CD = Can't Do
By:Kotsopoulos
 
 
     When you think Nintendo, most people look at the games. How fun they are, what interesting graphics etc. If you bother to look closer at the games, you can see that they are on cartridge. The magical format that was so fun to use. Slamming in the pack every time you want to play was the best part of the game it self. Now that the Dolphin (if that is it's real name) is breaching the horizon, the medium has changed to the silver pie plates known as C.Ds.

     The extra memory of a CD is amazing compared to the cart. It can allow those graphic wizards to let their hair down and attempt new things. Extra memory plays another big role in the game: it can be longer. Not all of it can be used for graphics, but to enhance the gameplay by adding more interesting plot twists and characters that a cartridge couldn't handle. Rare and Nintendo themselves could do wonders alone with the CD and create a shocking set of system release games that would blow your socks off. This is all and good, but unfortunately the only good side to the CD for Nintendo.

     What has Nintendo been using since the system came out? The cartridge. The absolute splendor that the CD could bring to Nintendo would really boost the Nintendo's buy rate and even grab some new gamers who aren't really interested up until the moment of truth. That will only happen in a few years. The top quality games that everyone will be looking for in Nintendo's library won't be around at all. The new medium would through off Nintendo, thus making it a slow start when Dolphin comes out allowing Sony to grab the market from underneath them. With the lack of experience and the lost ground to get back, Nintendo might go under sooner than possible. Leave me alone about that, it's another article. The buy rate will be at a low, the gamers will be sliding away to the Sony. The only thing which could save Nintendo is if they had a DVD function up and running. Yet again, only speculation.

     It will take years for Nintendo's partners in crime to get a hold of the CD format, tinkering with it and testing it's limits. In about a year, the companies will know what to do and begin pushing their mastered games on the waiting buyers... if there are any left. The customers will get bored waiting for these "great" games that should be coming out and crumble under the pressure of their money filled wallets. Customers will leave, prices will fall to around 200 bucks a system, stock will plummet, and Nintendo will be through.

     It's been happening since last year, the end of Nintendo's rain on the top and no one can stop it. The fun system is on it's way out and the slow moving CD wave will just quicken Nintendo's downfall. Nintendo just doesn't have enough time to use the CD to their advantage. Rare will need about a year tops, THQ and UBI Soft will take a year and a half and the rest will lag a two years. The only company that will be bringing out games of a good caliber would be Nintendo it self. With Super Mario 2K and Mario Party three leading the pack.The Dolphin will be caught in a fish net of mass proportions and the fishing boats sweeping the ocean clean will be Sega and Sony.