Ns5 the new ipod ?

[NavNucST3]

I like the prototypes size, but there is still no compelling reason for me to grab one, even as a second console, because it doesnt seem to offer me anything that I cant already get. I guess we will have to wait until we see just how cheap it is.

Well if you don't like Nintendo's games then you might not find Revolution worthy of owning.

Thats just it, PC-E, I don't and have never disliked their games. I just think I have grown out of the older games, I am not saying that games designed for the Rev won't be good or great. What I AM saying is that the BC holds nothing for me other than nostalgia and like I said $30-50 at a mall, for those games in a joystick/joypad, gets me all the nostalgia I need.

 

[Skrying]

Current games are involving? Uhh, that's the total opposite I'm feeling these days. Besides a few decent games here and there I think all current games are all total pieces of ****.

I'd personally much rather travel back to the day and age when all games seemed like some effort was put into them and they all didnt just seem remakes of each other.

I much rather play Mario Bros. 3 than any Halo, HL2, Doom 3, GT4, GTA, or any other current game for that matter.

Nintendo is really the only place I still look for good quality and most importantly fun without being stupidly immature.

Take it how you will, its just my opinion.

 

[PC-Engine]

I like the prototypes size, but there is still no compelling reason for me to grab one, even as a second console, because it doesnt seem to offer me anything that I cant already get. I guess we will have to wait until we see just how cheap it is.

Well if you don't like Nintendo's games then you might not find Revolution worthy of owning.

Thats just it, PC-E, I don't and have never disliked their games. I just think I have grown out of the older games, I am not saying that games designed for the Rev won't be good or great. What I AM saying is that the BC holds nothing for me other than nostalgia and like I said $30-50 at a mall, for those games in a joystick/joypad, gets me all the nostalgia I need.

Ok if the you don't want to play the older games then you don't have to. Alot of people are going to buy Revolution because of what new nextgen games it will offer. The old backwards emulation is just a bonus. In fact for me personally I'm more interested in what next gen stuff they'll offer. The nastalgia stuff is fun, but it isn't the meat and potatoes of the console for me.

 

[BlueTsunami]

To me...I love seeing the old classics going throught these evolutions in visual graphics. Its cool to go into a new generation of gameing and really wanting to see what Mario, Zelda and other old classics will look like. Its a good thing that Nintendo isn't following suit with Sony and Microsoft....we need a different 3rd company to break up any similarities and Nintendo does that for me.

 

[mckmas8808]

The thread starter is wrong. His friends are too. I will bet $1000 that the NR will not be the next ipod.

Mckmas: did someone hack your account? This post is flaming, useless and out of character. I'm disappointed in you

Man that actually makes me feel bad. I apologize to the thread starter. But I still don't think it will be the next ipod.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Current games are involving? Uhh, that's the total opposite I'm feeling these days. Besides a few decent games here and there I think all current games are all total pieces of ****.

I much rather play Mario Bros. 3 than any Halo, HL2, Doom 3, GT4, GTA, or any other current game for that matter.

I don't play those games either! Indeed I'd agree, but I only play a small selection of games and those I play are far more 'involving' (read big and complicated!) than the 2D games of old. eg. Why play the original Guantlet when dungeon crawling has advanced through Diablo2 and DG: DA or CON? Though there are some games that haven;t been superceded. For platformers 3D hasn't really brought an improvement in gameplay. If anything 3D is more frustrating. And there hasn't been any real advance IMO on the scrolling shooter. For these, Mario or R-Type offer as good gameplay as anything now. But I remember the 2D area as 50% Mario-clone platformers, 30% fighting games, and 20% spread between sports games (you want to go back to old 2D sports? ), R-Type ripoffs, and Tetris wannabes.

That's why during that time I had an Amiga, not a console, and played perhaps the largest variety of genres ever! Some games still hold good to this day, but some have also been superceded by more fun offerings. And the less-fun contemporary games isn't because the hardware isn't up to it. So in essence, rather than offering old games for fun, devs dhould write new games that are more fun than the old games!

 

[Platon]

It might be the "ipod" of the next gen consoles but much less successfull...

 

[jvd]

Look at it this way .


Say nintendo charges 1-2$ per nes game . This is not a large cost . I'm sure the emulator wont cost much and sending a 1 meg game is nothing over the web . I personaly owned 400 nes games and there are about a 120 i would love to play again (my top loader nes still works but its a pain and sometimes it will shut off or restart ) Now I'm sure there are others that will only pay for a few games. But mabye not . Think of a 30 year old that played the system when he was younger . He sees this great small box that is sleak and nice . he can hook it up to his pc monitor or a small tv in his house and he can download all the games he remembers for a fraction of the cost . He will buy alot of games . Super nes is the same way . If nes games are 1-2 , make nes games 2-4 . I doubt these are more than a meg or two . There are a ton of games many remember fondly . Playing them with friends when they were younger . Getting a game and staying up all night to beat it and they will pay that small fee to do it legaly .

The n64 is where i see the problems . The games are larger and will cost more . There aren't many big name games for it and you can still get working n64s cheaply . So they are going to have to add something to those games . Perhaps large amounts of fsaa and aniso ? And it will play gamecube discs .


Nintendo can make alot of money reselling thier old games and other developers games (take a small fee ) it will add up as lots of people will spend 1-2$ on a nes game and they will buy alot of them. Esp if the system is low in price .

This is how itunes and the ipod took off . At first there were a small amount of titles and alot of old titles with 1 or 2 new releases sprinkled on . But people flocked too it .

TO many here are into bigger and better graphics where many people just wnat fun games and not all new games are fun on the rev u will have both fun and new games .

 

[Ty]

Well the catalog of nes, snes, & N64 games pales in comparison to the catalog available for mp3s. And you also have to remember that the emulator catalog is stagnant, i.e. it stopped growing when those systems died - which is obviously not true for music - it continues to grow and grow.

 

[jvd]

Well the catalog of nes, snes, & N64 games pales in comparison to the catalog available for mp3s. And you also have to remember that the emulator catalog is stagnant, i.e. it stopped growing when those systems died - which is obviously not true for music - it continues to grow and grow.

Your forgeting that the nintendo games continue to grow also. There will be brand new games for the rev .

Lets also not forget that nintendo doesn't just have thier home consoles to draw from . They have alot of games when all is considered . The nes and supernes had a few thousand games between them .

 

[Ty]

Your forgeting that the nintendo games continue to grow also. There will be brand new games for the rev .

No I'm not forgetting that - hence why I said, nes, snes, & N64. Games for those systems (and thus downloading) are extremely limited and will forever be extremely limited.

Lets also not forget that nintendo doesn't just have thier home consoles to draw from . They have alot of games when all is considered . The nes and supernes had a few thousand games between them .

That's not the point I made. Unlike iTunes, the catalogue for these downloadable games is extremely limited compared to music which grows at an incredible rate.

Here is what you said and what I was responding to.

Nintendo can make alot of money reselling thier old games and other developers games (take a small fee ) it will add up as lots of people will spend 1-2$ on a nes game and they will buy alot of them. Esp if the system is low in price .

This is how itunes and the ipod took off . At first there were a small amount of titles and alot of old titles with 1 or 2 new releases sprinkled on . But people flocked too it .

The catalogue of games available for downloading is so small compared to iTunes that it can't possibly be the engine that will make the Revolution the next iPod. Apple just claimed the other week that iTunes sold 500 MILLION songs. Maybe Nintendo will manage to get 1 - 5% of this. To me, that doesn't qualify as the next iPod but that's me.

Anyhow, we should find out what is your metric for judging if the Revolution will be the next iPod? What exactly do you mean by the next iPod?