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The Real Revolution Comes May 9, 2006
Pichu0102 writes "Gamespot reports that a bevy of details will be released about the Nintendo Revolution at 2006's E3 event." From the article: "So when will be the Revolution's coming-out party? Unsurprisingly, it will be at next year's E3. Specifically, the console will be unveiled at Nintendo's pre-E3 press event, which is slated for 9:30 a.m. Pacific time on May 9, 2006. The venue will be the Kodak Theatre--home of the Academy Awards--in Hollywood, California."
I don't know what's up lately with video game news, not just here but all over the net but it seems like sites are trying to do their best to crank out as many announcements, opinions, and predictions as possible. Each site trying to out do the other.
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This wouldn't happen to include the release date, would it?
Dressed like Link from Zelda.. Maybe someone will take pity and let me in.
That's 3 days after I get married. It figures that the one next-gen console I'm actually looking forward to is to be released literally days after I lose my bachelorhood freedoms... Doh!
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Time to hibernate for five months.
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It's not being released, details are being revealed. I'm sure the Big N will leave you plenty of time for a divorce.
:) Best wishes
Just kidding
psst Any true nerd would be listening to the news live whilst on honeymoon!
Please leave your geek card in the tray by the door on the way out.
Seems like Nintendo and Sony are both further behind than they cared to acknowledge a few months ago when there was speculation about an April or May launch. If the Revolution won't come until at least summer, perhaps Sony will go for a September or October release like the Dreamcast and PS2 had.
It's not being released, that's just the date of its unveiling. Though for all we know they could announce the release date to be two weeks from then.
"This is considered plagiarism."
Blech. The PS2 controller (just a dual shock PS1 controller) is the most unoriginal, boring, and overrated controller out there. I can just see the planning that went into that one... "Hey I have a good idea! Let's take a SNES controller and an N64 controller and kinda smoosh them together into this bland generic looking thing!" Again, blech!
I see the headline... I think "Woohoo, Revolution comes out May 9th 2006!"
Then I read on... oh, that's when more information is going to be out...yippee?
I know of some...erm....exercises that could remedy that lack of stamina.
I'm not scared of anonymous cowards.
Do you know how many people have asked Zonk not to keep posting stories about some subject for the last few months?
My request is this. Don't be dismissive of the other two consoles until we know what the Rev is actually like to play.
You probably want to say "don't praise the Rev before you know more" because I think it's quite possible to dismiss the X360 and/or PS3 without knowing anything about the Rev. You don't need to have an alternative when dismissing consoles, the conclusion "this genreation sucks, I'll dig out my Mega Drive again" is valid.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Assuming the controller works great, we don't know whether the games will truly take full advantage, enough that people will say "Damn, I MUST own that." It's a big question mark.
I suggest you go back a re-read some of the gaming media articles written after Nintendo unveiled the controller. Most people writing the first round of articles did get to actually use the controller (granted, only for tech demos) and the general consesus was "Damn, I must own that." And that was just based on tech demos!
As we've seen from every past console, the first games out may not be much better than tech demos, but the games that follow will quickly take advantage of the systems capabilities. Most of the concerns about arm fatigue and accuracy have come from people responding to the initial wave of reports - from people who have NOT had a chance to use it in person. Also, consider that when the Revolution is fully unveiled in May, it will be another six+ months after the initial controller was shown to the public. Nintendo will have had time to tweak an already impressive component to be even better based on the reactions of the public (both those who have tried the controller, and those who have not).
So, while I do hate to wait until may to get all of the details, and then wait again until the console is finally released, I have absolutely no doubts that it will be an impressive machine when it launches, and will only get better with time.
I'm the same. I'm just going to keep playing games on my PC and my current-gen consoles for a while longer. Maybe I'll upgrade when the prices for the new consoles becomes reasonable.
Rob
Yes, because the primary concern of controller design is aesthetics, not useability.
