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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wow, Sony is Making Nintendo Look Good (Also a little E3 conjecture that comes from this)

« on: February 27, 2006, 07:30:22 AM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
i was contemplating buying a ps3, not because i think its going to be better than the rev, but because of sony's typically huge fanbase, there are a lot of games that only come out for their system which I want to play.

I wouldn't contemplate buying a game system because it might have so many exclusives long before the system is released. Wait a year or two after it is released and THEN ponder whether it's worth buying.

Well, that's what I meant, after the games come out for it, like Final Fantasy and dragon quest, I would think about buying it. Let's face it, graphics are impressive, if the ps3 can really produce graphics like the killzone preview at last yrs e3 i would be thoroughly impressed, and maybe want to buy one even more, because of games like final fantasy.

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What's to stop a large game for the revolution from shipping with a 256-512mb SD card?

Nothing except that it doesn't happen very often that a game launches with a memory card.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Gameboy

« on: February 26, 2006, 02:47:46 PM »

Here's a list of reasons i think gb with gc discs would be succesful, anyone feel free to add to it, refute the list, or just come up with a list of negatives.

1. Large pre-existing game library
2. Great graphics for a handheld
3. No add-on gameboy player for new gb games
4. Another reason for people to buy the Rev, bcuz there'd be two game formats to choose from. and much more games
5. The system would be fairly cheap as the technology isn't new
6. The cube is small, the rev smaller, it wouldn't be a big problem for Nintendo to make it.
7. I love the idea
8. Old games that didn't sell well in the past would be given a second chance.
9. Replay value increases with every game since you aren't limited to playing it at home.
(maybe replay value isn't the term i'm looking for but i can't think of a better one)
10. Don't forget 1-9

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wow, Sony is Making Nintendo Look Good (Also a little E3 conjecture that comes from this)

« on: February 26, 2006, 10:51:37 AM »

u got me there. i forgot about the first gc memory cards.

i think we know two things about the virtual console.
1. you can download old nintendo games
2. it's going to be on the still codenamed Nintendo Revolution

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NWR Forums Discord / RE:PSP > DS

« on: February 26, 2006, 10:48:23 AM »

annoying music, interesting video. was kind of like a ponro.
DS is king of the castle.  

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General Chat / RE:Newbie Check-In ... right this way!

« on: February 26, 2006, 10:37:42 AM »

I don't get it MaryJane is slang for something? That's pretty wee(r)d  that I didn't know (a)pot that.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wow, Sony is Making Nintendo Look Good (Also a little E3 conjecture that comes from this)

« on: February 26, 2006, 10:29:40 AM »

I knew about the sd card expansion but they can be expensive

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Gameboy

« on: February 26, 2006, 09:04:28 AM »

yeah, it's unfortunate, but time proven that games never fully push a system to it's limits until the end of it's life cycle so if they were to continue making games on a portable cube, the graphics would/should/could be consistently Twilight Princess like or better. and there's nothing stoping them from making small improvements to the graphics processor. oh, and i don't think nintendo would care if people bought a gc instead of the portable one to play the new games, cuz the money comes from the games anyway, and they'd still chalk it up to being succesful because of the portable.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wow, Sony is Making Nintendo Look Good (Also a little E3 conjecture that comes from this)

« on: February 26, 2006, 08:58:13 AM »

i was contemplating buying a ps3, not because i think its going to be better than the rev, but because of sony's typically huge fanbase, there are a lot of games that only come out for their system which I want to play. hopefully with all the issues sony is having, that 1080p thing, and now the whole blue-ray hd-dvd issues, maybe nintendo can steal back some of it's classic (third-party) franchises. like final fantasy, dragon quest, contra, and so on. only thing i think nintendo needs to do is include a hard drive, give us 2GB 64,SNES, and NES games aren't that big, so a lot of space isn't needed, but more than 512MB, (is that what the flash memory for the rev is currently?). or at least, give the option to be able to connect a portable hard drive to the rev to be able to save games and other stuff.  

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NWR Forums Discord / RE:Perrin Kaplan

« on: February 25, 2006, 08:25:09 AM »

sorry for my noobness and putting thread in wrong place.

that j allard chick is hot but perrin has that "i'm a mom but i'll still rock your world in bed" look going for her. great smile too

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NWR Forums Discord / Perrin Kaplan

« on: February 25, 2006, 07:21:47 AM »

Anyone else think she's hot? She always gives the best interviews too.

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General Chat / RE:Newbie Check-In ... right this way!

