years ? the ds is coming out in late november , at the most its going to have a year and a half with the gamecube. [/quote]
Oh yes, I've forgotten how nothing worthwhile would come out in a year and a half.
secondly they still have the gc/gba link remember they aren't going to stop selling the gbas . The ds is a third pillar .
Which, IMHO, they already compromised by including GBA compatability directly at launch in the DS. Not to mention that they're already linking their "separate pillars" so what would "pillarhood" have to do with linking/not-linking anyway? (Plus, the DS eventually
will supplant the GBA entirely. It would likely be best to keep that in mind as early as possible while pushing GBA/DS/GC/etc linking of any sort.)
They would simply be better off showing "hey, it doesn't matter what Nintendo device you get, they'll ALL do cool things with each other." The DS being more complex would benefit more from being looked at earlier in this way.
Not only that but its only a hand full of tittles that support the gc/gba link . And as i said above you can still get gameboy advances to use this feature .
So you get another handful? Big deal, at least it would be THERE. And get plenty more development time to look at just what it can do and offer. Unless it would be truly cost-prohibitive (which I doubt), there doesn't seem to be any reason to ignore it.
The problem is they all use diffrent tech to acomplish what they want and it will most likely be very expensive for a console that is nearing the end of its life.
A) I doubt "very expensive" would be the case. B) It would be paid off by the consumers who want it anyway, even if they took no profit from it. C) It lets them gauge how the pubic interest in such things shifts over time. And most importantly D) Nintendo and Sony and most importantly other big publishers have already maintained that they will not be abandoning this generation the instant next one hits, and are interested in prolonging their lifespan; this is quite obviously a way to keep their gaming experience more fresh and interesting over time.
Only ff uses the sony hardrive but why wouldn't they have the pstwo able to use the hardrive ? Was it difficult to enable ? No . Then do it . But they didn't and they had thier reasons and I'm sure nintnedo will have thiers .
Yes, and I think Sony's reason was dumb too. I know they needed to exclude the bay as a design compromise, but they could certainly have included it through means of one more port and an external device (yay, another thing to sell, too!) Their wishy-washiness on both these matters I would find to be extremely silly. It's their right to back away from things they previously lauded, formerly wished to push, and would have been better for we-the-gamer, and it's my right to bitchslap them for it.
Perhaps the reveloution will have wifi built in and the ds will hook up to it through that and usher in a new lvl of snyergy that the gc and gba link couldn't do
I'm sure it will. But that isn't something that currently "can't be done" right now. The GBA, DS, and GC all have wireless capabilities--just how hard would it be to fine-tune them and bring them together? I'd rather see the groundworks built now, as it would translate to better things when N5 does show up, and would make the gaming experiences more diverse now and add to the interest and continued lifespan of the platforms down the line.
The only thing I can see Nintendo gaining by waiting for it until N5 shows is by being able to use it as an "all new" marketing point; which I think would be pretty damn silly.
