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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Revealing the Revolution

« on: May 24, 2005, 11:13:53 AM »

Ian I think you are wrong.  Anybody who is a big enough fan of a company to preorder there system is going to buy that system regardless, or has enough money to own multiple systems.  I think it is much more likely that people will want to wait to see what the final PS3 and Rev systems look like, and that the XBOX will only get those gamers who were already big fans and who are not going to be converted anyway.  The big deal is that Nintedo has all there specs out before the holidays so that people know they want to wait.  Right now I get the feeling that Nintendo is going to keep revealing parts at a time.

I also agree with people who are saying the XBOX launch is going to be subdued a little by the GameCube and DS games.  Go look at all the really good looking games comming out in the last three months of this year.  I am a little curious if the XBOX launch games will really look much better then Zelda...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:"Revolution" / Nintendo's different tact / technolust vs. innovation

« on: May 20, 2005, 06:47:55 AM »

I agree with .  On one hand I don't want to see Nintendo consoles have less choice, but on the other hand I own a cube in large part because I know I will be able to get good quality games.  I would not describe my self as a hard core gamer, because I have too many other interests so I don't have the time I once did to commit to games.  That means I don't have time to mess around with bad games.  If it isn't a Nintendo game I wait until I have seen a bunch or reviews.  But if it is Nintendo, I know before the game is out if I want to preorder it.  I have no idea what the last non-Nintendo game was that I preordered.

At first I was disappointed about the Rev not being as powerful as the other machines, but then I started thinking.  The Rev is going to have everything I really want from a system, or so it appears:
1) Internet gamming - this used to not be important, but my brother lives in another state and I still want to play against him
2) Good controller - Faith required, but we all know how important this is if they can come through.
3) Company dedicated to good games - Nintendo is the company most focused on the actual game, and what you think after playing it, not before.

So PS3 and XBOX will be able to do better graphics.  I watched the PS3 tech demos, and there is some unbelievable stuff in there.  But I realized, I could still tell the difference between computer generated and real.  As long as that is true the graphics are really a small issue.  Plus, Sony was talking about the immersive game world.  Having everything interact correctly is as much if not more a programming problem then it is a hardware problem.  If you want every blade of grass, every door, every window, everything to react.  Well that is going to take A LOT of programmers, not just some fancy hardware.

Last thought, I am glad that Nintendo is opening up to more development houses.  I want to see what some small game developer houses can produce.  After all, these are hopefully the developers who didn't want to take place in the Sony/MS way of making blockbuster games, but actually want to create a really great game and take pride in it, not just some cool tech. My GBA might be my favorite game system I own (at least until those DS game start showing up), and I am pretty sure that isn't because of the graphics.