The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

[BigfootKevin]

btw guys, there's supposed to be a cradle for the controller. It's supposed to look like an existing controller, and this is what people think it might look like. This is not a real controller, just an idea


http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/8857/understandingtherevolutioncont.jpg

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: her34

Originally posted by: DragonMasterAlex

Second, PSP's going to take over the mobile market? What are you smoking? DS still has the PSP outsold by a factor of 2 to 1 (Sales Figures. DS has better games, fewer gimmicks (overpriced UMD movies? What a joke! NOTHING to do with gaming!) and much MUCH more innovation.

try looking up worldwide sales figures

The PSP broke the 5 million mark back in June.
The DS did it in March.

 

[ssvegeta1010]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
3) Like it will make everyone playing look like a TOTAL TARD
4) Like a potential health problem. Seriously. The human wrist was not made to endure that kind of use over long periods of time.

3) Dance Dance Revolution already does that, no worries there.
4) This IS ATOT, their wrists get regular workouts I am sure.

QFT

DDR has already broken the retarded looking video game thing, and people still play it.

 

[ssvegeta1010]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Oh, and HOW IN THE HELL are they going to do in-store demo units!?!? They won't be able to get spoiled 5 year olds to scream to their parents "I WANT THIS NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW" - which is a rather massive market for game consoles.

Add a wire. Done.

(I played an in store unit of wario ware twisted, where you need to turn the GBA to control. My local EB was just given another GBA to put it on and had it tethered to the side of the counter.)

 

[speg]

I can't wait to try it!

 

[AbAbber2k]

I like the controller cradle, that's cool. Nice to know they are going to offer a more classic controller as well.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Legend

amdforever2 has no fvcking clue. Nintendo has put cash in the bank consistently for the past decade. They have huge cash reserves, and come the new generation of consoles, they won't be loosing $100-$150 per console like Sony and Microsoft.

Do you think they made that money off Gamecube and N64?

They didn't. They made it off gameboy, and PSP is taking half of Nintendo's share in the handhold market, looking at DS and PSP.

Let's see how Sony has 50% of the handheld market, hmmm?

NPD Console Sales for August 2005:
PS2 = 253,000
XBX = 134,000
GCN = 53,000
GBA = 180,000
PSP = 167,000
NDS = 103,000

So, 180,000 + 103,000, 283,000 units, PSP, 167,000 units
thats 37%, not a far cry from half, but Nintendo still has the lead. And lets not forget, has Sony reported ANY profit from their computer entertainment division any time this year? NO

And the above data is just for August
Nintendo's sold 2,958,581 DSes in Japan since its released. Sony's sold 1,632,406.
Nintendo selling two times as many DSes ALONE (they still sell an assload of GBAs and GBA SPs) as PSPs is just, completly insignificant now is it?
http://www.codepoetsolutions.com/myth/dsvspsp.html
Nintendo DS Release Week: 468,883
Sony PSP Release Week: 160,019
And N is still the only one out there cutting a profit.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: sheik124

Originally posted by: Legend

amdforever2 has no fvcking clue. Nintendo has put cash in the bank consistently for the past decade. They have huge cash reserves, and come the new generation of consoles, they won't be loosing $100-$150 per console like Sony and Microsoft.

Do you think they made that money off Gamecube and N64?

They didn't. They made it off gameboy, and PSP is taking half of Nintendo's share in the handhold market, looking at DS and PSP.

Let's see how Sony has 50% of the handheld market, hmmm?

