Topic: Killer Apps

[nickmitch]

I agree with you on that Ian, but then again each system had a large, popular franchise at the time.

However the GTA series didn't even get reconized until GTA3 and wasn't really that popular until Vice City.

[Nile Boogie]

The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess is the Revolutions Killer App(details later).


And you know if it is not TP it's Smash Bros. "My Fox can kick your Kirbys' ass any day of the week. Log on and prove it."

[ShyGuy]

Sonic! of course, forgot about him. He was the major reason people purchased the Genesis early on. Later on, I remember people bought a Genesis because its version of Mortal Kombat had red blood and you could unlock the fatality moves.

So what defines a killer app? according to wikipedia:

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A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app) is a computer program that is so useful that people will buy a particular computer hardware, gaming console, and/or an operating system simply to run that program.

For example. Joe six-pack bought his Xbox just so he could play Halo.

[Nosferat2]

Yes your right Mojo, i think it doubled Metriods sales, but i think that game was bought by fans of Nintendo. I just thought that Metroid may have appealed to non Nintendo fans more than SSBM. Thats why i said Metroid was the Killer app. Nintendo fans bought SSB regardless, but would non Nintendo fans pick up a GC for SSB like Halo did for Xbox? Im not sure but dought it. Would Metroid? Im not sure, but i tend to think so. Im a fan of Nintendo so that may have been the final reason why i went for the GC over the Xbox.  

[nickmitch]

2 of my friends actually bought a gamecube for Donkey Konga and DK:JB.

And I could have sworn that TP was comming out on GC.

[KDR_11k]

I think he considers backwards compatibility a way to make GC software count for the Rev. Sorry but no. When the people hear about next gen stuff they're in a blind rage towards next gen and would purchase ET if it had next gen graphics. TP has no next gen graphics and people would ignore it for that reason. The hardcore would buy it but the hardcore already have a spare GC kicking around somewhere and probably preordered a Rev after the Virtual Console announcement, if they're the kind of people that preorder.

[kirby_killer_dedede]

Well, for now at least, we've lost one killer-app - Resident Evil 5.

[ShyGuy]

Resident Evil 4 was good, one of the best games on the Gamecube, but that doesn't mean it was a Killer App.  I'm fairly confident the Revolution will get it anyhow. In fact, I expect to see more multi platform titles all around as producers try to recoup their much higher development costs.

[Nile Boogie]

When I said Twilight Princess I meant they should encode some Revolution-only content into the game. Remember when the Zelda Oracle games came out on Game Boy Color. If you put them in a Game Boy Advance you got access to new areas. Now think of the same principle and multiply it to where anyone who brought TP (2 million in the states alone) would get something so great, I don't know maybe a 6-hour side quest based on the new Rev concept or something to that effect. You know something so "yes sir" that everybody has to have it. Hell it doesn't have to be anything based on Zelda, just really dope.

[Nosferat2]

Regarding Re5 as a killer app, the irony will be that the failure of RE5 on the REV is going to "kill" the Rev. people will see it as a continuing of the tiku tiku tiku!  image of nintendo and thus negatitively impact it as on the GC.

[nickmitch]

Nosferat2: Are you saying that if RE5 doesn't come out on the rev then the rev will fail? Or are you saying that RE5=Tiku?

Anyhoo. I figre that most people who don't een own a cube have at least played SSBM and I can't imagine anyone not liking it. With the game going online it could really help the system and if this "Metroid Prime3 visor" stuff is true then that could also help.

[IceCold]

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Originally posted by: TVman
Nosferat2: Are you saying that if RE5 doesn't come out on the rev then the rev will fail? Or are you saying that RE5=Tiku?

I believe he is saying that not having RE5 will make Nintendo's image of being kiddy even worse, a notion that I don't necessarily agree with, because Nintendo can still do plenty to improve that "image"

[Nosferat2]

Icecold hit was i was gettin at.  Yes Nintendo can do plenty to change that image but think about the general public. RE4 was on GC exclusively(for a year) and now RE5 is on every system but nintendo. If you dont think this wont hurt Nintendo's cause in losing the tiku tiku tiku!  image i think your not thinking straight. Just look at whats happening already, Confirmed for the REV: Smash brothers and FFCC! and no RE5! What will the typical Geystation of xLax owner think already? All im saying is that its not a good start. Hopefully they do something about it. Right now im very pleased with Nintendo and the GC:
RE4
Killer 7
Geist
Spartan Total warrior
Zelda
all these games are going to keep me busy for a long while, so im not concerned with the REV yet. But If Ninty can drop 5 titles like these a year then im all over the REV....But if not, then ill stick with teh GC cause i still have MGS:TT, RE0, RE3, Timesplitters 2, Both Prince of Persias, Call of Duty, Tales of symphonia, Ocania of Time, PN:03, MK Deception, Lord of the Ring the 3rd age, True Crime, Turok, Hitman 2, and Dead to Rights, AnD starwars rougue squadron 2 along with the 5 Games i mentioned earlier to start or finish playing. So the REV can come in 2007 and i still wont be able to finsh all these damn games....

[Dasmos]

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Originally posted by: Nosferat2

Just look at whats happening already, Confirmed for the REV: Smash brothers and FFCC! and no RE5! What will the typical Geystation of xLax owner think already?

The the typical owner won't even probably know it has been announced! Most of my friends, who either own only a PS2 or a PS2 and gamecube, didn't even know RE4 was coming out for PS2.....and now they are supposed to think less of Nintendo because it has not YET been announced for REV?

I don't think 'typical' was the word you were thinking of...

[cubist]

I know this may sound strange in the topic of killer apps...but I've owned the GAMECUBE since day one and there has only been one game that has probably sold itself to 8 of my friends.  Yes 8 Gamecubes sold because of it...and that's BEACH SPIKERS.  Don't ask me why, but that game is addicting when there's a party at the house.  Say what you want, but I'm dead serious on this one.  Easy to control...yet there's a good enough amount of strategy.  I own all of the Gamecube Triple AAA titles and this simple one sells GCNs...go figure that one!