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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.
DVD players are a liability, because it's easier to play warezed games on a DVD-based console than one with a custom drive.
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It's too soon for a new console. The games run fine on the old ones. If it's able to offer some mindblowing new content along with the intro, Nintendo is smart to wait for the 'compelling need' to drive it's sales through the roof.
There's also the aesthetic angle. Cultural preferences are rapidly moving toward Nintendos form factor and will be peaking in 18 months, not 6.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Games for adults means more than just OMG BOOBz and BLOOD. Nintendo is popular because they make good games. I don't give a damn if Zelda was cel shaded or not it's a good game, so were the metroid games, and f-zero and a whole boat load of other games for the console. I can't believe 4 years Later and people are still saying stupid shit like lame cube. Grow up, good games are available on all the consoles
I wonder if the real "innovation" we are going to see with the Revolution has to do with the business side, namely that this box will be better focused in its purpose than Xbox360 or PS3. Perhaps in addition to being small, it will be significantly cheaper than the other boxes. I think if you look at where alot of game systems go (with the exception of Slashdot users and gadget freaks), they are not hooked up to the main TV in a house but to some secondary TV in a kids playroom, den, etc. Some of the media hub features discussed for these boxes are really overkill and not worth paying for if you just want a really good game system. I'll let my DVR evolve into a media hub and let the game system do what it does best, play games.
> Consoles may or may not appeal to hardcore gamers, but Nintendo certainly doesn't.
Okay, now define "hardcore gamers" for us as well.
> The majority of their videogames are single player
Super Smash Bros., Mario Party, Mario Kart, Mario (insert sport here), Donkey Konga, F-Zero, etc. all disprove that.
> Flashy disney/fisher-price style games with playability but no real content.
Real content like.. what, Halo 2?
> they're going to spend it on a console where they can play games like Doom3, CounterStrike, Halo2, Neverwinter Nights and so forth.
A PC, then? Because only one of those came out on a console first.
> a console that basically just plays a bunch of mario spinoffs and tetris.
You seem to forget Resident Evil, Metroid, Rogue Squadron, and Zelda, among others
> people who buy a gamecube are usually buying them for a child and the adult doing it thinks "videogame" and "nintendo" are synonymous and don't know better.
So a million parents worldwide have bought RE4 for their kids?
> having more than just Killer7 as a non-children's game
Once again: Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness. Even the Metroid GC games aren't for children.
Access times on the gamecube are imperceivable.. you really never have to wait for a loading screen, unlike the ps2. That was Nintendo's primary motivation for designing small discs.