Sony bites Nintendo's style, chokes on the seed

[ChaosControl]

I totally agree about Nintendo being innovative and daring. In almost every field... EXCEPT game characters. Please don't generalize my opinion
And I also really hope Sony gets punished one day for all the features they "invented".


Indeed, as long as games are good, I can overcome it. For example, I found the Donkey Konga series really fun. But that's not always the case. "Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix" was a lame attempt to have a DDR-like on the NGC in my opinion.

About GTA... I think they'd rather modify some bits before releasing it : you'd then play as Wario/Waluigi/Bowser, being able to plan abduction of Peach and fry a bunch of Toads on the way, and of course, you'd be pursued by Mario/Luigi wearing cop uniforms. Oh man, I can already see it on the stores Nevermind...
Anyway I'm not implying there can't be a game like this on a Nintendo console, that would be forgetting Resident Evil 4 and other similar games.

I think the lack of game characters is mainly becuase of the lack of 3rd party support.
On the Wii however, many 3rd party devlopers are very interrested becuase Nintendo finally came with something new!

The 3rd party developers can now use more tools for interaction and as a developer you must admit it's way more fun to program for something NEW instead of making the same kinda game all over again with minor changes. I mean, how many fps are practicly the same? or RPG? or platformer? etc...

Nintendo opened a new dimension in gameplay which atracks big 3rd party support of the big company's, even the small company's because Nintendo is giving programming software to devs so it's easier for smaller company's to produce games.

I can't see a single fault in Nintendo's new console, it'll be the start of a new gaming era. (this is good because now Sony and Microsoft are forced to make some innovative changes of their own... which they probably can't and die.)

 

[Emerald Weapon]

I totally agree about Nintendo being innovative and daring. In almost every field... EXCEPT game characters. Please don't generalize my opinion

Sorry, that wasn't my intention. As I said before, you are absolutely right on the characters.

Indeed, as long as games are good, I can overcome it. For example, I found the Donkey Konga series really fun. But that's not always the case. "Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix" was a lame attempt to have a DDR-like on the NGC in my opinion.

Correct, DDRMM sucked big time. However, I think there are more high quality games involving the veteran characters then really bad ones. Name one bad Zelda-game, or Metroid-game. Mario is perhaps the exception here indeed.

About GTA... I think they'd rather modify some bits before releasing it : you'd then play as Wario/Waluigi/Bowser, being able to plan abduction of Peach and fry a bunch of Toads on the way, and of course, you'd be pursued by Mario/Luigi wearing cop uniforms. Oh man, I can already see it on the stores Nevermind...
Anyway I'm not implying there can't be a game like this on a Nintendo console, that would be forgetting Resident Evil 4 and other similar games.

Haha, great game that would be. You could also decide to work for Bowser and become a real crimelord. Then you'd have to put dirty paint on all kinds of houses and then escape from the Toad-cops! Yeah!

I can't see a single fault in Nintendo's new console, it'll be the start of a new gaming era. (this is good because now Sony and Microsoft are forced to make some innovative changes of their own... which they probably can't and die.)

I can, some games might prove very hard to play with the controller. For example something like a real racing game (not Mario Kart). But we'll see.
As for Microsoft, they just wish they had used the motion-control idea too. Now they'll be one step behind this entire generation. However they might just come with a new motion-detection controller later on. I wouldn't be suprised.

 

[Sad Jari]

I can, some games might prove very hard to play with the controller. For example something like a real racing game (not Mario Kart). But we'll see.
As for Microsoft, they just wish they had used the motion-control idea too. Now they'll be one step behind this entire generation. However they might just come with a new motion-detection controller later on. I wouldn't be suprised.

They could just resurrect the Sidewinder-pad that had motion detection. Back in the '99.

It's not comparable to Wii's controller, but pretty close to PS3's one.


EDIT: Apologies to PS3 fans for the rather... provocative nature of the picture here, but it does have a point. Well, several, actually.

Note that not only has there been a genocide of connectors there, but the power connector and the power switch have mysteriously shrunk to much smaller size. Or maybe the console itself has grown much larger. But it couldn't be huge like Xbox, could it?

Just a disclaimer; I have no idea if the new picture is genuine, but it was bit too amusing not to post.