Late Night Consoling

Looks like Nintendo is back into the "secret announcement" business again. Anyone remember the whole Megaton thing?

holy jumpin fuckin jesus, FFVII-2... that would just be... *trembles compulsively and foams at the mouth*

So how many stores are getting sued for selling tape recorders and CD-R drives then?

Does anyone else think that Mario Sunshine was a rather poor game? As far as platformers go, it was great. But I felt spoiled on Mario 64 with that type of gameplay, where it was far more jump based, rather than equipping Mario with a sentient Super Soaker.

Peter Moore doesn't need to spend time slandering the Gamecube, there are enough Xbox fanboy's on the Internet to do that for him. (See this forum)

interesting lik sang response in response (from the gbadev mailing list)

Jason, I'm really tempted to update the story about connecting the Players to a GBA - You're wrong. I can scan the page in the instruction manual showing a picture of the Player linked to a GBA and 2 GBA SP's.

Gotta love the way Peter Moore offhandedly insults Doom and Quake players in his interview. HALO, HALO, HALO is half of all Xbox marketing/hype and yet it is a variant on just those types of games. There is certainly a fair share of players as he describes but is suddenly dumping on Doom/Quake players the PC thing to do? When those games were new I don't think most players were like that and 'living room community' PC or console games didn't really exist. Heck, Xbox live is just trying to capture a good share of the online community feel PC games have had for years. Lots of the gaming press and developers grew up playing those games and I don't think they'd like to be characterized that way.

I think tonight's special and Peter Moore's comments show why Xbox is just not that great. There seems to be this pathological obsession with believing they are better than everybody when all sales evidence points to this being untrue. Hell look at the way they dealt with the controller issues. Do these folks really look and come across as knowing what is fun in a game or what a typical game consumer thinks? Most don't seem like they are really gamers, just corporate managers who happen to play a game or two (or three if you give them the benefit of the doubt :)).

There's only one reason I might be tempted to get the Gamecube Game Boy Player: taking screenshots of Game Boy games. Whether I'm including them in my useless reviews, or just throwing an amusing still on my website's front page, it's fun and sometimes even useful. Combining this gadget with video-capture hardware would make that very easy.

Otherwise, the GBA SP pretty much makes it redundant. (And well worth getting three days before release.) So I doubt I'll pick up the Gamecube Player right away, though I will eventually.

Best retarded comment in that Peter Moore interview:
"The interesting by product of all this is that it's put huge pressure on Nintendo GameCube. What do they do? How do they stay alive? How do they differentiate? Do they have an online strategy? No."
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"The hardcore gamer may argue it's still a solitary thing, but our research show there's nothing better than playing with your mate on the couch next to you and kicking his rear end"

Hang on, isn't that Nintendo's online strategy? That it rules to kick the dude beside you's ass, and that there isn't a whole lot of appeal to be had killing someone you don't know?

jason gets paid by the word.

No Game Boy Player for me, I'm perfectly happy with my GBA SP.

for the record, the waterhose in Sunshine was IMO an awesome innovation. apparently,someone didn't bother to play the actual game :roll:

Why not FF6-2 :( Oh well.. perhaps Square is just saving the best for launch on the PS3.

I'll buy any system that has the sequel to FF 7 on it. :O

i think jason packs more news into his one nightly post than sTeve and Maarten do all day. <g>

Nice to see Blaster Master in the spotlight, it's a true classic and a shame the game wasn't given a sequel that did the original justice (the genesis game was rather tedious and a lot more linear by comparison).

Those Phantom testers want way too much information - like hell I'm going to give you my resume. Bad enough you want to know what my favorite games are, what my home theater is like, how long I've been gaming, etc. But my resume? Hell will freeze over before I give you that sort of information. Especially considering there are questions like "Do your parents pay for games?" Morons.

Pitfall Harry is looking awesome. I never looked at the game from that light before. I hope the control and gameplay will be as addicting as the original.

The secret's out. After years of being hesitant to put adult themes in their games, Nintendo is finally going balls out. In the new Mario game, the only way to defeat all the enemies is with a cock slap to the face.

Late Night Consoling keeps getting bigger and better. Keep up the good work, Jason - and get some more exclusives!

Advance Wars 2 will own my soul!

Reminder, the Xbox documentary is on right now again.

The new gran turismo is looking splooge-tastic

from the ps2 rumors article:
United Game Artists are working on an Astro Boy game? OMGWTFCOOL.

btw UGA = Rez.

Everytime I hear "phantom" I think of this:

www.sensable.com

Still waiting on Batle of Olympus to be console game of the evening

The problem with the GameCube-GBA link is that the GBA is basically a portable SNES, and my SNES (and NES) is still in working condition.

It is tempting, but I don't see the point, especially with that no multiplayer BS.

Yeah, some of the Halo RTS footage has been online before, it's pretty funny to watch just how different it was.

I wonder what the new mario thing is? I will buy it and be happy. :)

eidos does it again!! good work you nobs.