Cheaper Games? That's A Revolution.

[NovaXpress]

CNN: Nintendo President Vows Cheap Games

Nintendo's premium titles will not be priced over fifty bucks. That should annoy the competition. This is a strong selling point. Nintendo seems to really have their act together on this system so far.

 

The Revolution has 512 MB of flash memory, allowing for some initial storage space. The system also has a slot for SD memory cards, which are widely used in digital cameras and can hold a greater amount of data. Most importantly, Iwata mentioned, were the USB ports that are built into the Revolution "so practically any storage method can be used".

How many slots and plugs is this thing going to have?

[chrisbid]

if the controllers are wireless, i doubt there will be very many.

 

i know the news continues to be good for the rev, but i remember that the cube also looked very promising before it was released

[AussieAtari]

This is getting really exciting, still no realease date yet?

 

I was thinking of getting a Game Cube as they are on clearance around here but given all of the features of the Revolution, I might be best to hold off and simply get the new unit.

 

The Revolution plays Game Cube games right?

[NovaXpress]

The Revolution plays Game Cube games right?

Indeed.

 

The details don't interest me as much as the appearance that Nintendo is really thinking in new ways and trying to give consumers what they really want. It seems like M$ and Sony are deciding what they want for themselves then attempting to make the consumer agree.

[AussieAtari]

I agree that it sounds like Nintendo is actually considering what the gaming community really want.

 

It wil be interesting to see how the Revolution goes in Australia which is really a Sony 1st, X-Box 2nd and Nintendo a very distant 3rd market.

 

360 is here now and doing okay (pretty expensive which has watered down a lot of the hype) and with PS3 not due until November (PS1 & PS2 are the biggest selling consoles of all time in Oz), Nintendo would do quite well if the Revolution arrived mid-year.

[MCHufnagel]

if the controllers are wireless, i doubt there will be very many.

 

i know the news continues to be good for the rev, but i remember that the cube also looked very promising before it was released

The trouble with the Gamecube, and I think Iwata admitted this, was that it really wasn't very different than the competition. The only thing it had different was that it had Nintendo games, and that was a hinderance to many gamers.

 

The Revolution is being marketed as a genuine alternative to the PS3 and Xbox 360. How that will translate in sales remains to be seen. But people will know that it's not like the rest. That has to count for something.

[keilbaca]

Heh, its going to have usb ports. You can bet that people are going to try to run their own roms they acquire on the Revolution emulators and see if they will run.

 

Either that or hack it to have the games run off of the hard drive... either way I see the Revolution being this generation's homebrew console, like the xbox mainly was.

[carpecarne]

Heh, its going to have usb ports. You can bet that people are going to try to run their own roms they acquire on the Revolution emulators and see if they will run.

 

That's what I'm saying! Now especially that Rare's N64 titles aren't going to be available.

 

According to a patent I read, the emulation is in the machine itself...we'll just have to see what kind of protection they'll use to make people use the legally acquired ROMs....

[keilbaca]

Heh, its going to have usb ports. You can bet that people are going to try to run their own roms they acquire on the Revolution emulators and see if they will run.

 

That's what I'm saying! Now especially that Rare's N64 titles aren't going to be available.

 

According to a patent I read, the emulation is in the machine itself...we'll just have to see what kind of protection they'll use to make people use the legally acquired ROMs....

 

I'm kinda waiting to see what happens for several reasons. One, you can purchase a game, put it on your computer, see how its stored, make the adjustments, get a 256mb drive, and bam, lots of roms available. Who knows, but you can bet people will try.

[ninjarabbit]

It's simply because the Revolution will be cheaper to develop for. It has less horsepower than the 360 and PS3 but I don't think the difference will be that noticable, hell I can barely tell the difference between X Box and 360 games.

[okto]

How many slots and plugs is this thing going to have?

Two USB ports, four GCN controller ports, two GCN memory card slots, unknown on the SD cards because nobody has seen under the door on the front yet (where I imagine they would live).

[keilbaca]

How many slots and plugs is this thing going to have?

Two USB ports, four GCN controller ports, two GCN memory card slots, unknown on the SD cards because nobody has seen under the door on the front yet (where I imagine they would live).

 

Most likely two by that count, and you would use them as the Revo's memory card.

[JB]

How many slots and plugs is this thing going to have?

Two USB ports, four GCN controller ports, two GCN memory card slots, unknown on the SD cards because nobody has seen under the door on the front yet (where I imagine they would live).

 

Most likely two by that count, and you would use them as the Revo's memory card.

Or possibly never. I can't really see filling a half-gig of internal save RAM, unless I binge on N64 and PCEngine CD-ROM² games.

[sega saturn x]

Not a real big surprise given the fact you will most likely end up spending a lot of denero on all sorts of add ons for the controller. Those are really what I want to be cheap.

[n8littlefield]

IGN supposedly has information showing the system really is about 2.5x the speed of the Cube at the most. That sounds bad at first, but given the majority of the PS3/360 power is being used to push high def graphics it shouldn't be a huge problem.

