20th September 2004, 1:36 PM
Nintendo Power? Forget that, try doing something that will actually let people GET it! :D
Including it in new systems is a nice move. Sending it for free to people is also smart, but it takes buying a whole lot of stuff to get it... Sending these demos to pretty much anyone who's registered at Nintendo.com, regardless of registering... anything... would be a better option. Sony does it all the time. I registered there a long time ago and forgot about it until I started getting all these PS2 demos in the mail. I mean, like I said, you have to buy more than you did to get the Zelda Collection to get this demo, when in reality, demos are game advertisements and should be sent out as freely as such.
Nintendo did used to put game MOVIE demos in their first GCN games, but they stopped. Playable demos right on the game disk in the options menu would be great, though of course they'd have to get both the full game they are packing it with and the demo done at the same time. Some companies, Konami for example, pack in a lot of game demos with their games as seperate disks. Nintendo could do this too.
Including it in new systems is a nice move. Sending it for free to people is also smart, but it takes buying a whole lot of stuff to get it... Sending these demos to pretty much anyone who's registered at Nintendo.com, regardless of registering... anything... would be a better option. Sony does it all the time. I registered there a long time ago and forgot about it until I started getting all these PS2 demos in the mail. I mean, like I said, you have to buy more than you did to get the Zelda Collection to get this demo, when in reality, demos are game advertisements and should be sent out as freely as such.
Nintendo did used to put game MOVIE demos in their first GCN games, but they stopped. Playable demos right on the game disk in the options menu would be great, though of course they'd have to get both the full game they are packing it with and the demo done at the same time. Some companies, Konami for example, pack in a lot of game demos with their games as seperate disks. Nintendo could do this too.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)