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Revolution Worldwide Launch Possible
hammersuit writes "GameDaily Biz reports that a Nintendo Revolution simultaneous global launch is still in the cards. From the article: 'Bloomberg.com suggested that Nintendo would avoid a global launch. However, a Nintendo representative today said that those comments were misinterpreted. 'The comments have been taken out of context,' said the Nintendo spokesperson. 'What he's actually saying is that we're not holding a worldwide launch just because everyone else is doing one too. It's just another re-iteration of the fact that we're not looking at what Sony or Microsoft are doing.'"
Why? They are working on a compelling product that is vastly different from what Sony / MS are creating. Nintendo has stated repeatedly that they are approaching the market in a completely different fashion, so why concern themselves with how the others are marketing their stuff?
Nintendo will bring out a compelling system, that while it may not garner the same sales as the other 2 (or it might, you never know), it will make a profit because they wouldn't sell it at a loss, just to gain market share.
I think what the comment means is that they are not trying to match or one-up whatever MS and Sony do. Of course they are watching what their competitors are doing. Nintendo wants to isolate a bigger market that Sony and MS, in their one-ups-manship war, are starting to neglect. Honestly, who is going to buy 10 year old Johnny a $400+ system with $60 games? They want MS and Sony to battle eachother for the male 16-30 demographic, they will be more than happy to take the rest of the market.
The revolution's discs can be larger than the gamecube's discs without issue, since (IIRC) the hole in the middle is the standard size for a CD/DVD. And (hopefully) they'll allow more space for games on the new system...
The Revo will use standard DVDs. It has a slot load mechanism which is capable of dealing with both Standard DVDs and the Gamecube discs. Not sure of the specifics, but i'm pretty sure there will be no disk adapter or extra hardware to get the GC discs working properly.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
"Nintendo is the only company who's launches have not been met with console flaws or games that won't run"
Don't remember the gamma problems of GBA launch titles?
"Nintendo has always had the console launch first in Japan and then in the States"
The DS was released in North America first.
From Wikipedia: "but that's primarily people being picky."
No, it was a design flaw in either the dev kits or the units sold.
"And that's why the sp had a backlite screen."
Except for the new ones that advertise brighter screens, the SP was frontlit.
"or having dead pixels in the screen?"
The DS has had its share of dead pixel units. The difference is with Nintendo customer service, which will replace a DS if any pixel is dead anywhere on either screen.
And the first line of the original Game Boy also had its share of pixel problems; on some early units vertical lines along the sides of the screen did not light up. But, again, Nintendo's policy was to replace rather than dither.
My knowledge of Japanese society only comes from anime, so that's not reliable. However, Wikipedia answers your question nicely. Christmas Worldwide: Japan
Is there anything wikipeida can't do?