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"Revolution"

Give me some ideas of what you think Nintendo are going to do with their next Generation console?

It's called Revolution so there must be something that'll revolutionize gaming forever so tell me what you think it could be.

There are a few things in life which you can say will def happen.

Nintendo will be late getting the Revolution out.
PlayStation 3 will be more popular.

Lets face it, if PSP cleans up in the handheld market, can we say for sure that there will be a new console from Nintendo. Where is the money for R&D going to come from?

So it was my statement was it? I thought I had just put a rumour down.

Capcom, Namco and so forth will support Revolution no matter what they'd have to do with it.

Dringo wrote:
> Um Hello????
>
> Nintendo are hoping the Revolution will take off and will do its
> upmost to get support on the console.
>
> Just like the DS. And as we know the DS, despite being a VERY
> different machine to the PSP has tonnes of support.

Thing is, the DS and the Revolution are based in completely different areas. The DS is a handheld, and companies know that Nintendo know how to make a good handheld - this is the reason for the strong support for it, which might I add still isn't as strong as the PSP's in terms of the number of companies supporting it. The Revolution, however innovative it might be, isn't going to be able to properly compete with the next machines from Sony and Microsoft. Even if it is completely revolutionary and offers a whole new way of great gaming, PS3 will outsell it, because Nintendo have done a fantastic job in making sure that they fail in the home-console market. And with Revolution, I can't see much changing unless they have a major change in style (online gaming, getting Western developers on board, aiming at a larger market). Might not be revolutionary features, but Sony and Microsoft have proven that they result in strong sales.

Face it, your original statement is completely idiotic. A home-console Nintendo creates can't compete with Sony and now Microsoft as well as Nintendo's consoles could in the past. And it will do even worse without multi-format games supporting it. Fact.

Your argument about the PSP and DS having different games is guff as well. A large number of companies have exactly the same titles scheduled for release on both, and the innovative titles that will properly make use of the touchscreen and other features are coming from Nintendo themselves, and companies like Namco and SEGA who occasionally produce titles exclusively for Nintendo's consoles due to signed agreements.

They had some type of specs up in an aricle at Gamasutra (a developers gameing knowledge interchange thingy) but it seems that they took them down for one reason or an other.

I say something about online gaming. Dual online on one console. i have no idea how this is going to work but it is something about that and microphone.

The eye-toy was not reveloutionary. It was a webcam that could tell if great difference in pixel colours occurred so it would then say "that pixel is a movement". If nintendo do something better with the same basis of an idea, then well done.

Dringo wrote:
> Same game

Quite.

> All I am reporting on is the possible direction of the console. If
> the console takes off then third parties will happily make specialist
> games for the system. And to be fair specialist games is what the
> system is gonna need.

You're saying *if* the system takes off *then* the third parties will make specialist games? No, the new system needs the developers on board from the word go, no question.

Tphi wrote:

>
> And as well as that Dringo you've got games like the Urbz which
> are multi-format on the DS and the PSP with a few minor
> differences to compensate for (obviously) the PSP only having the one
> screen.

Same game different format, different graphical style, different extras.

All I am reporting on is the possible direction of the console. If the console takes off then third parties will happily make specialist games for the system. And to be fair specialist games is what the system is gonna need.

There is also another rumour that Nintendo will match the PS3 rather closely, in terms of capability and will follow either Sony's Blu-Ray or Microsoft's HD-DVD... so Nintendo will also use the same format. Which means software is easy to port increasing third party support.

So depends on what you'd rather listen to.

under 5 months now.

AfroJoe wrote:
> Dringo wrote:
> A: I didn't say no third party support I said no multi-format games.
>
> Yeah, because of course all third-party companies are going to want
> to make their games for Revolution and not Microsoft or Sony's new
> consoles...

Um Hello????

Nintendo are hoping the Revolution will take off and will do its upmost to get support on the console.

Just like the DS. And as we know the DS, despite being a VERY different machine to the PSP has tonnes of support.

AfroJoe wrote:
> Dringo wrote:
> A: I didn't say no third party support I said no multi-format games.
>
> Yeah, because of course all third-party companies are going to want
> to make their games for Revolution and not Microsoft or Sony's new
> consoles...
>
> Pfft.

Exactly.

And as well as that Dringo you've got games like the Urbz which are multi-format on the DS and the PSP with a few minor differences to compensate for (obviously) the PSP only having the one screen.

Dringo wrote:
> A: I didn't say no third party support I said no multi-format games.

Yeah, because of course all third-party companies are going to want to make their games for Revolution and not Microsoft or Sony's new consoles...

Pfft.

We do that in other posts.