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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Tales DS New Screens

« on: February 24, 2006, 06:35:57 AM »

this game looks friggin amazing, i thought at first why is this in the ds thread it looks like a bad gc game. then my eyes opened a little more. (thursday is the begining of my weekend which means late night party) but still it looks great and we need a damn good rpg on the ds... what else is there? (i mean already, there are some solid looking not yet released ones). and give me random battles any day i love them. rpg's are my fav. :rool::


oh u got a link to this video?

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

« on: February 24, 2006, 06:27:18 AM »

they should just put mp3 playback on the rev plain and simple. then do what so many other companies are doing, the rev will work with any mp3 player, but market it as being ipod compatible.  

[extremely small amount of info]

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

« on: February 24, 2006, 06:12:07 AM »

Here is what all the doubters need to realize almost everything nintendo is doing is to attract new gamers or non-gamers if you want, while still trying to satisfy the nintendo faithful (us). that's pretty tough to do. personally i think with the extremely small amount of info that we have now, they did a pretty good job. The 64 and GC didn't sell well they had to come up with ways to ensure a bigger fanbase, because as i'm sure everyone knows, even if nintendo makes a profit on each rev it sells, the real money comes from game sales, even if revs make a profit from launch it would be largely insignificant, especially when compared to the importance of game sales. a cheaper price attracts a lot of people.

i've never met any of these people who think that because something is cheaper it must not be good. everyone i know looks at something inexpensive and sees a bargain. Hypthetical situation: "Hey check out the new Nintendo system" "Oh is that the one with that weird controller" "Yeah, Hey WOW check it out man it's only $200" "Awesome I can afford that no problem, it'll be worth it just to try that controller" Then after buying the system, who wouldn't fall in love with the new controller (everyone who's played it thus far has)

I believe in Nintendo, yes they've made some bad decisions in the past, but i think their current situation looks good, offer something completely new, never before done, for a very good price. maybe some people will never be satisfied, i garuntee if the rev was as big as a 360 and had HD the same people who are hating in this thread would be complaining about how there's not going to be any 3rd party support for the rev because they think the controller is scaring them away. complainers always complain. do i think the rev is perfect? nope. am i going to buy one? of course. is anything going to deter me from getting one? nothing i can see. is anyone here not going to get one because it's too small or doesn't off HD? idk but those are both pretty stupid reasons not to buy it. game quality and innovation, two things you can always count on nintendo to deliver and they are most important things in the video game industry. (at least to me)  

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TalkBack / RE:Non-White DS Lites Delayed in Japan

« on: February 24, 2006, 05:38:10 AM »

my heart has been broken, my spirit has been denied, i wish i knew this before i sold my old ds.  

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

« on: February 23, 2006, 12:53:03 PM »

I don't know how many games she's going to buy but i'm gonna get her tetris (when it comes out)and nintendogs and she wants to buy crap i forgot the name of the game... is bubble bop bubble bobble, something of that nature, when i told her it was on that system cuz it's one of her favorites. that's 3 games 2 by nintendo. score 3 points for the non-gamer (unflawed) approach.

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

« on: February 23, 2006, 12:36:39 PM »

Nintendo is out to make money. Just like every other company in the world. (even non-profit companies make money they just don't tell you). About 4 months ago at a friends house partying and playing ps2 we tried to get one my friends gf's to play a game with us(4 months is way too long ago to remember the specifics of a party such as that one) she picks up the controller with one hand looks at it and goes, it has too many buttons, i won't know what to do, and then puts it back down. so i said you've never played video games? her response was not since SNES even that had too many buttons. she is the kind of gamer Nintendo is looking for, i just sold my mom on the DS (literally 2 hours ago, I got her to buy mine cuz my lite will be here soon :-D )with the mini-games in Super Mario 64, she doesn't like (as she calls them) running games, the basic simplicity of puzzle games is what she likes, and the revolution is set to expand on the concept of simple games aka nintendo is going to make money, just like they should,  and if your console is bigger than your head it doesn't really suggest simplicity, but discreet, and compact,and people say.  hmm this looks easy to use. and besides we still got the shell controller and nunchuck for the "hard-core games and gamers"

and of course nintendo is going to push the controller hard at first, look at how hard the 360 is pushing it's hi-def graphics, every friggin 10 secs it's hi-def this hi-def that. why wouldn't you push the best thing about your system?

oh and nemo, you should read what the developers who have the kit are saying about them. at first they're a little disappointed in the fact that the rev's graphical capabilities are less than that of xbox360 (god that's an annoying name to type) but once they pick up the controller, all their disappointment floats away. sounds good to me.

Edit: spelling and response to nemo instead of double posting.

