The State of Nintendo [by Vampyr]

[Vampyr]

Yeah, Nintendo is known for their durability. I still have a fully functional NES.

But, the GCN seems to be less so. Like 5 months after I got my GCN, It stopped reading disc. I couldnt play it forever. I had to send it in for repairs. Do you know what resulted in this? My friends PSO characters are 40 levels higher than me, thats what.

Also, my Mario Sunshine disc got scratched...I dont even know how, it just did. And it wont play anymore. I LOVE that game.

I've had my PS2 since last summer, and I havnt had a problem yet. But, I bought my PS2 kind of late...by then all of the problems had been fixed...I got my GCN really early, before any updates were performed onit. So I guess that makes sense.

I am glad to see that most people agree with me that Nintendo should go third party. I wrote this editorial over the summer, when I was sitting down one day and I just realized "This isnt nearly as fun as it used to be." I miss the good old days...even the N64. I remember the first day I got an N64. I remember the first day I played Mario 64. Wow. That was just....amazing. I dont think I'll ever feel that way about a game again.

Er, actually, I felt that way when I played OoT, too. And Pokemon Red. But those are the few games that have given me that "magical" feeling that the NES used to give me every time I powered it up.

[Jonbo298]

Disc media has more disadvanteges on durability. Mainly because it doesnt take much to get disc read errors. Carts are 100x more durable. You can jump on them, throw them around the room, etc...and its almost guaranteed to still work.

Me and duffman put a '64 cart in the freezer and we were just gonna leave it in there for I think 10 minutes, but we forget about it and like over an hour later, we remembered that we were supposed to take it out so we did and it still worked. We did other tests, but they proved successful

[Jason1]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

Yeah, Nintendo is known for their durability. I still have a fully functional NES.

But, the GCN seems to be less so. Like 5 months after I got my GCN, It stopped reading disc. I couldnt play it forever. I had to send it in for repairs. Do you know what resulted in this? My friends PSO characters are 40 levels higher than me, thats what.

Also, my Mario Sunshine disc got scratched...I dont even know how, it just did. And it wont play anymore. I LOVE that game.

I've had my PS2 since last summer, and I havnt had a problem yet. But, I bought my PS2 kind of late...by then all of the problems had been fixed...I got my GCN really early, before any updates were performed onit. So I guess that makes sense.

I got my Cube right when it was released, and ive NEVER had a disc read error, or any other problems. This inculdes countless times when ive played rentals that were pretty scratched up, and that Melee disc which I scratched up horribly.

[TheSlyMoogle]

The last two games that I actually had fun with are Crystal Chronicles and DDR. And I'm still playing DDR. I don't know, gaming isn't fun anymore.