Topic: REV's mainstream media coverage

[PaLaDiN]

"Where are the original games?

Where are the real games? Nintendogs? oh god."

They're on the DS.

I had a nap and woke up, and I isolated the thing that bugged me about the conference: they concentrated on the DS instead of the Rev.

When all's said and done, the conference wasn't so bad, really... it's just that we expected them to reveal the Revolution in all its glory. The media had no such expectations, so they're eating it up... whatever little of it there is to eat up anyway.

[jasonditz]

Since this is E3 2005 its perfectly reasonable for them to be concentrating on the DS instead of on a console that's not going to be here until after E3 2006...

You're not going to sell any Revolutions this year anyhow, so why spend too much time on it?  

[PaLaDiN]

That's the thing. The Rev is supposed to be out at the same time as the PS3, which is Spring 2006, which is most likely before E3 2006.

Either Nintendo isn't releasing at the same time as Sony or they missed the E3 they were supposed to pimp the Revolution for all it was worth at.

[Savior]

Well, judging from G4s coverage, Nintendo has alot of work to do oh and that Attack of the Show dude is an idiot

[King of Twitch]

G4 commentary they showed starting at 4pm PST was pretty pathetic. The guy in green said he couldn't see how the Rev. could compete graphically when it was so much smaller than the others....

...Now I don't expect quality journalism from them, but I did expect them not to be mentally incapacitated (failure on both counts). 1950s COMPUTERS WERE HUGE, THEREFORE THEY MUST BE WAY MORE POWERFUL THAN TODAY'S!

[Nosferat2]

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
"Why on god's green earth are they planning on releasing another FFCC?"

Because we all went out and bought it to try to encourage Square Enix support.  I will take full responsibility for contributing to the sales figures for that piece of crap.

I will abosolutley second that Ian. I have about 30 or so GC games. FFCC and Primal Rage(i think thats the name) are the only two games i have sold to Gamestop. FFCC, gameplay and fun wise, was utter garbage. It had very nice visuals at time and the music was very good. Overall though it was a POS.

[Robotor]

The G4 coverage made me so angry.  I just wanted to punch Sessler.  When they did a comparision at the end of the Next Gen systems and Revolution wasn't even mentioned.  And I don't see how they walked out of Nintendo's conference unexcited.  They also dissed on Nintendogs, and Nintendo's "image."  

Also, apperantly Nintendo now caters to casual gamers, and Sony and Microsoft cater to the hardcore.  Isn't that a complete role reversal?  When did this happen, shouldn't you be more "hardcore" for owning a 'cube?

BAH! the media makes me angry, why should I care as long as I'm having fun?

[Rancid Planet]

I enjoyed FF CC (ducks flying brick) I thought it was (ducks again) fun when you had at least three (Whoah that one was close) players.

And of course the G4 peeps were the least impressed with the Rev. The Rev showed the least. I mean the other two systems had video reels of game footage. It doesn't matter if any of it was real in game or not. They HAD something relating to next gen software and Nintendo did not. It's totally understandable.

Overall thought, besides the Rev news, it was quite the boring press conference. I don't want to think too much about Zelda because I'll spoil it for myself. I don't give a crap about the new micro GBA and I don't care about Nintendogs either.

But hey, there was NO WAY Nintendo were going to steal the show like they did last year. The surprise element was with them. We knew WAY too much this time about what they would show.  

[Savior]

they walked out of Nintendo's conference unexcited

Did you not read the comments here???  

[jasonditz]

The people G4 means by "Hardcore Gamers" are wholly distinct from the people that actually play a lot of video games.

"Hardcore Gamers" sit around in clothing from Hot Topic playing marginal M-rated FPSes for a few minutes a day while wearing sunglasses and playing loud annoying techno-metal music.

They also convince their mommies to shell out $300+ for a PSP bundle and then use it primarily as a fashion accessory.

[xproductionz]

anyone got some streaming video or something i could download besides torret??... dont really want to install anything cause this aint my computer

[Obiyo]

I tend to not listen to anything g4 says, as they seem to be biased against Nintendo to begin with.

[Ian Sane]

Gamespy has an article about the conferences with three editors giving their opinion of the three conferences.  I was assuming that Nintendo would get ripped to shreds... but they didn't.  The general opinion was that MS was the big loser for failing to impress.  Sony is the winner just by showing so much info and completely blowing away MS.  They don't really have anything negative to say about Nintendo.  They're excited about what they do know about the Rev (particularly the download stuff), they like Zelda, and they like the DS stuff.

So maybe the conference does seem worse to us because we expected more.  After all we're only mad about what was not shown.  We have no problem with what was.  MS is getting flack for what they did show, because it wasn't very impressive.

Still being quiet will only be acceptable for so long.  No one's saying anything bad about the Rev but no one's saying anything GOOD either.  There's just no opinion.  So Nintendo still needs to release more info within a small period time before they just plain lose out on the hype.

[vudu]

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
Gamespy has an article about the conferences with three editors giving their opinion of the three conferences.  I was assuming that Nintendo would get ripped to shreds... but they didn't.  They're excited about what they do know about the Rev (particularly the download stuff), they like Zelda, and they like the DS stuff.

Only problem is, Nintendo has partnered with GameSpy to bring the DS online.  So they're not exactly an independent third party anymore, know what I'm saying?

[Nephilim]

iv watched the G4 vids on Ign
im glad we dont have these moron's on tv in australia

"FPSes for a few minutes a day while wearing sunglasses and playing loud annoying techno-metal music"
I play dutch harcore techno while I play halo pc online, your comments make me smile....

[Shift Key]

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This kills me as a Nintendo fan because I have lost count of the years it has been since Mario 64, since the last Mario game. Unless you count the last Mario game to be Mario World. It has been a long time and since then we have gotten nothing but filler on the Cube from them.

Filler content? Oh snap, I must throw out all my Metroid Prime games, along with Wind Waker, Wario Ware, Mario Kart, Paper Mario and other games I can't remember, because you're totally right! Sheesh, think about what you're saying here. You can only re-invent the wheel so many times when it comes to platformers before you get something generic like Crash Bandicoot or Lara Croft, so take some heart in the fact there is a DS Mario Bros game out, and the looming Mario 128. Just occupy yourself until then.

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When all's said and done, the conference wasn't so bad, really... it's just that we expected them to reveal the Revolution in all its glory. The media had no such expectations, so they're eating it up... whatever little of it there is to eat up anyway.

I heard a source say that the Rev wasn't going to be show at E3 at all (this was a few weeks out too) so I'm glad to see that they're progressing nicely, not abandoning the Cube already, and continuing to tempt me to throw down some cash on a DS. On top of that their next system is a really sexy console (online, WiFi, backwards-compatible, DVD-compatible, etc) so its really not as bad as everyone thinks. Its just those who were expecting another "Mature Zelda"-like announcement have come out disappointed.

I think Nintendo's going to reveal more details as the Xbox360 launch approaches, to detract the attention from their Dreamcast-style release plans, and then duke it out with Sony early next year. Well, I hope they do.

[IceCold]

I didn't really know where to put this, but anyway..

I'm sure some of you saw this on Digg - but apparently, the Queen is hooked on the Wii

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The gadget-loving Queen has become HOOKED on Prince William's new Nintendo Wii games console.

William's girlfriend Kate Middleton bought him the £200 gift for Christmas - but he now has to share it with his grandma.

A Palace source told The People: "When she saw William playing a game after lunch at Sandringham she thought the Nintendo looked tremendous fun and begged to join in.

"She played a simple ten-pin bowling game and by all accounts was a natural.