"This year's E3 is not Revolution's coming out party,"

[A Black Falcon]

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I was responding to your "besides, you don't like platformers"... gone now. Was that not for me?

And just to defend the game in advance, DJ likes Mario 64 more because she can't handle the bojacksome acrobatics (she couldn't even do the simple wall jump in PoP, remember?), and everyone else likes Mario 64 more because of nostalgia. And because of the more diverse selection of levels, no matter how inferior they are to the Sunshine ones.

More levels, more diverse levels, and just as good gameplay...

So now that every system will have the latest video technology, online gaming, HDTV support, high capacity media, what is it that is keeping the market from becoming a perfect competition market where all the consoles are essentially the same. If Sony and MS reveal systems that are cookie cutter upgrades of their previous systems that include DVD playback, high capacity media, storage capacity, online gameplay, and a regular old controller, the only thing that might set them apart is the exclusive software... and in this case MS probably will win out in the long run. Now that Nintendo will also have high capicity media and online gameplay, we can expect Nintendo to come out with a rather different controller as rumored. If all of the systems including the Revolution can support the lowest common denominator of games, and all 3rd party games can easily be ported from one system to the next, Nintendo's long run strategy of innovation might actually pay off. As opposed to randomly buying the new Xbox, or PS3, gamers might actually lean towards having a Revolution that might play all the 3rd party games, and something radically different.

PS2 and X-Box won't be the same in power. What I've heard is the PS3 is supposedly by far the most powerful of the three... Revolution and X-Box2 are similar, but PS3 is stronger (X-Box 2 has a reason, coming out well before the PS3, but the Revolution?). But still, they'll be somewhat close... and yes, the main difference this generation will just be graphics, and that's what Nintendo's trying to change... but the problem is the market doesn't really seem to think there is a problem like Nintendo does so they don't pay as much attention to their innovations. Especially not with how the other two get so many more games... I expect Sony to stay in first, no problem.