NPD Console Sales for August 2005:
PS2 = 253,000
XBX = 134,000
GCN = 53,000
GBA = 180,000
PSP = 167,000
NDS = 103,000

So, 180,000 + 103,000, 283,000 units, PSP, 167,000 units
thats 37%, not a far cry from half, but Nintendo still has the lead. And lets not forget, has Sony reported ANY profit from their computer entertainment division any time this year? NO

And the above data is just for August
Nintendo's sold 2,958,581 DSes in Japan since its released. Sony's sold 1,632,406.
Nintendo selling two times as many DSes ALONE (they still sell an assload of GBAs and GBA SPs) as PSPs is just, completly insignificant now is it?
http://www.codepoetsolutions.com/myth/dsvspsp.html
Nintendo DS Release Week: 468,883
Sony PSP Release Week: 160,019
And N is still the only one out there cutting a profit.

And don't forget the GBA Micro is poised to add even more to those numbers! I'm going to pick one up around the holidays.

 

[eelw]

Originally posted by: werk
And don't forget the GBA Micro is poised to add even more to those numbers! I'm going to pick one up around the holidays.

It's crazy how Nintendo can so easily milk us consumers of so much money with each new Gameboy version.

 

[eelw]

Great link with comments from various gaming industry people. So who really cares if many gamers here are turned off by the Revolution controller. As long as the game creators are extremely excited to develop games with this new controller, it will force all the naysayers to eat their own words and truly see how revolutionary this new controller will be.

 

[AmericanRebel]

The new controler is ridiculus. It is an interesting idea that i think will fail miserably. Imagine waving that thing around while trying to play a fps for any extended amount of time

 

[spanky]

sounds pretty cool.

 

[AmericanRebel]

Its amusing how people are commenting on how 'revolutionary" the controller is. Because, its not at all an nes controler tilted vertically, with a few more buttons and a motion sensor.

 

[Furyline]

Originally posted by: AmericanRebel
Its amusing how people are commenting on how 'revolutionary" the controller is. Because, its not at all an nes controler tilted vertically, with a few more buttons and a motion sensor.

How many games have you played with a motion sensor? What excites people is the potential for new gaming experiences. Some people are tired of playing the same games over and over, with sequels coming out every year with a couple new features thrown in. I'm excited to see what games come out for this.

 

[PimpJuice]

Originally posted by: Wahsapa
nes: bad

you: clueless

 

[eelw]

Originally posted by: AmericanRebel
Its amusing how people are commenting on how 'revolutionary" the controller is.

Oh shut up and go play GTA8 with your boom-a-rang controller you troll. And what is your really username? Too much a chicken-$hit to use your really account that you had to create a new one to troll with?

 

[Legend]

Let's see how Sony has 50% of the handheld market, hmmm?

NPD Console Sales for August 2005:
PS2 = 253,000
XBX = 134,000
GCN = 53,000
GBA = 180,000
PSP = 167,000
NDS = 103,000

So, 180,000 + 103,000, 283,000 units, PSP, 167,000 units
thats 37%, not a far cry from half, but Nintendo still has the lead. And lets not forget, has Sony reported ANY profit from their computer entertainment division any time this year? NO

That's a very short sighted outlook.

Sony strategy will continue with PSP just as it did with PSone and PS2. They will gradually decrease the cost of hardware, lower the price, and software sales will increase. Historically this is how Sony has been successful in the video game industry.

I already explained how Sony's strategy works, and that technically Nintendo has more marketshare but a large part of that marketshare is going to die out soon. I'm focused on the future, not the past.

GBA will eventually die out. I remember how people were saying the original gameboy (color) would never die out. It did.

Sony came into the market as the new guy, and has already grabbed over half of the new handheld marketshare in current sales. They did this with a huge price tag. How well will Nintendo do when PSP goes down in price?

 

[Legend]

Since I posted before regarding the revolution controller, I found out about the traditional controller add-on.

If that's standard, I think Nintendo is on to something.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: Legend

Let's see how Sony has 50% of the handheld market, hmmm?

NPD Console Sales for August 2005:
PS2 = 253,000
XBX = 134,000
GCN = 53,000
GBA = 180,000
PSP = 167,000
NDS = 103,000

So, 180,000 + 103,000, 283,000 units, PSP, 167,000 units
thats 37%, not a far cry from half, but Nintendo still has the lead. And lets not forget, has Sony reported ANY profit from their computer entertainment division any time this year? NO

That's a very short sighted outlook.

