Topic: The Perrin Kaplan Interview

[ZombieGalford]

Wow, I'm amazed at how far off topic this thread is.  The things Perrin said are the same things that Nintendo execs said during the N64 generation.  
Revolution is Nintendo's last stand in the console business.  They still might own the handheld market, but if Revolution doesn't sell, Nintendo will become irreralavent.

PS-
Ian, how the hell do you keep on posting here?  This site is a shadow of it's former
self....

[Ian Sane]

"Ian, how the hell do you keep on posting here? This site is a shadow of it's former self...."

Uh hi.  What was your old username?

I still post here because I like the site and it's not like there's some other amazing Cube site to post on.  Plus since the Cube's final position in the console wars is pretty much set in stone I tolerate a lower level of interesting discussion.  I fully expect this site and these forums to be on par with their peak once serious Revolution news gets revealed and we can get back to speculating on future potential instead of discussing what went wrong.

[Hostile Creation]

I'm sure its downhill progression was all a result of your absence, Mr. Irreralavent.

[ZombieGalford]

Yes, I am very irrelavant.  

I use to post under the handle "Galford", but for some reason I'm not sure of, it was banned.  My sig kinda sums up the entire situation.

I guess I'm in a bad mood because of PK's interview. It's the same stuff, again and again.  I long since learned not to believe a single thing a Nintendo exec says.

I have a question, does Kerrin honestly think that the Nintendo DS is going to be a third pillar? Far as I can tell people are calling it the next Game Boy.  Which is not a bad thing, it's preselling like crack candy.

[Renny]

...whatever Nintendo execs 'think' doesn't matter. It's just a matter of what they have the public believe. If the DS really takes off though, will they let the old GBA hold it back? They'll still support it to satisfy that market, but it obviously won't be quite the "pillar" that it is now.

[PaLaDiN]

"I long since learned not to believe a single thing a Nintendo exec says."

Someone's overcompensating. But go ahead and be overly cynical if you want to.

"I have a question, does Kerrin honestly think that the Nintendo DS is going to be a third pillar? Far as I can tell people are calling it the next Game Boy."

Far as I can tell nobody's calling it that. I guess our personal experiences, no matter how irrelevant, cancel each other out then.

[nemo_83]

I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo is planing the successor to the GBA to actually be the GameCube.  In other words they would have one portable that plays GBA/DS games, one portable that plays GameCube games, and one console that does something the two portables can't do as well as play GameCube games.  PSP is pretty powerful, but the GameCube graphics would smoke it.  Nintendo most likely wants to keep its GameBoy market with the DS and take the GameCube and its lineup of minidisks portable againsts Sony's new little box of horrors.  I still don't know if Nintendo can do three systems at once.  Three pillars, not even including that thing they released in China, is a big task when you aren't even number one in the console market.  How can they move the GameCube to the portable market and keep it alive with software if noone else will develop for it right now?  Even with the prospect of their next console also being backwards compatible with the GameCube, the system is being abandoned by third parties.  

[Ian Sane]

"How can they move the GameCube to the portable market and keep it alive with software if noone else will develop for it right now?"

Realistically a portable Gamecube would be something different entirely to third parties.  I assume it would be released well after the Cube was phased out and Nintendo would support it with a brand new launch.  It would just have the advantage that the existing library would work on it so Nintendo could fill gaps by re-releasing games without even having to bother porting anything.  To third parties it would be a super cool handheld that just happens to have the exact same format and specs as the Gamecube.

I would love that because then we would get new Cube games years after the system had been phased out.

[nemo_83]

Nintendo will probably redesign the Cube as a portable next year.  

[Ian Sane]

"Nintendo will probably redesign the Cube as a portable next year."

And thus completely kill off the DS in a Sega-like move that would piss everyone off?  I doubt that.

[KDR_11k]

Next year? Unlikely. Look at the PSP, that thing is expensive and short lived, both things Nintendo would never put into a handheld. Wait a few more years, then technology might be able to do that with an acceptable battery life. I'd guess two years after the Rev gets released: SNES->GBA during the late life of the N64, N64->DS during the medium life of the Cube and GC->GCP during the early life of the Rev.

[nemo_83]