Zelda On The DS, Sega on the Revolution

At the Nintendo Keynote today, Company President Iwata reiterated the same 'think differently' ideas that he espoused at last year's GDC. This time he had concrete data to back up his industry disruption message, detailing the millions in sales their 'Brain Training' line of games have racked up. Along with his message, he announced a new Zelda title on the DS, and the fact that Sega Genesis games will be on the Revolution, a part of the online library of games they're offering.

Comments

Thats it?

[Anonymous Coward]

There have been three GDC writeups so far, including one from the Sony keynote, and all of them fairly lengthy.

Nintendo's keynote gets what, three sentences?

Re:Thats it?

[GweeDo]

Three senteces that were worth more than all the other combined :)

Video Trailer

[tmjr3353]

Here's a link a page where you can view the released trailer for the announced Zelda DS game. Can't wait to get my hands on this!

Re:Video Trailer

[drwiii]

Better quality trailer over here, if you can put up with WMV.

Links are wrong

[(A)*(B)!0_-]

Those two links are backwards:

Revolution to play Genesis and Turbografx games
Zelda on the DS

Never thought I'd see the day

[Rude Turnip]

If you told me 15 years ago that the Sega Genesis library would be available for Nintendo I'd never believe you. Not because I didn't think it was possible, but because I don't believe in time travellers.

Re:Never thought I'd see the day

[Mercano]

Genesis and SNES games on the same machine? Legally? /me prepares for the apocalypse. (Yeah, yeah, I know Sega and Nintendo have been on good terms for a few years now, what with Sonic Advance and Monkey Balls, but still, this is 16-bit stuff we are talking about. They were after each other with a vengence back then.)

On the plus side, I wouldn't mind them porting Knights or whatever that game was called.

Re:Never thought I'd see the day

[boarder8925]

I wouldn't mind them porting Knights or whatever that game was called.

I believe the game you're looking for is NiGHTS into Dreams for the Saturn:

Players take the role of either Claris or Elliot, two children living in the city of Twin Seeds. In their dreams, they enter the world of Nightopia, where all human dreams are played out. An evil creature known as Wizeman is gathering power to take control of the dream world. The children attempt to save Nightopia by teaming up with NiGHTS, a Nightmaren (nightmare-dweller) who rebelled against Wizeman.

The price is right

[FadedTimes]

I suspect Nintendo is going to do well in Sales and profits after releasing the Revolution and online services.
As long as the downloadable games are cheap and the console does release as the lowest priced console this year.
Such good news.

Nerdgasm!

[RyoShin]

While lacking the details some of us were hoping for, such as an official name or any extra info on the Revolution itself, this is still some damned good news.

With all that Nintendo is bringing out this year, such as Metroid Prime: Hunters, The New Super Mario Bros, (supposedly) new Pokemon games, and now Phantom Hourglass, it makes me weep softly at my lack of funds. At least I have even more reason to wait until DS Lite hits the shores. Between all that, Twilight Princess, and the Revolution, Nintendo is most likely going to get all of my free income this year, and rightly so.

The announcement that Genesis games will be on the Revolution is completely awesome; even though Sega has put out the classic Sonic games 18 times over, it will still be fun to play them on the Rev. Plus, you have games like Echo the Dolphin, Road Rash, and more. Even better, this could pave the way for 32X, Sega CD, and Sega Saturn games. I doubt we'd ever see Dreamcast games; while the Revolution will certainly be more powerful than the Dreamcast, would it be able to emulate the Dreamcast?

So, while these might be more minor announcements in the face of other things coming from Nintendo, but it's Good News none the less.

Although, we still don't have a specific state side release date for the DS Lite, do we? Dammit.

Re:Regardless of Budget?

[sehryan]

FYI - Dev kits for the Revolution are running about $2k, which, from what I understand, is dirt cheap compared to what N has charged in the past, and what Sony and MS are charging for theirs.

Hopefully, N will allow indie developers to distribute directly through the online system, thus lowering the barriers for publishing a game.

Re:Zelda DS

[scarpa]

Actually I was totally stoked to see them using cel-shading again and it was one of the first things I noticed on the trailer.

Wind Waker's art was awesome and inspired. I can't say the same about Twilight Princess unfortunately.

Re:Revolution?

[PitaBred]

Seriously, why does Disney insist on using Mickey as their mascot. They should like, get with the times.
Besides, the games are fun. That's all there really is to it. It's a somewhat familiar feel with the characters, but almost always with completely new gameplay (not just new levels, new things that happen, new stories, new interactions with the environment, all kinds of innovative things). Say what you want about the characters, but there's a REASON people tout Nintendo as being innovative. It's because they are.

Re:Cheaper than Microsofts? No...

[Anonymous Coward]

Uh, dude? Read what you just pasted.

the rumor is that Microsoft plans on announcing Wednesday a developers kit

Wednesday was yesterday. Unless you can find a news report about this actually having happened on wednesday, your rumor was wrong.

At any rate of course DirectX and XNA games will continue to be available to develop dirt cheap-- they're PC games!! You can develop them for free!! But just because the XBox 360 basically runs PC games does not make a PC development environment equal to an XBox 360 or Revolution development kit.

Re:whoa!

[akhomerun]

not to mention sony's "in game advertisement is an important part of the PS3's future"

haha screw that!

Oh... my god...

[TheNoxx]

Wait... my dreams have finally come true? Sega and Nintendo together at last?

Excuse me for a second... got something in my eye here... *sniff*

Re:Shot Selves In Foot A Little

[Knutsi]

Isn't the very fact that Nintendo will now make available it's SNES library for a charge the very same reason they where so "nazi" about people's downloading and running their stuff for free? The day SNES9x/ZSNES matured, Nintendo tried it and said "hell, our future consoles can also do this, and we can make a fortune off it!"

Apart from this, I must say the Revolution plan is brillian:
1. Make a controller that inspires radical game design for a wider audience
2. Make avilable for that audience games whichh they have fuzzy feelings for from childhood.
3. Tell the same crowd (now parents) the console is safe for kids

Of course they won't "win the console wars", but they will win a market previously sceptical and hard for Sony and Microsoft to gain grounds in. Nintendo were allways a smart company, they actually make money!

Nearly Complete Transcript

[Tringard]

Alice has a transcript of the keynote. Missing a couple of phrases and names, but otherwise appears complete if you want to read what Iwata actually said.

Re:Benefits of 'Virtual Console'

[porcupine8]

What this shows is there is a certain level of comercial viability in 2D games (in particular formerly popular 2D games) which isn't really being capatalized upon by anyone.

Yes, thank goodness those of us who hate 3D are going to get what we want! I was so excited to hear that a new 2D mario game is in the works. I find 3D games confusing to navigate, annoying to use weapons in, and in some cases downright nauseating to watch. I realize the companies want to show off what they can do with 3D, but it is entirely possible to make a 2D game with beautiful graphics.