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In an interview with Eurogamer, George Harrison, Nintendo's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications, said that his company has learned from their earlier mistakes regarding the presence of third-party support. On the Gamecube's success (or failure, depending on how you see it), he noted, "Third parties were kind of behind the eight ball in terms of being able to have games ready."With their lesson learned, what does this mean for the Nintendo Revolution, to be launched later this year? Hints at stronger third party support already made the rounds, and with Ubi Soft's Red Steel already confirmed as a launch title, there's no doubt Nintendo's going to keep up their promise.
Apparently, there's more than 1000 developer kits available for developers, which should provide the groundwork for more third-party titles to come and possibly shown at the upcoming E3.
Harrison also admitted their defeat to Sony's Playstation 2 in the previous console generation. While the Playstation 2 was, of all three machines, the least powerful, it eventually became the most successful one. "One of the things that we did learn (...) is that you have to get third party involvement early and they have to be able to get access early".
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Don’t get me wrong, I like the controller idea but when person is at a store and they have a ps3 (did you see the demos =O) or even an xbox360 displaying amazing graphics and you have a revolution pulling less than an original XBOX (the biggest reason why they haven’t demoed any games yet) it will be hard to convince people. Games could save them but they seem to be losing more and more exclusive developers to their competitors.
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Now as for nintendo not releasing any demos yet, well thats just nintendo being themselves. They like secrets. Secrets are fun.
PS3 demos are nothing. Yes i was impressed just like everbody else, but they were just trailers. No Actual Gameplay has been shown for the PS3(except warhawk, and i wasnt impressed).
And xbox360? Um..can anybody honestly play their games and feel like their in a new generation? I look at the games and i notice they are somewhat pretty but isnt it just the same games weve been playing for the past 6 yrs??
Last but not least. I'm getting tired of all this talk about Amazing hi-def graphics, and realistic physics, and photorealism. All this graphical power, and the games play the same as if they were ps1 games. Same old boring gameplay, shiny new gfx.
Im no nintendo fanboy...im actually a sony fanboy, well was. Now im neutral...kinda. I still hate MS, and their practises. I dont see how halo is soo good like everybody says. I just see an average sci-fi fps.
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Games do have the power to look great. Not PS3 40" HDTV great but nothing dissapointing.
And yes secrets are fun (giggle) almost as fun as touching.
Nintendo make me feel like its christmas eve and I cant get to sleep. Thats one feeling everyone likes to remember.
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Not see CPU wise (Revolution)729 MHz vs (original Xbox)733MHz
http://revolution.ign.com/articles/699/699118p1.html
But of course nowadays is not all about the cycles but developers have claimed that is will be just a tad bit better than the xbox.
RE4 is great, but the graphics there look great because of the style not really power.
If the Rev cost 100-150$ I'll buy it just have it when company comes over and we can all have a good time shaking each other's remotes
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Now wouldnt it be fun to train our pokemon by smaking the ***** out of it to be scared *****less of you when it doesnt do something you tell them to do?
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#8 tell me honestly how many times you played PC games where you go mad trying to download the latest drivers and then when u get it running it slows down horribly and u read on some remote forumn that this happens on some system setups. This is why PCs never took the place of your console.
BTW, have you seen the PS3 stats? Do you even know what GFLOPS are? Do you by any chance know what an architecture for parallel processing can do for rendering? you obviously dont since your comment clearly points it out. Just think about it for a sec "why does xbox have 3 core and PS3 8 CPUs?"
Wikipedia is your best friend!
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and i hav no idea why anyone would actually buy a PS3 for the graphics. if i wanted to watch something just as graphic, i would rather watch a p*rn* movie with an HD tv. now whcih one would i want, good graphics or unique game play?
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hmm I wonder.
BTW wikipedia is free, fast, available everywhere, updated on the fly and according to many research companies only a tad less reliable than most encyclopedias. So yes I would also consider it one of my best friends along with google, and Qj blogs =)
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IMPRESSIONS: A great demonstration of how intuitive the controller can be-pointing it to aim felt perfectly natural, right from the very first second, just like with a light gun. It always shot exactly where it felt like I was aiming, and was incredibly responsive to even slight wrist movements-I barely had to move my hand at all.
IMPRESSIONS: Another demo that needed no explanation, you just "got" it immediately-move the controller in whatever direction you want the stick to go. As a 2D game that requires exact movement (the caves get really narrow in parts), this one reinforced how precise and steady the controller's movement detection can be. Another interesting tidbit-if your controller fell outside the detection "box," the demo had an arrow pointing off the edge of the screen in that direction so you could get it back in the correct space.
