Starbody

The Nintendo Revolution was unveiled yesterday, on the heels of Xbox 360 and PS3. And now, the time honored debate over whether to buy the new Nintendo console for what amounts to a single game: Zelda: Twilight Princess?

I have a Gamecube that gets dusted off now and … well, never (it was permanently retired after realizing how annoying all of the sailing in the last game was … not to mention the cel animation). I’ve never been a Playstation person. I don’t have anything against it and I know they a million games. An additional con for PS3 is the rumoured price point for PS3 at $465!! So far, Xbox and PS3 are promising more POWER POWER POWER. Did you get that boys? PS3 - a processor 35 times more powerful than PS2, Xbox with 3 core IBM power processors at a whizzing 3.2Ghz. Nintendo is sheepishly promising 2-3 times more powerful than the Gamecube. “It’s not all about having ‘turbo power,’ ” Nintendo’s Perrin Kaplan says. “It’s about what you do with it.” Mmm-hmm. It’s not the size of your pencil, it’s how you sign your name.

So many choices!

• Nintendo = Zelda, oh and a promise of their free Internet service to access ALL of Nintendo’s game archive to download (there hasn’t been a cost set to this yet). They also say that this is going to be the easiest of all their consoles to develop for which is key. More games would be nice.
• Playstation = Choices of lots and lots of games, of course that doesn’t matter if most of them are crap and you really only play a few
• Xbox = Less games, good stuff. I really like my Xbox and it has been totally dedicated to Fable, Halo2 and more recently playing Return of the King again (I’d originally played it on the Gamecube).

  I suppose I don’t play enough of all three systems to tell any differences beyond the amount of games available for them (and/or proprietary games). Oh wait, strike that, I did notice that the character reaction and movements were slightly better in the Gamecube specifically for ROTK.

  I’ll have to pick one. I can’t justify blowing money on a couple gaming systems that, as much as I play, I definitely go through phases. It might just have to be the Revolution purely because I feel an obligation to play this new Zelda game! I’ve played all of the others, I’ve got a committment here, damnit. And the little Gameboy Micros look pretty darn cool as well … ideal for those long plane rides. Sensibility requires that I buy just one (says the girl with a Gamecube and Xbox).

  What to do, what to do. I could go read a book. Oh wait, I DO read lots of books.

  But that Xbox promise of processor power is so appealing, no more waiting around between scenes … oh, and I haven’t ever played a Playstation before. Shouldn’t I know what I’ve been missing?

  And you wonder why I don’t get anything done? Anyone want to buy a Gamecube?