in all the forums. But I can´t find it anymore, and KDR11K says it has something to do with my threshold beng too low. But also here I am lost. When entering the profile, I find no way to set such parameters.

Is there anyone who would be so kind to tell me how I view those past topics?  

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General Gaming / Sony Playstation in big trouble in the US

« on: April 13, 2005, 07:35:11 AM »

I see a lot of talk back and forth here in the PGC Forums about Sony consoles, and here in particular the PSP. But has any of you heard the news about the Californian court order that Sony halt sales of all Playstations in the entire US?

Check out the news here

Judge orders end to Playstation sales in the US

Since I haven´t heard anything more about it, I wonder if any of you know if the appeal is being filed at time of writing or if it has been already won or lost.

Would surely spell doom for Sony, if they lose the appeal. I don´t think they can just win the appeal in a case of this magnitude just on their name and fame alone.  

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Nintendo Gaming / Just tried the Nintendo DS for the first time and it´s a blast!

« on: February 19, 2005, 02:27:18 AM »

Yes, we don´t officially get it over here until March 11, but i was fortunate enough to get to try the Nintendo DS in one of our EB Games shops where the manager had imported one for himself. And my first impression is that it´s a blast to play! Mario 64 resurrected with prettier graphics, Metroid Prime Hunters demo, I am sure you all know this so well now. But to me it was fabulous. So I know that Nintendo will be very successfull with it, and that the PSP will have heavy competition from it as it will both be nearly 3 times more expensive, and will not boast any games that are but the same as on PS2 which you can play better and bigger on a tv.

God bless Mighty Nintendo!!!!

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Nintendo Gaming / Must-read IGN editorial on Nintendo and upcoming E3 show

« on: February 10, 2005, 08:42:44 PM »

Yes, I know it´s IGN, whom I recently criticized for being hypocritical with regard to Nintendo. Well, maybe they are, maybe they aren´t. One thing they certainly are, is good at placing Nintendo right where it is right now. Namely in a situation where it needs to make a decision fast, about what it is going to do with the Revolution console at E3!!

The IGN editorial makes that plain and simple: they must not only SHOW it, they must also let people PLAY it! And not only that, they must make a resounding impact with it!!

A lot of people already have their eyes fixed on the PlayStation 3 and XBox 2 consoles, so Nintendo CANNOT afford to not show THEIR next-generation offering to people at the show. That much is clear. It is one thing that Miyamoto and Nintendo itself seem to be afraid of revealing new Nintendo software for fear of copycats within the gameindustry (a fear so far unwarranted), but quite another with a next-generation console competing with two other such next-generation consoles - at a big game industry event that is the starting signal for a new console war!! It´s going to have to make a noticeable impact and build hype from that moment onwards, or the hype will go to the other two!

I am particularly in agreement with IGN, that regarding the third parties Nintendo can´t afford to miss out at all. They can´t sustain a new platform by their own efforts alone, and neither can they afford to give third parties a bad hand in not properly securing a smooth method of gamescreation on their platform. IGN says it would be wisest to simply tailor games to their specific platform, right from the start! I am totally in agreement here. It would instantly show the third parties what the new console can do and how they can profit from it.

you can read the IGN editorial

here

Ah yes, a whole new way to play games. But also may wind up being a whole new way to play very few games, if Ninty don´t secure both proper amounts of healthy hype for it and one heck of an easy transfer of- and creation of new third-party games on that new platform!

All eyes fixed on Reggie now!

 

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Nintendo Gaming / Must-read article: DS turns Nintendo haters 180 degrees!

« on: February 10, 2005, 07:55:26 PM »

Yes, the headline of my topic is, apparently, no overstatement.

Nintendo´s new baby is doing what it was meant to do - not just turning heads, but converting die-hard Sony and Microsoft fans back to the Nintendo fold.

In simple terms, the simplicity of the gameplay in DS games makes people who were shown the DS (in this example at a local school) instantly interested, and so much in fact that they won´t easily hand over the DS to the next in line, after their alotted play-sessions. Amazed, delighted, happy and addicted is what they all are, and I think that that is just how it is in many places these days where the DS is shown to people. At least a lot of the people who got to play the DS in this outstanding example, decided to buy it for themselves! Nintendo hit the BullsEye!!! Read about it

right here

About time I got a DS myself. It´s not out here yet, though. So I´ll have to wait (frowns)!!!

