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What, you bought the N64 and Cube for the third-party support?
Those developers and publishers who are capable of creating games that do somehting truly new will be in their element. Sega, Capcom, Konami, Nintendo themselves. If a company is incapable of being able to create something that uses a different control mechanism to the regular one, or unwilling to do so, then screw them - it's doubtful that they've got much of interest to present anyway, if that's the case. So the Rev might not get Need for Speed 63. I don't see anybody losing much sleep over that, really - not gamers, not Nintendo. EA might be pissed off that they can't increase their profit margins through the usual lazy tactics, but that's all the better for the rest of us.
This is what I've been saying for a while now, though - Nintendo clearly have no interest in a head-to-head battle with Microsoft or Sony. They know that doing that is pointless.
They create stuff that appeals to their exisiting fanbase and newcomers first and foremost. They know that their fans will stick by them, provided that they can make something that looks interesting and different, and they know that there's still a huge untapped market of people who don't currently play games, so they focus their attention on them - it guarantees that they don't lose any custom, but it also provides them with a whole bunch of new customers who previously never existed.
Then they go for the disenfranchised, the people who are bored with playing the exact same games. Finally, they get the curious - those who hear the others talking about the machine and figure that it might be worth giving it a go.
It's a clever, intelligent strategy. They deserve to do well out of it. Provded the games are there, of course.
By the way, Dudley, have you actually read any of the content on those links above? You know, the stuff about how the analogue controller bit fits inside shells? That immediately negates your comment about it not functioning as a traditional controller.
Amusing that you were all for innovation when the DS was announced and engaged in some trollish arguing about how the PSP was rubbish because it failed to do the same, yet are now arguing against a similar level of innovation - greater, possibly - where the Revolution is concerned. Amusing and depressing, like a lot of the unimaginative stupidity posted on the Internet today. Everybody wants something different, then when something truly different comes along them attack it on sight, because they've not bothered to spend any time thinking about the possibilities or they just can't get their heads around it. I don't understand it, therefore it's shit. So many knees jerking all at once that it's threatening to twist the planet on its axis, like that old tale about what'd happen if everybody in China jumped up and down at exactly the same time. |
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