My granny's cast-iron stove would repel a bullet, too, and I can't play Zelda on it either. I'm stickin with Mr. Miyamoto.

GameCube rules! I have been a Nintendo fan for a long long time. There was a time in my life I started to turn away from Nintendo, but nobody else has Zelda and Mario. Game systems are not designed to take bullets anyways.

There was actually a time when Nintendo said that they would not use discs for their systems, but as the Gamecube proved, things change!

Well load times with discs were super slow back when Nintendo said that. DVD-ROM is much quicker and allows for zero load time to wait through if caching is used well.

Nintendo Blows. Rehashed ideas, games are shallow, and an original idea or concept cannot be found anywhere. I own a cube, and I am sorry. Beyond a few gems like Pikimin and Zelda, its a brutal console.

On the other hand, one word for you.

Live

...end of story. It will change the face of gaming on all platforms forever.

"Nintendo Blows. Rehashed ideas, games are shallow, and an original idea or concept cannot be found anywhere."

Oddly enough most of their concepts are original, since they 'originated' most of them. They aren't coming into the gaming industry 20 years late to borrow every tired idea they can get their hands on.

Believe it or not, 'games' is a broad enough concept to embrace many different styles of play. People who think that a good game can't be 'shallow' really have a narrow view of what gaming is, and probably identify a bit too much with what they play. Such attitudes are great, though, for the corporate monoliths who swoop in hoping that their marketing consultants can pin down just what the perfect definition of a game is, and impose it on people who need their games to be 'cool'.

"On the other hand, one word for you.

Live

...end of story. It will change the face of gaming on all platforms forever."

Mmmm, yeah. Thank God Microsoft can introduce us to a new, more obfuscated, and expensive, way to play games online. Of course for it to change the face of gaming 'forever' it will have to be profitable enough to keep a non-game oriented corporation interested. If MS's past attitude is any indication, they'll have no qualms cutting it loose the moment it is in their interest to.

I don't really care about online gaming myself. The only use I can see for it is to play against human opponents in sports games and street fighters. In those type of games, I would prefer a human opponent over the AI system in the game since it can either be too dumb (easy setting), almost impossible to beat (hard setting), or hard to beat but easy once you figure out the AI system's pattern of behavior (normal setting).

I mostly play single player adventure games like Zelda that I cannot imagine hooking up to the internet with.

hahahahaha!