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General Chat / IGN seemingly tries to talk Nintendo down!

« on: January 28, 2005, 09:49:59 AM »

I just read something over at Cube.ign.com which upset me a lot!!!!

With the headline "Nintendo Financials: The game giant takes another hit.", IGN posts a newsstory which makes you think Nintendo is in trouble - again! It was particularly the manner of speech "-takes another hit." which offended me. Because despite some recent shortcomings on the financial side, according to fresh estimates they´re posting over 1/2 Billion Euro in netprofit this year, with a GameCube dubbed by many as a "failure" having sold over 18 million units already! The Game Boy Advance has shipped 66 million units of hardware to date, and 1/4 billion units of software. The Nintendo DS shipped almost 3 million units of hardware in under a month! What is all this talk then of "another blow"? Does IGN hate Nintendo? Do they want Nintendo to fail perhaps? Every time I read the mailbox by Matt Cassamassina, I always hear him being very hypocritical, in the way that on one side he certainly doesn´t mind playing Nintendo´s games and owning their latest machines. While on the other hand being very busy doubting them!! I see this time and again. But nomatter how much this website talks bad about Nintendo, they will NOT fail!!

They´re going to succeed, which has already become so much more apparent with the launch of Nintendo DS and it´s wonderfull range of new gameplay-changing software that so delights that it is simply amazing!! Then wait until the Nintendo Revolution in launched! Curiously IGN has just today reported some patent-thing goings on with Nintendo that could indicate what the Revolution thing is going to be all about - read about that

Right here

Meantime, I think that IGN should get busy righting their shamefull hypocrisy which of late has started to get me thinking if I should stop visiting their website alltogether!! Then, Mr. cassamassina and x-box friends can sit a revel in their pro-x-box chatter, while Nintendo launches a revolution which will draw in all the wonderfull Nintendo gamers along with all the latent gamers out there who have tired of abundantly complicated or difficult games all made history with the new baby from Nintendo!

Nintendo so ROCKS the world, that the rest of the gang are JEALOUS!!  

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Nintendo Gaming / Is Nintendo DS really inferior to the SONY PSP?

« on: January 17, 2005, 12:12:33 PM »

IGN has just had Matt Casamassina post a reply to someone, who muses over the whole Nintendo Revolution thing, supposed to be revealed to us all come May this year. The content of his reply is shocking!

He simply states that he has been toying around with BOTH handhelds for a while, and that... the SONY PSP is far superior (!) audio-visually to the Nintendo DS! Click on the link below, and let me hear what YOU have to say, after reading that reply (found under the "Revolution and DS" headline)!

final verdict in the handheld war?

I am mostly inclined to really try both, before I make a decision on which one to buy! Not out of disloyalty to Nintendo, but simply for the reason that the PSP may indeed be a better handheld in multiple ways! I had big problems with the GBA SP, because it was too small to hold in my hands and resulted in cramps after a few hours only of playtime. I am not going to see a repeat of that situation. Has any of you been fortunate enough to try both?

I really feel as if it is almost Sony winning here, but also only almost! Why? Same reason as when the GameBoy won it all before! Battery life!! Nintendo could still winn, since people will likely choose the longer battery life over the shinier graphics on the PSP! Handhelds are all about longevity on the road!

And, please, no fanboy rants! Let us have an honest discussion!  

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Nintendo Gaming / Revolution begins: first rumours on the new Nintendo console

« on: December 21, 2004, 04:15:39 AM »

Just picked up a small bit of information about a most sought after subject: the new wondermachine from Nintendo, to be shown at E3 2005. And guess what:

According to the sourse, there´s no A/B buttons...and no D-pad on the new controllers!

Allthough I would have preferred to hear instead that there was no analogue control (as that would be more of an indicator of a whole new control method), it still tells you that the puzzle in being assembled, and that we shall soon get a full view of the machine, that will change the way we play forever.

Nintendo must be "slightly annoyed" over the rumour-mongers here on the internet. Ninty likes to keep their cards close to their chest, but people just can´t wait. Just like a bunch of kids can´t wait for Christmas to see what they get, and so raids everything in the house remotely similar to a hiding spot for such nice things as Xmas-presents.

I found the news right over

here  

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General Chat / Why does in-game level-characters always respawn in the same places?

« on: December 15, 2004, 06:46:23 AM »

The title of my topic kinda says it all, doesn´t it?

