E3 08: Nintendo E3 98 Vs Nintendo E3 08

How does Nintendo's line-up at this year's E3 compare with 10 years ago?

Words: Matt Cundy, GamesRadar UK

Nintendo's E3 line-up is so crushingly lightweight this year that it's left us feeling depressed. In fact, we're so depressed that we've gone to the bother of digging up a list of the games that Nintendo was actively promoting at E3 in 1998, just so we could compare them with this year's official line-up and subsequently have a moan about how things aren't as good as they used to be 10 years ago.

As you can see from the two line-ups below, things aren't as good as they used to be 10 years ago:





What a difference a decade makes. It's a bloody tragedy. We miss you Old Nintendo. New Nintendo isn't the same.

 
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