Yeah, the 64 was a big joke! In that regard I think it's a good thing that Sony and Microsoft entered the arena. No competition for Nintendo would probably have sent the consoles down the drain. If the Revolution does as well as I'm starting to believe it will, Nintendo should do well in the time to come.

Oh, and speaking of Genesis...

Yeah, I loved Zelda for the Nintendo Genesis (that was the 16bit one, right?). The 64 stuff didn't sit well with me however...

And thanks for the heads up on Trace Memory! I'll keep it in mind.

Spore and new Zelda coming

Yeah, it's good to see Nintendo focusing on us Europeans a little as well.

As for the media addin, I think it's safe to say it will come down in price. Take a look at this "HDD killer" . In a few years we'll probably be rid of the useless harddrives for anything but MASSIVE storage.

Looks like you'll get a few download stations over there after all FA. Check out this.

Speaking of download...

Happy birthday!

Yeah, downloading stuff to the DS would be neat. In the end we might use the DS for everything! Think they could add a mobile phone?

Seriously though, downloading MP3 and the likes to the DS would be neat with the right size memory card.

As for the interviews, I think they are very limited in what they can tell. That, and as you point out, stupid questions . Reminds me of the typical sports question: "What do you feel now?"... The dude just won the world championship! What does the idiots think he feels!?!

Another Opera DS interview.

Yeah, I look forwards to the Revolution as well. While XBox and Playstation try to steal PC developers, and dumb down their games, Nintendo sticks to the sort of games they always made (meaning less FPS and the likes). In addition they keep a strong focus on innovation.

Indeed

More good news

Useful?

FullAuto: Ah, right online! I thought you just meant multiplayer full stop. Aye, there's not many online games at the moment, but I imagine Nintendo will be wanting to make the most of that, so expect a fair few more titles to come.

Noticed that the wifi gaming straight to other DS's doesn't always require that they have the same game, either. Played a game of Advance Wars: DS Combat against a friend, was quite fun, whereas in single player it's a bit shallow.

Yeah, I imagine they will launch more online titles in the time to come as well. After all, the Opera web browser has been announced for the DS. That seems to confirm that they're putting a stronger focus on the online capabilities of the little bugger now

And yeah, I noticed that several games can be played in multiplayer without owning the game. Only problem I have is that I know no one else that owns a DS where I live

I noticed that the DS Lite did well on it's launch by the way.

FullAuto: I don't know, I've seen quite a few multiplayer games, but I may just be concentrating my attention upon the multiplayer ones.

I thought only the games listed here could be played online? I know there are several multiplayer games, but not online...

@Pete: What rock did you hide under lately?

FullAuto: I hope they also consider using them as wi-fi gaming hotspots, where you can go to meet other players.

Yeah, that would be very neat! I still haven't tried it in multiplayer. So few games can be played online... Did you test the online play yet?