*Looks over at library*
Hrmmm, 53 GCN games. Thats a crap load of Nintendollars.
So, in keeping with Nintendo's latest catch, lets Expand the Definition of Nintendollars.
Lets say, as you do, that one Nintendollar (N$) is equal to one United States Cent.
First off, we need some protection. Your N$ will have to be tied to your password protected Nintendo WiFi Connection account, otherwise anybody who has physical access to your console could just buy watever and waste your money. Since everything is stored by Nintendo, on there network, we wont be seeing a Rev modchip that gives infinate money.
How are we going to stop people from passing on their Rev and GCN games to friends, allowing them to get free N$s? Every disk has a unique serial number. When you get your bonus from a game, the serial number is logged by Ninintendo, and when sombody trys to use the same disk to get free money, you'll get an error saying "This copy of game XXXX is already registered". Problem solved.
How do we get N$? Well, when you register your accout with the NWC network, it will detect you are using a new Rev. This can work in the same way with software, the hardware's serial number being redeemable only once. For first timers, you get N$1000. Thats enough for 10, 5 or 2 games from NES, SNES or N64. When you first register in the network, Nintendo will send you a welcome package in the mail. In the package may be the latest demo disk, or a firmware update, one of those Nintendo Power offers, a catalouge of whats available in the Nintendo Market, and maybe a free Nintendo calender with the schedule of some online tournaments or important dates. Most importantly will be your Member Card. On here will be a cool logo and background you picked when you registered, your name, state and usernumber, with a creditcard-like strip on the back. The new Revolution Demo Kiosks will have a card reader, and a bill slot (think soda machine). Go to GameStop, swipe your member card, then swipe your credit card, select how much N$ you want, and your set, or do the same with paper money.
To make things really worth it, Nintendo should offer more than the classic games for N$. Have a section to buy accessories and stuff. Since there is a direct correlation in N$ to Cents, it shouldent be hard. Need a new controller? Ok, it would have costed you $35 in the store, buy it online for N$3,499. How about a Nintendo DS for $12,999? Preorder, and buy Zelda Revolution, all online for N$5,999. Nintendo is selling Online at the MRSP, which meane they are not only making their usual profit margin, but also that which would have been the retailer's! They make more money than before, and employing UPS is industrial bulk would allow them to ship to your house for free, AND, no sales tax, as it is a virtual transaction.
How will Nintendo stop sombody from buying a classic game and copying it to a friend? Nintendo will keep a full record of what classic games you have purchased. If you accidentally delete it, you can download it again, no worries, everything would be tied to your nintendo account. See, lets say you download Super Mario RPG for the SNES on Monday at 1200hr. The ROM has a life time of one week. So, at noon the following monday the game will expire and you cannot play it, untill you log into your Nintendo accout again and its expriation clock is automatically reset. Once again, lets say the same senario, but this time you hop online at 1900hr on Wednesday and play a quick game of Star Fox Rev with a buddy. All your ROMs stored in the internal flash, and once on your SD card will have their expiration clock rest to 1900hr the next Wednesday. This way, in the normal activity of playing, your ROMs will contantly have their clocks reset and you'll be fine to play whatever, whenever. In the ideal case, your Rev will have a constant connection, and the ROMs will never expire. Lets say you bought Chrono Trigger, and your bud's never played it. Copy it to your SD card, load it on his machine and hes free to play it untill the expiration clock reached 0. When that happnes, next time he trys to play the game, he'll be told that the ROM has expired, and it belongs to Member Number *you* and to please log on. When he loggs on his account he'll be allerted "The game 'Chrono Trigger (SNES)' has expired, and is not owned by this Nintendo WiFi Connect account. Would you like to purchase the game yourself for N$200? If not, the game will be automatically deleted." All this clock resetting happens seamlessly behing the seens and the user is never bothered with it, or even aware its going on.
"clocking 200 hours in SSB3, beating Very Hard mode without losing a life" for N$ rewards would not work, as people could clock 200hr, delete their save, and to it again. So these types of things should not be allowed. How else can you make N$? Pay N$100 to enter the monthy Smash Brothers 3 tournament and the winner recives N$25,000. Allow betting on games, but only to a point. Place a limit of $1,000 on the per-game bet. Little jimmy looaing that much is onl $10 out of mommy's pocket, which is no big deal at all. It would be quite cool to come home from work, check your account, and see SSB3, Mario Kart Rev, and Donkey Konga 4, challanges with a little field on the invite that says "Stakes: N$1,000".
On less of a Nintendollars note, and more toward WiFi Connect:
One of the biggest things I am hoping for is the equal access of the same network by both the DS and the Rev. You'll use the same member number, profile and buddy list no matter if you are playing DS or Revolution. Imagine taking your lunch break at work/school and going online and playing some Mario Kart DS with randomly matched people. You get home, hop on the Rev and check you list a list of recently played members. And you see that some of the people you played have a Revolution as well, and you invite them to play some Rev games with you. Or, you could even send an invite for "Same time same place tomorrow" from your Rev, to one of the people who only has a DS. Check the latest editions to the N$ cataloge at Nintendo.com, or your current N$ balance. Or even stream purchased classic games to your DS!
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Yeah, I'm bored...
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