The launch determines a system's future, I won't get into that noise, but here's how I think they could launch a a successful system:
A release date that is heavily advertised and driven home with a competitive ($200) price and a pack in game of some kind or at least a demo disc; and screw videos; playable demos please.
Mario&Luigi, Zelda, Metroid, ect. are all shoe ins so I don't need to go into those.
A Gran Turismo killer; If Nintendo didn't make this 100% in house I would get Sega to work on it partially or entirely. It should have street and track racing, motorcycles and cars, drag ralley and endurance racing, online play with pink slip and in-game credits betting, extremely customisable cars (both cosmetic and performance) with custom logo/paint, whatever generators. Covers all bases; from NFS:U2 to GT
A game featuring either a Boo or a Bobomb as the hero. Don't ask; just a fetish I have had for a while.
Duck Hunt with a gun similar to old Nintendo's, possibly with a "laser site" option? Something like the screen showing a red dot wherever you aim, or maybe even an actual laser pointer on the barrel so you can see where you're aiming? Make Duck Hunt on the same disc as Mairo ala the old school cartridge if the game can't be fleshed out enough (these days it'd be hard to sell that old game for $50...maybe like $40 for it and the gun??) and at least one other game in demo form at launch (this game should come with the gun) that will use it
Realistic sports like Pennate Chase baseball; good solid titles, online play, ect. something so sports gamers won't look at revolution and go "Man...I just can't buy this, I have to have my fix"
The rest is how I think Nintendo should interact with third parties
The one word summary is: Bribery.
Don't bother to argue with weather or not this is "ok"; I don't care and won't listen, but what I know is Nintendo has the largest coffers of cash dedicated to games and makes the most money off of actual hardware sales. They also have the highest licensing fees; this round, they should have the lowest. Revolution is already said to be easier to develop for by far due to its programming being similar to the already easy GC. Cycles and costs will be lower than the other machines; this makes the Revolution financially attractive. Now onto the actual bribery. Nintendo should get these games made even if it has to pay through the nose; profit in the long run will be worth it, I promise. By outwright paying for the cost (percentage, lump sum, whole bill; whatever works) of development, waving the licensing fee, ect. they can make profits from a few key games that I can think of off the top of my head (feel free to throw ideas out as I will probably ad to this list later as well)
Squaresoft:
Mario RPG 2 - I love the Paper Marios but to me nothing can top the magic of Mario RPG; bring back Geno and Mallow and Bowswer as a good guy, and peach as a playable character. It'd be awesome!
Final Fantasy Series back on GC, backlog of PSone and PS2 titles released
This would probably fall uner outwright bribery because Sony is probably will to pay a ton for the series to stay on thier console too, but if it came back to Nintendo so would a ton of other things
Sega:
2k sports series -- if Nintendo doesn't want to do it then let Sega; they're good and could beat out the EA offerings if they had the chance
I'm already tapped but I will have more some other time--the launch has got to be spectacular and that's all there is to it. Nintendo has to make some huge efforts to woo third parties, such as giving them thier first few games free of licensing fees? Something along with a statement saying literally "Sorry for being such jerks in the past, we really want to make it up and make a strong system and we know we can't do it without you. We're doing this (insert something like no licensing fees for a year or something spectacular like that here) and hope to hear your ideas for making working with Nintendo better" or something along those lines to each development team in every region, sincerely too none of that "Nintendo is the top company bla bla bla" party line nonsense. Also just paying for games to be Revolution exclusives in general (for instance if I was in charge, Killer 7 and the Resident Evils would've stayed exclusive) oh yes and also funding the television commercials for everybody's games...oK now I am done.
What are your guys's ideas? Inputs, suggestions, critiques?
Topic: A Revolutionary Launch (Read 4016 times)
