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 JASON MAHONY
Can't get enough super sugar crisp...Unless I get to punch in on some video punks!!
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Video Game Walkthrough Guide coming to WDS!
Miyamoto No. 92 on TIMEs 100 List
With accompanying text written by, uh, Fatal1ty.
"Playing is believing." So thundered Reggie Fils-Aime. So, four days later on the plane home, we all agreed.
Pity about the conference, though. "If all you want is next-generation, you're in the wrong place." More like the wrong order. The composition of Nintendo's conference - usually one big, long grandstand - was bizarre. A far cry from the conference of two years ago when Nintendo realised the DS in front of us, and we all spent the week in rapture. Here it was all back to front. Our first glimpse of Mario - Mario - was on a trailer reel. Reggie felt like a caricature.
The stand wasn't much better. As a headline-winner, it more than did its job. There's a video on YouTube showing off the five-hour queue. Inside the giant, sweltering tent of the middle it wasn't quick either - at one point, those of us using PR clout to queue-jump ended up in a queue-jumpers queue. No joke. Plenty of headlines. But in terms of letting people play the games, it was stifling. Converts would've been few, because few of the unconverted would've fancied the queue.
Such was the quality of Nintendo's content, however, that few left in doubt. Some even predicted a changing of the guard. Niggles about Zelda were offset by the wealth of goodwill generated by the DS when Nintendo tried that - with a few hundred handheld pods outside offering Wii a guard of honour. Limited games that showed promise, like Wii Sports, were given the benefit of the doubt. Those that didn't were generally third-party, and who ever expected Tony Hawk's to carry a Nintendo console? The very argument brought blood to the boil. One of our usually affable acquaintances went nuclear at the suggestion it mattered. "Who cares about Red Steel? Of course it's crap!"
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