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da_flo
Member #1,907
February 2002
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Anyway, they are all wrong. |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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I personally cannot wait for Madden NFL on the Revolution. I hope I have to throw the wand against the TV to simulate a pass, and then catch it off the bounce in order for my receiver to make the grab. Kicking field goals will be fun. I suppose I'll have have someone hold the wand up on the floor, while I kick it across the room. I never have been good at kicking. What would be very slick is if the Revolution had backward compatibility for NES joysticks. Imagine the possibilities.... You could be running on the power pad, with the right hand equipped with the power glove and light gun, and the left hand with the magic wand... Games like Metroid and Megaman would come to life. |
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Marcello
Member #1,860
January 2002
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Not to mention the possibility of football rioting! |
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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Leisure Suit Larry will never be the same again.. |
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DanTheKat
Member #1,990
March 2002
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Aren't Leisure Suit Larry and various "Adult Japanese Dating Entertainment Experience" games more suitible for the Nintendo DS? wink I saw the teaser video, and the swordfighting won me over! <3
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Steve Terry
Member #1,989
March 2002
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Anyone got a link that isn't from IGN... their javascript seems broked in both IE and Firefox here, I can't view either video, IE basically stopped responding and FF just didn't do a thing when clicking the links. Argh!!! ___________________________________ |
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HoHo
Member #4,534
April 2004
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All the links and the video worked fine with FF1.06/Gentoo for me __________ |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Karadoc ~~
Member #2,749
September 2002
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I just think it's great that Nintendo actually have the courage to do something different! A move like this is risky at best, but if they just did what ever other company does (new console <-> faster processing + more memory, nothing else) then the gaming world would be in danger of becoming stale. As for the controller itself, I reckon it should probably have 4 buttons on the bottom half instead of 2 - that way it would be more easily adapted to older games by using the sideways position. But we'll just have to wait and see. What they've shown us is not the final product, it is just a prototype. ----------- |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Watch the video -- |
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ReyBrujo
Moderator
January 2001
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Quote: A move like this is risky at best, but if they just did what ever other company does (new console <-> faster processing + more memory, nothing else) then the gaming world would be in danger of becoming stale. I watched the presentation video. Mr. Iwata said exactly that. As stated, you should be able to use GC controllers, or maybe you could plug it into a shell. (Edited: Quote: the "nunchuck" extenstion may come with the unit on release I believe (if I heard correctly) that Mr. Iwata said the nunchuck controller will be included in the package. So, at the minimun, it will come with the console, and one full controller.) (Edited 2: By the way, knowing that GB is an extremely "cool" country, it should be encouraging for Nintendo that the BBC poll shows a 50% virtual tie between hit and miss about the new control). (Edited 3: By the way, read this story in full. I quote just one paragraph: Quote: "I do worry that we are going to see decreased risk and decreased innovation," said Mr DeLoura. (Mark DeLoura, Manager, Developer Relations at Sony Computer Entertainment America) It is me or just Nintendo did what they are just begining to plan?) -- |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Quote: I believe (if I heard correctly) that Mr. Iwata said the nunchuck controller will be included in the package. The translation (to me) made it sound like they were discussing it, its likely to happen, but not a final decision. -- |
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Karadoc ~~
Member #2,749
September 2002
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Quote: I watched the presentation video. Mr. Iwata said exactly that. He did? Cool, I'm starting to like this guy. Nintendo are doing all the ground breaking work, and meanwhile people like Microsoft and trying to muscle in on the money. ----------- |
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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I don't think it's a totally alturistic approach from Nintendo. They have realised they cannot compete with Sony and Microsoft in terms of money, pricing and hardware, so they are attempting to make a new sub-market to compete in (and dominate). |
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Karadoc ~~
Member #2,749
September 2002
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Maybe true, but still it brings more benefits to gamers than what Sony and Microsoft are doing. So I say this: even if they are doing it for profit, I like what they are doing. ----------- |
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spellcaster
Member #1,493
September 2001
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What you guys seem to forget is that innovation and good ideas - even good games doesn't actually equal success. Bad marekting will spoil the chances (see Dreamcast launch). -- |
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dthompson
Member #5,749
April 2005
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Quote: It looks like a sex toy.
From the VGCats forums. ______________________________________________________ |
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Karadoc ~~
Member #2,749
September 2002
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Quote: What you guys seem to forget is that innovation and good ideas - even good games doesn't actually equal success. I'm certainly not forgetting that. That's why I said that the whole thing was risky. In fact, I'd dare say that the Revolution won't be a smashing success story. But I do think that Nintendo will (probably) be offering the better product. ----------- |
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ReyBrujo
Moderator
January 2001
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Quote: I don't think it's a totally alturistic approach from Nintendo. They have realised they cannot compete with Sony and Microsoft in terms of money, pricing and hardware, so they are attempting to make a new sub-market to compete in (and dominate). Actually, in his speech Mr. Iwata basically says that hardcore gamers will get tired of "common" games as presented by PS3 and XBox360, because each new version is just the same game with the same type of controls with just more non-interactive content (like different video animations) and just more polygons. I agree with him, who wouldn't? Following the same approach they did with the Game Boy Micro and games like Nintendogs, they are trying to increase the gaming base. That is not something altruistic indeed. But the way they are trying to do it will benefit the whole industry. Since the begining the gaming industry wanted to give the player better sensations. Duck hunting, Nintendo bazooka, Genesis Menacer, Nintendo mouse, DS voice recognition, DS touch screen, controllers with the shape of a car or plane controller, rumbling, wireless controllers... Nintendo new controller adds, does not substract. And I think it is the closer Nintendo decided to advance without trying virtual reality, something they know it is still not polished enough. As Sony representatives said in an interview, companies take less and less risk. Actually, there has been one company who always takes risk to make better games, not better hardware. It is costing them dearly indeed, they passed from 70m NES consoles to 50m SNES to 19m GC consoles, but they at least remember that gameplay is everything. -- |
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da_flo
Member #1,907
February 2002
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Marcello
Member #1,860
January 2002
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haha I was waiting for the web comics the instant I saw the first picture |
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dthompson
Member #5,749
April 2005
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Quote: I like your money! I still don't think many people are going to buy it. ______________________________________________________ |
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It explains that you'll beable to get "expansions" for the standard remote that can be in any shape, the "nunchuck" extenstion may come with the unit on release, but it wouldn't be a stretch to see more "normal" controller extensions that just plug into the revolution controller.
