Thursday, January 12, 2006

Nintendo Revolution: Collector's Dream Come True?

The Revolution's ability to play older NES, SNES, and N64 games is getting about as much attention as the controller. Fair enough. They are both very cool specs for a new machine.

The controller is going to blow me away hopefully, but the download service...not so much. While I may very well end up buying a couple of games, I realize that I actually own almost all of the games I have ever wanted in cartridge form. I own the systems. I've got the cables. At one point, until we got the new LCD movie machine, I even had them all displayed on our 7'x7' entertainment center.

I still think Nintendo will make tons of sales on old games and I too look forward to purchasing games like Blast Corps, but then I think to myself: I've spent all this money on the real games and systems, so am I really going to break up the collection with a digital set of games? Should I sell off all the hardware and and reinvest in the Revolution?

It sure would clean up my house a little (just to make room for other crap), but is it better to own the game or just be able to play it?

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