OMG...221 downloadable games for the Rev!!!

Icarusintel said:
i love the classics, i don;t like nintendo's lack of any kind of marketing strategy
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Would you rather:

"check out this (ingame ;)) footage"!
"the Revolution will be 40 times more powerful than the GC"!
 
The Mullinator said:
Why does everyone think this is what Nintendo has in mind for the revolution?

I think its pretty clear Nintendo just considers this an added bonus. What Nintendo thinks will make this console revolutionary has yet to be revealed.
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Well, the only thing they've not really unveiled is the controller, which obviously cannot be so revolutionary, if old games play on it so easily. I'm just not wooed over by old news, 'tis all.
 
Xune said:
I'll finally be able to see what the F-ZeroX expansion looked like.
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You and me both. I wanted to create my own tracks. Real bad.
 
Warbie said:
Would you rather:

"check out this (ingame ;)) footage"!
"the Revolution will be 40 times more powerful than the GC"!
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i'd rather play the new zelda... right now
 
Don't act is if this is Nintendo's revolution idea for the system...because it isn't. Some of you are just mad because you still don't know what that revolutionary idea is, but Nintendo has a lot of time before they NEED to give that info out.

Also, this is a HUGE selling point in my opinion, it's not as if Nintendo is only going to focus on this and not create new games. This will bring back major nostalgia to old school Nintendo fans, also keep in mind most people don't know about playing ROMs/playing them on your computer is not nearly as fun as the regular experience on a tv.
 
ThomasToad said:
Don't act is if this is Nintendo's revolution idea for the system...because it isn't. Some of you are just mad because you still don't know what that revolutionary idea is, but Nintendo has a lot of time before they NEED to give that info out.
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well, they need to get something out in the next couple months, because people are gonna start pre-ordering Xbox 360s if they don;t know anything about Revolution
 
ThomasToad said:
Don't act is if this is Nintendo's revolution idea for the system...because it isn't. Some of you are just mad because you still don't know what that revolutionary idea is, but Nintendo has a lot of time before they NEED to give that info out.
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But, as Kangy points out, the only thing we don't know about the console is the controller. The controller has to be something truely exceptional in order to be revolutionary, but at the same time, it needs to be familiar enough for the legacy games to work.

I'll be surprised if Nintendo have got anything new to show us at all. But that's what surprises are about... I just feel that Ninty aren't market leaders or "revolutionaries" anymore. Even Miyamoto is starting to sound like the game industry's equivilent of the Duke of Edinburgh.
 
I'm beginning to lose faith in this revolution. From what I can gather this will be the least powerful of all the consoles and although the controller has not been revealed yet it probably won't be too "revolutionary" (seeing as how it can play older games). The games may be a different story, but from what I can tell the hardware is very unimpressive. I mean c'mon, having a feature which has essentially been available for free on the PC for the last 5 years or so isn't that big of a breakthrough.

And while some of you say it doesn't matter as much about the power of the console as the quality of the games - you're right. But by that logic Nintendo can just keep making Gamecube games. If I'm going to spend money on new hardware, it better be more than a marginal improvement over what we already have. At this point Nintendo has nothing going in it's favor, except for this elusive "revolutionary" idea that I'm not so sure exists anymore. Both Sony and MS have showed that they have better hardware and actually displayed some of the next generation games.

To me, the Revolution is looking more and more disappointing.
 
3 times more poweful isn't bad by any means. Take a look at the new Zelda title on the GC - now imagine 3 times beter than that.

The difference is that Sony and, to a lesser degree, Mincrosoft are talking complete shite. 40 time more powerful than a PS2 my ass.

They're doing another 'emotion engine' - don't let them fool you!
 
Quality over quantity people. It may not have a hard drive and other stuff but still take Nintendo for what it is and remain faithful. It shall be good no matter what. Any complaints and I'm going to start dusting off my duck hunt gun for you fools :|
 
kupoartist said:
But, as Kangy points out, the only thing we don't know about the console is the controller. The controller has to be something truely exceptional in order to be revolutionary, but at the same time, it needs to be familiar enough for the legacy games to work.