I simply wonder why I always have to face the same characters, for instance that skeleton-head with that green glow around it, haunting the Well in Kakariko Village in OOT, when I return to the that part of the area after some time doing other things in the level itself. THe same thing was the case with the Arctic predators in MP1. They just kept respawning over and over. If I kill something, damn it should be dead. And I do know that there isn´t any place from where others could have come. No tunnels, or portals or anything seen so far at least. So really I think they just make them respawn, to give longevity to the game. But that can be done better, and in a far more inventive way.

I just think it would be better if Nintendo (and Retro) could work on making it more varied where and when they re-appear, instead of always making it just the same and the same over and over. Would add more excitement to the gameplay, as you wouldn´t know what would be there when you returned, instead of just plain knowing what to expect.

No doubt there are limitations as to what the developers can do, and it´s hard to develope the maingame itself, but it sort of weighs down the value of playing and replaying the games with overabundance of such problems, because it is annoying to have to kill something over and over, because it "won´t die". In the end I found myself just trying to avoid it, rather than killing it - duh! again - because it got to be too much. Only to be more at risk of depleting my energy meter!

Does anybody have the same experience? Am I really the only one who wan´t that to change?  

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo DS will sell millions

« on: December 10, 2004, 06:40:54 AM »

I just read excerpts from an interview with NCL President, Satoru Iwata, and after reading it, I am so relieved since what he states make it obvious that Nintendo wont lose the handheld war against SONY. Again, innovation proves to be dead-on accurate, as millions of people have tired of games that are too complicated and relying too heavily on ever greater graphics but overall being so dull to or so hard to play through to the end that people don´t bother anymore. It´s not worth the expenditure, I think many feels. THAT is where the very reason of the videomarket stagnation lies, and that´s why Nintendo will succeed in winning - again!

Here is the interview  

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Nintendo Gaming / New Legend of Zelda already in Quarter 2?

« on: November 13, 2004, 03:47:33 AM »

I think my eyes were betraying me or something, but people have begun to talk about it, so it can´t be?

The new Zelda is coming out much sooner than anyone expected. Gamesindustry.biz says that Ninty released a list of games to come out early in 2005, and what do you think you find on that list for GCN? The Legend of Zelda, in Quarter 2! I am still holding my breath!

Nintendo explicitly stated that THIS game would come out SIMULTANEOUSLY worldwide! So not just Japan first ...still not breathing!

Has anybody else seen this? Hoax?  

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Nintendo Gaming / Is Nintendo killing thirdparty support itself?

« on: August 20, 2004, 07:28:18 AM »

Over at IGN, in the GameCube Mailbag section, a guy recently wrote the editors, about how frustrated he is over the considerably lesser releases of games being planned for the Nintendo GameCube, as opposed to its two main competitors, PS2 and XBOX. He thinks there is a trend to sort of avoid the GCN, and in response to his query the editor replies-

that while there is a number of unmissable must-have games coming for GCN, they are mostly first-party, and second-party releases, and that if you leave out Namco, Capcom and SEGA there is almost no other releases on the Gamecube for the rest of the year.

He continues by saying that this has been the Nintendo situation since the N64 days and he labels it a problem which stems from Nintendo apparently still being stuck in the days of the SNES where is was the undisputed videogame leader.

He feels that Nintendo thinks that developers should feel privileged to develop games for it´s gamemachines, whether it be out of ignorance or arrogance. He has something to back up his claims though, having recently spoken to a major (unnamed) third-party developer who was approached by a Nintendo representative who wanted them to start developing for the Nintendo Revolution. But they scoffed, wanting the rep to give him a reason why! He was given what is probably the lamest reply you could ever give to anybody approaching a developer for support of your gaming platform and that was the end of that. A frighteningly arrogant response, which, if true, wont do them any good. The letter and response can be viewed

Here

You can now judge for yourselves, if you think it has any substance. IGN is the biggest in the Gaming Media, so I would say they know what they talk about, and that it gives reason to worry about the future for thirdparty gamesupport on Nintendo platforms, nomatter how advanced the gameinterface!!

Is Nintendo ignorant or arrogant? Or are they fully aware of the whole situation, and doing nothing about it because they don´t care? Has this anything to do with the many times below-average games, being released by the third-parties, that simply don´t sell on the GCN for lack of ability to compete with the better offerings, from first- and second parties? And, finally, do any of you think that this situation could dramatically affect the entire market in the future, for good or for worse?