Sony strategy will continue with PSP just as it did with PSone and PS2. They will gradually decrease the cost of hardware, lower the price, and software sales will increase. Historically this is how Sony has been successful in the video game industry.

I already explained how Sony's strategy works, and that technically Nintendo has more marketshare but a large part of that marketshare is going to die out soon. I'm focused on the future, not the past.

GBA will eventually die out. I remember how people were saying the original gameboy (color) would never die out. It did.

Sony came into the market as the new guy, and has already grabbed over half of the new handheld marketshare in current sales. They did this with a huge price tag. How well will Nintendo do when PSP goes down in price?

And in turn, the DS will get even lower in price, thus evening the playing field. I'm not much of a portable fan, but Ive had more fun playing the ds games Ive tried than the psp games.

I might be alone here, but the gamecube has been my favorite system of the last generation.

The xbox is a distant third, I honestly dont find most games for it to be all that fun. I use it more for XBMC than for playing games. Dont get me wrong, I would never, ever let my modded xbox go until xbmc comes out for the 360, but until then, bleh. Halo is fun and all, but at the end of the day, its a mediocre fps only fun cause its pretty much the only decent 4 player fps released in the past 5 years.

PS2 is great. Love it. Awesome games, unlike the xbox. But its almost exclusively single player.

Gamecube on the other hand is quite simply the most fun, because its the most social. They might not be the "coolest" games, but there really is no match for 4-player smash bros, wario ware, mario kart, mario tennis, monkey ball etc. They are all basically mario games, but at the end of the day, they were the games that had a bunch of us in a room having the greatest time. To me, before anything else, video games are supposed to be pure unadulterated fun. And nintendo has that hands down. The new controller is exactly that kind of the controller...the kind that will have everyone playing together, having a blast with a smile on their face, kiddie games or not. It will never really be a system for loners.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: BD2003
Gamecube on the other hand is quite simply the most fun, because its the most social. They might not be the "coolest" games, but there really is no match for 4-player smash bros, wario ware, mario kart, mario tennis, monkey ball etc. They are all basically mario games, but at the end of the day, they were the games that had a bunch of us in a room having the greatest time. To me, before anything else, video games are supposed to be pure unadulterated fun. And nintendo has that hands down. The new controller is exactly that kind of the controller...the kind that will have everyone playing together, having a blast with a smile on their face, kiddie games or not. It will never really be a system for loners.

We had a lot of fun with FF: Crystal Chronicles as well. Of course, not everyone was in a position to go through it with four players due to the GBA thing.

 

[SNiPeRX]

I am a die hard xbox fan... I will be getting the xbox 360 the day it comes out. However I have owned every single nintendo console that has come out. Why because the price is nice. All I have to say is if you have resident evil for GC u know what I am talking about. It is bad a$$ not to mention it is not one ps2 or xbox. The graphics are great... surprised me compared to the other games on the system. I believe revolution will be what the title says, and I will be purchasing one because I have never been disappointed yet by nintendo. my 2 cents.

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: MAME

Originally posted by: Yossarian
well that looks retarded. if I wanted physical activity I wouldn't be sitting on my couch playing a video game.

yeah, I guess that's why DDR never caught on

haha, a post from MAME that I actually enjoyed!

probably cause it didn't have any stupid pictures in it though , although those lightning pics were awesome.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: Sam334
Uhoh. r.i.p Nintendo.

Yeah, making profit will kill you.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: sleepmachine
wtf how are you going to play madden or soul calibur with that

With the addons that come with it, or the option to use a gamecube controller

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: NeoV
looks like an Ipod remote control

lame

Revolution = Sega Saturn redux

You = n00b who plays games for the looks alone and not for the fun. Nintendo makes fun games, end of story