Fucking hell!

[saitaina]

Can Nintendo PLEASE slow the fuck down on releasing new systems?!

I'm still buying games for my GameCube and in 2006 they're supposed to release Nintendo Revolution.

Have graphic drivers and output changed THAT much that we need a shiny new nintendo system? It doesn't appear to have changed (movies, telivision, computer games, ect would give you an idea of the changes).

So WHY do we need a new one? Besides the fact that they like making systems that they can suck more money from.

This makes two sytems I'm behind on (the Gameboy DNS...that looks wrong, I think I have some wrong letters int here) and the Revolution. I'm just glad the next Zelda is scheduled for 2005 (meaning GameCube) instead of the Revolution...though if they have a nice price for the holidays after it's release I might try to score it, though if I do that, I have to finish up Zelda: Majora's Mask, finally PLAY Zelda:Windwaker (yes I haven't even cracked it open yet). Finish Sims: Busin' Out, work on Sims: URBZ, Play Haunted Mansion and Pharoh and hopefully finish Super Mario Sunshine (I have never completed a Super Mario in my life...ever. Not even the first one WAAAYY back when...so that's not a big), finish the walkthroughs for all of the above...

And then start on the new system's games.

And there are STILL games for GameCube I want. This is going to end up like the Nintendo/Super Nintendo fiasco where I tried to balance games on both systems, I just KNOW it.

That reminds me, I have to dust off my Nintendos and Super NES's and figure out which ones work and which ones need to be scrapped...though I don't think I have an original Nintendo system that still works....ebay here I come.

*bangs head*

Why did I become a Nintendo collector?

...wish I had a Mario plushie to cuddle.

Comments

[aegeus.livejournal.com]

Revloution will be backwards compatabile with GameCube games. Also, GameCube currently has about 15% or so of the console market in North America, and with PS3 and Xbox 360 coming out Nintendo HAS to release a new system, or be dead in the console water.

As for graphics, yes, they have changed that much. GameCube is four years old, and that is a Very Long Time in the graphics world. Graphics cards for computers have made leaps and bounds ahead of any console system. The next generation of consoles will will be able to anti-alias, which will mean all those jagged lines around the edges of 3D objects will be completely gone. While this doesn't seem that big, it creates a much more seamless and fluid environment. Anti-aliasing is also a HUGE hardware load, so you need a new system to do it. The key to the new systems is that graphics will first become more true to life, but also that they will become more detailed for everything, not just the on-screen characters. The environments will become more detailed, more interactive, more destructible, which all means more data, which means need for new hardware.

Also, Nintendo is rumored to be creating a really nice controller that will respond to movement, having a gyroscope in it, and have other interesting new input methods. We should get more info at E3 next week. And again, GameCube will be about four and half years old when Revolution comes out. N64 to Gamecube was five years, as was PlayStation to PS2. This is all following a normal console product cycle.

And it's Nintendo DS. I have one, and it's great, but there's a current lack of English games for it (about 20 ... 5 good ones).

[saitaina]

...no fair convincing me to spend my money!

Just kidding. You're right and now I have to go convince mum I REALLY need a new system when it's released.

Aw heck, maybe I'll just spend my own cash and just go without something that month.

Thank love!

[sanitiesend.livejournal.com]

budget your money and save for the system. instead of deciding to go without some big thing for one month, go without afew little things that you'd hardly notice anyway.

i want an snes again. *sigh*

Grr

[prettypixies.livejournal.com]

Great you mean now I have a thrid system I have to buy?! First it Was Xbox 360 then it was Playstation 3 now this. *Sigh* Oh well more to save for I guess. Any idea of when it will be out? Wait till I tell folks here. A panic will start in my house. What with having to get the Xbox for Concers and the PS3 cause...well it's a PS. This will make em all nuts. I dont have the Nintendo DS yet either but I think I'd rather have the PSP.