If you look at the situation over at the PS2 and XBOX platforms, there is quite a few good games on offer there, but even more junk games than good ones (just take a look at the Reviews and the scores for each of most games!). Is the ratio of good vs. bad games on either of the three platforms the same? And if so is Nintendo doing themselves an ill-favor by allegedly not granting enough support for those third-parties which could fill their gamelibrary with all sorts of games and help attract even more gamers to GCN thus once again creating more attention for Nintendo?

No fanboy rants, please!

I think that even all the fanboys in the world couldn´t save Nintendo, if they are really treating the all-important third-parties this way!

 

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Nintendo Gaming / NDS: a big confusing mistake?

« on: June 08, 2004, 07:36:32 AM »

Over at Nintendophiles.com, there is a guy who wrote a quite interesting article entitled "Third Pillar - more like big confusing mistake". It makes me laugh. He seems to not understand that the NDS is not the new GameBoy, not supposed to be the new GameBoy and never will be. But he wants it to be. Only problem is that it can never be. It´s not Nintendo´s plan.

He laments the fact that Nintendo didn´t already herald it the new GameBoy. He clearly wants Nintendo to go head on with SONY over the handheld market and label the NDS the next GameBoy! What Nintendo has already said about the new console, the Nintendo Revolution, to be revealed at E3 2005, tells me a few things about why they´re doing it that way!

The next GameBoy will be a revolution, like it´s bigger brother GCN successor!! But don´t expect Nintendo to tell what kind of revolution until the show starts! They love to surprise us!!

Here is the link to his article anyway: www.n-philes.com/features.php    

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Nintendo Gaming / Must-see: Nintendo DS actual-play video from E3

« on: May 21, 2004, 06:46:14 AM »

Go to:

http://www.e3insider.com/insideE3.htm

and see some really awesome footage showing also Nintendo DS in actual use by a gamer at E3!

Gamebasher.

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General Chat / Adult content in videogames bordering on exploitation of disasters

« on: April 23, 2004, 06:23:01 AM »

Good-day young Gamecube Knights.

I went over on my favourite alternative gamenews website, Gamesindustry.biz, and here I found a most interesting editorial: "Opinion: Bad News shouldn't be Fair Game for entertainment" written by a Rob Fahey on April 22. this year.

His editorial argues that even though recent conflicts around the world, provide rich opportunity for developers to find inspiration for the content in their games, developers should perhaps think more closely about the moral implications of turning tragic events into entertainment!

He writes that the developers of such games, with such themes, often walk a fine line when it comes to good taste. He says that it´s obvious that if a game or any other media product adressing recent worldevents stand out having a certain topical appeal which can help boost sales. And that recent historical conflicts which actual people have lived through (my comment: and who may still be alive today) and still hold strong opinions on also is a potential minefield in terms of taste and tact. He includes that naturally time changes things, heals wounds, so that nobody is likely to take offense at in-game portrayal of events from hundreds of years ago.

But as he then points out, even this week there are games being released based on the events in Afghanistan and Iraq and that both topics are still raw in the minds of many people as they are conflicts where still many people are dying and families grieving. He lists developer Pivotals Conflict Desert Storm II: Back to Baghdad and developer EA´s Command & Conquer: generals about a fantasy war between Arab terrorists and US troops.

He concludes that we need to ask ourselves if it is justifiable to take such kinds of events and turn them into entertainment for an audience made up of teenage boys and young men. He ends by saying that the videogamesindustry is an entertainment industry and that all kinds of cultural and historical sources are used as entertainment concepts, but that sometimes developers and publishers need to stop and think carefully about the consequences of turning real life events and real world actual tremendous suffering into shoot´em up entertainment!!

Personally I couldn´t agree more! That´s why I never play anything other than Nintendo games, and a few select 2. party (METROID!!) and 3. Party games.

Several surveys and tests have revealed that people become more insensitive to violence, and themselves violent, when indulging in playing games with violent content! I would even go as far as to say that some people who enjoy killing, maiming, torturing and persecuting virtual people who are depicted as real people in a real world would be affected to the negative in this way, and could end up doing it for real! In example, there is the two teenagers who decided to play out GTA for real and killed a real person because they were "bored"!! (http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Sep/wbg20030911021706.htm)

This, if even one person doing it and saying that is why they did it, proves that it is true that such games makes people more violent! While the majority of us, don´t actually go out to react like they did, we should question the moral implications of such gamescontnet on those who are too weak, or too sensitive to react in a sound way to such games. Can our society afford to have some people affected to a point where they suddenly and without warning go out and "do it for real"? It could be me, or you who´s affected next! Do you feel safe in a society where the gamemedia is exploiting disaster and turning the blind eye when it turns ugly? I know many families where such games are banned from play. And I also know the reason!

