Topic: A new rumor about the Revolution

[Rancid Planet]

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Originally posted by: MrMojoRising
Nintendo should focus more on the gamer population earlier and get them excited and have some word of mouth carry over into their all out "media blitz" where they try to reach all of the non-gamers closer to launch.  If they can get gamers excited early they are less likely to lost interest as quickly as non-gamers probably would.

I couldn't agree more.

And on the subject of Rev pricing. I really think we ought to get this 99-150 dollars price range right out of our heads. While the Rev may be the least expensive of the three next gen systems it just seems retarded to think Nintendo would charge so little for the Rev at first. I think $199 is about as low as we can realisticly hope for the system to debut at.

[wandering]

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Originally posted by: Rancid PlanetWe all know how lousy Nintendo are at marketing. And yes they have made great strides lately and are really pushing their software and such better than I've seen in years. But compared to MS and Sony, they still suck on it hard and long I'm afraid.

Sorry, but Nintendo is kicking Sony's ass in the portable marketing department.

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Originally posted by: nemo_83I assume that due to the controller the system will be at least $199. Nintendo believes they can make a more streamlined system and still attain equal graphics compared to the competition by not going 720p.

We don't know this yet. Actually, the latest rumor is that, while Nintendo may not go all the way to 1080, they'll probably use 720 for some games. Personally, I'm expecting them to have about as many 720 games for the rev as they had progressive scan games for the cube.

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
It's practically fact that the Rev is going to be the "weakest" console in terms of hardware. The rumours have been out for months, IGN has pretty much confirmed it, and Nintendo has made no effort at all to say otherwise.

I'm still not convinced that it'll be the weakest of the three.

1) Nintendo has said that the games will look as good as the compeition's, and have also made frequent allusions to the power of the console (Perrin Kaplan had a comment about it being a "jaguar" inside or something like that).
2) Nintendo generally under-promises and always keeps stuff like this to their chest, possibly out of fear of dissapointing people (remember, for example, how they denied that Double Dash would have 8-player LAN support, or how they created the impression that GameCube was weaker than the PS2?)

Personally, I'm expecting the system to be on par with the 360 specs-wise (being better than the 360 in some areas and worse in others). And, I'm expecting the games to actually look better than 360 games, but not quite as good as PS3 games.

But we'll see.

[odifiend]

wandering: Nintendo is kicking some ass in the portable market but none of that has to do with advertising.  It is entirely word of mouth and previous experience that is selling GBs & Dses.
Though Nintendo has traditionally underplayed specs, I thought Iwata pretty much confirmed that Rev would be the weakest just because they are concentrating on something else entirely.

[KDR_11k]

I thought Iwata pretty much confirmed that Rev would be the weakest just because they are concentrating on something else entirely.

Nintendo doesn't develop thoser chips themselves, IBM and ATi are doing that. And while Nintendo may not have high demands those companies won't deliver junk.

[Bill Aurion]

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Originally posted by: odifiend
wandering: Nintendo is kicking some ass in the portable market but none of that has to do with advertising.  It is entirely word of mouth and previous experience that is selling GBs & Dses.

Comparing Nintendo and Sony, Nintendo has done a FAR better job with their marketing...

And everyone stop worrying about the visual prowess of the Rev already...