Console Monster's Rob writes: "Only moments ago, the curtain closed on the Nintendo Press Conference at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and already many are dubbing this the 'second worst conference ever'.
It was a conference which lasted little over an hour; a conference that did little to entertain the audiences. No one can turn around and say that the audience weren't as excited as in previous years gone by. The whoops and cheering replaced by dull clapping did nothing to turn attention to the thousands of viewers watching video feeds online and many more following websites on the internet.
One of the key areas Nintendo lacked in was the DS. Statistics and lots of them dominated the conference, Reggie and Iwata present to boast about sales of the Wii and DS respectively and sales of games and the amount of them being released..."
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, the Battle of Hoth, and one of the boldest Star Wars multimedia projects ever made. Here’s why Shadows of the Empire still matters.
This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆
But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.
Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.
Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.
As a kid me and my cousins loved this game . I have great memories with this one and the Star Wars pod racer game .
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it was dull,no punch-out,no f-zero,no zelda,no star fox........only thing hardcore gamers got was voice chat,and 1:1 control upgrade.Animal crossing isnt hardcore IMO.
i agree after sonys amazing showing where everybody laughed at jack trettons jokes little big planet got the crowd laughing and clapping resistance 2 was followed by massive applause god of war was greeted with cheers MAG was followed by thunderous applause the new video store was accompanied by direct applause upon announcement of availability i mean wow sony had the best e3 conference followed by nintendo followed by EA followed by microsoft http://img99.imageshack.us/...
ermmm I agree...I was bored all the way thru but then I did enjoy a little of the Wii music...just a little...
it was nothing
it was the worst press conference I've ever seen
nintendo,you just betrayed us
it's a shame that myamotto stands in a middle of a casual unverse after bieng the greatest game developer of all time,he wasn't happy,you can tell,his face says it
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