[Smash_Brother]

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

« on: February 23, 2006, 10:36:59 AM »

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For this reason, Nintendo's games might actually wind up looking better because their games won't be forced to run in HD, leaving a lot more processing power to handle polygons in better looking models.

i'd like to agree with this except it's hard to swallow, i don't like ms and sony's tactics but they aren't stupid either. especially with the ps3, it's powerful, that cell processor is powerful, it can do a lot. i agree that running in HD put more strain and ties up computing graphics, but i'm sure they already thought of that. the ps3 will have beautiful graphics, and it will be huge and heavy. the rev is small and light, with very sufficient graphical power, tons of innovation, and the ability to save me gallons of money by letting me dl classic games instead of rebuying older systems which i almost did when this classic gaming store opened not too far from my house... i might still get a genisis though. anyway. you could be right SB but i just wouldn't be surprised if you werent

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:DSLite - The New Thread (Japanese Launch in 3 Weeks!)

« on: February 23, 2006, 10:24:18 AM »

u guys order from lik-sang and hoping for saturday delivery?? I hope ur right cuz that'd be awesome, perfect for my sunday road trip. especially with age of empires.  

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

« on: February 23, 2006, 08:17:28 AM »

hey man if you don't like it don't buy. this topic is called why is the console so small. it's small so it gives a shock factor, saves space, looks like new technology cuz all new technology is small, and it can accomplish what it needs to without being the size of a new born elephant or an xbox360 which is roughly the same size.  

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

« on: February 23, 2006, 07:45:08 AM »

you make a good point ian. about nintendo not wanting to lose money and making trade offs. they can't afford to lose money. as you well know their last two systems didn't sell all that well, and they don't have multi-billion dollar companies behind them that have sales in other divisions that can pooled to their video game division. they are only video games, so while they take a risk by giving us a brand new controller they can't take the risk of losing hundreds of dollars on each system. what if the rev flops? and it cost them $900 to make each one, they have to take their past history into account and realize hey, this system is great but we have obstacles to overcome, we can't risk losing a ton of money if people don't accept our system.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Anyone wanna pool their money and get a Rev dev kit?

« on: February 23, 2006, 06:51:01 AM »

Yeah i'd have to agree with pale on that. I don't think a dev kit is something they'd sell to just anyway, they did say they'd like to see games come from new sources, but i bet they want you to be a legitamate company, and not someone who's going to use their kit to produce mock revs in china. (nothing against the chinese, but it is bootleg capital).

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Current Games

« on: February 23, 2006, 06:47:14 AM »

I must've missed that abt BK2. You have a link to it? I am hoping ur right pale.  

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Nintendo Gaming / Current Games

« on: February 23, 2006, 06:01:41 AM »

I'm not sure if this should go in this section or the rev section but as it has to do with GC games I guess here's fine.

There are a few games that are being released for the GC in Japan that should be brought over to the U.S. My concern is that with the translating and production time it usually takes a game to be brought over is that the GC will be dead already. What's gonna happen to those games? The rev can play them so do they still release them? But they'd have to release them as GC games cuz the conversion to a rev game would require new programming making the game take longer to release, and would be slightly unfair to japanese gamers. My two main concerns are the Naruto RPG and Baten Kaitos 2. Baten Kaitos 2 is very likely going to be released or they will try their best to release before the rev launch as it was fairly popular over here, but Naruto was time released with the series in Japan, and the same would have to be true for the states. Both these games are heavy on speaking (i don't think that's the word i'm looking for) whether it be voice acting or text, but it adds time to the development, especially since a lot of things can't be directly translated and need to be "americanized". This is even more of a concern for europe, if the Rev is going to be released simultaneously world-wide. Anyone hear anything about Nintendo's plan for this, or feel free to speculate, cuz i have no idea.  

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General Gaming / RE:100 Million PS3's in 2006

« on: February 23, 2006, 05:46:02 AM »

yes to both =).

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

« on: February 23, 2006, 05:30:32 AM »

Ok to expound a little on my previous points: anytime a company builds a product they build it with specifications they think people want, sometimes they make trade-offs (with the rev, innovation over graphics) but the whole point is to build what people want. There's one problem with that "you can't please everyone all the time" someone made that quote famous but i can't remember, but anyway it's one of those things that will always hold true, so what's a company to do? make a product to please the greatest amount of people they believe possible. sony and ms try to do this by giving us really powerful desktop pc's to attach to our t.v's. (ps3 comes with Linux right?) nintendo try's to do this by innovating a way to get bored gamers excited again, and retired gamers playing again. it's going to be awhile until we know who took the best approach, but both will work to one degree or another.

Oh and there a lot of things people are saying nintendo did things only to satisfy the japanese market place... why the hell would they do that? quiet, small, cheap, how is that only japanese? how much smaller and cheaper hav ipod's or mp3 players in general become? i just ordered one from archos that takes pictures, movies, plays movies, displays pictures, can download from other devices other than a computer, (god i hope it can do it from the rev), play and record music, and it cost me just as much as the one i just broke did which i bought 3 years ago. but is like 2times better, and about the same size. advances in technology always make things smaller, look at ur computers, flat screen t.v's, even cars for goodness sake. it's not a japanese thing, it's world wide economics. plus i think it's pretty damn cool that i can carry it in say the pocket of my cargo pants (tested 3 dvd's succesfully) and bring it to a friends house who would never dream of picking up their 100lb 360. but maybe i'm the only one who thinks so.  

