What ..Revolution ?

[kevin]

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/699/699118p1.html

[Ian Price]

The Revolution is the only next-gen console I'm actually interested in as far as games go. I've owned and enjoyed Nintendo consoles since the SNES (as well as pretty much everything else).

I really don't see the need to keep upping the levels of detail in games. I have some lovely looking games on all my consoles, but at the end of the day it's gameplay that counts - and Nintendo games ALWAYS deliver on that front.

My most played games of late have been graphically poor, but unbelievably strong where gameplay matters - Animal Crossing GC & DS, Advance Wars etc.

If the Revolution (or GO as it may eventually be called), has only nearly twice the power of the GC, then I'll be happy, as the GC is my most played console ever. With games like Zelda, Metroid, Mario, Pikmin, Pokemon etc. to look forward to then I'm a very happy bunny. And if they look twice as good as they do already, then I'm ecstatic :D Then there's the backward compatibility issue too - NES, SNES, N64, MegaDrive(Genesis), PC Engine...

Just look at what the GC has pulled off towards the end of it's life - Resi 4, Metroid 2 and soon Zelda:Twilight Princess.

I've said this on other forums, but the day where all games look photo-realistic, is the day I give up gaming.

I want my games to look like games and realism, just doesn't do that for me - perhaps it's because I am oldschool (the reason JetPak was designed to look like an oldschool arcade game).

I shall be pretty near the front of the queue when the Revolution finally comes. And the controller, well it sounds interesting, and could bring about a change to the way we view/play games, but who cares really? I just want the old Nintendo franchises brought upto date and ready to play with all over again :)

[kevin]

Obviously, their trying to bring the new box in at a fraction of the competition.  Which makes solid sense.  And at that spec they should be %50 of the 360 and probably ps3 retail.  A good thing !...  But that didn't work for Cube here.    

  While a cheaper box is going to win a lot of  brownie points with those coughing up  the doh (huge appeal to parents).   But given that's it's apparently not a huge step from the cube, it seems that the controller is the main incentive to buy.  Apart from regular Nintendo flag ship titles and backward compat stuff.  

 I've no doubt Nintendo fans will be lining up... but i'd certainly be a little uneasy about it.

[Ian Price]

At the end of the day, Nintendo could give the Revolution away in cereal packets and most gamers would still ignore them - wrongly believing that "Nintendo is for kids"

If Nintendo created a super powerful machine that bettered the PS3 and XB360, I don't think it would make a jot of difference.

I don't think the new controller is going to make the world sit up and think, "Yeh, let's buy one!"

At the moment, I can't see it being anything more than a gimmick (and I'd love to be proved wrong). I can see some games will make good use of it in parts, but like  I think most people will go back to using traditional control methods over the  motion sensing for standard games - only using the "pointer" where it speeds up certain aspects of gameplay. Also, what's the guarantee that the controllers will work with every type of tv? Look at the problems we have trying to run games on pcs.

I will be buying a PS3 and an XB360, but only when there are games I want to play on them, which, at this time (and looking at previews), there aren't any. There is no innovation in anything I've seen and nothing looks much better than games that are available on other machines right now.