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Nintendo Revolution Details Emerge
Pyrohazard writes "Nintendo has posted some details on the Revolution to their official site, finally giving us some insight into what the console will be like. From the site: 'It will be about the thickness of three standard DVD cases and only slightly longer.' This makes it the smallest Nintendo console yet! It will also be able to stand up, similar to the PS2, and the Xbox 360. It will be backwards compatible, and it will also play '12cm optical disks in the same self-loading media drive'. It also states that it will have a very quick start-up time, and be very quiet. It finishes by stating 'Get ready for the Nintendo Revolution in 2006!'" C|Net has an article up arguing that Nintendo is making an error in missing the 2005 Holiday season.
It's doubtful that the Revolution will be more powerful than the Xbox 360 (from what specs I've seen, it's going to have 3 CPU's running all @ 3.2 Ghz).
You base this on what information?
No, the WHOLE sentence.
It seemed he was trying to insinuate that Nintendo titles are largely "a bunch of mario spinoffs and tetris.", and hence, un-original.
What he was getting at was that Nintendo markets towards the younger demographic, and they're not going to appeal to the older demographic with the stuff they generally put out.
Perhaps you could mention some specific titles, because i'm not seeing it here.
Zelda, Mario, Mario-Kart, Metroid, the Pokemon games you mentioned (in the sense there's a large amount of them), etc. This wouldn't be (and really isn't) a big deal, but their big games always seem to be a Mario or a Zelda or whatnot, and it seems Nintendo doesn't have too much 3rd party support. It just seems like if you buy a Nintendo, you're going to be playing updated versions of the NES favorites we played from twenty years ago, and that's it.
As well, I have to wonder why people always condem only Nintendo for re-using characters, when the number of sequels (not to mention total-piece-of-crap games) on the PS1 & 2 is gigantic.
Because Nintendo has been doing it and not too much else for about two decades, perhaps?
Ah, so that's why the two Smash Bros. titles sold a combined total of ~3 million or so?
Halo 2, all by itself, sold 2.4 million copies. In one day.
The point is moot anyhow; I was implying that given a choice between playing something like Halo and SSB, your demographic of 18+ (which I should have specified in my original post, but didn't) is probably going to go for Halo. Although SSB is a good game (I own it), I basically bought it because it was one of the few games that I could sit around with some buddies and play. Then we got XBoxs and only play Halo 2. Sure, this is anecdotal, but I have a feeling my story is mirrored by some others.
Or why the Pokemon games have sold more than Halo 1 & 2 combined a few times over?
Your strategy of taking an entire series of games and then comparing their combined sales numbers to a single game isn't very convincing. I wasn't referring to the under 15 market demographic (though I did not and should have specified that). I'm talking about people who can drive. Not too many of them are interested in Pokemon.
I'm guessing you probably don't know as much about the average American kid (or game player in general) as you think you do.
Yes, sales numbers clearly indicate that American kids are running in absolute droves to pick up Nintendo games in the face of Sony and MS offerings, especially the 18+ crowd. There's no need to make assinine remarks like that because I made some remarks about the console that you made yourself a fanboy over. You like to play games geared to a young audience? Great. Think that's the majority case? Probably not.