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A First Look At E3 2006
GameDaily has a look at what we can expect from the big names at E3 this year. From the article: "It's do or die time for Nintendo as far as the company's future consoles are concerned. The Revolution will be a key portion of Nintendo's pre-E3 press event. We expect to see at least three titles up and running on the show floor, as well as a handful of titles in video form from Nintendo and a few third party developers. Nintendo will also be hyping up its retro downloads service for the Revolution, and will likely have several classics playable using the Revolution controller."
Hype for an event which is hyping some stuff that may or may not be released before the next E3...
This is just wacky fun!
In fact, if we can have more /. stories about the lack of booth babes than pictures of booth babes themselves this year... that would be wonderfully depressing. Thanks.
-Rob
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Some people don't mind supporting companies that provide a worthwhile service. I'd rather play Mario on my TV than on my computer.
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Your comment reminds me of a friend of mine. He was a HUGE Sega/Dreamcast fan, and boasted of having hundreds of games. When I went over to his place, I saw that they were all burned copies. He always complained how it was a shame that the Dreamcast never did well. Gee, I wonder why ...
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more like a first guess and some more speculation about what E3 2006 might be like...
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Then what is your excuse for why M$ actually is doing well?
I don't see how sony could ever top the "emotion engine" in the playstation 2. We all know that ps2 games are the graphical equivalent to a realtime Toy Story...
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I already own Super Mario 3. Twice (the original cart and the game boy advance version). Therefore, I should be provided with free upgrades for life. If Nintendo feels different -- well, that's what the internets are for.
Just because there is a new verion out doesn't mean that your old carts will stop working. In my opinion, as long as the ROM image is the same, fair use applies; but I disagree in cases like Mario 64 for the DS.
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If I remember correctly, you could load pirated games on the DC w/o needing a mod chip. All it took was a disc loader. With the PS2 and Xbox, though, you do need to mod the box. That's not all that difficult, mind you, but that's a large enough hurdle for most folks. (I know this is only anecdotal evidence, but out of the handful of DC owners I knew, ALL of them had at least a few pirated games that they would have purchased otherwise)
There are other reasons why I think the Xbox has fared a lot better than the Dreamcast, but you probably don't care about that.
-- jchenx
This leads me to conclude that Nintendo is cleaning up on its entire handheld business. You can't really tell me that a game like Nintendogz or Animal Crossing DS cost the same to produce as a "full" console game. Yet they sell close to full price.
I never really could figure out why handhelds are considered seperate from consoles anyway. Is it bit like not counting card games as full games. Excluding pinball from arcade games.
So do they really need to succeed with the revolution considering how well the DS is doing. Especially since it was claimed the DS was NOT the true succesor to the GBA. That honor is for an as yet unknown handheld.
For a GBA.5 the DS ain't doing bad at all. In fact many "big" console makers would wish they could sell the same amounts, Eh Microsoft?
Or can a nintendo only sell handhelds because it has the big consoles in its catalog? I doubt it. Nintendo will be around even if the revolution fails UNLESS they are wasting all their profits from the handhelds on it to the point where they leech that division of the funds needed to go to the next generation of handhelds. That would be stupid. But hey this the game industry, stupid is what they do best.
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Okay, I know this probably a troll post, but I can't help but bite.
What you own is the physical medium the game came on, and whatever warranty that comes with them. If the cart stopped working yesterday, do you expect Nintendo to just give you a new one free of charge? It's the same way with ANY physical product. True, some products have a lifetime warranty, but last I checked, video games don't have that.
And Nintendo certainly didn't sell you the right to play SMB 3 till the end of time, no matter what platform it is on. In many cases, the re-releases of the game come with additional features, so you ARE getting more than just the original game. (Things like leaderboards, multiplayer functionality, hidden levels, etc.) Typically the re-releases are cheaper than standard titles, which most folks think is fair enough. But it's certainly not free.
If you still think Nintendo is screwing you over and thus will pirate every copy of every Nintendo game you've ever owned, then so be it. Just don't complain if they go out of business a few years later, due to low sales.
-- jchenx
I don't think you can pirate a copy of a Nintendo game you own. I can see your point about a new version of the game for a new console but if I own SMB3 but my Nintendo breaks I would say that downloading a copy to run on an emulator is completely legal and moral.
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IANAL, so I don't know if that's "completely legal". I imagine it might qualify as fair-use perhaps? Then again, what happens if Nintendo starts selling copies of their retro titles on their own brand of emulator? That would change things significantly.
It wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo started going after ROM and emulator sites even more than they are now, if their retro-library on the Revolution really started taking off. It'd be a bit saddening really though, since you know most of those users are really hard-core Nintendo fans.
