It's weird how things work in the console business. The N64 and GameCube have been excellent systems. They've kept me satisfied as a gamer for nearly a decade. The N64 had the best graphics of its time, with no loading times to boot, and the GameCube is such a cool system that's 100% focused on playing games, I just love them both. And yet, it is clear that Nintendo's glory days are back with the ever popular SNES, and also with the SNES that lives on in the GameBoy Advance. Why is this? It's not graphics, or numbers of controllers, or innovation, or online gaming, so what is going on? Perhaps the competition was weaker back then and hence we all have loving memories of our dear Super Nintendo from that time. Nintendo seems to think its partly because of timing. The last two systems have been disadvantaged by bad release timing, well mind you thats actually hard to say since its debateable that GameCube and Xbox could have abruptly squashed the PS2, who could have know that Sony would hang in there and not be another Dreamcast? In any case, I believe it really comes back to the games. See, now GameCube has its Mario franchises as always, but basically its hits are Metroid, and Zelda, with the runner ups being the occasional Star Fox game or what have you. Some good memories to be had there, but not much to brag about. Xbox is no different, with lots of great games, but only one that we'll all remember: Halo. Go back to 96' and you'll see two great memories: Mario 64 and Goldeneye. Now go back to the early 90's and suddenly you are welcomed home again. Final Fantasy 3 greets you at the door of SNES world, Chrono Trigger shows you around, Super Mario World, and Yoshi's Island say hi. You feel so happy, so complete. Super Double Dragon and Contra are watching TV in the next room over, meanwhile Turtles in Time is practicing its old fighting moves for old times sakes against the infamous Street Fighter and Mortal Combat. Games like Donkey Kong country look so gorgeous and Mario Kart is too addictive to be legal. Welcome home to gaming paradise: where every game's a classic. Thats what we need again. Not just Halo, or Zelda, or Doom. We need to stop the flow of generic games and go back to having fun again. No more should we have 20 ok shooters for the GC, we should have 5 REALLY good ones. Halo should be side by side with a bunch of other "just as good" titles. Zelda shouldn't be the only game looked forward to every 2 years. We have more games than we can count, and in a consumptive manner, play many many of them. In my opinion, its time for quality, not quantity. Lets see the next 100 "ok" games turned into 20 excellent games, you can only buy so many games anyway.