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Late Night Consoling

by Maarten Goldstein, May 11, 2004 8:00pm PDT
Related Topics – Sony, Nintendo DS, Games: Console

LNC In E3 Mode. And in a "damn I'm tired after 13 hours of travelling" mode.

Nintendo Nintendo DS Announced As expected, Nintendo unveiled the Nintendo DS today. There are hands-on impressions on GameSpot, IGN and GameSpy. We have some Nintendo DS games screenshots up locally, from WarioWare, Super Mario 64x4 and Metroid Prime: Hunters. An initial list of planned games for the device can be found here and a Nintendo press event recap can be found at 1UP. The Nintendo DS is scheduled for a fall release.
PSP PSP News HomeLAN Fed has a Sony press conference report, mentioning among other things that it doesn't look like there wil be any playable PSP games at E3. PSP System specs and several planned games can be found here. Sony's handheld will be released late 2004 in Japan and early 2005 in North America and Europe.
Playstation 2 PlayStation News As expected, Sony also announced a price drop for the PlayStation 2. Effective immediately the console is $149. Sony also talked about Cell, the CPU powering the PlayStation 3. There will be use of Cell before the PS3 release though, as Sony will manufacture a workstation using the chip for release later this year. The workstation will offer users "with the tools for complex rendering, physics, modeling, behavior, rendering, and analysis".
GameCube Nintendo News Of course Nintendo's press release wasn't all DS. Nintendo also announced (new) GameCube games including new Zelda ones and new GBA features like a wireless adapter and video playback. And according to IGN, the new Nintendo console has a codename of "Revolution".
  E3 Media/Previews
PS2 GameSpot goes hands-on with Gran Turismo 4, The Getaway: Black Monday, Jak 3 and many other games as linked here. 1UP has previews of Final Fantasy XII and Kingdom Hearts 2. Locally we have the first three Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas screenshots.
GameCube IGN has footage from Star Fox 2 and Resident Evil 4. GameSpot goes hands-on with Donkey Konga, Paper Mario 2 and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. IGN, GameSpot and 1UP all take a look at the new The Legend of Zelda game.
Xbox IGN, GameSpy and 1UP all have Forza Motorsport previews. GameSpy has Halo 2 multiplayer impressions. IGN has several game trailers.
GBA GameSpot has previews of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Mario Golf and F-Zero GP Legend while 1UP offers impressions of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and Mario Pinball.
PS2 Xbox GC IGN has a StarCraft: Ghost (Cube, PS2, Xbox) blowout, offering impressions, a developer Q&A and media from the game. 1UP has previews of Army Men: Sarge's War (Xbox, PS2, GameCube) and Headhunter: Redemption.
Console Game of the Evening: TMNT4: Turtles in Time for the Super Nintendo. "Going at this with 2 players often led to late night marathons, playing it over and over again." (submitted by Entity).




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