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General Gaming / RE:100 Million PS3's in 2006

« on: February 22, 2006, 03:17:49 PM »

if i remember correctly and i believe i do (but i could be wrong) they only recently started making money on ps2 like less than a yr ago, maybe even less than 6 months. 2005 is kind of hazy for me.  

[vudu]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:DSLite - The New Thread (Japanese Launch in 3 Weeks!)

« on: February 22, 2006, 02:57:24 PM »

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Originally posted by: vudu

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Originally posted by: wandering
This "DSL" abbreviation is going to get really confusing.

I was playing my DSL with my DSL as I was enjoying some DSL!

I really hope that last DSL isn't referring to BlackNMild's abbreviation for DSL.  

I don't get it. =).

There's a pretty good chance that the U.S will get different colors of the DSL anyway, not more necessarily, but different, don't be surprised to see red and black if they do change the colors for the states.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:when is the DS lite coming out in the U.S.?

« on: February 22, 2006, 02:52:34 PM »

Come to a gamestop in NJ on march 4 i expect my imported DSL will be here and i'll be trading in my old model. Which is another reason I want to import, once they announce a date, the price for trading in the old model will go down.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:When will it blow over?

« on: February 22, 2006, 02:50:07 PM »

I agree with shecky in that they probably want to get the software as close to perfect as possible, if they release a half-a$$ voice recog game, and it sells as well as it was developed, few people will want to try it, and then we'll never get any good ones. They release something that makes amazing use of the mic (MP:H) then other devs are like what can we do to one up them, and make good voice recog games. Of course once it becomes popular expect half-a$$ ones to surface.

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

« on: February 22, 2006, 02:44:20 PM »

Maybe Nintendo is like one of those people who always say, hey this is popular so I'm not going to do it. I hate those kind of people and I don't think Nintendo is like that. Instead I believe to be individualists, which isn't the same thing exactly, they do what they think is right, popular or not. HD, we don't need it, but everyone else has it, doesn't mean we need it everyone else is losing lots and lots of money, we make tons. What kind of controller, let's improve on current models, no let's revolutionize a slowly shrinking industry in the hopes that we'll bring in new people, it could blow up in our faces and we might lose Ian Sane as a customer, risk is part of business and Ian is only one person. (i don't mean to single anyone out, just using ur name as a representative of your complaints which i'm sure others share, but it's like how only a miniscule part of the few here who feel that way, a miniscule percentage of nintendo's target demographic would also be turned off by their decision making)

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My biggest beef with no HD is that it's Nintendo's typical "we'll tell you what options you don't need" routine and I was hoping that maybe they would learn that stupid attitude is exactly why they're in last place.

I see no HD as saying you don't need it so we won't give it. I think that's much better, than you don't need it but we're shoving it down your throat anyway, and taking an extra $30 out of your pocket! (insert evil laugh) Oh and they're 2nd in the world for sales, 1st in profit.

I love everything about the Rev which is why e3 kind of scares me. How much more painful will it be to wait for this amazing machine when I know more about it?  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:IF Revolution still is a code name...

« on: February 22, 2006, 10:16:12 AM »

I don't think they're gonna change. Nintendo DS was a "just" a code name until like what a month before it was released. It'd be ridiculous to change it now, it could even cause confusion amongst those who don't regularly attend sites like this. The Nintendo Interaction? what's that are they making a fourth system? besides Revolution is a cool name.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:DSLite - The New Thread (Japanese Launch in 3 Weeks!)

« on: February 22, 2006, 09:47:37 AM »

Video is funny, cal funny to, although i was refering to the book, but regardless funny stuff.

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

« on: February 22, 2006, 09:43:45 AM »

huh? nintendo is good at swimming?
here's a line from nintendo: "I'm rich biatch"
anyway, you say nintendo loses market share and so on, could that be why they took such a huge risk with the revolution instead of making the same old same old console? that cant be the reason can it? maybe they took the risk to skimp out on graphics, good trade, this could totally go wrong so lets make it graphically inferior also. or maybe they thought, let's reinvent but keep it simple so we don't lose anybody, and attract newbies.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:DSLite - The New Thread (Japanese Launch in 3 Weeks!)

« on: February 22, 2006, 08:38:22 AM »

I agree Caliban (I love The Collector, unless you took it from shakespeare). which is why i'm getting navy blue, it's close enough for me.  

[KDR_11k]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Revolution Package Mocks

« on: February 22, 2006, 08:32:53 AM »

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Mary Jane: The Rev is the size of three DVD cases stacked, then you add the stand, power cord and brick, controller, AV cables and controller accessories. That box won't be small.

I just mean it won't be so big you can't carry it. It'll probably be the smallest console box ever, the stand in small, the brick might be replaced by the stand, and controller is small, but you're right it's not going to like fit in the palm of your hand or anything.