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In all of you.
Really I am, and you call yourself Nintendo fans.
The announcement of the DS excited me in ways I can't describe on a family forum, and that is because it is one of the most funning excellent ideas Nintendo have come up with in years. And what do you lot say?
Annoymous forum member 1: "It won't have a massive line up"
Annoymous forum member 2: "Third parties won't support it"
Annoymous forum member 3: "It won't sell"
Annoymous forum member 4: "Nintendo should concentrate on making their home console a success and stop wasting money"
etc... etc...
What are you? Nintendo shareholders (I know one of ya is) or Nintendo gamers?
Right fancy a bussiness look at it? Right Nintendo have confirmed a system that could fall on its ar$e or become a roaring success sealing Nintendo's future and making millions. Either way it will do one thing at E3... steal Sony's PSP's thunder... and by heck that is what is needed. Nintendo always stated the N5 would compete head to head with the next gen consoles but what if Sony get a head start with the PSP... what if Nintendo can't make the titles and release the next Gameboy in time to prevent the threat? Well release a different handheld, an idea they've been thinking over, something that could succeed... and what better time to release it... than head to head with a Sony monster.
But this post is not about the bussiness side of things. For starters can you all get the idea that it is vital Nintendo make money, can you remove from your brain any worries about advertisement, competition etc... and for a change think about the games. Right done that? Good. Now the Nintendo Dual Screen console is a handheld device with two screens... that is no other console that offers this... it will play games we will never have ever played before... it will allow for similtaneous play.... it will be genius.
The possibilties are endless... a quick 5 minute think about this from me has churned some ideas up. Imagine what you could do if you controlled 2 sets of Pikmin on other ends of the map AT THE SAME TIME (in an advanced form of Pikmin 2) enabeling totally new puzzles. Imagine a Mario and Luigi game where Luigi is seperate from Mario and can collect a code with one screen that you can view the code with and put that code in as Mario in the next screen. No doing it for ya? How about a racing game where you control 2 vehicles.... too complicated... how about 2 racing views... one showing a behind view of the cars and one showing the normal driving mode. How about a metroid game that sticks to the third person roots in one screen and the new first person mode in another (now there's an idea)....
Of course a simple idea is 2 camera angles.... 2 seperate viewpoints... perfect for stealth games.
Naturally I'm no developer... I'm sure I've missed the best ideas and they've never considered these ones...
But that's the thought... the possibilties are endless... this REALLY IS A COOL NEW GAMING EVOLUTION. I don't care if it will sell... it really doesn't matter... there is no point discussing it, it could go down well or it could flop we'll have to wait and see. As for now.... now we just imagine what new, original ideas Nintendo will come out with for the launch.
What do you think? Get rid of preconceptions of a money making jugganaught (which it could be) and replace it with excitiment for a new gaming venture?
Thank you Nintendo, the industry was just getting boring too.
Dringo.
Really I am, and you call yourself Nintendo fans.
The announcement of the DS excited me in ways I can't describe on a family forum, and that is because it is one of the most funning excellent ideas Nintendo have come up with in years. And what do you lot say?
Annoymous forum member 1: "It won't have a massive line up"
Annoymous forum member 2: "Third parties won't support it"
Annoymous forum member 3: "It won't sell"
Annoymous forum member 4: "Nintendo should concentrate on making their home console a success and stop wasting money"
etc... etc...
What are you? Nintendo shareholders (I know one of ya is) or Nintendo gamers?
Right fancy a bussiness look at it? Right Nintendo have confirmed a system that could fall on its ar$e or become a roaring success sealing Nintendo's future and making millions. Either way it will do one thing at E3... steal Sony's PSP's thunder... and by heck that is what is needed. Nintendo always stated the N5 would compete head to head with the next gen consoles but what if Sony get a head start with the PSP... what if Nintendo can't make the titles and release the next Gameboy in time to prevent the threat? Well release a different handheld, an idea they've been thinking over, something that could succeed... and what better time to release it... than head to head with a Sony monster.
But this post is not about the bussiness side of things. For starters can you all get the idea that it is vital Nintendo make money, can you remove from your brain any worries about advertisement, competition etc... and for a change think about the games. Right done that? Good. Now the Nintendo Dual Screen console is a handheld device with two screens... that is no other console that offers this... it will play games we will never have ever played before... it will allow for similtaneous play.... it will be genius.
The possibilties are endless... a quick 5 minute think about this from me has churned some ideas up. Imagine what you could do if you controlled 2 sets of Pikmin on other ends of the map AT THE SAME TIME (in an advanced form of Pikmin 2) enabeling totally new puzzles. Imagine a Mario and Luigi game where Luigi is seperate from Mario and can collect a code with one screen that you can view the code with and put that code in as Mario in the next screen. No doing it for ya? How about a racing game where you control 2 vehicles.... too complicated... how about 2 racing views... one showing a behind view of the cars and one showing the normal driving mode. How about a metroid game that sticks to the third person roots in one screen and the new first person mode in another (now there's an idea)....
