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offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2005-05-20 13:39 [#01606504]
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That's a good point. Nintendo is actually the most
profitable of the Big Three. And they'll always have their
hardcore audience that will buy whatever they put out (like
Tridenti). I'm not anti-Nintendo, I'm just a concerned
citizen. Their E3 presentation was a bit of a joke, there's
like NO good Gamecube games coming out, other than... erm,
the 85th Zelda. I mean, that doesn't make me happy. I want
to know when I buy the Revolution (and I will), that there's
going to be lots of GAMES for it. And hopefully something
beyond Mario and Zelda.


 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2005-05-20 13:49 [#01606516]
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Nintendo is betting that the finincial support of their core
audience will provide them the oppurtunity to try things the
other companies would find suicidal. They have accepted the
fact that they will never be number one and used that as an
oppurtunity to experiment. It's like they are an independent
film house and Sony and MS are the big studios. They're all
about the mass consumer but they'll ape an idea from
Nintendo in a second once they see it's profitable. Which is
fine by me actually.


 

offline godataloss from Cleveland (United States) on 2005-05-20 13:53 [#01606519]
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I will take no pleasure in nintendo failing, but if they
haven't learned a lesson from what happened to Sega is it my
fault?

The smartest thing they could of done would be to get out of
the console wars, produce games for both systems and make a
handheld that companies will actually want to produce games
for.

I will buy a 360 for Halo and PC ports as well as the media
server functionality and probably a PS3 for HD DVD. I don't
see any reason to buy a Revolution even if it ever comes to
market and quite frankly I hope it doesn't and I'm playing
the next metroid on the 360.


 

offline godataloss from Cleveland (United States) on 2005-05-20 13:56 [#01606521]
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The stylus and bongos are nothing compared to eye-toy.
Nintendo is gimmicky. If Nintendo tries anything
'Revolutionary' with this next console it will be out or
despiration not innovation.


 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2005-05-20 13:58 [#01606525]
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Yeah, there's no point having loyalty to the box games play
on. If Nintendo went the Sega route the world wouldn't end.
But man are those sony and ms boxes butt booty ugly!


 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2005-05-20 14:00 [#01606530]
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And eye-toy is not? It's fun as hell... for a while. And how
many games take advantage of this?


 

offline godataloss from Cleveland (United States) on 2005-05-20 14:01 [#01606532]
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with wireless everything, you can hide it behind the couch.


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2005-05-20 14:02 [#01606533]
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Good points I get what you're saying. But I either can't
agree or I think Nintendo is doing carrying out their
possibly stupid plan horribly wrong. An independent film
house doesn't keep making the same film over and over again.
Their market share keeps shrinking, fewer and fewer people
care about them, and eventually, who knows what's going to
happen to them. Sega fans are among the most hardcore
around, and look what happened to them. Different situations
but roughly the same idea. I don't think Nintendo are
immortal and they can't keep carrying on like this.

And like I've been saying, I think the whole ''Nintendo's
creativity will keep them alive against the soulless,
faceless Sony and MS'' is bullshit, since at least Sony has
proven to have brilliant people developing for them, first
party.

I should probably stop fussing about it anyway. Even if they
do eventually get bullied out of the console wars, Sony or
MS will kill for their IPs, they'll always be around.


 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2005-05-20 14:02 [#01606534]
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Well, time to go home after another hard day's work :)


 

offline godataloss from Cleveland (United States) on 2005-05-20 14:05 [#01606540]
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Indeed
Miller Time!


 

offline axion from planet rock (Sweden) on 2005-05-20 22:59 [#01606945]
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cool that you can play every previous consoles on Nintendo
Revolution i havent own a gamcube but was serious about
getting it but now i just have it on the Nintendo Revolution


 

offline tridenti from Milano (Italy) on 2005-05-21 10:26 [#01607267]
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Nintendo plans to announce the price, launch date and other
details for its next-generation game console by the end of
the year, its president said on Thursday. Nintendo earlier
this week unveiled its console, code-named "Revolution," and
said it will launch in 2006, giving users access to more
than 20 years of games from past Nintendo consoles. The
Revolution, roughly the size of three stacked DVD cases,
will feature wireless controllers, built-in wireless
Internet access, and an add-on for DVD playback.

"We plan to give details on when we will launch it, what the
price will be, what the controller will look like and how
games can be played on it by the end of the year," said
Nintendo's Satoru Iwata, speaking to Reuters at the
Electronic Entertainment Expo annual trade show, known as
E3.

Some gamers and industry analysts had criticized Nintendo
for providing sparse details on the new machine, comparing
it to Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp.'s unveiling of slicker,
graphic-intense next-generation machines. But Iwata said he
didn't want to tip his hand to rivals. Iwata said the new
console is aimed at customers who hate clutter and find
current games and the controllers used to play them to be
confusing and difficult. Hit the source link the read the
entire press release at Reuters.



 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2005-05-26 11:15 [#01612823]
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From IGN Revolution FAQ

Q: What makes the controller so revolutionary then?

A: At E3 2005, Nintendo's executive of vice president of
sales and marketing, Reginald Fils-Aime, offered a hint.

"We announced the ability to download and play the best NES
games, S-NES games, N64 games, in addition to Revolution
games and GameCube games," he said in an IGN/G4 interview.
"If you put those controllers all lined up together, they're
all very different. So think about what kind of device is
going to allow you to play all those different types of
games. It's pretty interesting."

Revolution's controller may enable gamers to configure their
own layouts in order to best suit their different gameplay
experiences.


 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2005-05-26 11:15 [#01612826]
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Press releases also said that the DS hints at the direction
Nintendo is taking with Revolution. And it's not dual
screen.
So what's the revolution? Completely touchscreen pads!
This means that developers are no longer constrained by a
standard button layout format. I can't even imagaine the
possibilities... What could a devloper create without this
restraint? Who knows. This is a huge leap of faith though.
This will succeed or fail based on the developers ability to
'think outside the box'. Just look at the DS dual screen.
What truly take advantage of that? Well, Nintendo's got
balls for miles.



 


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