Nintendo's Wireless Gaming Plans Unveiled

What's wrong with this picture? Nintendo President Satoru Iwata is happily playing against other programmers at the Game Developers Show held this past week in the SF Bay Area. He's using the new Nintendo Revolution that features built in WiFi support, and for the first time - backwards compatibility with older Nintendo games. (Don't even get me started on the stupidity of making each Nintendo console incompatible with the stack of games everyone owned on the last platform.)

Alice Says: The problem? In the photo he's playing Mario Cart- a game that came out in 1999 I believe. And that spells out the danger of gaming platforms. Lose your edge and your developers move on to other programming pastures. Of course, Sony is stalled out like one of those little Mario carts with confusion over its cell processor and a shakeup in management, so the game certainly isn't over for Nintendo.

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