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Nintendo Revolution Under Wraps Past E3
The next-generation Nintendo console, codenamed Revolution, may not be shown at this year's E3. Eurogamer reports that the Japanese console maker is going to keep the console under wraps to keep the features of the new system out of the limelight a little while longer. From the article: "Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata is worried about rivals nicking all his best ideas at this early stage. That's how revolutionary the new console is, apparently... and also the exact same line Nintendo used to avoid showing Mario 128 at a previous E3."
Maybe it has.... 3 screens?
...he is definitley the hardest one to beat. I remember that time I played all night long and I made it up to Boss SI (that's what it says above his life bar cause his name doesn't fit on the screen). I was kickin ass, but then my mom came and pulled the stupid plug.
Wow. It's a good thing they kept the GameCube secret, otherwise sony and microsoft might have outcompeted and outsold them.
Because of course Sony and Microsoft only hear about features at conferences like E3. While the rest of us get the inside track at Slashdot!
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
"I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, spare me the hype."
So I take it that you won't be paying attention to the XBOX 360 or Playstation 3, either?
"Derp de derp."
It has an anal "joy-buzzer" to give a more immersive force feedback experience. I know what you're thinking. Not only does it have 3 vibration settings, it can also deliver qute powerful electric shocks. I only tested a unit for the north american market. I would hope that the "unit" for the Japanese market will be smaller, because even at 6'5" and 300lbs I found the american version to be....uncomfortable.
Oh you bring a tear to my eye. Oh how you bring back the memories of Slashdot of years past. You know, Slashdot before the Legion of Jobs showed up and proclaimed that Apple had an answer to everything.
Yes. Bring me back my old Slashdot. Please, please bring back:
1. Make it with Linux
2. ??
3. Profit!
Bring back the good old days, when BSD was dead and Red Hat was king.
(and yes I AM serious)
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Great, now I'm bald.
Damn you, Nintendo. I have been a loyal servant of yours ever since I first played Super Mario Brothers 2 on the NES: I've fought for you time and again in the useless internet debates; I've spent my hard-earned college cash to pay for your no-internet system with lacking 3rd Party support; I even still lug around my N64 because it has games I enjoyed enough in the past that I might want to play them again in the future, but I'm not really sure if I ever will!
Doesn't that deserve something? If nothing else, show some footage. I don't need to see the actual system or controllers right now; but damned if I don't see any 'eye candy', and I'm not talking those sweet Ssian numbers you put on display... actually, that's more of a Sony thing.
In any case, I digress. While I can understand wanting to keep industry secrets secret, we're not asking you to reveal every spec of the system. If all you did was hint at what makes this console a 'revolution', and showed a picture of one of the buttons on the controller, that would be enough for many a fanboy.
So, Nintendo, I ask you this: Please, please, won't you show something? Have we not earned at least that?
Someone else modded him down while I was looking for the "-1 Belabored" or "-1 Bad Joke" options in the moderation box. =)
Maybe I should have been looking for "+0.5 Almost Funny"?
And I just bought my Gamecube in January... guess you bastards are going to force me to upgrade my PackardBell to play doom 3, too?
GEeez... you buy something new and it gets outdated in just a few years.
Oh yeah, and Zelda: The Wind Waker is also a kiddy game because it has kiddy graphics, and only kids can enjoy it. Any adult who enjoys it, is, of course, "teh suq".
-Tom
Nintendo have tried to move the games industry on unlike the other two. I suggest you look at the current system names.
Xbox 360 - It's a "cool" name for the "skaters". It's bullshit, flip an Xbox 360 and you get an Xbox just like before.
Playstation 3 - All I'm saying is "Yes but these are different, they go all the way up to 11!"
I like muppets.
You must be new here...
You see, a vast majority of the people on slashdot, for one reason or another, do not like to pay for information, as information wants to be free and slashdot denizans respect its wishes. So, they naturally migrate towards the PS2 and XBOX, which facilitate the freedom of said information, and Natalie Portman naked and petrified.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Go looking for XBox and PS2 game torrents, and you'll find them by the hundreds. You'll be able to count the number of Gamecube torrents on your fingers.
I can also count the number of total games for the Gamecube on my fingers. (okay okay, only the decent ones)
Last I went to Best Buy, they had blank DVD minidisc thingies there. Not the CDs, but the bigger DVD equivalent, like Gamecube uses.
You don't believe Nintendo's ever coming out with another console?
Wow... that's, uh... interesting.
~ Aero
It's being launched at E3 this year!!!
They even got Duke Nukem Forever as the exclusive launch title! Talk about a killer app!
You need to take a look back at Nintendo's history of greatly overpromising products and releasing them very, very late. The N64 came out several YEARS late and didn't come close to delivering the visuals Nintendo and SGI had spent years trying to get it to.
You need more than one data point for a trend.
Are you trying to say that the VirtualBoy wasn't a major console?
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Maybe it's got a built in lazy susan, the obvious next step in the evolution of the paddle controller.
The Farewell Tour II
The XBOX has one profitable quarter after eleven straight losses, and everyone calls them a success.
but they're making up for it in volume!
If you rotate an XBox 360 degrees, I dare say, you get a full (wait for it) REVOLUTION!!!
..i hate myself...
"Plans are for fools! Oglethorpe, the plutonian (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
Tell me. What does "purple" smell like in _your_ world?
It's all relative. That's why I try to keep my mouth shut sometimes. That's why I am now. This post never happened.
Selling consoles to children is irrelevent, what they need to concentrate on are adults who want more violence, gore, and nudity. Without those items Nintendo will surely fail. The Gamecube is a flop.