Therefore this is a good reason for including this topic in the PGC Forum. For, even though Nintendo says it doesn´t make such games, recently they have caved into the pressure from a hungry gamingaudience, and started to make such content in games. One thing is for certain, the type of games with violent content that the PS2 is swimming in literally, is NOT the type of games that builds up the family values for adults and their little bright eyed kids that Miyamoto-san seeks to promote. Period.

Gamebasher.








 

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Nintendo Gaming / Zelda for NDS confirmed! Awesome...

« on: March 26, 2004, 02:44:26 AM »

Here is the link to one of the best newsstories I have read in a long time:

Link: http://spong.com/detail/news.asp?prid=6384

Zelda for NDS!!!!!!!!!!!

I really nolonger have any doubts about its success! Because a lot of the owners of the GBA will be guaranteed to buy it when they hear this!

It is Eiji Aonuma himself who confirmed it, so it´s deadsecure.

Imagine Zelda, with the touchscreen on a hendheld and with the wireless connection to other players...

The PSP suddenly looks a lot less attractive, doesn´t it? But I always trusted that Nintendo would not dissapoint us...and now that Miyamoto has his hands free to do only the big titles (for GCN and NDS) I believe that it can only go up and up and up for mighty Nintendo.

Big Boos Merry Go Round...Booh SONY!!!

Gamebasher.  

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Nintendo Gaming / New NDS article over at IGN: must read!

« on: March 24, 2004, 01:26:47 AM »

Yes, it´s a must-read, fellow Nintendo Gladiators!

There is simply a run down of what the touch sensitive screen will do and more...

R-e-a-d it! It´s so damn cool and I do hope Nintendo will confirm it as the truth! Because if they do, people will NOT have a problem understanding the concept at all. It´s revolutionary, but that´s Nintendo!

Here is the link http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/501/501282p1.html

Gamebasher.

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Nintendo Gaming / Newsarticle reveals that the DS will be powerfull

« on: March 13, 2004, 03:23:48 AM »

Over on Nintendoinsider, there is a newsarticle detailing some must-read information about the Nintendo DS/Nitro hardware.

Here is the link: http://nintendoinsider.com/site/EpZAEEuAAFTtxBSrBb.php
(how do you higlight a LINK to a website, so people can just click on it?)

Go and see for yourselves, I think it pretty much gives us all the reassurance we need that it will be like a portable N64!!

I want Mario 64 on it, and the REAL Ura-zelda too!!!!!!!!

Gamebasher.

 

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General Gaming / SONY is a big thief; steals Nintendo´s connectivity idea

« on: March 02, 2004, 12:44:32 PM »

Once more I went over to Gamesindustry.biz, and can you guess which newsarticle I found over there RIGHT above a newsheadline on the NDS?

This one: "Sony confirms PSP to PS2 connectivity rumours".

!!!

Not that I haven´t noticed this kind of "copycat"-trend before (SEGA´s Dreamcast copied the N64 controller more or less, according to NGC Magazine and...I agree with them) but this is proof of the biggest rip-off in videogamehistory!!

I am both outraged, and in a way overjoyed!

I am outraged, because not only does SONY shamelessly copy the original connectivity idea that noone had heard of prior to Nintendo showing it at E3 2003, but they also ensure that only new game-titles will be used in this way, not only ports of existing games...and the very idea of focusing on entirely new, and innovative games for a specific platform is Nintendo´s own.

They have repeatedly stated that the Game industry will die if not re-invigorated by new types of software. The specific problem with the newsarticle, is a line reading that saved games can be moved from the PS2 to the PSP so that play could be continued on that handheld system! Go read it for yourselves! It´s just so obvious, how it´s been directly copied from the GCN-GBA Connectivity concept.  

I am overjoyed, because all this and much recent information in the media prove Nintendo to be the absolute King of Videogames with all that they have said and done as concerns videogames! They must be, if everyone is running after them, and doing what they do. And one understands why Miyamoto is so cautious about revealing Mario 128 too soon!

