Nintendo is working on "replacement" for Mario and Pokemon for the next-gen systems

[A Black Falcon]

Perhaps a thin handle which can flip down and out of sight. Just use it when needed and put it away when you don't.

That might be ok... if it looks cool...

IMO Nintendo's best looking console is the N64. By far. Sure, the other Nintendo consoles are all nice looking... but the N64 is the best. Its just so cool looking...

You're right OB1, purple was a bad move for Nintendo to market their console as. Black seems to do well, so maybe they should just stick with that. White or silver might also serve to look cool.

Black is always good... black, silver (like the silver gamecube, which looks so cool), white... good colors. Not purple or pink... and as for orange (like the orange Cube thats in Japan) it looks ok but I wouldn't use that as the main color either... too "toylike".

The next-next-gen console fron Ninty needs to have built in Wavebird recievers. With Wavebirds, there is no longer a need to have wire controllers, except if you like the rumble, which I frankly do not. But by then I'm sure they can modify wireless controllers to have rumble.

No! Bad idea! I've used the wavebird... its okay. But I'd rather stick to normal pads... I like rumble! Its not required or anything (I do fine with a non-rumble PC pad, and I never got another N64 rumble pack when the one I had broke... as much because by late
'02 (when it broke) it was kind of hard to find N64 rumble pads for sale. :)

And getting away from batteries is great. I used battery-powered N64 rumble packs for years, sure... but with those you can let it really run down before replacing the batteries. I imagine that that isn't really an option with the Wavebird... if you want to play, that is. :)

Keep it as an optional accessory.

Oh, and the Wavebird has no rumble because of the high power requirements of such a accessory... it'd greatly decrease battery life (or require twice as many batteries...)... not good!

Forget about compactness and move up to full-size DVD discs. The little ones are cool, and combat copying, but they hold much less data. More data could mean better graphics and more gaming "meat".

First, if you think that bigger discs lead to more gameplay you are delusional. It never happens that way, as you should know.

Next, they should use a larger format, for sure. But I don't know about standard DVDs... it'd make piracy so easy with a DVD burner and modchips... and that's not good! Sure people could get miniDVDs but those are a lot rarer and harder to get... its a fairly effective anti-piracy tool.

Note now the PS2 and X-Box both have modchips and easy game piracy via burning games. And plenty of availiable games if you know where to look.

And note how the NGC has essentially none. It works... and I'd say they should do something next gen so it keeps working.

DON'T KILL OFF MARIO! That would be the last nail in a big, N-shaped coffin. Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon (blech) are really all Nintendo has now. If they try new stuff now when they're in last place, they can't afford to risk it. Open new franchises, but ease them to the public. Release Mario games, with new franchise games, and with great quality. Then scale down the Mario and scale up the new franchises.

Who said they were "killing off Mario"? Not them... I'd say that "emphathising some new serieses" is a bit different. They see how Mario and Pokemon aren't doing as well as they used to (just look at Mario Sunshine or Pokemon sales compared to older games in those serieses...) and see that they need to make some more variety of games in genres they know... as it is there aren't many non-sequel Nintendo games in the genres they do best. That isn't really good... sure sequels are good but new games are at least as important!

And I'd say that 'release new mario games and slowly scale up other games' is exactly what they are doing... given how we know they are working on a Mario game or two, and this is the first we've heard of other games. I see no danger of Mario suddenly dissapearing... they just need some more franchises. You can't run on just a couple of them forever...

Sega knows this too. That's why they are making Billy Hatcher -- their first original platformer since the Saturn days...