« on: February 25, 2006, 07:18:11 AM »

No, but sometimes I wish I was.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Current Games

« on: February 25, 2006, 07:15:11 AM »

At ign.com they did what they call a playtest(first impression) of BK:2 there were some disappointing tidbits they brought out, like some changes in the battle system, (like no defensive cards , less depth). but they also said it was coming to america in June at the end of the report. So that's good news. the rev launch won't be for a good number of months after that. no news yet on other games. it'd be nice if the pgc mailbag was still a feature here, and we could ask them.


oh thanks for the info ice

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Gameboy

« on: February 25, 2006, 07:09:59 AM »

I don't think i understand what you mean ice cold. I would think that having 3 systems able to play the same game (really 2 cuz not to many people will buy a gamecube after the rev launch, and especially after the launch of the new gameboy if it were to use the same discs, and nintendo stops manufacturing gc's) would be very appealing to developers. You supply 2 different users with one game, with no extra development costs. and its a great marketing strategy, it's the whole reason behind the past super gameboy, and the gameboy player. play the game on ur nice big t.v and when it's time to go out, u can still play on ur portable gameboy. except now there's no extra add-on needed bcuz the rev can play the games straight out of the box. the other benefit would be the memory cards, the sd cards the psp uses (and the rev apparently has a slot for) are expensive. so if nintendo wanted to use discs for the next gameboy the gamecube discs would be the best choice.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:What is the Revolution's last secret?

« on: February 25, 2006, 06:58:58 AM »

It'd be great if it was wireless streaming to the t.v. but i honestly think it'll be gyros in the controller that can give resistance, like a rumble pak version 7.0, looking at life through the eyes of a tired hub
eating seeds as a pastime activity the toxicity of our city, of our city, yeah so anyway. Maybe there's more than one.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Why is the console so small?

« on: February 25, 2006, 06:38:41 AM »

no paladin ur wrong!! only japanese gamers want smaller technology. that's why the motorola razr is selling so poorly. that's why no one buys mini-tower pc's. and it's also why no one bought the new sleeker, slimer ps2, and why no one is going to buy the ds lite.

oh wait none of that is true.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Gameboy

« on: February 24, 2006, 10:32:02 AM »

that'd be awesome, 100gb hard drives are getting smaller everyday, only "bad" thing that would do, is that the rev would no longer be able to claim it launched with the largest amount of available games. they should make gb games avaible on virtual console, maybe they will if they use ur idea.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:iTunes on the Revolution? What do you think?

« on: February 24, 2006, 10:22:44 AM »

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Originally posted by: capamerica


Having MP3 support is good, but having iTunes/iPod support I think would be far better. The iPod's market share accounts for more then 78% of All MP3 players in the USA and over 42 million iPods have been sold Worldwide. Just think about how many of those people are gamers that could buy a Nintendo Revolution.

hmmm very true, i was being selfish. this kind of goes with the whole thing of catering to the largest market, and i'm not part of that. oh well they should do something though that includes music support, and itunes would be the best way to go since so many people have it.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Gameboy

« on: February 24, 2006, 10:19:20 AM »

I'm just playing devil's advocate but here goes:

The could come up with a way to address the split screen issue, they already have ways to use a single console on multiple t.v so there is no split screen, they two portable gc's would have to communicate well with each other, in single disc play, one would be transfering its controller inputs, (button presses joystick movements) while the other is transmitting the display and result of those actions to the other portable. complex but not undoable.
Battery life could be addressed simply, the original ds's battery life is 6hrs (?) and the lite is 10hrs (?) in 1-3 yrs i'm sure they'd be able to make an affordable long lasting battery to run GC discs. as for scratching normal cd's scratch, but people still insist on using them in their portable cd players, u'd just have to use care.

The biggest issue would definitely be it's size, the screen would need to be fairly large, larger than a ds screen, but as for the text being too small, that can be fixed with a simple zoom feature, which i've always thought portable video games should employ anyway. Even with features like that though the we're still talking a fairly big system, the other thing is the gc games (the ones already made) aren't too portable themselves in their original cases, and what's the point of a portable system with games that arent portable?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:iTunes on the Revolution? What do you think?

« on: February 24, 2006, 09:23:49 AM »

i don't see storing the songs on the rev as too good of an idea, as you brought the rev itself doesn't have much storage space, i say connect any mp3 player to it (i don't have an ipod and i kind of hate them because of how stupid itunes is) and hav the music play through the rev, also if you could use the rev like a browser for the mp3 player, rename songs, delete songs, maybe be able to download a song from a game unto ur mp3 player that'd be the sh!t. but no itunes, worst transfering program ever! why not just use drag and drop so much simpler, and you don't lose songs or get any you don't want when connecting to someone else computer.

