The Long Road

08/23/2005 Archived Entry: "The Revolution"

According to GAF, August 24 is a significant date since Nintendo has historically made several important announcements on this date. This year's will obviously be about the Nintendo Revolution.

All that Nintendo's revealed so far is the look of the console while MS has shown it's whole hand and sony gave a few teases. Someone's holding four of a kind while the other has a full house. Nintendo's either hiding a royal flush or doesn't even know what game they're playing.

What I would love to see is Nintendo presenting a controller that is as huge a step forward as the N64 controller was at the time (the only progress we've seen since have been a 2nd analog stick and analog triggers), an amazing Mario game that is as revolutionary as Mario 64 was, and, least probably, realtime, gameplay graphics that will blow away each and every one of sony's bullshit ps3 tech demos.

I want Nintendo to have a machine that'll do as many poligons per second as real life, Finding Nemo graphics, and the ability to launch a dozen ICBMs while sinking battleships.

I want them to go home and fuck the princess, instead of only trying their best. First Place or irrelevancy. Do or die. Go big or go home. Take a shit or get off the toilet. All or nothing. In short, this picture sumarizes my feelings on the matter.

Replies: 6 comments

I loved the N64...I'd love to own one now so that I could get back to playing games such as Mario, Starfox, and The Legend of Zelda. The countless hours of Goldeneye at Kim's place...:P!

Posted by dAN @ 08/24/2005 11:29 AM EST

just get an xbox...it can emulate it.

Posted by Rayne @ 08/24/2005 12:32 PM EST

Really!?!?

BTW, love the poker analogy. I think Nintendo's problem is that it has been betting high on "lesser" hands. I think they can only dominate handhelds for so long...they need a better sense of direction.

Posted by dAN @ 08/24/2005 12:45 PM EST

yeah - n64, ps1, and anything and everything before those. Best purchase ever!

Posted by Rayne @ 08/24/2005 02:18 PM EST

Wednesdayton has failed us!! :(

Posted by Dave @ 08/25/2005 10:49 AM EST

Just for the love of god, stay away from the Nintendo Micro. It's a ridiculous idea... 4 inches long, 2 inches high, .7 inches deep... the screen is less than an inch long and a quarter of and inch wide. What can you honestly see of game play in that small of a place?! Besides, it's ugly... it looks like an original nintendo controller with an identity crisis.

That's my geeky rant for the day, using and abusing Thai's site....

Posted by Kathleen @ 08/28/2005 11:47 PM EST