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Woah, Dan and Jonbo sounding pissed at Nintendo in the same thread?! @_@

*gets another sign of how long he's been gone*

Anyway... Nintendo 'doing their own thing' hasn't worked before, and I don't expect it to work now. Them holding back is only a attempt at building up hype again. The people don't want hype, we want raw facts. If the 'revolution' is so small that other companies can steal their ideas this late in the process, what makes Nintendo think they won't just take the idea and introduce it to a bigger audience 6 months after all the systems come out?

Nintendo is lucky to have such good first party games (though they were dumbed down last gen), because that's the only reason people will stick with them. Gamecube's 3rd party support probably won't get any better next gen.