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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
Deep down this is the game I bought a Cube for in the first place. I've been waiting for this game since Nintendo showed the "bogus" Zelda footage in 2000.
Eh? I thought you bought a Cube because of the new IPs like Pikmin, and the experience that you couldn't get anywhere else in Metroid Prime? Not a sequel like this, which looked at the time like something in the vein of OoT..
OK, I'll stop being an ass. We all want this game, we're all waiting for it. But it's not going to the Rev, and it will be better than if it was rushed. So we should just relax.
And nemo, you're just being melodramatic. You should really read your posts again and ask yourself if you really meant, or even knew, what you were saying. "No 'ultimate' Zelda"? What the hell?
If Nintendo does anything to this Zelda that you need the Rev to uncover, the 20 million Gamecube owners will feel cheated. Swindled. "I bought this game for the full price and now I need to buy a $300 console to get new levels/play online?" That won't bode well, therefore I don't think there will be any forwards compatibility with the Rev, unless the new controller can play it even better.
It must have been a tough decision for Nintendo to push it to next year. A really, really tough one. When they made their profit forecasts for their stockholders, they took Zelda fully into account. Their biggest game of the year; a blockbuster.
And it had a global release, so you can just imagine how much it would sell for the holidays. For the period of November to April, let's say it sold 2 million units, at the very least. That's $100M US before the end of the fiscal year. So they make a decision that is in
our best interests, and definitely not theirs (let's see their overall profits for the year), and we're still complaining? Come on...
Not as many people as some think will jump to the 360 just because of this. It won't make that much of a difference. I don't know about sales - they might be a bit less because it's not during the holiday season, but not too much worse altogether. And we get an improved game. So I don't mind the wait. I do, however, agree with the Zelda demo disc idea, and advertising it a bit early as well.