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20 Titles At Revolution Launch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-a-lot-of-hand-waving dept.

Next Generation reports that NOA's George Harrison expects there to be 20 titles for the system at the Revolution launch. From the article: "The other thing we recognized is that you really make your reputation in the first year ... You've got to deliver software, not just at launch, but you've got to deliver software in the first six to nine months after launch. It has to be solid software. In GameCube, we didn't have that, we had kind of a drought for six months after it launched. By that time your reputation starts to solidify and it's hard to reverse that after awhile."

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  1. That's nice by Silent+sound · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But it's quality, not quantity. The XBox 360 had about 26 titles or something, but most of them were ports and crappy generic EA sports games. That won't cut it on the Revolution, especially because I don't think Nintendo has that much of the sports games fan market. We will have to wait to see how many of these 20 titles are "for real" and how many are, shovelware.

    1. Re:That's nice by sm4kxd · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You know that Katamari Damacy was created by Namco, and has only graced Sony platforms, and that neither of these entities is in any way Nintendo, right?

    2. Re:That's nice by Dr.+Eggman · · Score: 2, Insightful

      ...And how many of them will be tweaked versions of old games on the Virtual Console.

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    3. Re:That's nice by MikeBabcock · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Well said.

      I've said it before and I'll say it again, nobody's forcing anyone to buy those crappy games that come out alongside or in between the good ones.

      For example, I'd dare say the PS2 has more "excellent" games than the XBox. Not just more games (that's indisputable) but more "excellent" rated games (according to actual players). Besides, I love that I can find the niche games I enjoy for the PS2 and my friends can play their sports games on their PS2s and we're both happy.

      If you like the games available on another platform, enjoy them. However, a huge library with a lot of variety is an excellent goal -- especially since console makers make most of their money from the licensing, not the console itself.

      I think there's at least 20 games still on my "definately want to play" list for the PS2 that I haven't got to yet.

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    4. Re:That's nice by Headcase88 · · Score: 4, Interesting
      1. Only "one third" (seven) will by made by Nintendo. RTFA.
      2. You listed Mario RPG twice, though you're actually accurate since there are two such franchises: Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi. Both franchises have a spotless record.
      3. It's "Wario World", and there's only been one. And while it was good (for a rental), it certainly sucked compared to most Treasure developed games.
      4. Almost every (real) franchise you listed has been critically acclaimed at one point or another, and some of them (Zelda, Mario, Mario Golf/Tennis, Metriod (sic) Prime) are totally outstanding. Well apparently some people didn't like Sunshine, but I'm still listing Mario platformers as having an outstanding record.
      5. To imply that the Revo is going to be the only console that will have sequels is pretty questionable.

      My bets for the 7 launch "window" titles are: Smash, Mario 128, Pennant Chase Baseball, WarioWare (fingers crossed), Metroid Prime 3, hmmmm. Can't guess the other two. But they'll be delayed anyways ;). And I'm hoping for Mario Party 8 as one of the 20. It wouldn't be one of the 7 because Nintendo doesn't make it.
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    5. Re:That's nice by Chemical · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Actually, with the Revo's motion sensitive controller I feel it would be perfect for sports games. A baseball game where you swing the bat rather than press a button would be tremendously fun. A football game where you pass by making an overhand throwing motion towards the intended reciever would be much more interesting than pressing a button. A basketball game where you shoot by... well, you get the idea.

    6. Re:That's nice by justchris · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Mario 128 is the working title of the game, and has nothing to do with a bit count. It was a demo that was originally displayed for the gamecube with 128 Marios running & bouncing around on gamecube hardware. Nintendo has, off and on, claimed that Mario 128 was a working title for a game, but have never officially confirmed it's existence. As a result, most of the people who follow such things just refer to the next Mario Platformer as being Mario 128. That will probably not be it's final name, but that doesn't mean it has anything to do with the system being a 128 bit system.

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    7. Re:That's nice by scot4875 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Actually, Hudson develops Mario Party, but I don't think that they're a subsidiary of Nintendo, so they're sort of a 2.5th party title. I think Camalot is in this same category. HAL and Intelligent Systems are both names of internal teams within Nintendo, so they're both first party. Retro Studios is a wholly-owned subsidiary, so they're a 2nd party.

      But yes, that's where 2nd party games come into play. Technically, you'd call any game developed for Nintendo by someone else, and published by Nintendo as a 2nd party game.

      Not that any of it matters as long as the games are good -- and the overwhelming majority are.

      --Jeremy

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    8. Re:That's nice by remmy1978 · · Score: 2, Funny

      One thing I never saw mentioned, and which I am curious about... what if the controller flies out of your sweaty hands while swinging that bat? I wonder how many broken tv's, windows, or fish bowls will result from this and how long it'll be till someone sues Nintendo after being accidentally thrown a controller at their head.