I'll be surprised if Nintendo have got anything new to show us at all. But that's what surprises are about... I just feel that Ninty aren't market leaders or "revolutionaries" anymore. Even Miyamoto is starting to sound like the game industry's equivilent of the Duke of Edinburgh.
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I also read in an interview that the interface will be pretty incredible.
 
Septih said:
i dunno, prolly get quite a few games on them considering the size of software back in those days, if i remember correctly some emulated games were around 4-10mb
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N64 roms can be pretty big though, anywhere from 8mb to 64mb.
 
Free games is always good.

Super Mario Bros for NES is truly the shiznit.
 
Does anybody know the average size of games for the NES, SNES, and N64? I'm trying to decide how many games I could fit on a 512 memory stick. Would it be possible to fit every NES game on the memory stick?

Also, Nintendo really needs to release a wireless duckhunt gun. I think I would shed a tear of joy.
 
dlandis72 said:
Does anybody know the average size of games for the NES, SNES, and N64? I'm trying to decide how many games I could fit on a 512 memory stick. Would it be possible to fit every NES game on the memory stick?

Also, Nintendo really needs to release a wireless duckhunt gun. I think I would shed a tear of joy.
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I know N64 games are 256Mb each. Which isn't too bad.

I think SNES are.... 64? And NES 16? Someone will have to correct me on that.
 
Maybe they'll release a second optional controller for those who want to play the old games. That way they can make money off the "free" games.
 
Warbie said:
3 times more poweful isn't bad by any means. Take a look at the new Zelda title on the GC - now imagine 3 times beter than that.

The difference is that Sony and, to a lesser degree, Mincrosoft are talking complete shite. 40 time more powerful than a PS2 my ass.

They're doing another 'emotion engine' - don't let them fool you!
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If the PS3 has Cell and Cell is as powerful as it's supposed to be, then yeah, 40times more powerful is probably about right!. Edit/ Oh yeah, don't forget the PS3 can quite easily run UE3, which is ****ing super impressive on its own. No PC can get close to running UE3 smooth yet.

I'm impressed with the PS3 and even with the Xbox360 (which is quite odd because i can't stand the Xbox) but the Revolution...well...what's to get excited about? 221 old skool' games? no thanks, what else? ...oh, there isn't anything.

...Or maybe, all you Nintendo fans hoping in vein, the Revolution hasn't been unveiled because Nintendo know it isn't as good or nearly as impressive as the PS3/Xbox360? .. and so they are waiting it out hoping to get as much hype over the system as possible to bag some customers and then unveil some piece of old skool' un-revolutionary console that can play the old games *cough* old idea! *cough*.

I don't know, i've never liked Nintendo's games anyway except for Goldeneye, but they are no more and it just seems everyday that goes by, the more and more i won't ever think of laying down money for the Revolution.
 
Reginald said:
I know N64 games are 256Mb each. Which isn't too bad.

I think SNES are.... 64? And NES 16? Someone will have to correct me on that.
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Nah, the larget game on the N64 was Conkers Bad Fur Day. That was mainly due to the voice acting that accompanied the game. That one weighed in at just over 50mb.

The Zelda games were closer to 30mb while Mario 64 was under 10mb.
 
Im praying that I'll be able to hook up my external hard drive to one of the USB ports on the rev...I'd never have to worry about space then.
 
Here is a new article from IGN with some new news: http://cube.ign.com/articles/622/622870p1.html

Sadly it says the games will cost money, but there will be all kinds of ways to get games for free, like purchasing new revolution games or other things. I honestly didn't expect them to give all those games away for free, especially the n64 ones. Anyways I would say I only want about 20 of those games or so, I bet they give you like 5 free downloadable games with each revolution game you pick up or something like that. I'll also bet the system itself comes with at least 10 free downloadable games.
 
