5th February 2003, 7:26 PM
I am, in fact, amazed at how well Nintendo has done in terms of release dates. We got Mario, Metroid, SFA, and Animal Crossing all before the end of the year, and Zelda will be released in the US before E3. Woah. When has that ever happened? There is not one high profile game making it's second playable showing at E3, unless you consider the ever-present rolling game first demoed for N64 a "high-profile" game. Wario World will just miss the cut, but it was EARLY last year. And F-Zero? It was caught only for a second on Nintendo's big screen when Nintendo forgot to cut it from the promo tape. And that's being released less than 1.5 months after E3. Perhaps the reason people are questioning Nintendo's fall 2003 lineup is that this situation has never happened before: the situation when the fall lineup has not been playable before the year's E3. Crazy.
But as for new renditions of Mario and Zelda on Gamecube, I'm all for it, as long as it doesn't force the N2005 to be pushed back into late 2006, making possible a recurrence of that one and a half year gap between Playstation and NWhatever. But if Nintendo keeps up its record of punctuality, I'd be very impressed, and I think it could pull off some very impressive games and still launch in early 2006.
But as for new renditions of Mario and Zelda on Gamecube, I'm all for it, as long as it doesn't force the N2005 to be pushed back into late 2006, making possible a recurrence of that one and a half year gap between Playstation and NWhatever. But if Nintendo keeps up its record of punctuality, I'd be very impressed, and I think it could pull off some very impressive games and still launch in early 2006.