Redesigned Nintendo DS ‘months away…’

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Joji
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Sun, 4 Dec 2005 03:53
Dear Adam M, you usually make a lot of sense but this time I'm with Jodo4.

I totally understand being a Nintendo fan, you can get annoyed by the sometimes overuse of Nintendo's IP, but this is a games industry and money has to be made either way. If Nintendo wanna let other developers have a go at the high honour of making a game featuring their IP, then that's surely good to encourage creativity in those working for the smaller developer. So long as the games are good that's what really counts most.

You talk of lack of innovation for the DS from Nintendo, I'm sorry to disappoint you dude. If you wanna see the best the DS has to offer you have to look away from the official DS scene and to Japan. I own a copy of Ouendan for my DS and though a japanese game from a developer I'd never heard of, is very entertaining. Don't look at the DS as an N64 in your hand because it can and already is so much more.

I also own Atlus's Trauma Center: Under the Knife which is unlike any game you have played. A damn refreshing change from constant likes of home console GTA and it's various clones. Now surely a game where you operate to save lives, instead of taking them like GTA should be applauded by all. With all the bad press GTA has recently got, you should start counting your chickens.

And as for games and Nintendo not making as much new ones you forget how many games Nintendo have done. You forget the beauty of Pilotwings or the brilliance of 1080 Snowboarding (a game that has been ripped of a lot now). Pikmin, Starfox, Advance Wars, Fire Emblem (a damn good rpg from Nintendo that isn't Zelda), Wave Race, Custom Robo, Pokemon, Chibi Robo, Nintendogs etc. You can never say it's all about Mario game wise. The library of Nintendo IP has expanded over the years and that surely is a good thing and it will continue to happen. Whether people notice the non Mario games is the true test of Nintendo and their advertising dept and also one of the average gamer.

Sequels are a necessary evil, not just in the games industry but even the film industry. Everyone else does them too, even Sony and MS. Both the latter have lots of sequels too, but it's how you justify their creation, on the being good or bad games.

As it currently stand, DS is kicking PSP into touch in EU/U.K and U.S. DS is not selling on the back of films but just games. A focused product indeed and the way it should be.

In conclusion I ask Adam that he plays the DS games suggested above and decide based on proper play.
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