21st December 2005, 9:53 PM
Melee was like a month after launch... not a launch title unless you buy into this "launch window" idiocy.
As for games, Mario and SSB are probably the most likely... Zelda? Um, absolutely not. Mario Kart? Better second-gen... it's a major franchise, but a launch one? Online... in a dream world, it'd be like X360's Live, but free: always on, voice chat, you can go and check and see which of the people on your friends list are playing X360 at any time and message them with a voice message (yes, even if you're playing a single player game, as long as you're plugged in you're online -- just like in a PC. Awesome! As I've seen said, the days aren't far off when it'll be as weird and wrong (and boring!) to have a console not be connected to the internet as it has been for PCs for some years now... :)
As for games, Mario and SSB are probably the most likely... Zelda? Um, absolutely not. Mario Kart? Better second-gen... it's a major franchise, but a launch one? Online... in a dream world, it'd be like X360's Live, but free: always on, voice chat, you can go and check and see which of the people on your friends list are playing X360 at any time and message them with a voice message (yes, even if you're playing a single player game, as long as you're plugged in you're online -- just like in a PC. Awesome! As I've seen said, the days aren't far off when it'll be as weird and wrong (and boring!) to have a console not be connected to the internet as it has been for PCs for some years now... :)