-- jchenx
"He always complained how it was a shame that the Dreamcast never did well. Gee, I wonder why ..."
Sega didn't have enough money to build the millions of machines they'd have needed to sell, then the PS2 came along. A suddend stop of piracy would not have made the slighest difference in the fate of that system.
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I can't wait for this year's E3. Even without a press pass, many gaming websites now update by-the-minute for the Big Three's opening demonstrations, meaning I can get details as they trickle in, instead of waiting for news later that morning or night.
Revolution, as was the focus of the article summary, will be the "To see" item, as has been with most of Nintendo's hardware offerings. Yes, the PS3 is coming out this year as well, but that's just more of the same thing, offering better graphics and a few other things. Nintendo is heading into a whole new gaming territory with their spacial recognition controllers. Granted, it's been done before, but not on the scale or mass volume that Nintendo is planning.
We'll also find out the "final" name of the Revolution (though I like "Revolution" just fine). Plus, assuming that it doesn't come out before hand, we'll also see a playable near-final or final version of Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
Whatever we do play at E3 for the Rev will most likely be near-shippable product, as a summer release looks imminent.
Nintendo will most likely sweep the "E3 awards" given by many gaming publications, unless there's a major upset by a from-the-shadows contendor.
I disagree that, if it flops, the Revolution will be Nintendo's last console, however. They'll continue to support it, though lowly, turning out intuitive and interesting titles for it until they're ready for their next console, and just try it again. In the mean time, they'll ride out whatever financial harm the Revolution may do by diving into the many hundereds of Scrooge McDuck Vaults o' Money that they have stored away from the successes that are the GBA and DS.
I didn't mean to indicate that piracy was the ONLY reason the Dreamcast bombed. There were a ton of problems that hit Sega. I happen to think one major reason was all the Sony FUD. All the claims of the "Emotion Engine" and Toy Story-like rendering came out around that time. Many gamers, like myself, opted to just wait an extra year for the PS2. By the time the buzz came out that the DC actually had a lot of decent games, I was already hooked to the PS2 and it was too late to get another console, especially one that you could SEE was spiraling downwards.
... most of the folks I knew that pirated games liked, never ended up buying them)
That said, I'm sure the piracy couldn't have helped the DC survive. (I think that claims of being able to try games before you buy them generates sales, are highly exaggerated
-- jchenx
Some people don't mind supporting companies that provide a worthwhile service. I'd rather play Mario on my TV than on my computer.
TV-out?
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See it this way : if your car broke, would it be legal and moral to steal someone else's car, even if it's the exact same model?
all legality and morality aside, downloading a rom for a game you own is nothing at all like stealing someones car. The only metaphor I can think of thats even close is copying a custom paint job off one of your old cars onto a new one without telling the artist, and then parking that new car in the garage so no one sees it anyway :)
enough stupid RIAA MPAA AAAAA ISUCKAA propaganda already, make your own mind up as to the consequences of your actions with the game designer/artist/musicians interest in mind, not the greedy corporations exploiting them. (although this wont help ya if you get sued by said corp :( )
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Since I'm pretty much sold on my next-gen console choice, I could care less about the hype.
I primarily play PC games and I was pretty sure they make showings at E3. Where is their mention? 2005 was a lackluster year in PC gaming (generally) and hopefully 2006 will be better. But considering the market diversity, I could understand not mentioning it however, one would think they would touch on hot titles for the year.
Dragonage won best in show in 2004 and I've seen little since. Bioware has pretty much been saying it will be ready when it's ready but eventually people forget about it and move on. Two years is too long to just sit there and show nothing.
That is just dumb. It is more like this. You own a car and the car company stops making it. The car breaks so you take the engine out and build a new car around it.
You bought the right to use the game. How you use that game really is up to you as along as you don't sell it or give it to someone that you know doesn't have the rights to it.
Good grief. Next you will say that taking a program that you bought for windows and running it under wine is stealing.
Running a game you own on an emulator is so not stealing from anyone.
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I'd love to see a true GBA successor from Nintendo (with better graphics, analog sticks, and so on). I think the portable market can sustain at least two different architectures (see DS and PSP, which seems to be doing acceptably, despite the fact that there are pretty much no good games available for it). If you can own both of these markets, why not do it?
If Nintendo came out with a GBA successor in, say, a year, which would be both cheaper than the PSP and beat it graphics-wise, they might pick up a fair bit of market share without hurting the DS too much, since it is so unique.
People would still buy DS consoles for the games which can't be bought on any other console, and they would buy a GBA2 simply because it would be the newest, best portable console.
Sorry but I don't do big consoles. I remember that all the games I want to play cost a lot more on the consoles then the PC version.
So your right, I should have made it clear I meant PC prices. My bad.
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