Morning Console News

I think its pretty obvious nintendo's decision to loan its important franchises to trustworthy and appropriate developers is down to the Yamiuchi's retirement. Its a plan which has three very important benefits for nintendo.

1] A range of high quality titles are in production, which are almost guarenteed to sell well. Freeing up nintendo's very own talent to focus on other things. More games like pikmin? Yes please.
2] Nintendo makes a much welcomed return to the arcades. The arcades are a useful and important way to test new game ideas.
3] And most important of all nintendo manages to involve important third parties in the gamecube system. What better way to interest them, and teach them how to develop for the system, than with a prime franchise? And once they've developed one hit title for the system, whats the bets capcom and especially namco will be releasing more unique software of their own on the GC?

Its a pretty clever plan really.

YES! The Holy Grail of ports!

/hugs GBA

a link to the past...
probably my favorite snes game

maybe ill keep my GBA around afterall
i never really cared for it
i honestly dont even know why i bought the damn thing

What's with Nintendo lending out all of their major franchises to big-name third party developers?

What the hell? Did I fall asleep and wake up in some freaking wacky alternate universe or something?

link to te past = best zelda game ever

I've played through A Link to the Past about three to four times. I'm pretty sure that's a sign of a good RPG. I did the same with Super Metroid. A remake (or new 2D version) of Metroid would also be kick ass.

oh boy more old games for a new system.

It is a shame that they are doing a remake since the two GBC Zelda games Capcom made were so good.

It'd be cool if they packed Zelda1 and Zelda2 along with Zelda:ALttP, I mean they already have SNES content for Zelda1 available (from the Nintendo Satellite SNES remake in Japan). Regardless, I'd pick this one up in a second. I really love my GBA...I play SMW, Wario3, Sonic, and Castelvania on it all the time; I love 2d games!!!

(hoping for SamuraiShodown2!!!).

I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl because I'm gonna be among the first to get my afterburner 8^P

I thought this said Morrowind Console News.....ugh too much playing mw

A link to the past....wasn't that a Gameboy game and not a SNES game?

In other news, rare have denied that they have been bought out my activision.

Oh yes, Link to the Past on GBA. About the only game left that I'd really like to see ported is Super Metroid. And maybe Super Punch-Out.

PS, I don't recommend buying an Afterburner kit until after all of the announcements are made at E3..

wink wink

Speaking of afterburner, lik-sang sells GBA's with the thing already installed
http://www.lik-sang.com/catalog/default.php

A Link to the Past = WIN

Only a million times better than Z64 was.

mmh
maarten, i believe jason did post about the zelda remake &/or the f-zero by capcom at least 2 lnc's ago (or 3)

Link to the Past was a blast!

One of the best SNES games. The GBA lineup is getting mighty tasty. Sure, they're mostly games we've already played, but they're still better than most of what's on the xbox/gc/ps2.

i see a gba in my future!

CAN I GET FIRST!