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Gaming => General Gaming & System Wars => Console Gaming Archive => Topic started by: Shogun on December 07, 2005, 07:55:08 PM
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Has anyone heard news on Nintendo's Next Gen Console, "revolution"?
i don't know much about it, other than the controller looks reaaally wierd. (it looks like a TV remote controll!)
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We have a time frame pplz:
The Revolution will come before the holidays
Nintendo spills a bean
By Stuart Gorman: Friday 20 January 2006, 06:18
NOBODY HAS had a freaking clue what Nintendo is up to, until now perhaps.
Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata has just put forth a little info regarding both release timing and pricing for the Revolution.
"We can't disclose the Revolution's release period yet, but we have no plans to miss out on the year-end sales battle. As for North America, we need to release it by Thanksgiving, or otherwise we won't receive support from the retail industry. So the Revolution will be released prior to that period."
So, under some duress from retailers and with the reality of economic concerns (i.e people buy crap during the holidays), Nintendo admits they are locked into getting their contender in the ring by Thanksgiving.
Iwata also said, "The amount of money that people are willing to spend on videogames is getting less every year. Even if it's a superb machine, it's not going to sell if it's 50,000 yen ($434). We plan to make [the Revolution] an affordable price."
The implied cap of 400-some dollars is promising, although earlier speculation had put the console as low as $300. What interests me in that statement is his supposition that people are spending less on video games every year. That doesn't seem to jive with the record sales numbers for both console and PC games we've been seeing.
Maybe it's something like psychological warfare. Start a rumor that people don't want to spend as much as they used to; suddenly everyone believes it, and the cheapest console has an even stronger argument for itself. This would of course mean that Nintendo is planning on the Revolution costing less than the other two next-gen consoles, which seems likely enough.
Only time will tell. µ
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An official survey conducted for Nintendo of America by marketing company Zanthus may shed new light on Revolution's "Virtual Console" concept. The website www.classicgamer.com took part in the online questionnaire, which offered a more in-depth look at the game download system for Nintendo's next-generation console than has previously been seen. The survey even featured mocked-up artwork representing how the graphical user interface for the process may look and function. The concepts below are by no means final, but nevertheless Zanthus prepared these materials based on direction from Nintendo of America and therefore they should not be discounted.
http://revolution.ign.com/articles/680/680846p1.html
go, nintendo!!
even though they heavily depend on thier existing franchises, yuh have to give it to them; almost every new game is an 'adventure' and is highly innovative..
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At least Nintendo has their own franchise that is SURE to be seen at LEAST every year in SOME form or the other.
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very true...
it's not just changing the maps, upgrading the graphics and slapping a new version number on it..( cept for pokemon..lol. but thas cuz thas the object of pokemon)
in almost all of their other games, the mechanics change significantly, and you are WOWed by the environments..
not to mention the great storylines and characters
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i still not impressed. cant say i wanna play mario spin offs all that much. i just the systemn doens t become an novelty item.
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well 2 things i can say to that
1. If you not impressed by the company that defines revolution you should stop playing games now.
2. You cant knock this console till you see a game and gamplay for it.
They are never spinoffs. Mario is mario. and as for spinoffs.... Paper Mario for NGC is a very mad game. You fail to realize the entire marketing scheme for the Rev.
the system going to be cheaper than any other next gen console. They are tapping into the non gamer market. You put an XBOX controler into a non gamer hand and you go just see them give up in 10 seconds. The rev is an easy pickup and play controler with a world of posibilities. People knock the DS when it come out and now it pwning base.
Games gonna be cheaper for it too. this simply means that parents that buy systems for their kids can afford to buy a Rev and games every month over a 400 XBOX and a God knows what PS3 and 60+ dollar games.
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yuh dun know shivadee . u know how much people tell me i stupid when i buy my ds on the first day it came out. but now look it owning the psp.
We have to wait and see people before criticizing the revolution!
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vive la revolucion!!!!!!
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people bad talking nintendo too much :
the revolution WILL be MORE than twice as fast as the gamecube OR Xbox , it will have next gen graphics , only not up to par as the PS3 or Xbox 360 , instead of focusing on raw power , it will focus on bieng cheap and flexible ..
Nintendo will find tons of shortcuts to side step using lots of CPU and GPU power and development time eg. intensive Normal mapping and Displacement mapping etc. optimized shaders and single threaded programming,
i'm betting on the revolution bieng FOUR TIMES as fast as the gamecube AND cheaper ...
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Nintendo spills some beans
A Revolution for less than $300
By Stuart Gorman: Monday 23 January 2006, 20:15
HOT DAMN! Unless the Revolution is slated to come out on April 1st, this might be hard to swallow.
An interview on News.com with Nintendo of America's executive veep of sales and marketing, Reggie Fils-Aime, revealed some savvy plans on Nintendo's part.
The most striking news is that the Revolution will be available for less than $300. Well, so was the Xbox 360... sort of. More like $600 plus, if you count the hard drive and peripherals. Fils-Aime implied that a complete and accessible package will cost less than $300, which could give MS and Sony a run for their money. Nintendo's strategy here is to keep the console inexpensive, and not waste the consumer's money on features they may never use, like HD games.
On the other end of things, Fils-Aime said the Revolution will be more affordable for game developers. Although this assertion wasn't well backed up in the interview, it sounds like a good idea. We'll just see what they have in store.
As for launch titles, Fils-Aime was almost entirely reticent. He did, however, say that we would see most of these announced at E3 this year, which puts the Revolution's release window squarely between May and November. This deduction at least narrows Nintendo's official window of "2006" by a few points. µ
DATS how ITS DONE PPLZ
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i say , lewe jus wait till all the consoles come out and stop speculating