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Revolution In North America By Thanksgiving
Gamespot reports that the Nintendo Revolution will be in stores by Thanksgiving. From the article: "In an interview featured in today's edition of Japanese newspaper Sankei Shinbun, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata stated, 'We can't disclose the Revolution's release period yet, but we have no plans to miss out on the year-end sales battle. As for North America, we need to release it by Thanksgiving, or otherwise we won't receive support from the retail industry. So the Revolution will be released prior to that period.'" Update: 01/18 19:15 GMT by Z : There's also word that there will be an exclusive Resident Evil title for the console, utilizing the unique control system.
I was starting to get excited there.
"ByThanksgiving"?
As great as some may think this sounds (The whole "Yay! It won't be long before I can get one!" idea) what does this mean for quality of release? Are they paying more people to do all the quality checks so they can get it done in a shorter time? They better be, because earlier-then-expected release usually ends up in a higher percentage of bugs and errors then one can stand.
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We can't disclose the Revolution's release period yet
Be a man. Just say "we haven't decided yet, and any dates that are being thrown around are purely speculation at this point, as alot can happen to speed up or delay the process over a period of ten frigging months"
I was really excited by the headline before I saw it was filed under Games...
Frog blast the vent core.
Big difference.
How Jaded Are You?
Canada (also part of North America) has Thanksgiving a few weeks before the US.
Trolling is a art,
With Sony handling the technological leap/mass market side of the console world and Nintendo handling the wacked/don't you wish you were a kid again side, the next console gen looks like what console gamer heaven must be like.
I think it is safe to say the console world is sick and tired of Microsoft and the Xbox crap. Microsoft has, thankfully, flunked out of the next gen console race so early that we can pretty much just ignore them from here on out.
I can remember how fun the console world use to be before Microsoft came along. With Nintendo and Sony looking like they will be the only two relevant consoles next gen, I look forward to those happy days again.
Where have I heard that one before?
I bet the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes...
My guess is this release won't gather much attention, and the Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Truthfully, this is the exact reason why I don't pay for a subscription. For a purportedly professional website that pays salaries and accepts subscriptions, Slashdot seems to be run by 14-year-old children. It contains numerous grammatical and typing mistakes, and posts that are duplicated ad infinitum. Gentlemen, I implore you to elevate your standards, as your stories are getting worse instead of getting better.
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He plans on doing something unrelated first to get a feel for the controller. By unrelated, they probably mean it's not survival/horror. Once he knows what he's doing, he's going to go (with his new knowledge of the control system) into the Capcom zombiefied universe, which is called Resident Evil.
For a console we're supposed to be able to purchase in 9 odd months, you would think by now there would be some buzz about at least a couple of games for it. I guess they're saving all that up for E3.
Knight37 - Once a Gamer, Always a Gamer
You're probably a troll, but I'm going to pretend that you've made a serious post. The difference between Zelda and DNF is that Nintendo has a history of pushing back releases, yet they always put out a solid product in the end. Zelda is a far cry from vaporware.
I thought it was a matter of public record that Nintendo is going to release the Revolution console sometime in 2006; if that the case then isn't it kind of obvious that they would have to release it in time for pre-winter holiday shopping?
There's also word that there will be an exclusive Resident Evil title for the console, utilizing the unique control system.
Wouldn't it be cool if it made use of two of the "remotes"? One as a flashlight and the other as a handgun?
I would welcome a resident evil game with a new control system. It can hardly fail to be worse than the previous ones. The whole stop, press the aim button, move the laser pointer to the zombie's head and then press fire thing just didn't do it for me.
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The chainsaw controller would work so much better on the Revolution where you could acutally swing it around, not that you can get a chainsaw in the game anyway. A great thing to add when they inevitably release an updated RE4 on the Revolution.
Saying that there's an exclusive RE title in the works is wrong. The developer said they are working on something new for the system that they hope to learn enough from to hopefully make a RE for the Revolution in the future. The submitter makes it sound like there's an RE already planned, when they're still in the research stage.
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Indeed. A better comparison would have been World -1. First you get to World -1 by taking a passage that you thought would lead to progress (World 4), but instead, it puts you through a bland, unrewarding journey. Just when you think it's over and you can move on, you get dumped back to the beginning of what is essentially the same shit, over and over again in an endless cycle, until time runs out and you die :P
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
I totaly misread that headline and had myself a good laugh.
I was serious. I luvz me some Zelda! This new Zelda looks just awesome, and I havn't heard anything new about it.