KV> Yoshi's story will stink because it will be the same 
 KV> old Super Mario world 
 KV> storyline.  
  Umm... what about GAMEPLAY, hmm?  As I recall, games like Doom and Quake 
(or most fighting games on consoles, for that matter) have had bare-bones, 
weak stories and yet have succeeded because they were fun to play.
 KV> I nearly puked yesterday when I was playing 
 KV> Diddy Kong Racing at
 KV> my friend's house who borrowed a N64 from his movie 
 KV> store.  The graphics were 
 KV> the basic colorful N64 graphics.  Nothing new.  I don't 
 KV> even think N64 games 
 KV> use any texturing details in their graphics.  
  But I thought that you valued gameplay more than graphics?  Stop being so 
hypocritical.
 KV> Anyway...hmmm...I wonder why N64
 KV> has a shortage of developers?...uhh I dunno maybe no 
 KV> one wants to make games 
 KV> for the N64.  The smart companies like Eletronic Arts 
 KV> chose PSX over the N64 
 KV> because of it is easy to make better games on the N64.  
  Hey, I didn't know you liked the N64... :-)  You said it!
 KV> I've noticed that the
 KV> company Acclaim makes most of the N64 games besides 
 KV> Nintendo itself.  It's 
 KV> quite pitiful actually.
  Actually, the relative dearth of N64 developers is partially due to a 
market which is relatively small compared to the PSX.  There are only a few 
games which are seriously targeted at more mature gamers, and most of those 
people are somewhat vain, disdaining games with "cute" graphics despite good 
gameplay. 
--- Maximus 3.01
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