"Okay then... I predict tommarrow you'll wake up do a bunch of stuff and then go back to sleep"

"Weird Al" Yankovic references FTW!

Silly Iwata, of COURSE 10 Million will be sold. Now, claim like 20 Mil and you gotyourself a double-post on the fanboy!

"Look at how much negative press [Sony got from E3]"

Bad press? It was all videos and transcripts of what they did, that't not bad press, that's just bad Sony. d=

I'm sorry, I'm a Nintendo Fanboy... but those first two posts hurt me. What a stereotype for you to toss out there for us.

Anyway, I agree with most points in this post, and the comments.

1) Nintendo's titles (Mario, Zelda, Metroid...) have always been my games of choice (minus Wind Waker and the Prime series... they aren't terrible, I just dont like sailing, and I dont like FPS Console controls, God be praised when Wii finally changes that.)

2) Mario Sports. That's all you need to know. Mario Strikers is 50x better than any FIFA, so much fun! Yes, you can turn items and power shots off... Mario Baseball was OK, but still better than any MLB game on the shelves. But IMHO Mario Kart has seen better days. DoubleDash! was alright, if you had two really good people in one kart, and one knew when to attack/use items.

3) Carts. The production costs for cartridges is not through the roof anymore. But anyone that says flash memory is faster than 12x DVD is a fool. Inexpensive flash rom is ~8-11MB/s, you pay more for more speed. 12x-DVD? That's ~17MB/s, and its a literal FRACTION of the cost of a cartridge. Seek times are getting better for optical. Does anyone know the BD-R transfer rates? Mind you, CD was terrible because 48x-CD is only ~7.2MB/s, and seek times were terrible.

4) Internet gameplay on consoles has been around forever, but it was never used by the mass market until Halo, really. Honestly, I hate the game, its a terrible remake of Tribes, with less weapons/vehicles, and smaller maps, but I can't deny that it revolutionized console online multiplayer, and I thank God for that. (I'm getting a SmartJoy Frag so I can play Halo2 with keyboard/mouse on XBox, just because my friends like it so much, and I refuse to play an FPS with a controller.)

5) It's entirely true that third parties would make more money by not competing on GC, let's just hope that changes. Third party support = more money for third parties, more money for Nintendo, and more games for us. It's a no brainer!

/myfivecents

~Vincent

"but why is nintendo scared to reveal what's in it and how much it's gonna cost for sure?"

I can assure you, Nintendo is not *scared* to release the price. It's brilliant for them to not say the price yet, even though they confirmed less than $250, which *could* be $249, but I think it will be $199, like the rest of their home consoles.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, when it comes time for kids to start begging for consoles, again, that surprise $199 is gonna look real sweet to parents when they go to Wal*Mart or something, and then they get coaxed into playing the demo unit, they have fun, and they buy it. Simple as that.

Dang, my bad, 3 years ago d=

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3785

Phew, this is old news.. I read about Gecko Tape nearly 2 years ago on NewScientist. I've been waiting forever for this crap, I would love to see people climbing all over buildings pretending to be Spider-man. Oh how fun that will be..

But seriously, consider it being used on tires. Since it requires an insane amount of energy to be pulled straight up, or even to move sideways, cars would have an amazing grip on asphalt. And with the curvature of the tire, it would be easy for it to advance forward/reverse. I wish they'd finish up with their research and get this crap out.

Rampage arcade was one of my favorites. Me and my best friend and/or brother would play Rampage at "Our Place" every time one of our group had a party there (which was pretty often) The later incarnations declined in playability pretty rapidly, but there was still a shred of fun to be had, when you were sick of every other game... it's either Rampage or Bushido Blade. Running around having a shank-match. Those uterine shots were the worst. And I dunno anyone who can weild a hammer that quickly... Either way, yeah, I'm hoping they ditch the complete 3D action and go for a more platform style of gameplay. Oldschool is always better!

oh sure, first comment don't go through, then when ya put it back, it shows the new one, then you refresh and it shows both again.. accidental double post, either way I wanted to comment on the people saying "wouldn't be Zelda without a delay"..

Better to have a game delayed than the core disc-reading component of the system.. *cough*blu-ray...*ahem*..

"Hopefully they don't postpone it so long that a new handheld is
coming out and then release two versions... Not that they've done
that for any other zeldas."Handheld indeed... how about the
two versions of "Link's Awakening"? GB and GBC versions w00t. At
least the GBC version had an extra dungeon, which, despite claims,
you *could* (with much trouble) do on a non-color Gameboy...

"Hopefully they don't postpone it so long that a new handheld is coming out and then release two versions... Not that they've done that for any other zeldas."

Handheld indeed... how about the two versions of "Link's Awakening"? GB and GBC versions w00t. At least the GBC version had an extra dungeon, which, despite claims, you *could* (with much trouble) do on a non-color Gameboy...