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Nintendo Gaming / New Gameboy

« on: February 24, 2006, 09:14:14 AM »

A thought occured to me recently. It has been talked about before, that the new gameboy, could and probably should use gamecube discs as it's media. and I agree with that to the point that it would expand it's library, and be very inexpensive, as since the revolution is so small they can obviously make something with the power of gamecube miniscule. however with the size of the discs and decent sized screen we're talking about a sizeable system which would be one drawback. drawback two would be that one of the biggest selling factors of all gameboys i've always felt was it's unrestrained backwards compatibility, sure they could add the hardware to play the old games, but now we're talking even bigger and heavier to accomodate it, especially since the ds only plays gba games. Using gamecube discs has major advantages though, I already mentioned the low cost since GC's are mass produced already shrinking the down the same hardware probably wouldn't cost too much, and the discs also, no new media required, bigger library, great grapics, and the rev would be able to play all new games for it also. Realistically i don't see a new gameboy any time in the near future, the gba sp, gbmicro, and ds, are all selling really well, with no real competition. I don't think the psp counts for 2 reasons. 1. it's a multimedia player, where as the gb's and ds are pure gaming systems. 2. the level of sales aren't even close. And nintendo is probably still rolling around in their gameboy bed of success having pillows fights with pillows full of yen.

I was just wondering what others thought about these issues.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Why is the console so small?

« on: February 24, 2006, 08:53:47 AM »

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Then why did Nintendo show off the controller already?

so you'd have less to bit<h about

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It would benefit Nintendo significantly to show more than what they're showing. People say the hardware isn't up to snuff. Well they could prove us wrong with a couple screenshots. People say the controller is too limiting to work with traditional games. Well they could prove us wrong by demonstrating some titles. But they don't so it's very natural to assume it's because they can't. When someone accuses you of something negative and you have proof otherwise you show it. The only reason you wouldn't is because you can't or you're a total f*cking idiot. When accusations of insufficient hardware were flying around Nintendo could have been all "Oh yeah? Check this sh!t out!" and blown us away with some screens. But they didn't and the negative buzz about the Rev being underpowered has spread. Why would they not use that opportunity to put that negative rumour to rest? They're either stupid or they've got nothing.

they should the controller.

also what would be more fun? punching a guy like 10 times and making him pass out, or hitting him over the head with a steel beam and seeing brain matter fly? I choose the latter, and obviously so does nintendo. e3 = steel beam. brain matter = all doubts.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Why is the console so small?

« on: February 24, 2006, 07:16:24 AM »

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It's suspicious. It looks like they're hiding things from us. It is very easy to come to the conclusion that the Rev isn't that great but it takes blind faith in Nintendo to believe the opposite. We really have no reason to assume the Rev is anything even remotely good because our only source of that info is Nintendo themselves and they're obviously biased.

Nintendo isn't the only person saying how great it is. IGN reported on the love developers have for it with just the dev kits (i thought this was old news) and they're not hididng from us, they're hiding from the competition who has a long history of stealing nintendo's ideas. MS wants to make a portable to combat the ipod, and psp, what's the betting it features a touch screen?  

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General Chat / RE:Newbie Check-In ... right this way!

« on: February 24, 2006, 07:07:23 AM »

Hey i've been here for about a week, maybe more, so i just wanted to give my official what's up everybody! oh and i'm a guy (in case my name is misleading), although that could be obvious from my other posts.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:iTunes on the Revolution? What do you think?

« on: February 24, 2006, 06:57:29 AM »

if you scratch an mp3 player, the music doesn't skip, it'll just have a scratch on it. plus i've always found it annoying to constantly change cd's i had a cd player for a month and then started looking for an mp3 player, this was way back in the day, like 97 or 96 even, the first mp3 player i bought had 6gb of space, which was huge back then, but it looked like a piece of an asteroid fell into the atmosphere and didnt completely burn up.

anyway, for a lot of games especially my fav. rpg's the music is very important, for other games, namely sports games with ridiculously annoying commentary (Madden: You see getting an interception is a really good thing not only does it pump up your defense, it gets the offense excited as well. no sh!t) i listen to my mp3 i unplug the audio cable for the gc and plug in the ones that came with my mp3 player, the gc video still plays, but my own music without madden's annoying comments, it'd be easier to do this from inside the console if i could.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Current Games

« on: February 24, 2006, 06:46:24 AM »

i agree with u caliban, but if Twilight Princess really was delayed to add Rev controls to it, it might not be that simple. but hey who knows, i just really want BK2 and BK: DS although i'm not too worried about the latter since the DS is kicking a$$ left right and center. but thanks to everyone for answering my question.

Edit: BK: DS was changed into a smiley like so: BKS so i fixed it