• 13Nov 09

  Why do we like Zelda so much?

  I dont think there is a series I like as much as Zelda. I can find games I like more then Zelda or even a Zelda game that I hate such as I liked Super Metroid more then I liked Zelda: a link to the past and I actually hated Zelda: a link to the past but for some reason years later I find myself missing each and every Zelda game weather I liked or hated it back in the day including Zelda: a link to the past (and Super Metroid).

  As for why we like the Zelda series so much is probably because of the brilliant marketing of the Creator of the series. Miyamoto the most popular video game designer ever said that he decided to release the first Zelda as is despite criticism from the game testers who said it was too hard to figure out what you were supposed to do or where to go. He said the reason was because the game wasnt designed with gamers in mind but for people who are more social the idea was that as people get stuck in the game they would talk to other people about what to do and thus making it a completely new type of game. A game that people would talk about. Designing the game the way the game testers wanted would undo Miyamotos original design.

  Of course the Zelda series has recently come under a new threat by means of the internet. Typed and video walkthroughs make their way on www.gamefaqs.com and www.yahoo.comjust days after the release of a Zelda game and instead of talking to other people about what to do people instead just log on to the internet for help. Zelda games now have a new method to get people to talk about the game via the Zelda time line. Zelda games have started making references to another hero that came before the Link that the game is staring such as in early zelda games Link would start with a green tunic and pointed hat (stereo tipico of a midevil time Yeomen) but in current Zelda games (that arent direct sequels such as (phantom hour glass) Link receives his tunic and hat later often being told that they were worn by a hero that came before him as if referencing a previous Zelda game. Its worked too Nintendo has continued to say that the Zelda series doesnt have a preset time line but gamers continue to post videos of their own theories of the Zelda time line. Of course the people designing these theories buy every Zelda game to come available because they have to know were the game fits in their time line.

  I dont think that Zelda needs a timeline and I couldnt care. What I do know is the games are good and fun and that is all I need to know to continue buying them and Metroid.

  • Posted Nov 13, 2009 3:14 pm PT
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• 12Jun 09

  The best saling console

  It probably would be no surprise to anyone that the Atari 2600 was the best selling console of the early 80's and 70's. The Atari 2600 is commonly referred to as just Atari yes it sold that well 30 million actually and had the longest life span of any console in the history of game consoles.

  Of coarse this couldnt last forever and eventually a new company with a new console and a new approach to how video games were designed appeared. Nintendo the company responsible for the best selling game on the Atari 2600 (Donkey Kong) was no longer contempt with just making games and a Nintendo Computer Engineer Miyamoto had some new Ideas for how to design games. While the Atari consoles used controllers that tried to copy the control stick of the coin operated arcade machines the Nintendo also called the famicon in Japan used a controlpad that was capable of changing direction faster. With faster movements in games also came a faster processor the Nintendo used the most powerful home PC processor at the time. Also Miyamoto brought two new video games Mario and Zelda which changed the way video games were made. The original Nintendo sold 61 million its more then twice the number of Atari 2600s sold.

  Next Nintendo decided that if they could revolutionize the portable console industry and created the gameboy just as Mario and Zelda lured gamers back to the home consoles the gameboy brought gaming on trips. Despite portables with color or better processors the gameboy won by cost and batter life. As people thought the gameboys legecy was coming to an end it found new life when the gameboy color made its appearance. The gameboy was the best saling console for nearly a decade with about 118 million sold and even the Playstation couldnt match its life time sales.

  The current best saling console is the Playstation 2 which managed to achieve this by means of backward compatibility with the best selling home console of the previous generation and being the least expensive DVD player at the time of its generation. The Playstation 2 is still racking up sales as we speak with over 136 million sold.

  However it looks as if Nintendo is determined to make the best saling console again. The DS has recently past the Playstation in consoles sold making it the third best selling console of all time and with the new DSi and sales of over a million it could become the best selling console in as soon as three years currently at 104 million and counting.

  • Posted Jun 12, 2009 12:03 am PT
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• 7Dec 07

  Fahrenhiet Playstation3

  (This article was made entirely for fun and, is my opinion. Criticism will not be taken seriously.)

