Shit the bed! COUNTDOWN to E3!

[Weltall]

Miyamoto: "Video games are changing so much, we want to make new experiences no one has ever thought of but the current hardware wont allow it... video games, as a whole, will change drastically with the next hardware. It will be completely new, like nothing you have ever experienced."

Translation: New Zelda has even CUTER graphics!

I'm sorry, but for the last five years, the Nintendo brass has been showering us with these wonderfully-deep Zen quotations about the future of gaming, but with a few exceptions, they haven't excited me in a very long time (to be fair, videogames in general haven't excited me in a very long time, again, with a few exceptions). What did we see on the GameCube that was truly an out-of-this-world, never-before-seen experience that totally redefined video games, as we were so often promised?

I say, stow the Phil Jacksonisms and put thy money where thine mouth lies. Excite me, damn it. Or just be honest and tell me that you're going to make games that are pretty much similar to what we've seen for the last ten years, but different and prettier. I'm fine with that. No reason to fix what's not broken. Just be HONEST about it. There wasn't a single thing that made Wind Waker anything even remotely different an experience than Ocarina of Time... except for the sailing, which added brand new elements of tediousness and boredom, and the fact that it was insultingly easy. There wasn't anything radically different about Mario Sunshine...except that it seemed half-assed, too easy, and way too repetitive. The N64 entries of both series, to me, were far better products.

So again, let's focus on making a nice, challenging game, and worry less about ephermeral new experiences and the other new-age bullshit. Nintendo's never, ever going to have a commanding presence in the videogame market and we all know it, there's nothing that can really be done about it. But they do still have a presence, and I wish they'd make more of it, like Sega did with the Dreamcast. Dreamcast died an early death, but they friggin TRIED, dammit.