Next Gen for Nintendo

[Shoma]

OK LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!!!

Ive been gone for about 6 months because my interenet died on me!

So if im a little behind then sorry!

HOwever! I saw officail pics of the nintendo revolution and im not crazy about the look, i wanna some opions from the experts.

I mean, can you really hav fun with the controller!?

[Gryph]

It's different, that's for sure. Whether it's fun or not will be determined when the games come out for it. It's really too early to tell. However, all the first hand accounts with it have been positive. Some members of the press were able to play around with a prototype version with demo software and they said that it just worked naturally.

 

I'm excited for it because it's really different. Nintendo has really been on a hot streak for me with the DS so that's why I'm not brushing it off. I laughed at the DS because I thought the dual screens and touch screen were stupid ideas and I was proven wrong.

[garyoak99]

OK LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!!!

Ive been gone for about 6 months because my interenet died on me!

So if im a little behind then sorry!

HOwever! I saw officail pics of the nintendo revolution and im not crazy about the look, i wanna some opions from the experts.

I mean, can you really hav fun with the controller!?

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Wow! It looks like a TV remote in the right hand! The left analog stick controller looks fine though. It seems to have fewer buttons than the GameCube controller too.

 

Any idea why they designed it with a wire connecting the two pieces?

 

Leave it to Nintendo to think of radical designs for new controllers!

[Shoma]

It's different, that's for sure. Whether it's fun or not will be determined when the games come out for it. It's really too early to tell. However, all the first hand accounts with it have been positive. Some members of the press were able to play around with a prototype version with demo software and they said that it just worked naturally.

 

I'm excited for it because it's really different. Nintendo has really been on a hot streak for me with the DS so that's why I'm not brushing it off. I laughed at the DS because I thought the dual screens and touch screen were stupid ideas and I was proven wrong.

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Hmmmm.... I see what youre saying... As a matter of fact i remeber one of the proto-type testers saying "at first glance i wasnt too sure, but once you get your hands on it...."

 

IM JUST SAYING, ME PERSONALLY, I LOVE FIGHTING GAMES! I just cant see much smoothe thrashing going on with the dynamics of this controller unless im playing star wars or chainging the channel, but of course, i could be wrong.

[Gryph]

The controller has the capability to be placed in a traditional cradle so it'll be like a normal controller. However, that cradle is supposedly based on the Wavebird controller and the GC controller isn't really best for fighting games either.

 

So yeah, I don't know how well fighters will play on this system.

[Smilee]

Well I can't wait to try, it just dissents from the "normal" of all the other controllers and provides much more innovation to developers.

[Lucandrake]

The only genre of gaming I see this control hard to play with is fighting games. But don't we already play enough fighting games on our computers and ps2's? Anyways, it's supposed to be the cheapest of the 3 systems, and I really think it will be much more of a fun experience then most of todays systems. Nintendo is really going to take over women in the united states. Proof? My mom bought a micro because she thought it was cute.

[Dooz]

The controller has the capability to be placed in a traditional cradle so it'll be like a normal controller. However, that cradle is supposedly based on the Wavebird controller and the GC controller isn't really best for fighting games either.

 

So yeah, I don't know how well fighters will play on this system.

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I still can't belive that people don't know that the cradle was a mock-up made by IGN and not from Nintendo.

[Lucandrake]

I think that's why gryph put the word supposedly in the sentence.

[Shoma]

The controller has the capability to be placed in a traditional cradle so it'll be like a normal controller. However, that cradle is supposedly based on the Wavebird controller and the GC controller isn't really best for fighting games either.

 

So yeah, I don't know how well fighters will play on this system.

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I still can't belive that people don't know that the cradle was a mock-up made by IGN and not from Nintendo.

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Wait, are you saying thats not the real controller for the ninetendo or what? (WTF is a cradle? Yea i been gone too long.)

Edited February 11, 2006 by Shoma

[Lucandrake]

Shoma, imagine a gamecube controler, with a slot in the middle top were you can instert that revo controller without the analog stick. IGN made a picture of this and said that the revolution controller is capable of doing such things, but the picture wasn't real, IGN themselves even said it was just a example of what it might be.

[Gryph]

The controller has the capability to be placed in a traditional cradle so it'll be like a normal controller. However, that cradle is supposedly based on the Wavebird controller and the GC controller isn't really best for fighting games either.

 

So yeah, I don't know how well fighters will play on this system.

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I still can't belive that people don't know that the cradle was a mock-up made by IGN and not from Nintendo.

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It was a mockup but Merrick (or some Nintendo exec) has said that they are considering one based on the Wavebird, of course after the IGN mockup was shown.

 

EDIT: Ok, it was Jim Merrick, ex-Europe marketing exec. http://www.planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=item&id=6516

Eurogamer: How is the controller going to work with games that aren't designed specifically for the Revolution - multi-platform titles and so on?

 

Jim Merrick: We're producing a classic-style expansion controller, based on traditional designs like the Gamecube controller. It's like a shell with a hole in the top into which you slot the freehand-style controller, and then you can play third-party ported games, and retro Nintendo games you've downloaded.

 

So there's that option - but even while it's inserted into the classic-style shell, the freehand controller will still be able to sense positioning and so on, so there are more options too.

[Shoma]

*dumfuonded* Im aware of this, but i saw this at the next gen convention myself. The japaneese dude held that controler in his hand saying this is the nintnedo revo controller.

 

Ok....I edidted my prvious sentence becuz i just now understood wat he was saying, (Im kinda dense) thanks to Mr.Klaw over there. In that case depending on the sell itself i will hav no problems with this console, unless they bring out a bunch of 10 year old games like the gc.

Edited February 11, 2006 by Shoma

[Gryph]

Shoma, the freehand controller is the controller. However, it has a port at the bottom where you can attach it to other things. One such thing is a tradition controller shell. Think of it like the memory slot for Dreamcast controllers except putting an entire controller in it and then using that as the controller.

[Shoma]

Shoma, the freehand controller is the controller. However, it has a port at the bottom where you can attach it to other things. One such thing is a tradition controller shell. Think of it like the memory slot for Dreamcast controllers except putting an entire controller in it and then using that as the controller.

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Well, do you or anyone have any idea of how this "shell" will look?