Rob
Also, how much time will there be from that point to the time the Revolution launches? I'm worried they aren't giving 3rd party developers enough time to make decent games for launch.
In fact if you're not reading the press release via your wireless gadget of choice while your new wife is sobbing in the corner during your honeymoon you'd better turn in your geek card now. Bonus points if said wireless device does not natively support wireless and isn't running its original OS.
They weren't thinking that, when they designed that beautiful control pad, that it is a bitch to your thumb.
Do you go to Mac fanatics and tell them not to hold out hope for Apple's next hardware/software release?
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This isn't news. This is an announcement that there's going to be some news in 2006. What a waste of space.
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Come on Nintendo! Give it to us! Sony just announce they will announce details at CES (Jan 6th). We'll see what happens.
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I wasn't saying that the DS2 didn't have flaws, just that a criticism based on aesthetics is pointless. The example you gave is unfair, though; Nintendo held a patent on their D-Pad design, and there aren't many other ways you can construct a D-Pad.
Rob
Seriously, did you ever doubt that Nintendo was going to wait until E3 to give the 'Full Details' about the system? No (modern) system has ever launched without first having a large conference/expo where it could show itself off in full form; this has very little to do with gamers or play testing but is entirely about getting as much information to the press in as little of a time as possible. In 3 days worth of work Nintendo can have thousands of people from the Gaming media try out their system, interview their personalities, and build tons of hype that would take months to do otherwise.
Now, what can you expect leading up to E3? Nintendo will downplay the Graphical Capabilities by releasing modest technical specifications on what they expect the system to perform like under real gameplay experiances, and Nintendo will release minor Revolution details about the Backwards compatibility and how Nintendo WiFi will work on the Revolution. No information about Revolution games will come out.
At E3, expect the Revolution games to look as good or better than anything on the PS3 (except for it will be at 480p) thus shocking the gaming media; 2 unconventional Nintendo made games will be announced which demonstrate the system (they will be available at launch), 2 conventional games (Super Smash bros. and Probably Metroid Prime 3) will also be displayed and given a launch release date.
This is what Nintendo does, they have a precise formula which always impresses the media and fans alike.
Yeah and 14k gold is just gold smooshed together with some other metals in order to make a more durable product... What's your point?
relax man, all that time you used to spend having sex, you can now use to play the revolution.
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Old news. I already know all the details about the Revolution I need, thanks to Penny Arcade:
:-)
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/08/28
The GBA, even the SP and Micro editions, is old news and is often viewed (incorrectly) as replaced by the DS. The DS itself is great (I love mine) but it hasn't captured the public's imagination nearly as well as the PSP. When I look at sales fliers for Best Buy, Circuit City, Game Stop, etc., Nintendo's products don't have anywhere near as much space as 360, PSP, or PS2. They are rapidly losing mindshare.
Don't take me wrong. In my house, we have no XBox, no PSP, 1 GBC, 2 GBA, 2 GBA SP, 1 DS, 1 N64, and 1 GC (and 1 lonely, lovely Dreamcast), all in working order and all except the GBC get regular use. I really like Nintendo products. But I'm worried that the Revolution will trail the announcement by six months or more. If they give the 360 two Christmas seasons before bringing out the Revolution, they're toast in the home market. (They still may be fine in portables.)
As opposed to the prices of keeping your computer up to date?
"This is considered plagiarism."
So, they announced that they going to announce when they are going to announce when the Revoluton will hit the stores. Damn.
I am hoping for an impressive lineup, the one that includes games like Pikmin 3, Eternal Darkness 2, possibly a new Zelda (but not likely because Twighlight Princess release is too close) and a brand new franchise already announuced for the Revolution debut; possible some interesting ways of connecting and using DS with Revolution...
The price should be $199.
Anybody with an old phono turntable knows that 'revolution' just means spinning in place on a spindle.
