Author Topic: Interesting ONM comments (HYPE++) (Read 17432 times)

Bill Aurion · « **on:** April 10, 2006, 06:07:17 PM »

Over on the Official Nintendo Magazine forums, the Associate Editor has made some very fap-worthy comments...

"There will of course be other stuff hitting before E3. . . there's simply too much good stuff to hold it all until E3."

"I think it's public knowledge that many third-parties are working on codename Revolution titles. Given magazine lead times it would therefore be logical for various press types to have seen these games already in order to get them in the relevant issue of the magazine. The next four weeks are going to be an exciting time for you guys. . . but more than that, there's plenty that won't make E3. . . stuff that will come to the surface between May and December. E3 is gonna be the bomb but it's only the tip of the iceberg."

"And one last thing I should point out on this topic:
When those screens were taken Nintendo internal teams were the only teams to have FINAL dev kits. I highly doubt that any games you see at E3 will be truly representative apart from first-party Nintendo titles such as Metroid Prime. It'll take a few months for the third-parties to give out truly representative screens."

Only the tip of the iceberg? I don't believe I've been so angry and excited at the same time ever!

Less than 29 days!

PaLaDiN · « **Reply #1 on:** April 10, 2006, 06:25:33 PM »

Translation: waiting till E3 won't cut it anymore. Yes, we really do bear THAT much spite for our fanbase.

MaryJane · « **Reply #2 on:** April 10, 2006, 06:31:00 PM »

Or maybe the glass is half full.

There is so much to tell us that e3 presentations don't allow for enough. Remember the space at e3 is gone so perhaps devs, and nintendo had to be selective about their floor room space and hence can't show us everything, not to mention, they only get a certain amount of face/speech time.

I just want this damn thing already.

Caliban · « **Reply #3 on:** April 10, 2006, 06:31:09 PM »

"I highly doubt that any games you see at E3 will be truly representative apart from first-party Nintendo titles such as Metroid Prime."

Metroid Prime will be shown? Cool! I guess then that it will be a north-american launch title for sure.

Arbok · « **Reply #4 on:** April 10, 2006, 06:34:06 PM »

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Originally posted by: Bill Aurion
When those screens were taken Nintendo internal teams were the only teams to have FINAL dev kits. I highly doubt that any games you see at E3 will be truly representative apart from first-party Nintendo titles such as Metroid Prime. It'll take a few months for the third-parties to give out truly representative screens.

So... does that mean that the specs that IGN revealed might be for one of these "un-final" development kits?

mantidor · « **Reply #5 on:** April 10, 2006, 06:34:06 PM »

what screens is he talking about? do they have access to screens already and cant publish them or something like that?

Arbok · « **Reply #6 on:** April 10, 2006, 06:36:00 PM »

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Originally posted by: mantidor
what screens is he talking about? do they have access to screens already and cant publish them or something like that?

I assume he was talking about screens that will be coming out very soon in magazines which have already been taken at this point, like the Red Steel ones which are out now from a May Magazine.

Spak-Spang · « **Reply #7 on:** April 10, 2006, 06:37:04 PM »

Wow. I don't know where the angry comes from, or the idea of Spite towards the fans.

It seems those quotes indicate that Next Month's Magizines will have more than just Red Steel. We are going to have glimpses of many 3rd party games...and these games are functioning on only partial development kits not final kits. That is pretty impressive.

I am beginning to wonder if Nintendo is going a last minute RAM upgrade. Obviously a CPU upgrade isn't possible...but Nintendo could affordably, and easily up the RAM available for the system...I also wouldn't be surprised to see that internal memory boosted up to something like 1 GIG. Simply yet important upgrades like that could make the system steller.

Anyway, I am getting excited about the Revolution more and more.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #8 on:** April 10, 2006, 06:52:42 PM »

I'm not really angry...I just want all info now...NOW!

So... does that mean that the specs that IGN revealed might be for one of these "un-final" development kits?

Yes...It's not a "might"...

I am beginning to wonder if Nintendo is going a last minute RAM upgrade.

Ehhh, I think the "RAM upgrade" will happen based on the fact that I think GC dev kits didn't have their final amount of extra RAM until the final dev kit was out...which is exactly what no devs besides Ninty have...

trip1eX · « **Reply #9 on:** April 10, 2006, 06:53:37 PM »

Man they aren't even at 100mb now afawk and you're thinking 1 gig? Ain't gonna happen. The good news is you don't need as much memory at standard definition and the memory they are using is much faster than the competitions and thus equal to greater amounts of your average ddr memory.

Dasmos · « **Reply #10 on:** April 10, 2006, 06:54:09 PM »

Awesome. Nintendo IceCube ftw.