 

After all, I've yet to see the 360 do anything I'd call 2.5x the graphics of Resident Evil 4 or Metroid Prime 2.

[JB]

Not a real big surprise given the fact you will most likely end up spending a lot of denero on all sorts of add ons for the controller. Those are really what I want to be cheap.

I haven't heard anything recently, but the last comment I saw on the issue said they were trying to get the addons cheap enough to be "free" packins with the games that used them, a la the DK bongos(or the GBA link cable in Japan/with 4 Swords in the US).

 

That's the only way anything other than the basic wand + analog stick will see real usage. If the consumer has to buy the accessory, then game makers will be limiting their audience by supporting anything other than the system pack-in.

[sega saturn x]

But the dk bongos weren't free, the game itself was only 30$, the bongos jacked it up to 50$. Don't get me wrong I think them being free would be great but it doesn't seem all that plausible.

Edited March 30, 2006 by sega saturn x

[JB]

But the dk bongos weren't free, the game itself was only 30$, the bongos jacked it up to 50$. Don't get me wrong I think them being free would be great but it doesn't seem all that plausible.

You are proposing that had it not been for the bongos Nintendo would have launched a title with one of their major franchise characters at bargin-bin prices?

The game was 50 regardless of the bongo-ness of the package. The bongos only affected profit.

[Shaggy the Atarian]

IGN supposedly has information showing the system really is about 2.5x the speed of the Cube at the most. That sounds bad at first, but given the majority of the PS3/360 power is being used to push high def graphics it shouldn't be a huge problem.

 

After all, I've yet to see the 360 do anything I'd call 2.5x the graphics of Resident Evil 4 or Metroid Prime 2.

 

I've seen a lot of Nintendo fanboys freaking out about those 'specs' that were released. Part of the problem was the guy who wrote the article compared all the specs to the first Xbox, making some people think that the Rev would be nothing more than a Xbox with an ATi GPU. That's not the case of course, but people only pay attention to MHz and GHz it seems.

[Starscream]

CNN: Nintendo President Vows Cheap Games

Nintendo's premium titles will not be priced over fifty bucks. That should annoy the competition. This is a strong selling point. Nintendo seems to really have their act together on this system so far.

 

 

Not to be a party pooper or even stir trouble, but how is this even newsy I guess for lack of the correct word? MS first party titles, or if MS used the Nintendo spin "Premium" titles, are not priced above fifty bucks on either the 360 or Xbox and neither are Sony "Premium" titles. IIRC, Sony started this trend around 2 years ago. This is nothing more than doing what all of them have been doing for a while now

[Hackmann]

Not to be a party pooper or even stir trouble, but how is this even newsy I guess for lack of the correct word? MS first party titles, or if MS used the Nintendo spin "Premium" titles, are not priced above fifty bucks on either the 360 or Xbox and neither are Sony "Premium" titles.

"Premium" Xbox 360 titles have an MSRP of $60. But otherwise you're right. This is really a non-announcement: they're just saying that they're not going to follow Microsoft's price increase.

[Starscream]

Not to be a party pooper or even stir trouble, but how is this even newsy I guess for lack of the correct word? MS first party titles, or if MS used the Nintendo spin "Premium" titles, are not priced above fifty bucks on either the 360 or Xbox and neither are Sony "Premium" titles.

"Premium" Xbox 360 titles have an MSRP of $60. But otherwise you're right. This is really a non-announcement: they're just saying that they're not going to follow Microsoft's price increase.

 

 

But 1st party 360 titles are only $50. Wasn't that what Iwata was talking about? By "premium" in the context of his comments, I assumed he meant 1st party.

Edited April 1, 2006 by Starscream

[JB]

Not to be a party pooper or even stir trouble, but how is this even newsy I guess for lack of the correct word? MS first party titles, or if MS used the Nintendo spin "Premium" titles, are not priced above fifty bucks on either the 360 or Xbox and neither are Sony "Premium" titles.

"Premium" Xbox 360 titles have an MSRP of $60. But otherwise you're right. This is really a non-announcement: they're just saying that they're not going to follow Microsoft's price increase.

 

 

But 1st party 360 titles are only $50. Wasn't that what Iwata was talking about? By "premium" in the context of his comments, I assumed he meant 1st party.

I assumed he meant premium as in the best and priciest.

[NovaXpress]

Microsoft and Sony have both made it clear that $60 will be the standard price. Nintendo wants to set their standard at $50. They're not going to tell third party makers what to do, but if the new Zelda and Metroid games are $50 then you're not going to pay ten dollars more for Schmuck Wars.

 

"Premium" means the big titles such as Mario or Halo.

[Starscream]

So basically, they are doing the same as MS and, what is expected to be Sonys move as well, which is price 1st party anything you feel like but high end at $50 and let 3rd parties determine they own pricing. I didn't get the premium thing. It seems a little........odd to me to see "Well this is a good game so it will cost more". Of course I never quite got the "New and improved" stickers on products. Made me feel as if they were telling me I was just buying old and shitty before that little sticker appeared