Nintendo Spins the Morph Ball… everybody jump!
Nintendo’s excreted a short, somewhat pungent press release for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, which ships today. Why do I sound annoyed? It’s no secret that I’m concerned about the future of epic software on Nintendo’s console hardware leader… heck, every epic gamer who owns a Wii has to be concerned. We want these games that are years in the making, the kind of thing we don’t think can happen on our little boxy flashing white box. It only makes matters worse when Nintendo takes the system’s first real beast of a game and spins it as a casual game.
“Metroid Prime 3 has a revolutionary control style that makes it easy for anyone to immediately jump into the action,” says George Harrison, Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. “Now, an entirely new audience can experience this amazing first-person adventure.”
Translation?
Metroid Prime 1 and 2 were great games, but since almost nobody owned a Gamecube, we didn’t sell a lot of copies of those games. Everyone seems to buy the Wii though, so we’re hoping these people, most of whom have never heard of the Gamecube, will buy this game thinking it will train their brains.
Nothing wrong with casual games. But let’s revel in the hardcore game now that it’s here, ‘kay Nintendo?
NINTENDO’S EPIC TRILOGY CONCLUDES WITH METROID PRIME 3: CORRUPTION
First-Person Controls Immerse Players Like Never Before
REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 27, 2007 – Today’s launch of Metroid
Tags: metroid, press release
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Ross R.