ThomasToad said:
I'll also bet the system itself comes with at least 10 free downloadable games.
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Despite the age of the titles, any system that launches with something to play in the standard retail package would be recieved fairly positive. The danger is, the Revolution may release so far after the other consoles, that they'll be bundled with games straight out of the box anyway...
 
i love the way that people are repeatedly stating that the downloadable content idea is stupid because you can just play roms when they are technically illegal. It's like arguing in the aftermath forum saying that you don't care how much it costs cos you'll download the wares version of it anyway
 
*kupoartist loads up emulator and plays all the games that i'd want to play anyway... *
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Agreed, :p this isn't a feature I care about
 
Septih said:
i love the way that people are repeatedly stating that the downloadable content idea is stupid because you can just play roms when they are technically illegal. It's like arguing in the aftermath forum saying that you don't care how much it costs cos you'll download the wares version of it anyway
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That just goes to show people's values: though the (il)legality of piracy is not effected with age, the older a game is, the less morally objectional people consider the act of piracy. In that way the analogy doesn't quite work perfectly: Aftermath will be a commerically available game whereas the roms aren't... until to Revolution comes along. I wonder if Nintendo will get on the case of emulation teams because of this, or is the infrastructure for emulators simply to widespread to get rid?

Personally, i've often wondered why the console manufacturers don't embrace emulation in some form. The buisness model of the console systems dictates that they actually make a loss on selling the hardware, which is reclaimed through selling software: if they were to distribute their own emulators, they wouldn't make such a large loss because the hardware is supplied (so to speak) by the PC users. Of course, there is the basic fact emulation simply isn't as simple as that, but it'd be an interesting buisness model all the same...
 
i doubt the console manufacturers would embrace it, would it not mean an end to console exclusives? I do agree with the age of games point though, i think abandonware should be legal, especially if the company aren't going to make any more money out of it. I hope ninty doesn't go on an anti-emulation rampage, it lowers respect for companies when they act all paranoid like that
 
IGN said:
The downloads will, as previously announced, be stored in flash memory. You'll be able to store games in the 512 megabytes built into the system, but should this fill up, you can transfer your downloads to an SD memory card and use your computer to manage the files. Iwata didn't elaborate, but did state that copy protection is in place (so don't expect to simply send downloaded game copies to your friends by e-mail).
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Looks like my prayers were answered! :thumbs:
 
Fat Tony! said:
Agreed, :p this isn't a feature I care about
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Hmmm... Yet you care enough to post in this topic? :thumbs:
 
SearanoX said:
It happened with the rumble pack
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I'm sorry did you just infer that the rumble pack was revolutionary?

Lets put a big fat ****ing device underneath our controllers making it heavier than the xbox behemoth of a controller and make it have the controller WIGGLE when you hit into a wall. If they hadnt thought of it I'm sure someone else would have.
 
Some brand spanking new info on IGN says that Revolution game demos will be available for download, yet it sounds like there will only be a 512 MB hard drive inside. Will a next gen game be able to create a decent demo that is 512 MB or less? Remember, we need to fit old school games and firmware updates on that mini hardrive too.
 
dlandis72 said:
Some brand spanking new info on IGN says that Revolution game demos will be available for download, yet it sounds like there will only be a 512 MB hard drive inside. Will a next gen game be able to create a decent demo that is 512 MB or less? Remember, we need to fit old school games and firmware updates on that mini hardrive too.
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It's a flash drive. It can be emptied onto SD cards and transferred over to the PC for easy storage. In theory, you have as much space as you want.
 
gh0st said:
I'm sorry did you just infer that the rumble pack was revolutionary?

Lets put a big fat ****ing device underneath our controllers making it heavier than the xbox behemoth of a controller and make it have the controller WIGGLE when you hit into a wall. If they hadnt thought of it I'm sure someone else would have.
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No it was just the beginning. Notice how the PS then came out with "rumble packs" built into their controllers...where ever did they get the idea for a rumble pack!??!!? The GC controllers now have it built in but still, Nintendo is where it's at.
 
I used the Rumble Paks to hold the controllers into the controller case I made for a technology project at school. Hence, they were very useful. I got an A :afro:

EDIT: I spelt "Pak" pack.. :dork:
 
No Battletoads, no River City Ransom? I sure hope they eventually incorporate 3rd party games.
 
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