09-23-2005, 09:28 PM
Ok, about the Nintendo Revo:
1. It'll bring a revolution... to the Nintendo fans. In the "massive civil war fighting and neverending flames to burn each other" kind of way :)
2. Looking at the tech demos Nintendo showed, they want to do three things with it, light-gun kinda thing (which, sure enough, will work ok), 3D simulator kinda thing (ala Descent, which again, sure enough will work), and mouse replacement (look at the other demos and see what it's trying to do, and see if you could do it with a mouse, only more easily and less tiringly; I just made up a word). Meaning: not much new under the sun, actually.
3. There's no way Nintendo will go the way of Sega as long as they keep the handheld revenue coming. That's a huge revenue stream. Really, huge.
4. Nintendo has excluded themselves from the multi-platform developers and probably scared away a bunch of third parties. Those that roll in may run away as soon as their first half-assed attempt at using the controller bombs.
5. Nintendo is trying to give "accessories" to complement the controller in traditional games, since Gamecube games should be revo-compatible. Unless they include accessories from the get-go inside the console box, I don't think many people will bother with them, as previous "necessary" accessories have shown us (with the notorious exception of the memory card, because every single game used it, and the "rumble pack", since the addition of support implied basically no changes to gameplay, ergo no game really needed it to be played).
6. Lists are neat.
7. Not a big fan of the revo myself. I liked Descent, though.
1. It'll bring a revolution... to the Nintendo fans. In the "massive civil war fighting and neverending flames to burn each other" kind of way :)
2. Looking at the tech demos Nintendo showed, they want to do three things with it, light-gun kinda thing (which, sure enough, will work ok), 3D simulator kinda thing (ala Descent, which again, sure enough will work), and mouse replacement (look at the other demos and see what it's trying to do, and see if you could do it with a mouse, only more easily and less tiringly; I just made up a word). Meaning: not much new under the sun, actually.
3. There's no way Nintendo will go the way of Sega as long as they keep the handheld revenue coming. That's a huge revenue stream. Really, huge.
4. Nintendo has excluded themselves from the multi-platform developers and probably scared away a bunch of third parties. Those that roll in may run away as soon as their first half-assed attempt at using the controller bombs.
5. Nintendo is trying to give "accessories" to complement the controller in traditional games, since Gamecube games should be revo-compatible. Unless they include accessories from the get-go inside the console box, I don't think many people will bother with them, as previous "necessary" accessories have shown us (with the notorious exception of the memory card, because every single game used it, and the "rumble pack", since the addition of support implied basically no changes to gameplay, ergo no game really needed it to be played).
6. Lists are neat.
7. Not a big fan of the revo myself. I liked Descent, though.