Stealing ideas from others, is extremely poor behaviour and only shows the lack of creativity on the part of the thief! Still, I think if any two will be the final winners (they say that there can only be two in the end) of the so-called videogame war, it will be Nintendo, and big thief Sony (they also stole the F-Zero game concept and "reverse-engineered" it into the WipeOut- series) and in that order! Sony is too big and too well-established, to do away with like that, and Nintendo is too clever and too innovative to be sent to third place. So out goes Microsoft, if any does!!

But I strongly lament the jealous, childish and even vicious behaviour displayed by certain newscommentators who seek to induce us with bias towards Nintendo, and hope we will jump ship! Shame on them!! If any deserve to be bullied, it is the thief!

But this is just the usual human behaviour, I guess, when people are jealous of someone who is better than themselves! Whatever their reason, to me

Nintendo is the King of videogames!

Gamebasher.

 

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General Chat / Nintendo has started to study customer responses on the Internet!

« on: February 19, 2004, 05:32:21 AM »

IGN has an interview with Satoru Iwata, President of NCL, and he has some things to tell us:

1) The pricecut of the GCN at one time helped Nintendo surpass the sales of Sony´s PS2 console and the overall sales are going as intended. But they´re having a hard time reading the Japanese market! Still, the recentmost sales of the GCN and it´s software shows it is far from a "dead platform".

2) The NDS is going to help them increase their customebase (best hope people will like it!)

and here comes the best part of that interview -

3) they have started to study customer responses on the internet!!!!! This means, that what we are talking about right here on Planetgamecube Forums could be seen by Nintendo, and taken note of! So, why don´t we all just remember that and start FLOODING this forum with responses to GCN games!

If PGC Forum directors read this, I would encourage them to create a new section of these forums titled: "Future games and the way we want them" or something like that! A place where all kinds of people can breathe freely, while they share their thoughts on how a recently announced game should be! Much like the topic I have posted about a realistic Zelda! Then Nintendo can just jump over there and read all our innermost thoughts!

Here is the link anyway: http://cube.ign.com/articles/492/492280p1.html

Gamebasher.

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Nintendo Gaming / News article assessing Nintendo future, reveals possible hidden agenda of gaming media

« on: February 13, 2004, 06:19:32 AM »

I just read a most disturbing newsarticle over on Gamesindustry.biz, a developer orientated news website.

The article details how certain industry commentators speculate, or misinterpretate facts about Nintendo´s plans for the future and to the peril of Nintendo itself. A type of negative, inductive opinion which ends up being construed as actual situation which is then released to the newsmedia as "news fact". Recently this type of negative game news reporting lowered the value of NCL company stocks, with Nintendo PR staff quick to deny the allegations of it alltogether. They talked their stock down! Before I continue, I will include the link to that news article:

www.gamesindustry.biz (click under newsarticle "Opinion: Speculation over Nintendo's future reveals ugly truths about gaming media")

Read the article, and learn more about these so-called industry commentators who if not countered by carefull measures from the side of Nintendo´s PR department, may wind up doing more bad than good to mighty Ninty. Good and sound marketing afterall is the lifeblood of any company seeking to stay afloat in todays hectic videogame industry.

One invariably comes to think that to these industry commentators, the next consolewar will be fought between Sony and Microsoft alone! To them it is "better" if Nintendo goes the way of SEGA and become a software oriented developer alone. This all comes on top of months of negative talk about Nintendo´s poor E3 showing, EDGE magazine staff at E3 lamenting same and openly saying that the company was in dire waters etc. etc. and now what that "Nintendo official" secretly said about the company´s chances at competing with the two other consolemakers.

But Nintendo have already stated that the N5 will be shown to the public, at E3 2005. So why are they so busy talking about Nintendo "doing a SEGA"?

In what way did SONY destroy SEGA´s most excellent Dreamcast console? By talking the thing out of existence, right! Much like some smart analyst in the stockmarket can talk other company stock down! In SEGA ´s case people believed, because of SEGA´s inability to compete with the PS2 hype and combat piracy. But it took over a year for the PS2 game library to catch up with the DC games library, and it´s 1. gen graphics were poor in comparison with the DC 1. gen graphics. So should these apparently same type of people be allowed to sit and talk Nintendo down too? Nintendo is the oldest, best, and most experienced of the three consolemakers. So if there is only room for two, it is certainly Microsoft that´s going out if any will!! Be certain that Nintendo can and will secure that!!!

Gamebasher.