I am in a rut with Nintendo and I tend to see Ian’s points more easily than a lot of people here, yet some how nobody seams to care what I think, whatever here it is from my point of view and this is from a 23 year old who ahs been a loyal Nintendo fan since NES days (nevermind my Sega love either I have owned EVREY SINGLE Nintendo console ever made so I qualify as loyal, and I bought EVERYONE brand spankin new form a store so I have given Ninty a fair share of money to boot.)
Here is what I see as good points for the revolution being so small, I will also counter with what I see as wrong with it after but hear me out.
Nintendo’s primary goal right now, and rightfully so, is to reclaim their homeland. They have achieved exceptional success in the handheld market, BUT thats nothing new. It was to be expected.
Nintendo knows that a small quiet system with a brand new way to play video games is a great way to appeal to Japanese gamers. Now thats fine and all and they should focus everything they have on winning Japan considering they are losing their territory to a company that makes TVs and tape decks, and has no real heart for video games.
There’s a couple other things I see with the rev that really will attract a lot of Japanese gamers and thats 1st the virtual console, which will bring back all the great Nintendo games from he past that have gotten ignored or forgotten in recent years.
Also its worth noting that the original Famicom was a lot smaller than the US NES, which was originally a bulky flashy looking pc look alike.
Now its possible that Nintendo has chosen to focus on the Japanese market the most because its their home market, and at the same time its still very possible that, like Famicom to NES , they may redesign the Revolution to more appeal to US gamers. Now it would be more expensive to do so and at the same time it would cause problems with a world wide launch, but its possible non the less.
The problem with making the system so small is it makes it look underpowered to some people, but also remember that technology has always gotten smaller as it progresses and people are so used to smaller devices being more advanced than the larger ones its possible that the public perception will be the rev is the more powerful technologically, maybe not visually per say but it will be the most advanced out of the three considering the VC and Revmote. When a sale person describes the unique features of the rev people will know its from the "future" and will gladly take a chance on this brand new technology as long as it promises to provide new experiences and, with backwards compatibility and VC, the are providing familiarity.
If you take ALL of these together it seams to me that its possible that Nintendo is positioning themselves as
the most technological, because people will ask, what makes PS3 better than Revolution? a sale person will have to say well Rev can play GC games and uses this exciting new technology that is the wave of the future, and it also plays DVDs and uses a DVD style remote, and the sales person describes what the emote can do, WOW, the will say (and I GARUNTEE average joe consumer WILL SAY WOW or some other expression of being impressed)
Then when pitching the PS3 all they an say is it will display games in High Definition, lay Blu Ray disks (which wont even be available in mass market when ps3 arrives) and it will have better graphics. Then people will respond, well will it work on a normal tv or do I have to have HD, they will assume that it wont look as good or wont work at all and right there people will pass it up.
You know when Gc came out every time I heard it pitched I wanted to cringe, there was just no way to make it sound better than the competition, I means seriously it didn’t play dvds, it wasn’t online, it was childish looking, and it just was hard to sell.
BUT every time I pitch the system to someone, whether it be the controller or the Virtual Console, I always get a positive response and most people seam to think it sounds like the next big technology.
I haven’t heard anyone bash it yet like they used to with GC, and the k!ddey argument wont hold p when it launches with fighting games and 1st person shooters that blow Halo away.
Every day I analyze it differently, and GC and N64 taught me to be overly critical, and yet I can’t seem to find any argument that would prevent someone from buying a Revolution, and I heard all the excuses back when ps2 came out and MOST people just were sold on its DVD player or it would play Ps1 games. So anyway you slice it I think the Revolution will be a phenomenal success, I just have a gut feeling(which my instincts all along were against Gc despite how much loved it I just always new it would fail)
Other than that I can’t say why else I expect, genuinely expect the rev to be the number one system for the next few years, but I will wager on it I am that confident in their strategy and everything I have heard so far.
Edited spelling just cuz
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