The Future of Nintendo

Nintendo is starting to scare me.... I have the feeling that they are getting cocky and that will not be good for gaming. Nintendo as the underdog is the Nintendo I love, they innovated and focused on gameplay and new experiences.

Now they have more money than any other company on earth and I fear they will start to tell gamers what they want again (shades of N64!!). I have no real evidence yet, but I see that they have not yet released the DVD drivers for the Wii, they force games on the system to use the Wii-mote instead of the classic controller...even when the classic controller makes the most sense... (fortunately Guilty Gear, a fighter, will use the classic controller, so all might not be lost.)

I'm also shocked that they haven't addressed the supply problem yet... but I don't think that is really "strategy" yet.

In the end I'll just wait and see, I already own one after all, hopefully they'll keep the games coming and make it easier for 3rd parties to make good games....

In other news, the next article should be on the Atari Jaguar... the worst console on earth?? .... maybe!!

What's old is new again....

Check out this pic...... it's the box for the old Atari (sweet!) but take a close look at the pics... Grampa and some kids, some Dad's playing against each other... all family fun and generally something that we haven't seen since then, till the Wii came along.

When was the last time two Gramma's played PS2 against each other? But you take something like the Wii, which is fun to pick up and goof around with and suddenly the old Atari box shows us how when games were new everyone played them and the industry kind of got away from that...