Hi Tom.
well as someone who was playing double dragon advanced earlier today, the
very cool gba remake of theold classic relased I think roughly six years
ago, and! as someon who has games which are up to 25 years old I agree.
Another thing that's totally missed, is the amount of old games stil
supported by consoles. i know lots of people who have a bunch of snes, mega
drive and nes titles through the Wii ware service, precisely because they
want the old games but don't have the hardware anymore.
This sort of thing isn't legally (or particularly efficiently), available on
pc.
finally, relating to your economy point, an interesting point is that new
console developement seems to have just about stoppd.
The nintendo 64 was released I believe in 1996, then followed the gamecube
in 2001 and the wii in 2006.
However, we here nothing about a new nintendo console, simply because the
wii is stil going.
Ditto with the playstation, and while the xbox, havng later releases than
the others hasn't been out as long, I stil don't here plans for another
machine.
Given the combination of the economic situation, and the fact that the Wii
and playstation 3 are certainly more versitile in what they can do as
compared to earlier machines, eg online competition, unique control methods,
net brousing, looking up information like weather etc, I doubt we'll see
another console release for at least some time, ----- which is pretty good
news for anyone who's invested in the current consoles.
Myself though, I'll be sticking with my snes, mega drive and gameboy
advanced aka gamecube, in fact the only way I could see myself buying a new
machine is if the wii menues ecome useable so that I can play wiiware games
like mega man 9 or 10, ---- or if a decent alternative comes up similar to
the gba player for psp or 3ds.
As it is though, both preference and access mean I'll be sticking to my old
machines for the near future.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
---
Gamers mailing list __ [email protected]
If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected].
You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at
http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org.
All messages are archived and can be searched and read at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected].
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list,
please send E-mail to [email protected].
