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Originally posted by: VGrevolution
Great post Smash, to add a bit to it, I personally believe taking the market in a different direction is what console gaming needs. Let's face it, if Xbox 360 is any indication, the console market is morphing into a cheaper alternative to updating your PC, you get the same games, but you don't need to worry about upgrading. That is not how gaming started, even in the N64 vs PS1 era, console and PC gaming provided different experiences. Now days that started to melt together, and consoles are becoming cheap multimedia computers. With revolution, Nintendo has a chance to get back what I feel was lost, and that is unique gaming experiences not found anywhere else.
More and more, I find this is the case. There are rumors that WoW will come out on the 360 because it makes for a cheap PC instead of a $2,000 alienware.
As for the GC2 argument, I don't even mean the failings of the GC. Even if Nintendo had done the GC era
flawlessly, I don't think it would have worked out for them because this was the generation where "mature" meant the absolute most to many insecure gamers.
This coming gen, Nintendo is blurring the lines so badly that it's not going to matter. If Bob Ross is releasing a painting game on the Rev, then something has
changed. His game is going to the PC and the DS and Rev. His game, for all intents and purposes, does NOT sound at all like a console title. If Nintendo has succeeded in pushing the boundaries of what counts as console-saleable material, then the whole "mature" argument becomes irrelevant because they're suddenly no longer vying for the money of insecure young men who are afraid to play Nintendo games because they have a stigma of being aimed at children.
When I say GC2, I mean more of trying to convince 3rd parties to support their console when they clearly don't want to, more of trying to make their games look as good as possible for the graphic whores, and more of being perceived more and more as a non-entity in the gaming world any longer.
With the Rev, Nintendo is making WAVES. They already have 3rd party support like the GC never saw in its heyday, even 3rd parties which abandoned the cube OR the N64 are coming back.
When I say that this is the move Nintendo NEEDED to make, I don't think it's an observation so much as a goddamn FACT. The Rev will probably break the kiddé stigma when it launches with a melee-combat game where you use the Revmote to chop people's heads off. After that, all they have to do is design the best damn games they can, making the system a popular alternative to what will appear as overpriced and archaic designs like the PS3 and 360, just like the DS has done to the PSP (and now the DS is a goddamn epidemic in Japan).
This is all they could have done: the market rejected them last gen, so they're forging a new market. Yamauchi, as much as I think he was too demanding for his own good, forged the console market with Nintendo and it looks as though they aim to do it again.
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Originally posted by: BiLdItUp1 May not be perfect, but shows that they aren't in a complete bubble, like in the beginning of the GC era. Who knows? Maybe the advertising'll get back on track too.
In one of Iwata's interviews, he mentioned that they're cooking up some REAL marketing for this gen, saying that they didn't have the right angles to play up the DS how they wanted but that now they have some excellent ideas for pushing the Rev.
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