in reply to "i submit"

first off topic stuff. in regards to the phasing out of the snes (ideally 2d platformed games) to make way for new technology (contemporary 3d concoles), we all thought at the time, shit, its 3d, so it has to be better. the mainstream market fell and it was the developers/publishers that were catering for the new platform. there ends 32-bit joyous bliss. so here comes N64 and PS showcasing games never before seem. never before plays. the novelty was great, and for a time, games seemed so right to play. next gen consoles come in and we see the comprimise (demise) of gameplay for graphical aesthetics. and here comes the sad part. the introduction to the casual gamer. we all know what comes next, industrialization, standardization, mass production. video games are now officially cool, and anyone can play, from the lil 11 year ol squirt that hits up the pokemon with his level 15 ghost pokemon, to a 25 year old business man, who in his spair time picks up the Xbox and plays a bit of madden. with any art form comes the pricks that come in, commersialize and buy the shit out of the art. what we are seeing is a staleness in gaming. cant be helped.

getting back to my point. this idea is not new to people.

incomes the handheld console. innocent and naive. for the mean time, its evolution didnt exactly follow the path of its brother. it was going with more respect. it was learning off the mistakes of its older brother. compare the snes (minus the nostalgic value) to the array for GBA games, and 10 fold, i personally think gba has some of the most appealingly developed games ever. presently, the evolution for handheld (much like snes -> N64) is coming into affect with promising results. but how well will it go? are we going to see the phasing out of 2d games completely??????

on a side note. there has been an obvious revival of arcade games via the repositioning of it to another medium. this medium is flash games. although its subtle, arcade is practically flash. i personally dont think they will be able to intergrate the systems and styles of 2D games into flash, but theres a thought that there must be an underground revival happening???

where do we go for pixelation when the gba is lost????



i agreed with ben entirely, xbox will have the online, but honestly, id rather stay with my PC for that sort of functionality.

as for the nintendo article, yeh, i had to research those sales numbers myself for my game design class, and noticed japan's disinterest in microsoft. the thing i didnt like about the article was it was written very subjectively. there was lots of emphasis on japan, but not much on europe/asia/australia. given japan must be the gaming country of the world, the article didnt seem objective and international. but hey, i knew nintendo was going well, the fan base around nintendo is immense.

i didnt hear about the GB thing and frankly im quite scared. portability and functionality seems to be pressuring handhelds. lest emphasis on games, more on whether it can play movies, or play music, or suck your dick. theyre turning concoles more and more into computers. i predict microsoft will just release a laptop, call it a handheld and just release the games as exe files. microsoft were never ones for subtly....