@sportwarrior: Honestly...me too. I spend a huge amount of my day walking, and I like to spend my evening hours hanging out with my girlfriend while she watches TV. It often comes down to a choice between console/PC gaming, spending time with her, or trying to do both with an old handheld. This looks perfect for me.
Though the proprietary route sucks as well. Very dumb. But Sony always does this, and it always backfires. PSP/Vita proprietary memory sticks, anyone?
He did a good job. Xbox went from being a system I had no interest in when it launched to having the best gaming console of the mid-2000s with the Xbox 360. They were truly innovative back then...achievements, better online play, strong support for third-parties, and more. From 2006-2009, the Xbox 360 was a superior console to the PS2/3 in most ways - as long as the red ring of death is forgotten, anyway..
After that it flipped. The PS3 had better games from late 2009 until the end of the seventh generation. In my view, Xbox has never come back.
@Tiwill44: Oh wow. I remembered DK64 came out in 1999 because I literally was playing it when my parents came and got me for Y2K. Didn't remember Tooie was later though. Shouldn't be surprised.
@Tiwill44: Agree with everything. I distinctly remember, in the year 2000, thinking Donkey Kong 64 was the greatest game I'd ever played, and for a handful of years after that I counted it as my all-time favorite. Same with Tooie before it. Banjo-Kazooie in retrospect is the most enjoyable of the Rare platformer trio to come back to, but at the time it didn't feel that way.
Age changed my tastes, but for a 10-year-old kid at the time, Tooie and DK64 were unbelievable games.
@santinegrete: It's the first (and only) game I actually fell asleep playing in the middle of the day. I found it that dull.
Maybe you're right, though. Last time I tried it I was in a very different state of mind and a very different person. I still have my Gamecube copy kicking around, maybe I'll fire it up again soon.
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