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.

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Oh. NINTENDO Revolution.

[pclminion]

I was starting to get excited there.

Re:Oh. NINTENDO Revolution.

[AuMatar]

You've obviously never played Civ. Democracy sucks for wartime, unrest is to high. You switch to communism for long wars and back to democracy afterwards for the production increase. Given the current warmongers in power, its obviously going to be a long war.

Re:Oh. NINTENDO Revolution.

[voice_of_all_reason]

Long war? You must mean endless war.

The reason the government wants to fight against smoke-and-mirrors (war on drugs, war on homelessness, war on terrorism) is because they're guaranteed constants in any civilization. It's like the stairs in world 1-3 of Super Mario Brothers -- a 1-up that keeps on giving.

Buggy release?

[JonN]

"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."

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.

Re:Buggy release?

[voice_of_all_reason]

That's actually one of their controller adaptors. We've already seen a motion-sensitive one for sword swinging in Zelda, and an aerodynamic one for flight in Mario. But I actually work for Nintendo, and they're also building a self-destruct module. If you go online to gripe about the system or even question its capabilities in your mind, the box immediately explodes without warning, taking any infidels with it.

Re:Buggy release?

[steveo777]

Have you even been around the game scene for the last 20 years? Nintendo has always done its own thing. They typically release their systems for the thanksgiving rush window. They're rarely guilty of seeing what the other guys will do before moving. They know their market.

The only real problem any of their systems had was the original NES's reader was too thin and the teeth wouldn't read older carts. Almost everybody experienced this. I suppose you could consider the N64's puny 4MB of vid RAM a flaw too... I know of a couple software gliches in Metriod Prime and Prime 2, but that's not really hardware. That and those gliches were rare. So rare that very few people know about them.

I experienced both. In MP if the game hadn't had proper pre-load time it would occasionally freeze in the elevator scenes (moving between areas). I never experienced that problem in MP2. The glich I experienced in Echoes really sucked because it would render the game unfinishable.

wow zonk...

[B00yah]

do you read the links you post?

Before anything can happen on the survival horror front, though, Nakai seems intent on developing a videogame for Revolution completely unrelated to Resident Evil. Once that's accomplished, then he can start working out how to properly take advantage of the controller's unique features in Capcom's zombiefied universe.

There's going to be a Capcom title, but totally unrelated to Resident Evil. No where in the article does it say there will be a Resident Evil unique to the revolution.

Which Thanksgiving?

[grub]

Canada (also part of North America) has Thanksgiving a few weeks before the US.

Re:Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

I swear, this is the exact reason why I don't pay for a subscription. For a 'professional' site like Slashdot (paid salaries, subscriptions, etc..), it seems to be run by 14 year olds. Heavy grammatical and typing mistakes, dual(triple, quadruple, etc..) posts. C'mon guys, things are getting worse instead of getting better.

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.

Free of charge, whiner.

Re:Bunch of mindless jerks

[KDR_11k]

My money is on the marketing division of Sony Computer Entertainment (too bad there isn't a Sony Cybernetics Corporation yet...). Looking at the PSP ads ("It's the carpet you can watch outside!") they deserve it.

Incorrect

[77Punker]

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.

Re:Great and all but wheres the next ZELDA?

[Miraba]

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.

Unique controls - Flashlight + Gun?

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

Re:Unique controls - Flashlight + Gun?

[b1t r0t]

One as a flashlight and the other as a handgun?

And then they could port Doom 3, and you could do the "duct tape" hack with real duct tape!

Resident Evil controls

[aj50]

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.