I resisted, but not by much; I need that damn Wii to come out soon

I agree with Dynotaku’s comments from above. When Thom was talking about the graphical power of the GC, the first game I thought of was Metroid Prime, which I think had graphics at least equal to Halo. I always thought that the GC had a bad rep for being “kiddie” and as a result wasn’t taken seriously in terms of graphics. Nintendo themselves were really responsible for this because of the types of games they produced (Wind Waker, Mario Sunshine, Luigi’s Mansion, etc.)

I hope that the Wii will have some M-rated games to bring Nintendo back to some of the gamers who look for titles in that type of genre. Course, there are plenty of adults I know who enjoy games like Super Mario Sunshine as much as kids. Heck, just last week I got Lego Star Wars for my GC and am having a ball with it.

Nation: thats exactly it; Leo isnt saying the word “podcast” is broken among the podcasting and/or geek community — he is saying it is broken in the general public, which is where the HUGE untapped market is.

As always, thanks for your comments!

You’re totally right. I cannot *wait* to get GameWith.us done. Event/Game scheduling is one of the things that it’s going to have built in. What we’ll be able to do is invite the Uncompressed Group to a game at a set time and everyone who’s opted into the group will be notified of the event and we’ll all be able to hook up that way.

I just have to finish writing it. I wish I knew how to go about getting VC so I could get paid to work on it. haha

I don’t agree that you don’t agree with me. I guess “vision” in the word “television” doesn’t mean anything?

I’m just trying to say that I’ve always thought that ‘podcast’ was a terrible name, and given the chance to ‘reboot’ and find a new term to replace it, I think ‘netcast’ is kind of a weak replacement. ‘Netcast’ is going to mean as much to Joe Average as ‘podcast’ does now.

DO I NEED A NET TO LISTEN TO IT?

Think of it as an U* party or something … brings your audience together and all. (ThomW, you’ve been in shackbattles.)

I don’t agree with ThomW that it has to imply internet, does TV imply airwaves or cable?

I agree 100% that EA will continue to publish on the system no matter what — actually from everything I have seen Ubisoft is making a huge investement into publishing for the console as well. Sometimes on the show I will say things to be devils advocate and spur some conversation — while I do try to state my opinions, sometimes they are a bit veiled for the sake of the show

Also, I do want to note that toward the end of the run, multi-platform releases did start dropping off for the GC. Many of the late releases from EA and others were PS2/Xbox/PC; that being said im sure that stemmed from the limited GC market (vs the development costs) and not a reflection on the actual power of the system.

With regard to the Capcom thing, it seems obvious to me that Capcom had some solid interest in the GC — releasing RE4 on it was an attempt to really make an impact with the GC platform (its all about the killer app — one must have game WILL sell systems!) but when the sales numbers failed to align with development and marketing costs Capcom strayed from the system to save their bottom line.

^ also speculating

But that’s all speculation.

That gets me thinking about something — why did Capcom invest the resources in a game for a system that was clearly not leading the pack, and why did they develop an M rate game for a system that seemed like it was aimed at kids.

Thanks for the comments, Dynotaku!