5th November 2003, 3:24 PM
Quote:Not easy.
Well try, damnit!
Quote:How so? There are a bunch of E-Reader card sets out there now... NES games, Game and Watch games, and add-ons for the latest Pokemon game, Mario Bros. 3, Animal Crossing, and some others... seems like a decent, and growing, selection to me.
OBVIOUSLY I'd far rather that these were free online add-ons. But since that isn't an option... this seems like an expensive, but somewhat worthy, try at adding content.
Wouldn't you rather have a "Nintendo NES Classics" series of GBA carts, with maybe 5-10 classic games per cart?
Quote:Well its not like the E-Reader only has Mario 3 cards... they hope you got one a while back and have been buying cardsets along the way. They're at the fourth release of cardsets now...
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/november03/ereader4/
I'm talking about the cost of getting everything about of Mario 3.
Quote:Huh, yeah, that would be a good idea... wonder if Nintendo's thought of it.
I'm sure they have, but it wouldn't bring them as much of a profit.
Quote:Nintendo is doing a lot wrong online, and some wrong in connectivity. That I agree with. I just wouldn't characterize connectivity as as useless or as pure money grubbing as you do...
It has the potential to be useful but Nintendo doesn't seem to care too much about that. They just want a quick buck.
Quote:It doesn't need to add a LOT to the game to be worth having, it just needs to add something unique that couldn't be done as well if it was just on the cart... and there are some cases where that is certainly the case. The problem is that as you say Nintendo is trying to make this into a replacement for online, when what it is is really a niche form of game features and control. That is a big mistake on their part.
There are only a few games that use the GBA connectivity in a way that couldn't be done as well any other way.
Quote:I highly doubt that they've finished the N5 yet, or will in the recent future... I think they have the time to wise up on a harddrive well before it comes out.
I never said that they're done with it. That would be absurd. But they are already in the advanced R&D stages of development.