How many times Nintendo shot themselves in foot on purpose?

[Ed Oscuro]

Yeah, actually...GameCube has both 56K and broadband modem options.

[Raedon]

"Gotta' catch 'em all!" kept Nintendo alive to this day as I see it. I think the money made from that is allowing Nintendo to make more hardware mistakes.

If they would stop putting all the money into hardware and just support their money maker software on other hardware everything will be fine.

A world without a new Zelda game every few years would be a sad place.

[Poofta!]

Yeah, actually...GameCube has both 56K and broadband modem options.

uh huh... and how many games support that? or how many games you actually wanna play? better yet -- how many games that are online enabled on the ps2 and xbox?

how many first party games?

[evildead2099]

Pokemon still was a good game; it might not have been up your alley, that's all.

I may have referred to Pokemon as a "damn" game, but I never said it was a 'bad' game - I merely categorized it as I categorize any other console-style RPG whose gameplay feels repetitive and totally braindead to me. The simple fact of the matter is that I generally do not prefer console-style RPGs, but I admit that fans of console-style RPGs could have a great time with Pokemon. I'm just a little jealous that Pokemon outsold Fallout by such a wide margin.

[Satac]

-DS (there are like 5 games worth playing, and they are all the same. thanks for nothing. what a waste of my money that was)

There are some great games - Nintendogs, Daigasso Band Brothers and Meteos are out now. And there are some nice looking games announced: New Mario Bros. , Castlevania DS, Mario Karts DS (supporting Onlineplay), Mario & Luigi 2, Advance Wars DS, Metroid Prime Hunters and Nanostray.
So don't judge the DS on the current titels, all consoles had few launch titles.

[CreamSoda]

Yeah, actually...GameCube has both 56K and broadband modem options.

That's true, but Phantasy Star gets old after awhile...

[Ed Oscuro]

Yeah, actually...GameCube has both 56K and broadband modem options.

That's true, but Phantasy Star gets old after awhile...

I hear FFXI isn't amazingly better in that regard

[Sylentwulf]

I hear FFXI isn't amazingly better in that regard

This in reference to the PS2 online capabilities and games? PS2 probly has more online games than the gamecube has offline games....

[Algol]

It's easy to see how Nintendo could have believed the world wasn't "ready" for CD games when you realize that neither the Sega CD, nor Turbografx CD, nor Amiga CD32, nor Turbo Duo, nor 3DO, nor CD-i had exactly set the world on fire. Although it probably would have been better if they had gone with Sony, of course.

I'm a bit surprised no one has mentioned the e-Reader yet. Interesting idea, but they hardly did anything to support it once they got it running.

And of course, you have Nintendo "confirming" the Revolution's Virtual Console will be free, only to unconfirm it a few weeks later.