It’s hard to compare the upcoming Nintendo console to the others since much is still unknown about it, but there was one announcement that caught a lot of attention: they say that you’ll be able to download and play *any* game Nintendo produced for all of their previous consoles, right back to the original NES.
That alone is very tempting. Emulators and ROMs are easy enough to get, but running them on your PC still doesn’t have quite the same nostalgic feel as running them on a proper console with appropriate controllers on your living room TV does. Of course, the danger is that it’s easy enough to fall behind on current games let alone find time to indulge that nostalgia, so it could wind up being one of those things bought and barely used…
And they *finally* got around to announcing more of their primary titles for the DS, and they look fairly impressive, so I may finally have a reason to pick one up after all.
Out of all the new consoles shown at E3, the Nintendo Revolution impressed me the least. I was kind of hoping that for once, Nintendo wouldn’t rehash old characters or games & would actually try something new & attempt to get a lot of third party support to keep up with the competition. But they did the opposite of that. I think it’s a neat ‘idea’ that will keep people interested for maybe 2 weeks. Then they’ll be like. So when are the new games coming. Oh. they’re not.. Something that will cost $300+ that can play games from 1990 isn’t very appealing to me.