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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Something important to know about the Revolution

« on: January 25, 2005, 12:03:45 PM »

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Originally posted by: couchmonkey
At the end of the day, I think Nintendo should choose the format that is best for it's true purpose: games.  .

Yes yes YES! And, given it's flexable storage capacity and inherant rewritability, blu-ray has exponentially more potential in terms of games than does HD-DVD. I really wish I could make the following sound more informed and exciting in the PGC front-page fashion that we all know and love, but I'm no writer. Let me just say that having a rewritable media would allow Nintendo to ressurect and refurbish all of the brilliant and, dare I say, "revolutionary" features that remain to this day a 64-DD idle boast. Assuming Nintendo establishes a network infrastructure of some sort by then, things like bonus tracks in Mario Kart and new songs in Donkey Konga could be downloaded onto your revolution while you're away, asleep, or even playing a different game automatically onto the Revo's HDD, and then written onto the Mario Kart/Donkey Konga game disk at a later date freeing up valuable drive space for things like game-saves and other awsome downloadable features that I dream about and prematurely declair to be awsome. It'd be like Xbox live meets RAND-NET meets a mound of cocaine, do you follow me?

I havn't slept in about 2 days, sorry if I ramble.

Another thing about the prospect of Nintendo having to pay a royalty to Sony for each disk....

Before we get hung-up on that one again, I say we examine the upcoming format war in a little more detail.
In HD-DVD's corner we have Toshiba, Sanyo and NEC, the latter-most being the rumored manufacturor of the Revolution's processor(s). In the oposite corner we have, of course Sony, and yet another colaborator by the name of Matsushita AKA Panosonic. Given Nintendo's considerable clout with Panasonic I'm pretty sure they could utilize BR in the Revolution without ever giving Sony a thin dime.

...The NEC item seems to suggest HD-DVD however, which is why I still think this is the safer bet. But given the Big N's ties with both electronic firms, maybe the possibility of the Revolution using both formats may not be entirely out of the question. It might be some sort of dream arrangement with Blu-ray being utilized in game software and HD-DVD soley for video playback! Huh!? I can always dream, but not if I never sleep, so I'm going to bed before I freak out.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Next Gameboy

« on: January 21, 2005, 08:54:24 AM »

Not huge on subtlety are you Ian Sane? If it's not a Huge Flop DISASTER that pisses on people when it's replced, it might as well be nothing at all. I can dig that.


Feather's "Information" nothing but a cut'n'paste job taken from an N-Sider article posted last April. I'm well-aware that expecting a source citation is almost an enigma in todays day in age, especially when your dealing with a young man like feather with all the inside information. The whole thing can be found at http://www.n-sider.com/articleview.php?articleid=296 but I'm going to gurantee that every thing that article states has been changed, assuming it was ever accurate to begin with.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Best Yoshi Pic Ever

« on: January 21, 2005, 12:02:17 AM »

Yikes! What else could that be? Just what is Yoshi's Universal Gravitation supposed to be about anyway?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Nintendo Revolution, Discuss it here!

« on: January 20, 2005, 11:50:20 PM »

Did the smoke effigy of Bel'ial: the accursed leak it to you? You know, as it danced atop the flames of the burning sacrifice of an unweened lamb and your two finest oxen from your altar bone?

If anything I'm impressed by what you've this day. Now let's put that arcane knowledge of the occult to use on one or more of my fine examples. Soothsay for me lad, I implore you!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Nintendo Revolution, Discuss it here!

« on: January 20, 2005, 11:29:13 PM »

Assuming they havn't already

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Next Gameboy

« on: January 20, 2005, 07:01:42 PM »

Let's hope that Nintendo puts a little more effort into updating the most successful consumer electronic device of all time than just making a portable version of what clearly ISN'T the most successful consumer electronic device of all time. That would be more stupid than lazy, and believe me, it would be freakin' LAZY. If the next Gameboy was nothing more than a portable Gamecube than I would be displeased, backward compatibility would be one thing, but failure to innovate beyond that would stink and be uncharacteristic of the Nintendo I stand by. I WANT one of those Sharp 3D screens with a big wide display, I WANT, nay, NEED some sort of online/network option. It's too late for Gamecube games to take advantage of any of these things, but games developed specifically for the next Gamboy could and should use said features to thier fullest, assuming it has them (knocks on wood).

Media is a significant issue. Not only are GOD's completely bare and free of ANY hard-casing or protection, the Gamecube itself is constantly streaming data off of those little badboys to cut-down on load times.  It's a great idea and a brilliant feat of engineering, and it was all made possible because they were designed and created without portability romotely as issue. At least PSP designers know to anticipate this problem from the get-go; but, barring some major advancement in battery technology currently unforseen a game like Metroid Prime (which created THE gold standard in load-time avoidance) would rip some piddly little battery to shreds. BUT a funny fact about the Gamecube's architecture is that the A-RAM has been ubgradeable since day 1, that would significantly reduce load times therefore allowing for a more economic use of the disc drive allowing for a longer battery life. The only problem is getting this to work for older GCN games assuming proper code isn't there already, which I doubt. Then there is the memory card/need for data storage, another inconvenient reality that comes with using an optical media. How many Reggie cracked about the PSP's memory sticks? Those jokes are funny because having memory sticks suck.  Built-in hard-drive or bust. It wouldn't even have to be that big since virtually all Gamecube savedata was designed to be compact and contrite. 512 MBs of built-in flash memory would be more than enough for Gamecube saves, leaving more than enough room for next-gen GB games, which there had better be.

What about the controller? Gamecube has gargantuan shoulder buttons, portruding analog sticks and a rumble so fierce that it may have rendered me steryl. Granted the rumble can be romoved, the buttons shrunk the C-Stick tucked away somewhere (convenient) and the Z-button can go anywhere. That all seems reasonable, no worries there.

Maybe there should be something that greys-out any and all Gamecube multoplayer options. Even if they could find some-way to recreate and emulate  the 4 controller port aspect over a wireless network, you'd still have the 4 screen split on every one's system. That might be funny at first but get-old quick.

No handheld anywhere would be able to display much better than 1/2 the Gamecube's standard resolution. Games like Wind Waker and Metroid Prime 2 might look awfuly strange on a Gameboy.

It had better have a clamshell design if only to protect the display. Screen cracks are no good, and a unit like the one I'm describing would cost alot more than 60$ to replace.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Nintendo Revolution, Discuss it here!

« on: January 20, 2005, 06:09:46 PM »

I wonder what the clairvoyant Sir Nemo_83 foresees as far as Nintendo expanding it's development resources in anticipation of the Revolution? Do you see a major defection occuring? Would it suprise you if either Clover Studios or Sonic Team left their respective companies to fly the Nintendo banner; How about both?
Do you forsee Nintendo following in the consolidation trend of the American marketplace and taking steps that would lead to an eventual merger/aqusition of a company the likes of Namco?
Is an increased stake in Bandai a given?

Throw me a bone here Nemo_83. I would take the initiative to make my own predictions concerning these and similar matters, but I'm the biggest jinx. I guess you don't have that problem, so I look to you for guidance.