  It was 1994 two companies Nintendo and Sega dominated the last generation of consoles and with the release of the Sega Saturn everything seemed to be going as planed but, then something called the Playstation designed by a Ken Kutaragi begin to out sell the console titan. How dose Ken Kutaragi get away with this. It helps when you make a console so cheep that other consoles have to drop there prices in order to compete. And if they sale there consoles at a loss to compete in a price war, you can always sale yours for less at a lower loss. Also use large amounts of money to buy out third party franchises. You'll need a lot of money to do this so make sure you have the financial backing of a major company like Sony. Even if game reviews of multi-console games prove yours is the least powerful you can use the money from the major company to fund an advertising campaign thats never been seen in a console war before. It turns out nune of this was a dream its what really happened.

  After fooling gamers into believing that the Playstation consoles were the most powerful consoles ever made Ken Kutaragi decided he was done taking advantage of easily deluded gamers and decided to release what is possibly the most expensive console ever made. On the day of its release people fought and, even shot each other to be the first person on there block to get a PS3 but, on December 23, 2006 it was clear the PS3 was stock piling on store shelves and, its long time rival Nintendo had a console that was out selling the PS3 two to one. Ken Kutaragi did what any of us would do in this situation. He retired.

  On November 17, 2006 Many people begin camping outside there nearest retail store to be the first in line to get a Playstation 3. Even though the Playstation 3 was selling for $1,500.00 the early adopters to the next generation Playstation soon found that there console was questioned over video game media if it was a failure due to a lack of decent games. Ebay prices dropped to about $400.00. Sony Computer Entertainment President and CEO Jack Tretton said at E3 2006 that it would be sold out for years but, at E3 2005 he said something different that the PS2 was a powerful console that would last long into the next generation and, the Playstation 3 would get the few gamers that hadnt bought into the playstation brand.

  Its some what easy to see why most gamers were no longer buying into the playatation brand. What games did we think of when we thought of playstation (Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid) but, these games werent exclusive to the playstation brand MGS was originally (Metal Gear) a game that that got its start on the Sega Master System the fact that the main character was now making appearances on commercials for the popular Nintendo franchise SSBB was prof enough that Konami wouldn't stay loyal to Sony. Even though the hardware challenged Wii couldn't run the next in the Final Fantasy series Squar-enix already announced two Final Fantasy games to be released on Nintendo Wii and, even announced that due to a lack of PS3 sales the only home console they would announce any games for in the future would be the Nintendo Wii. Other popular franchise sequels such as Re5 and DMC4 simply went multi-platform.

  It was easy to see why third party developers were suddenly becoming disloyal to the playstation think about it. $25million could be used to produce a single Playstation 3 game. But, $25million could produce 5 games that could possibly sell more then twice as many copies each as the Playstation 3 game we didn't make.The hardware to blame for this was the 8cellbroadband processor. Sony boasted continuously how powerful it is but, they neglected to mention that with each processing unit adding to the processor makes programing for the console increase exponentially. The playstatoin 3 wasnt the first console to have eight processors it was the Sega Saturn. Think about the Sega Saturn used two 32-bit processors and six secondary processors, game designers never used the secondary processors and the second main processer was added so the Sega Saturn could compete with the new 3-d console PS but, it took the most experienced game designers to get 1.5 times the power of a single processor in the Sega Saturn most Sega Saturn games used one processor. So when game designers had to decide what system to release a game on they chose the console that was easiest to program for another advancement was the disk instead of a cartradge. Cartradges were favored over disk in the video game industry because, a cartradges could hold save data, didnt require load times and, didnt need sometype of special container to hold it because, they didnt move they were also immune to scratching and, didnt make nose while running but, they were ten times as much to produce by the time the N64 was released the PS had nearly one-thousand games priced at $10.00 the N64 release was similar to the Playstation 3 release they both had about ten games priced at $60.00 at least.

  Over all the Nintendo Wii proves what the PS proved that the console with the lowest priced hardware and the cheapest development cost will get the most third party support and, thus the most games which will result in more people buying that console and increase the third party support and so on.

  • Posted Dec 7, 2007 4:28 pm PT
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