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Revolution Worldwide Launch Possible

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the anything-is-possible dept.

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.'"

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  1. Disc size? by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since the Revolution is meant to backwards compatible, is it using the same size disc as in the GameCube, or will you require a disk adaptor?

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    1. Re:Disc size? by Joe5678 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I find it pretty surprising that you will even be able to play DVD's at all. It seemed one of the most effective anti-piracy efforts of the Game Cube was the proprietary drive (media size, as well as reading the media from the outside track in). There just wasn't the ability to read standard media, pretty much gutting the piracy market.

      We saw this same mistake with the dreamcast, sure they had their gigabyte disks, but their system was able to read standard CDs. In the end, people just burned their games to standard CDs.

  2. 14 week launch window by rishistar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The last categorical statement was a period of 14 weeks across the world which seems great and seems manageable.

    But then they did completely deny a revamp of the DS just months before coming out with the DS Lite so if they were doing a simultaneous global launch I'm sure they wouldn't care if they'd actually said they weren't going to do one.

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  3. Re:I've had it with Nintendo (and Mario) by Psiven · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Damn, quite the post.

    Okay, I here you about the kiddie stuff, and some excellent features on 360. And the emulation. But here's thing - you're the minority.

    Things like cute characters make the game more approachable to everyone, not the small demographic that you are a part of. I appreciate that I can get my girl friend to play a round of mario kart with me. She's not going to enjoy GRAW, and not many other people besides a very small minority of the population do either.

    Most people dont have time to invest hours a day into gaming. A lot of these game require an extremely high amount of dedication. Those games can be fun, and you should play them as much as you can if that is what you enjoy and have time for. But the majority of people would prefer to play in short intetervals.

    Concerning emualtion, again, mmost people aren't aware of how to download an emulator and hook up a controller to their computer. Also most people dont want to play a console game on their computer. The living room would be more suitable.

    I agree with you about the innovation thing. Nintendo hasn't done anything lately that is remotely innovative. They really need to get off their haunches and do something disruptive I think.

    So while everyone of your points are completely valid when it comes time to decide how to invest your money, the resoning behind that decision isn't widley supported. Nintendo is making games more approachable and is really giving it back to the people.