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TalkBack / RE:Nintendo Reveals Three New DS Titles

« on: March 15, 2005, 02:33:00 PM »

they should make an SAT tutorial for the US
man.. if i had spent one tenth as much time studying for the SATs as I did playing games back in my days...

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TalkBack / RE:Washington Post Says GameCube is

« on: December 02, 2004, 11:25:05 PM »

For the first time there's more game cube titles out than i have time to play, but I guess that's not important.  What's most important to this bias foo bar peas for brains is that his personal interest is in Microsoft and that he gets an article out on time so that he can "do his job" with minimal amount of reserach.  How in the world can xbox be ps' equal?  No games lined up? omg! what about Jungle beat?! I've been waiting for that thing to come out ever since i played it at E3.  But I guess if he's refering to third party stuff then.. it's kinda valid...

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TalkBack / RE:Resident Evil 4 Not GC Exclusive

« on: October 31, 2004, 08:00:27 PM »

I'm not a big RE fan, but I do buy a lot of exclusive nintendo games(even RE0, which i thought was pretty bad).  I was going to buy RE4 because nintendo had worked with capcom on it, but now that capcom has done this horrible thing, i'm not gonna buy this game anymore(Not that capcom would care)  This is unacceptable!

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TalkBack / RE:Editorial: PlayStation or Xbox?

« on: October 27, 2004, 09:46:13 PM »

nemo_83: "MS knows it can't beat Sony without outing Nintendo first. Same way Sony knew they couldnt take on Nintendo until they blew away Sega.!"

Not sure about what MS thinks now, but when i worked for them a couple of years ago, they said their competition is Playstation, and did not mention Nintendo at any point either.  I do agree with you about the GTA commercials, I thought they were great commercials.

[KDR_11k]

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TalkBack / RE:Editorial: PlayStation or Xbox?

« on: October 27, 2004, 09:26:36 PM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
idgaf: Do you even know what an engine does? You cannot provide an engine for everyone, every type of game requires a different engine and you cannot expect Ninty to offer an engine for every thinkable type of game for free, especially since these things go from a few hundred thousand to a few million dollars.

Yes, I do know what an engine, I've written a couple of basic ones myself.  I did not suggest that a single engine can be used for all games which is why i suggested a few big title games such as metroid (for fps) and zelda for (third person adventure type games).  I did not suggest that the engines are to be offered for free either.  While counter strike got to make their game for free by adding on to the half life engine, several games use the quake engine beneath the surface, and they DO pay for it.  I said they should license out the engine, not only would this be another oppertunity to make money directly, they would likely increase the number of games developed for nintendo, and hopefully increase the install base.  

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TalkBack / RE:Editorial: PlayStation or Xbox?

« on: October 26, 2004, 10:27:16 PM »

I'm probably beating a dead horse, but I agree Nintendo's marketing sucks.  The commercial for pikmin 2 was terrible.  I thought it would have been more appealing if they just showed me some clips of the game.  Further, I didn't even see that commercial much, not as much as the star wars commercials for the xbox at least.  Nintendo should fire all the dumb employees who are in charge of market research in the US.  No one cares about the dumb commercials and no one sees it.  Everyone at work talks about halo2 and how great it's going to be.  No one has even heard much about metroid prime 2.  I went as far as to place a stupid bet (world wide christmas sales of mp2 vs halo2) just to get a conversation about mp2 on the radar.  I have yet to see a single ad for mp2.  Why can't they just plaster the online game review sites, fill mags, or pay off some editor to put mp2 as a big story.  On ign, all you'll see is gta and halo in the front page.  You'd rarely see a mp2 article on the front page.  It's just sad...  At the least I wish nintendo would advertise mp2 better so that i can win my 1 dollar bet.

While this is completely pointless, I agree with Procession, Nintendo really should make the revolution a multipurpose console.  The consumers like to think they're going to be able to watch dvds on the console regardless of the likelyhood of usage.  People like to think they're somehow outsmarting the system.  They'd like to think they can easily pirate games( and even if they do, it doesn't seem to be hurtting game sales ie. ps, xbox).  Let the audience think they're getting a great deal without telling them.

Nintendo's dev kit sucks.  They don't even have an official dev kit for college gamers to play with.  If they're not going to reach out to third party devs, at least let the kids online try to make something good.  Nintendo needs to release their revolution dev kit now, much earlier than the release date of the revolution.  If not, at least they should spend the time to develop a configurable, customizable game engine so that thrid party game makers can license it and cut development cost.  Then Nintendo would be flooded with games (like counter strike built as a mod of half life).  Imagine if a company was offered the chance to make a game based off the metroid engine or the zelda engine, they'd jump at the chance.  May be nintendo is just too narrow minded, or may be i'm living in a dream world.  At the very least I think nintendo can offer to split advertisement costs of third party games if the game is going to be big and boost console sales.

P.S. it'd be great if someone can point me to a method for getting sales figures of games so I can settle the bet with my co-worker.  

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TalkBack / RE:Nintendo DS Commercials Available for Viewing

« on: October 26, 2004, 09:42:59 PM »

The first ad is not bad, though a little too suggestive.  The other 2 suck.  Why can't nintendo just make a normal ad where they show the games and possibly teens having fun playing with it?