33-1/3 Revolutions Per Minute? That beats out even Che and Castrato.
resigned
I don't buy your "Oh Nintendo has patents! they don't let people be happy!" argument. Look at the Sega Dreamcast controller. It has a fricking Control Pad. So you can have a control pad, and not break Nintendo's Patent. Sony just did it the wrong way.
I believe the reason they could construct that pad was because the patent ran out on it just before the system was released.
At least with Microsoft they put all the information out well in advance of the console release so we had an idea what we were getting.
At least with Nintendo they've let people (even if only a few) play around with the controller and give feedback. They've put out a commercial that displays some of the ideas behind what they're doing, so even if they haven't shown any games, you get a feel for what they're trying to do.
With the PS3, I just feel like they've said, "It's like a PS2, except with a different CPU & GPU! And we redesigned the controller! And it has games! Isn't that great!" Unlike Microsoft & Nintendo, it doesn't seem like Sony has any kind of concrete design philosophy, and with Microsoft pushing Live lilke mad, and Nintendo trying to get everyone to appreciate their new control design, that can only come off as a flaw.
just some guy
As opposed to the prices of keeping your computer up to date?
"Casual" games that are compatible with my 5-year-old PC are still being made and sold. Besides, a PC is the best platform for learning how to develop games.
Wrong.
Gunpei Yokoi created the control pad around 1982, for the Game and Watch. So any Nintendo patent on the control pad comes after 1982. More probably it would be around 1985, when the system was launched on the U.S.
Utility patents last 20 years. So, in the best case, it expired in 2002.
BUT, the Dreamcast was launched on 1998 in Japan, 1999 in the U.S. So simply it was impossible for the patent to have expired by that time.
Conclussion. Sega did what Sony didn't. To create a good control pad without stepping on Nintendo's patent.
Well, let's see. I'd say I've spent about $1200 or so on PC hardware in the past six years. Sounds like a decent sum, but then I can and do use my computer for a hell of a lot more than playing video games, not to mention the variety of games that PCs can play. And I'm including parts that stopped working long before they should've died; otherwise the price would be more like $900.
I also don't care about keeping my computer "up-to-date." Beyond getting a cheap DVD burner, I haven't upgraded in two years, and that was mostly to replace those malfunctioning parts I referred to above. I replaced them with mid-range stuff, as well. If it can run a new game without completely choking, I'm fine with it.
Compare that to consoles, which will end up being well over $1000 every four years if the current trends hold, and all they can do well is play video games unless you hack them. Sure they'll be on the bleeding edge of gaming, but I really don't need that sort of thing any more.
Rob
Yea, I don't recall ever claiming any sort of utility posessed by consoles in the PC department. If you want a PC, then great, do the things a PC can do. But it's getting old to hear people boast that PC's are so great for gaming. You don't seem to be making that same comparison but instead jumped in with your own scenario. That's great. Good for you. But the point I was making wasn't to say that consoles are better than PC's, both have their advantages and somebody who wants a PC would be stupid to get a console. But saying that being a console gamer is significantly more expensive than being a PC gamer? That's just retarded.
"This is considered plagiarism."
Ok, and who says I can't be happy playing the same games for 5 years? Because I really am, though I see your point, my point is that I could be equally content with old console hardware. And when did anybody ever argue against the fact that PC's are the best platform for learning how to develop games? Where do these arguments come from for you people? No, I don't expect anybody to learn how to make games on a Revolution, that would be silly. Oh no, you got me.
"This is considered plagiarism."
That's my birthday =) Coming up with a wishlist next year will be really easy ;)
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12 months is a looong time to get excited about a console. People got really hyped up about the Cube within this timeframe, too....
-Rob
Biblical fiscal responsibility
How much is the PS3 going to cost?
KK: Oh, it'll be expensive.
Well, how expensive?
KK: Well we aren't going to say yet, but trust me, it'll be expensive.
Can you give us a ballpark?
KK: [Thinks]Well, you probably can't afford one... maybe if you get a second job. It'll be worth it for the PS3...
Well, like $400? $500? More?
KK: You don't want to know.
etc...
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