Which is your personal most hyped/anticipated console launch ever?

[DevilRising]

Honestly, I guess my weird answer is Gamecube, even though it is by no means my fav. system, not even close. But I was very hyped by the Spaceworld Zelda demo, and the possibilities for a Mario 64 sequel, and another Star Fox, and another Smash Bros., and another Mario Kart, and Wave Race, etc.

Sadly, the only games out of those that I even wound up liking, were Melee and Wave Race. Mario Sunshine and Wind Waker are hardly bad games, but they were hardly what I personally wanted in new Mario or Zelda games. I eventually got pretty much exactly what I wanted in Zelda with Twilight Princess though. But the GC, all around, while it had many brilliant games like Eternal Darkness, and Pikmin, and Chibi Robo, and Metroid Prime, etc., held a lot of disappointments to me personally, as far as either games like Kirby and DK Racing never materializing, or games I had high hopes for like Mario Kart or Star Fox, turning out to be (in my opinion) hot garbage.

So really....I don't know. I was surprisingly excited for the launch of the Dreamcast, even though I had grown up a "Nintendo kid", because it was going to have Soul Calibur, and MvC2, and a new 3D Ecco the Dolphin, and what to me looked like a really promising Castlevania game (that never came out, sadly). I was somewhat excited for the N64's launch, but I really always felt they were jumping into 3D too much, too soon, and wish that console, more similar to the Saturn, had done more 2D games, because 64 bit 2D games could have been awesome if they bothered trying.

My fav. consoles of all time are the NES and SNES, in that order, but really, I grew up fairly poor, so we always got systems like that years after they initially launched, so I was always "behind". So I wouldn't say I was super excited for the launch of either, rather I was super excited when I finally was able to get one myself.



It's entirely possible that I've never been SUPER hyped for any one console launch. I went all out trying to save up money to get the Wii U at launch, because I really wanted Pikmin 3 when it came out, etc. But not only was I still not really HYPED for it's launch, Pikmin 3 also wound up being a disappointment. But hey.