Bill. I can't believe you're worried about not having stuff for the next E3.
Dude. You're going to have plenty of stuff. Like say....3 NEW CONSOLES!!!! And maybe even the next Game Boy (depending on the impact of PSP). And by the next E3 the PSP and DS would have been just released and in heated battle. All the real games for these two will come out next year. AND, at E3 next year Zelda will be in its final stages and hopefully rock the house. Although personally, I think that Zelda should be switched over to a launch title for the new system, and totally overhauled to take advantage of all the new features that Nintendo said will be included in the system. And the new system should be so powerful that they should be able to make it cel-shaded....but not toon-shaded. I'm talking about cel-shaded graphics the quality of Ocarina of Time artwork. Take OoT artwork, make it even more detailed, put it in motion (we already know the superb animation you can get from cel-shading...and WW was only first gen cel shading!), and add special effects, and you'd have the beautiful game ever created.
Personally, I think releasing Zelda on GCN in 2005 is dumb. That's like a year before the new consoles. Remember what happened to Perfect Dark and Majora's mask? They both did great....Perfect Dark about a million and Majora's mask a little more...But that's nothing compared to Goldeneye and Ocarina...Goldeneye sold like 5 million in the US alone, and Ocarina sold over 7 million in the US alone. Add in European numbers to Goldeneye and Europe and Japanese numbers to Ocarina....
If Perfect Dark and Majora were launch titles for GCN....Xbox would have been history from the start. Perfect Dark was better than Halo as it is (don't get me wrong I still love Halo) but with GCN graphics and frame rate it would have annihilated Xbox combined with Majora's Mask....and Conker, which I've just remembered about. Okay, so these games were released in 2000 (Conker may have been 2001, don't remember), but i'd rather have them delayed and overhauled for a year and slapped onto GCN.
Remember the final years of N64? Everyone was looking forward to the last big 5 games before the next gen: Star Fox Adventures, Eternal Darkness, Perfect Dark, Majora's Mask, and Conker. Two of those games were transfered to GCN. Both were supposed to be GCN launchers. Unfortunately both were tragedies. Both ended up being delayed to 2002. One was great but sold like crap. One was not that great (gameplay anyway) but sold great.
If Nintendo and its second parties had gotten their act together, worked hard, and released all 5 of those games on GCN launch, combined with the other launch games and Smash Bros., they would have knocked Xbox off the map by summer 2002. All the Xbox had was Halo. All 5 of the above games, and Smash Bros. are all better than Halo. I think the way GCN launched and the way N64 ended was the biggest mistake Nintendo made. the GCN launch was actually great....compared to the other launches. But it should have been better. The PSX gamers all bought PS2 in 2000. But all the N64 games split up...half to Xbox and half to GCN. I'm sure many of you disagree since you only know about the hardcore few...but I have TONS of friends and people I know who were huge N64 fans but bought Xboxes. The thing is....N64 was THE console for FPS's. The GCN is the opposite. Xbox stole the spot because they had Halo when Nintendo didn't have anything of their own. And Nintendo lost Perfect Dark too.
Wow...I totally started rambling. Uh...sorry.
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