IMPRESSIONS: This was oddly fun-you could try to move the ball by either making a hill next to it and pushing it along, or making an indentation for it to fall into, then using it to drag it across the court. When you got close to the basket, turning an indentation under the ball into a hill suddenly would fling it up into the air.
IMPRESSIONS: At first, I was standing up and swinging my hand all around to aim - and my arms got really tired really quick. But once I sat down and relaxed, resting my hands on my legs as I would with a normal controller, everything clicked. It wasn't perfect yet - the Revolution controller functionality had just been added recently and wasn't bug tested or polished, so every so often the view would "spaz out" for a couple seconds - but it was enough to get me excited. As odd as it may look holding the two separate controller pieces, one in each hand, looking around felt incredibly natural, even more than my preferred PC-style keyboard-and-mouse setup. I have to wonder about precision and speed in multiplayer games, but for a more deliberate single-player game like Metroid Prime - and the series is already confirmed for an appearance on the Revolution - this setup already has huge potential.
now why don't you wait before classifying something as homoerotic
if sony made eyetoy something other than an addon maybe it'd get something other than crappy minigames, and it could actually be decent maybe
or maybe you've come to expect nothing but multimedia convergance from a sony console, maybe some people want a different way to interact and be immersed into games which allows for better precesion and genres/concepts that arent possible on consoles (think flight games, rts stuff)
you sony fanboys are so disrespectful towards somebody just doing something different and affordable... i own playstations aswell and im not a nintendo fanboy but you guys sound like idiots claiming that its an eyetoy ripoff
you wanna see a ripoff
http://www.cnet.com/4831-11405-6412914.html
enjoy ps2/3 games with your trackball nunchuck that doesnt sense 3d movement
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http://blogs.ign.com/uchiha5/2006/04/13/11678/
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I am tired of seeing all these DS vs. PSP comparisons. PSP if anything opened up the market. Tons of people who wouldn't ever buy a gameboy went out and bought this sexy piece of hardware. The DS is great. Nintendo knows what their doing and they have great advantages being time in market and price advantage. However, I am afraid that they are again losing considerable market share to sony in the US and EUR. You might not have realize that sony has already caught up in the western world (DS had a lead due to time in market but psp is now tied) but I you know what for the past 5 years in the west, cool and sexy is in, dork carrying a stencil is out.
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looking at 'specs' for the various machines xbxo and rev are similar, but lets face it the xbox was really quite powerful, it just never had enough good games for people to really appreciate that.
ps2 was the weakling of the group in terms of sheer power but have you played mgs3 or shadow of the colossus? now those games are great looking, lets face it.
how much do you find yourself playing tetris on your original gameboy these days? now, that's one of the most pure gameplay experiences, but it looks downright crap nowadays.
why aren't people still buying ps1? there are a whole host of enjoyable games on that... my point is that despite your protestations the graphics/physics/sound aspects of a game are very important.
yes the controller can change things, ds has 'proved' that. but actually if psp had some good games then it might be a different story, also ds is a lot more powerful than gba, so it has got better graphics etc than one of it's main competitors.
i'm quite interested in rev. but i also am apprehensive that while the 'revmote' may introduce all sorts of new gaming ways, it will most likely shut out a bunch of very lucrative and popular gaming types. what kind of rpgs will be released on such a device? they're all about story telling, massive set pieces and engrossing situations etc, this is best done with hyperrealistic graphics etc.
it looks to me that rev. will have a hard time staying popular as it will have to justify that controller, whereas we all know what to expect from ps3/360.
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i don't like the look of those lame little nes style buttons on the revmote.
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Second. Stop saying things like Resident Evil 4 is the best looking game of that generation as a basis for your argument. The basis of the argument is an opinion for one, and you can't just take the "best looking" game and ignore the fact that the bulk of Gamecube games don't look as good.
Third, I know everyone is excited and whatever, but E3 is just around the corner and we are hardly a smudge of the wiser as 6-8 months ago.. as to what to expect. So, relax.. Kick back.. And enjoy it.
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3458816462841405753&q=Revolution+Controller&pl=true
I had some worries about the DS but I was proven wrong and we only have half what Japan has as of games...
I feel the Rev has the potential be great and would not have to try had to do it...
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