Of course a simple idea is 2 camera angles.... 2 seperate viewpoints... perfect for stealth games.
Naturally I'm no developer... I'm sure I've missed the best ideas and they've never considered these ones...
But that's the thought... the possibilties are endless... this REALLY IS A COOL NEW GAMING EVOLUTION. I don't care if it will sell... it really doesn't matter... there is no point discussing it, it could go down well or it could flop we'll have to wait and see. As for now.... now we just imagine what new, original ideas Nintendo will come out with for the launch.
What do you think? Get rid of preconceptions of a money making jugganaught (which it could be) and replace it with excitiment for a new gaming venture?
Thank you Nintendo, the industry was just getting boring too.
Dringo.
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Whitestripes DX wrote:
> You can like, look at the options screen without having to press
> start.
WOW!
> You can like, look at the options screen without having to press
> start.
WOW!
I sense the pounding of the sarcasm brigade!
Oh, it's WS!
And his nerd patrol!
hail
Oh, it's WS!
And his nerd patrol!
hail
You can like, look at the options screen without having to press start.
*does his 'i'm on to something' dance*
I won't pass jugdment till we learn more.
You're all here proclaiming it'll fail, but we don't actually know much about it at the moment, except that it'll have two screens and that it has a 1 gigabit memory.
Yes, i see that two screens for gameplay may be a stupid idea, but maybe it's a product design to be in direct competition with the PSP, it may play mp3's, recieve emails, play movies etc.
The two screens might not just be for gameplay.
Play games on screen one, choose your own music with screen two.
One screen for viewing, one for organising and choosing files.
Nintendo clearly stated that they would never add mp3 etc. features into Gameboys, but they have also clearly stated that this is in no way related to the Gameboy franchise. This may be there answer to 'mature' gamers, who don't want to be seen with Gameboys.
Who knows?
You're all here proclaiming it'll fail, but we don't actually know much about it at the moment, except that it'll have two screens and that it has a 1 gigabit memory.
Yes, i see that two screens for gameplay may be a stupid idea, but maybe it's a product design to be in direct competition with the PSP, it may play mp3's, recieve emails, play movies etc.
The two screens might not just be for gameplay.
Play games on screen one, choose your own music with screen two.
One screen for viewing, one for organising and choosing files.
Nintendo clearly stated that they would never add mp3 etc. features into Gameboys, but they have also clearly stated that this is in no way related to the Gameboy franchise. This may be there answer to 'mature' gamers, who don't want to be seen with Gameboys.
Who knows?
Or headaches. Nintendo are good at making people have headaches, see the Super Scope and Virtua Boy (with bonus nausea).
maddmun wrote:
> A second screen won't do that to you though...
Might create a society of cross-eyed people instead!
lol
:)
> A second screen won't do that to you though...
Might create a society of cross-eyed people instead!
lol
:)
I mean, it's not like nintendo have a history for ill thought hardware as strong as any innovative thread...
R.O.B.
Power Glove
Super Scope
Virtua Boy
Gamecube + anything online
Gameboy + any thing it connects to
SNES CD-ROM
N64 Disk Drive
Think you just have to accept they'll mess up as often as they will get it right.
My magical prediction is that there will be one killer launch game that uses the two screens perfectly, followed by a handful of Nintendo where they have to shove something on the second screen for the sake of it, no third party support, any significant attention gone in less than a year.
I'll look forward to that one killer launch title, but beyond that...
R.O.B.
Power Glove
Super Scope
Virtua Boy
Gamecube + anything online
Gameboy + any thing it connects to
SNES CD-ROM
N64 Disk Drive
Think you just have to accept they'll mess up as often as they will get it right.
My magical prediction is that there will be one killer launch game that uses the two screens perfectly, followed by a handful of Nintendo where they have to shove something on the second screen for the sake of it, no third party support, any significant attention gone in less than a year.
I'll look forward to that one killer launch title, but beyond that...
Cooky wrote:
> =4.Virtual Boy
> 4.Nintendo releases stupid hand-held console which flops
> and not release in most of the world
Possibly because it caused illness when released, they HAD to can it?
If you know somwthing makes people ill, you don't release it in the US where you're going to get sued every 12 seconds, do you?
A second screen won't do that to you though...
> =4.Virtual Boy
> 4.Nintendo releases stupid hand-held console which flops
> and not release in most of the world
Possibly because it caused illness when released, they HAD to can it?
If you know somwthing makes people ill, you don't release it in the US where you're going to get sued every 12 seconds, do you?
A second screen won't do that to you though...
It could be great, if utilised properly.
Simple ideas:
For shooters, showing you all your stats such as health ammo, armoue, and inventory on one screen to avoid cluttering on the other screen.
For platformers, WIDESCREEN!!eleven1!
Simple ideas:
For shooters, showing you all your stats such as health ammo, armoue, and inventory on one screen to avoid cluttering on the other screen.
For platformers, WIDESCREEN!!eleven1!
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