Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Joshua Meeds Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: For all N64 owners... Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 20:40:59 -0700 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 38 Message-ID: <358B2F4B.70807F98@sinclair.net> References: <3589db78.3213996@news.scea.sony.com> <6melpp$jag1@scea> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.137.153.48 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) Steve Tolin wrote: > > 1. Nintendo is the innovator. When something new is breaking the scene > Nintendo is usually the first to do it. Maybe this is just my opinion but > its a valid point to take. Sure they have release date problems and stuff > but you always know what you are gonna get from an in-house Nintendo game. > FUN. And then there's Zelda...... Nintendo also has one bad trait, that brought the N64 down - stubbornness. They decided long ago that CD's were slow, and people hated them because they were slow, so a CD drive was a bad idea. Now, to my knowledge this has never been the case; for the Sega CD and the Turbografx CD, speed wasn't a factor in their failure - for the TG-16, its price brought it down ($400!), and for Sega, it was a lack of good software (a lot of FMV crap was released, with very few quality titles, such as Lunar, Lunar 2, Popful Mail). Nintendo has one other bad trait - they believe that only kids play video games - they came right out and said it! You can see that attitude in everything they do. Heck, Yoshi's Story is that attitude incarnate. Somehow they think that when gamers grow up, they stop being gamers. Whatever, Nintendo. But the system is still a decent one; I bought one once, sold it since, and will buy it again when Zelda is released. If only it all wasn't hampered by the company that created it... -- - Joshua Meeds Dreamwriter Dragon dreamer@sinclair.net -=UDIC=- _____________________________________ We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of the dreams - Willy Wonka quoting Arthur O'Shaughnessy