Well be happy you were not playing games back in the 90's. Resident Evil back then did not have the best graphics, but it did not need them. It started out pretty slow from what I can remember. You just walked around a huge staircase room (forya, Foryare) and looked for clues and listened to slow text that we still listen to this day in Zelda games. Then some how you enter this hallway. You know the game is survival horror, but who really knows what that means back then. All of a sudden you have two Ferocious zombie dogs chasing you down with horrible controls and you are not really sure what to do other than fire your gun. Because who wants to wimp out and run back to the horribly long door?

I have not played the recent one. In fact the last ones that I played were on the GC a while back! They were pretty! Even converted one of my Dreamcast friends to a GC for a while because of it.

You're going to have to have this locked since threads like this aren't allowed to have over 1000 posts.

I don't think that's an actual rule, just for elimination threads or something

Shhhhh.  Don't tell Ryan that.

The both of you don't understand why such a tactic failed so miserably for Sega. You can't just arbitrarily launch a console 6 months ahead of time. You'll screw/piss off third parties like Sega did. They were given a target date to have their software ready. They did have their software ready on time, unfortunately Sega launched the console 6 months early.  Another damning thing that ocurred, which had negative effects on the Dreamcast, was that Sega angered retailers as well because they launched far earlier than originally planned they didn't have enough hardware to ship. They choose to only ship to specific retailers initially this caused problems later on when the slighted retailers refused to carry their hardware or Sega had basically bribe/pay them to carry hardware. Some of them never did.

Nintendo has alway been better at business than Sega. That is why I don't think they'd do something so foolish. Even if they did go forward would such a strategy, it would be a logistical nightmare. One that would be heavy risk with the potential for minimal gain. Nintendo has been bending over backwards for third parties since Iwata took over. Any gains they made would be wiped out by a "surprise" launch. That's not taking into consideration the strain it would put on their supply chain. Business partners would need to move up their manufacturing dead lines for an early launch to be accomplished. The cost to manufacture the Wii U itself would likely be hire than planned initially due all of the hoops they'd have to jump through to get he hardware to market. The more I think about it, the less wise the tactic becomes.