[QUOTE="rpg9000owner"]

This support is very impressive, i'll buy a copy if i find one cheap.

Toriko42

This support is very impressive, i'll buy a copy if i find one cheap.

World of Goo is on the Wii too - not a PC exclusive.

Monkey who?

It's all about Day of the Tentacle, don't listen to the fanboys :P

Kings Quest: Mask of Eternity

:(

There does seem to be a consensus that the PS3's d-pad is better, but you have a different opinion, different strokes for different folks. PS3 owners can just get an arcade stick anyway.

A few people have said that the NES supposedly only saved North American gaming.

I would like to point out that gaming worldwide would not have been the same without the North American market.

I think that the most obvious effect would be a lot less funds going to developers if you completely wipe out the sales of the western hemisphere.

Maybe the industry would have died later on. I hate bad analogies but I think the closest one I can think of would be getting one's legs cut off. You might not die immediately but if you don't get help you will eventually. Just the possibility of this being the case is huge.

Also not discrediting PlayStation in anyway but if PlayStation was originally and add on to the SNES, and SNES wouldn't exist without NES I think PlayStation backers do have some respect to pay towards the NES.

Vivacioussoul

It's not a case of the NES 'supposedly' saving just NA, it's a fact. Period.

The Commodore 64 in Europe actually expanded when gaming was dead in America, so they weren't all that fussed about the state of gaming in the US, their legs weren't cut off, so to speak *cringes whilst using analogy*. The big success of the Famicom (Japan's NES) in Japan when gaming was dead in America was what drove Ninty to make the NES (the american Famicom), the NES's very existence proves that gaming was thriving elsewhere, as it was the success of the Famicom that encouraged Nintendo to expand into America's market. This software and hardware success was without US sales, which apparently according to you are the lifes blood of the industry.

Lets repeat that point, if it weren't for gaming actually expanding and being profitable elsewhere, then the NES wouldn't have even existed, the NES's existence proves that gaming wasn't dead, how ironic is that? Dosen't the fact that gaming was getting bigger elsewhere without the benefit of the NA market show that gaming would of survived?

Nobodies denying the importance of the American market (which has now been overtaken by the European market, but whatever), but it's existence isn't keeping the industry alive, as the growth outside of NA during the crash showed.

Well.. this thread flopped. :D

Well, no. Not yet. As the most glaringly obvious route to take is to create a PSN/XBLA HD sequel, like Megaman 9, and that would be what everybody actually wants. This is all that it takes, it's certainly a plausible strategy and it has a realistic chance of happening.

But apparently SEGA are obviously still quite keen on keeping their heads metres under the sand, whilst not taking account of glaring flaws and what fans actually demand, whilst pissing allover the legacy of the franchise.

Bethesda's PR after Oblivion has been discredited for me.

Yet this has still caught my interest, but i'd rather Besthesda work on another ES, taking account of a few of Oblivion's flaws if they can ignore the lust from their wallets.