Zelda GC finished?? And more FS DS info

[A Black Falcon]

1) Sony plans to launch their system sometime in 2006. Microsoft said that they want to release their new system before Sony, and Sony commented back that Microsoft is trying to pull a Sega with the Dreamcast. Huh. I wonder what that means?

Microsoft hasn't been reading its recent history?

As for Sony, '2006' could mean anything. Fall/Holiday season, most likely. So 'before the PS3' doesn't necessarially mean '2005'... 'summer 2006' has just as good a chance of coming out before the PS3, I'd say.

2) According to Matt Cassamasina, Chris Kohler, and dozens of other gaming site/mag editors, developers are talking about how excited they are about the upcoming XB2 launch and how upset they'd be if MS decided to NOT release the new system this year.

3) More developers are talking about X-Box 2 than any other system.

Then Microsoft is stupid. :)

It just seems to me that this year is too early for the next gen systems...

4) Nintendo said that they don't plan on releasing their system early like MS, but rather later like Sony.

Then how about them rumors that Nintendo is also looking at 2005? Okay, I don't put much credence in them, but they ARE out there...

All I'm saying is that businesses change they're plans all the time, so you shouldn't get your hopes up too soon. If that's what you were doing.

Agreed. MS may be planning on releasing the X-Box 2 this year, but that depends on hardware, software, etc... there are many reasons why it could possibly not come out this year. The fact that we aren't hearing a lot about next-gen software, and are hearing about current-gen titles into next year, says something... we'll see at E3 how much emphasis there is on actual software, well along, for next-gen systems. That'll probably be the best time to gauge when these things will actually be ready...

I don't doubt that MS would like to get the system out first, given how many times we hear rumors about it. I'm just questioning the potential success of doing that and how much of a chance they actually have of releasing a system with decent software support this year. :) (yeah, plenty of times systems launch without adaquate software, and they could do that... but they shouldn't...)