Late Night Mini-Consoling

Chris, what's your take on the confirmation that Twilight Princess will not make use of the new controller. Is this a PR bluff? Or do you think there is some validity to it.

B/c honestly, I can not simply explain what would take so damn long to push it back effectively 4/5ths of a year.

Someone named Nice Ben on the Beyond forum posted this wirteup a while ago..

Dejavu?

November 27th: 1998 - Sega RELEASED the Dreamcast in Japan at 260$. People thought the graphics were awe-inspiring.

Sony doesn't even unveil their next system until March 2nd: 1999. During the initial unveiling, no games were shown, no tech details, Ken talks about the Emotion Engine.

Sony finally formally unveils the PS2 all the way on May 11th, 1999, a full 3 months after the initial announcement of the system. But still, no games are shown, nothing but a few technical details on the system itself.

September 9th, 1999. Sega releases the Dreamcast here in the United States. System sells out, flies off shelves, gamers are amazed at Soul Calibur.

February 18th, 2000, Sony for the first time shows off playable PS2 games to the public during the Playstation Festival. Nearly a full year after the systems unveiling. Dreamcast still selling strong in the US, falls flat in Japan.

Playstation 2 goes on sale in Japan on March 4th, 2000. Not even a month after the initial playable demos of games were showcased. Even without any first party titles or big name titles, THOUSANDS of people line up to take home the console. Stores are sold out before they officially open and a little less then a million consoles sell. Sony later announces a 980,000 unit mark and 500,000 of those being sold through Playstation Online.

May 10th, 2000. Sony announces plans to ship the PS2 to the US in October.

September 20th, 2000 Sony announces difficulty of manufactoring PS2's for the US due to a new graphic synthesizer design that failed.

October 26th, the Playstation 2 is released in the US selling 500,000 consoles at launch with 100,000 consoles per week hitting stores after that, always selling out. PS2's remained sold out until March 21st, 2001 despite the 100,000 a week shipments

That's really funny, because just today I finished Wind Waker. And yeah, the end boss battle is a total blast. I was a bit confused but it's a lot of fun and the ending is quite satisfying, if I do say so myself.

With just text boxes and scripted scenes, Nintendo made quite a drama in Wind Waker. I couldn't be happier.

In fact, it's given me incentive to go back and actually finish Ocarina and even start Majora.

where is our zelda DS title?!?!!?!

They better have a new Pikmin in the works with that controler, that'd be hawt!

Is it worth picking up a gamecube just to play wind waker (and the other good Nin titles) or would it make more sense at this point to just wait for the Revolution to come out?

Can someone explain why so many people buy consoles at launch when there are usually very few decent titles, possible hardware problems, high prices, possible low availability (having to drive round, queue up, or preorder if possible). The other thing is that the last generation are usually flooded with great games, and the more recent titles are pushing them to the limits technically. There are tons of games available at bargain prices, yet people are still willing to splash out big money on a new machine.

I'm not slagging off those who have bought a new system at launch, but I am quite interested in the reasons people have - particularly on systems without any really brilliant titles (e.g. most of them).

I've generally heard good things about the 360, and most people seem satisfied. Anyone bought a 360 or other system at launch and felt pissed off? Do the new systems usually replace the old ones straight away, or do they sit around collecting dust whilst you wait for new games?

This isn't really related to the news, but was originally a response to #75's mention of the PS2 queues in Japan.

The DS Lite launches here very soon, so I might even join in on the queue madness myself for the first time.

Legend of Zelda 20 years old..

I remember when the kid around the block from me got the game. The coolness of the golden cartridge. The game nobody wanted to borrow, because they wanted it for themselves.

I remember the map that came with the game, and beating it over the phone with my friend across the street at the same time as he was beating it. Such an awesome, awesome game, and awesome time in general for gaming. Easily one of my top 5 favorite games of all time. God I miss those days.

Remo, hand over your gamer card. I thought you were a Ninty lover.

Color me dissapointed.

not really

Anyone else ever try the cheat for Episode One Racer that enabled the player to use two controllers to control the pod? The dual-analog controlling was harder than it looked...

Never had a problem with Zelda's save games, and I've played it through several times.

Good luck with that.

Hmmmm is 1000 devkits shipped at this stage in the game a lot? Does anybody know on average how many devkits there are per dev studio? I guess I'm trying to estimate how many studios are developing for Revolution at this point. :P

I just picked up Animal Crossing for the GC after playing the DS version. God, such an addictive game. I got so hooked on all the possibilities that you could do. I just had to get the GC version since Wild World was my friends.

So now that I got it, what else should I be aware?

It's nothing original but: I can't wait for Nintendo's presentations at this E3. This whole new IP makes me horny. Last time they did that is was Pikmin and it rocked my world big time. (I don't count the doggie simulator).
It's very sad Zelda:TP will make *another* E3 though... september is sooo far away. This game better rock hard.

I'm guessing from the little interview with Marc Ecko that he expected Getting Up to be a blockbuster title? He sounds a bit disapointed with everyones reaction to the game. It's not by any means a break out hit but it does indeed hold its own ground.

I only just started WInd Waker a few months ago. Been playing it on and off and have just got the Master Sword.

Here's hoping my save doesn't fuck up for the rest of it........

Again, "A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever." - Shiggy.

i don't understand why they'd release a gamecube title in the fall. maybe if they released a "gamecube version" and a "revolution version," that could work, or emphasize the fact that the rev is backwards compatible..but still..seems very odd.

Sony really feels like they are rushing here and that is only going to hurt them even more than the already rising costs on their supposed monster machine. Microsoft definitely pushed the competition a bit faster than they wanted to with their early 360 release(although that hurt MS too a bit with issues with some machines/limited availability).

As it stands right now, Nintendo seems to be the only company that is "on track" or at least close to it. As it stands, I think Sony is going to be hurt pretty bad this generation. By the time the PS3 launches, unless it has really impressive offerings, I think, at least here in the states, more people are going to lean towards the Xbox as I fully expect MS to do an initial price drop right when sony launches their PS3.

Japan might be another matter, as I think it is going to continue to be a primarily Sony/Nintendo market. But, worldwide I think Sony's going to take a hit with Nintendo seeing some gains, and Microsoft seeing significant gains in market share.

Of course, this is all speculation, but Sony is going to need a decent price and a really good launch of their system. What's even more disconcerting is usually Nintendo is the most tight-lipped about their next-gen console development. But this go around we still know more at this point about the Revolution than we do the PS3, and it really doesn't feel like Sony is pulling their punches. It just feels like they don't have anything really ready yet.

You can check out the Reggie interview here
http://www.gametrailers.com/gamehead.php

If there was a way to upload my Wind Waker date I would because I'm at the triforce collecting part which is pretty close to the end game

A new Nintendo franchise makes me happy. Pikmen was pretty damn cool for what it was but i'd like a new adventure and/or platform series from them

roushi lives

You're missing an H there in the nintendo's new franchise headline, remo.