Arbok · « **Reply #11 on:** April 10, 2006, 07:06:44 PM »

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Originally posted by: Bill Aurion
Yes...It's not a "might"...

Well I just didn't want to get too optimistic about it yet, but I do want to see what the final dev kit specs look like. The Red Steel graphics were fine for me, but I'm hoping for minimal loading time from the system in general, like Nintendo achieved with Smash Bros Melee on the cube.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #12 on:** April 10, 2006, 07:12:40 PM »

I only answered your question, that being that the specs that IGN showed are not from the final dev kit...The final dev kits will be out around June, even IGN has said so...

Artimus · « **Reply #13 on:** April 10, 2006, 07:13:00 PM »

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...come by way of either fficial Nintendo documentation or benchmark tests with working Revolution kits...

Never said they came from final kits.

IceCold · « **Reply #14 on:** April 10, 2006, 07:34:55 PM »

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Man they aren't even at 100mb now afawk and you're thinking 1 gig?

I think he's referring to the internal flash memory, not the RAM..

Anyway, after all the speculating, I'm glad that we'll constantly have something meaty to chew on..

zakkiel · « **Reply #15 on:** April 10, 2006, 07:43:46 PM »

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I'm not really angry...I just want all info now...NOW!

But think what the long months between E3 and release would feel like without new info.

jasonditz · « **Reply #16 on:** April 10, 2006, 08:04:45 PM »

"stuff that will come to the surface between May and December" is a very odd way to put it for a system that Iwata already said was launching stateside by Thanksgiving at the very latest. Anything coming in December would be after launch, which is a little late for things to "come to the surface"

I wonder if it's possible that they might launch in the US first to ensure a sufficient supply for Xmas. And then, and this is just a crazy thing off the top of my head, maybe there'll be a Spaceworld in December with a Japanese launch in Q1 of 2007?

MysticGohan · « **Reply #17 on:** April 10, 2006, 08:44:40 PM »

amirite? I knew those specs weren't final regardless Woot! Point for Me and BnM Woot!

BigJim · « **Reply #18 on:** April 10, 2006, 09:12:13 PM »

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Originally posted by: jasonditz
"stuff that will come to the surface between May and December" is a very odd way to put it for a system that Iwata already said was launching stateside by Thanksgiving at the very latest. Anything coming in December would be after launch, which is a little late for things to "come to the surface"

I wonder if it's possible that they might launch in the US first to ensure a sufficient supply for Xmas. And then, and this is just a crazy thing off the top of my head, maybe there'll be a Spaceworld in December with a Japanese launch in Q1 of 2007?

The ONM is a European magazine. A December launch for the UK isn't out of the question, if not expected. I didn't read into the comment any more than that.

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amirite? I knew those specs weren't final regardless Woot! Point for Me and BnM Woot!

But nobody said the specs weren't final.

Any changes wouldn't be drastic. At worst it's still ballpark.

BigJim · « **Reply #19 on:** April 10, 2006, 09:16:58 PM »

edit: double post

Mario · « **Reply #20 on:** April 10, 2006, 09:23:16 PM »

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Originally posted by: Dasmos
Awesome. Nintendo IceCube ftw.

Holy crap, we have a winner for best name EVER.

I'm a bit pissed we're not seeing everything at E3, but then again they said something similar with the DS how "it's potential and new things will be revealed as time goes by" and that turned out to be nothing. I just want to see a Nintendo game. I think this "before E3" stuff is gonna be about third party games. At E3 we're probably going to see Nintendos offerings. Perhaps it will be the new Miyamoto franchise that they'll wait til afterwards to show to avoid it being copied or make it more of a surprise or whatever. Then again, it would be smart if the first game Nintendo shows at E3 is a brand new franchise, to set the scene for Revolution as a system for new games and not "the same old Mario / Zelda / Metroid / Pokemon crap".

Also, I doubt every single detail is finalised yet and they could swap things around.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #21 on:** April 10, 2006, 09:31:16 PM »

Why would they show everything they are working on? "Well, this is still in the early stages of development, as you can see most objects have placeholder models and the physics aren't implemented yet but this box, that will later become the player, can move around a bit already."

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #22 on:** April 10, 2006, 11:36:55 PM »

Nintendo IceCube, Freezing the competiton in their tracks.

I like it, I think it could work

MysticGohan · « **Reply #23 on:** April 11, 2006, 12:02:36 AM »

Ice Cube could Endorse it

Caliban · « **Reply #24 on:** April 11, 2006, 04:40:26 AM »

I bet the next volume of Nintendo Power will have some Revolution revelation just as Game Informer did.

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