  2. Swords. by Greggen · · Score: 5, Funny

    This means about 20 developers thought "Hmm... that's a cool controller. Wouldn't it be cool if you could use it to swing a sword... or something."

    The games are:

    • Sword Fight
    • Sword Fight 2
    • Flying Swords
    • Zelda: Sword Fight
    • Mario: Sword Jump Super Sword!!!
    • ...
  3. Variety by Silent+sound · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Quantity doesn't mean variety, though. For example, let's say a system gets five Madden NFL Football games. This is definitely at least some quantity. But it isn't any variety at all.

    On the other hand, a game library with 20 titles but no variety... well, I don't know what we can say about how much quantity it has, but regardless of the quality of the individual games, that isn't what I'd call a quality launch library. Variety effects quality directly, because most people get bored if they wind up having to play the exact same kind of game over and over.

    And you can't possibly say quality over quantity "[made] the post-SNES game libraries suck so hard", because quality over quantity is absolutely not something that describes the Playstation 2 game library at all...

    1. Re:Variety by be-fan · · Score: 2, Insightful

      My point was to compare the PS* libraries to the N64 and Gamecube libraries. With the N64 and beyond, Nintendo's mantra "was quality not quantity". For me, that meant a bunch of highly rated games (the Zelda series, the Mario series and its spin-offs, the Metroid series), that I had zero interest in playing. The PS*'s library is like the SNES's. You like arcade flight simulators? You've got a dozen to choose from. You like Japanese-style RPG? You have several dozen. You like first person shooters? Line them up. Sure, a lot of them are mediocre, and some are just bad, but there are a lot of good ones too, and I'd rather play a mediocre game in a genre I like then a steller game in a genre I don't.

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  4. OFFICIAL List of the 20 games by MBraynard · · Score: 4, Funny
    Hey,

    I snaked this list off a power point presentation given at a recent conference to investors of the Big N. For just a few seconds we got a look at the long list but they flipped to the next slide to discuss all of the different colors the Revolution would be released in and spent about thirty minutes discussing that. Really odd, I thought.

    Anyway, after the presentation I went up to the machine hosting the presentation and move it onto my USB jump drive. Here is the list of the 20 awesome release games for the REvolution that will surely make it the greatest launch EVER:

    Mario Kart: Revolution!
    Mario Baseball: Revolution!
    Mario Tennis: Revolution!
    Mario Soccer: Revolution!
    Mario Golf: Revolution!
    Super Mario Strikers: Revolution!
    Mario Golf: Revolution!
    Mario Party 7: Revolution!
    Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix 2: Revolution!
    Mario Beach Volleyball: Revolution!
    Mario Versus Capcom Versus SNK: Revolution!
    Paper Mario: Revolution!
    Sunshine Mario: Revolution!
    Paper Sunshine Mario: Revolution!
    Mario Classic Arcade: Revolution!
    Wario Wrestling: Revolution!
    Mario En Espana: Revolutiones!
    Mario Bowling: Revolution!
    Mario World: Revolution!

    I cannot wait for revolution to come out. With a launch lineup like this they are going to annihilate the competition!

    1. Re:OFFICIAL List of the 20 games by twoallbeefpatties · · Score: 2, Insightful

      If every incarnation of Mario Kart, Zelda, and Metroid wasn't worth playing, then I would be offended by that. But if that really was the launch list, then who's to say it wouldn't be worth it?

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    2. Re:OFFICIAL List of the 20 games by Traxton1 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Man, I cannot wait to play Mario Versus Capcom Versus SNK: Revolution! It'll be a lot nicer throwing fireballs with A instead of quarter-circle forward and punch.

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  5. About 1/3 of the games will be First Party Titles by LoverOfJoy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nintendo seems to put out a high ratio of high-quality fun games. If they are putting out a third of the games it wouldn't surprise me if they make as many great games as all the third party developers combined...maybe 4 great Nintendo-made games and 4 great third party games. If it comes out that way, I'd consider it a great signal-to-noise ratio compared to others systems. I don't think most people would spend money for more games than that at launch if they really are great games that don't get dull fast. Then if you add in all the old favorites that are downloadable and you've really got staying power.

  6. Re:Mario Golf? by realityfighter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Supposedly, Albatross 18 is going to be a launch title for the Revolution. I don't know how well this game compares with Mario Golf, but I can say that it's taken its fair share of gaming hours from my roommate. Honestly, I came in once and saw him playing Albatross on one box and Oblivion on another. It's an addiction.

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  7. Re:After you're dead by Rydia · · Score: 2, Informative

    As long as it doesn't rely on or copy the other work so much as to be considered a derivative work. Or if the changes that were made were only superficial, purposefully to work around the copyright.