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[Doom_Bringer]

Grandia III is looking awesome, can't wait!

 

[Alcibiades]

didnt you say the psp was going to destroy the ds?

which reminded of this particular post I remembered with much detail (given I'm a fan of John R., so I take give his posts much credence). And, I actually took that so seriously it made me worry, especially with the comments about GBA cart; I must have had images in my mind the equivalent to 3rd parties opening champagne bottles celebrating and thinking "now we don't have to deal w/ Nintendo at all, YAY":

http://tokyopia.com/tk/forum/index.php?showtopic=448&st=0&#entry4081

Posted on: May 18 2003

Bottom line: nobody makes money off of carts. Ask any GBA developer how profitable it is as a platform - the short answer is, it's not. At all. All thanks to Nintendo and their archaic methods of manufacturing and distributing and the horribly outdated ROM cartridge format.

In comes Sony with the disc-based handheld to win the hearts of developers and bring a much-needed change to the current state of affairs -- does it sound familiar? It should. They're planning to do to Nintendo exactly what they did to them in 1995 -- and if Nintendo doesn't do something about it this time, they're going to get their asses handed to them yet again.

Nintendo tried to laugh this off at E3, but the truth is, they were collectively shitting their pants the moment the announcement was made.

The 'Playboy' project has been in the works for over three years (I've known about it for nearly as long, so this news obviously wasn't 'new' to the execs at Nintendo), but I still wonder if NCL have done anything to prepare for its eventual arrival. Somehow, I doubt they have.

Good for Sony. I hope they wipe the floor with Nintendo. It's time they got their heads out of their asses and actually started competing again.

of course during this time a lot of John R's posts directed negativeness towards Nintendo because of the GCN 1st party software so that may have contributed to his feelings back then...

 

[SantaC]

goemon looks hot. Too bad it doesn't look good for US release

 

[cvxfreak]

Well john, Nintendo DID do something about it.

 

[Li Mu Bai]

Thanks a lot neo!

If Square Enix is on board the download service then it's going to be pretty big. I'm a bit doubtful though since SE is behind in getting older content out for portables.

Slime Mori Mori 2 & FF:CC are not older titles CVX, (neither was Egg Monser Heroes) & more support is forthcoming. Yes FFIII is, but we are talking about a very exclusive club here, the Kings of Milk. (Capcom, Nintendo, Square-Enix, & Sega)

 

[miyuru]

Well john, Nintendo DID do something about it.

TWO SCREENS TWO SCREENS