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The Last-Stop-Speak-In-Hyperbole Official Revolution Specs Thread
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Project Midway
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Sticky please.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
CO_Andy said:
And why would Nintendo want to sell it for $49 in the year 2007 is beyond me. This sounding more and more like a Fisher Price toy than a Nintendo Entertainment System. :/
soundwave05
Member
It'll be $149.99 max, unless Nintendo is sitting on some unbelievable secret secondary feature that's eating up a large part of the hardware budget.
soundwave05
Member
mckmas8808 said:
Non-gamers are a completely different beast and any machine that is targeted specifically for this crowd is going to have to be dramatically different from any existing or previous game machine.
Thus any "rules" you think are sacred in regards to pricing no longer apply with the Revolution.
You can't look at any previous console as a precident for Revolution, simply because there's never been a console like this before.
Sure the GameCube was billed as a "family friendly" console, but it was more or less a traditional game machine with a traditional upgrade and a standard controller (more or less).
soundwave05
Member
I think (or hope) a DS SP is coming next year.
Something smaller/less bulky.
Something smaller/less bulky.
Suburban Cowboy
Member
more like a devolution rofl
There's no way that the system will launch at $99. That gives them no wiggle room if sales aren't up to their expectations. Bundling with games can only do so much.
I'd say for now 30% chance of $149 launch, 65% chance of $199, and 5% above that if they're batshit insane (more so than now).
I'd say for now 30% chance of $149 launch, 65% chance of $199, and 5% above that if they're batshit insane (more so than now).
mckmas8808
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soundwave05 said:
Dude just stop it. It is still a next-gen console. It can't be put into a room on it's own. I call $199 launch.
under-powered hardware, (expected) bargain bin pricing and a gimmicky control system is making the revolution look more and more like the cheesy game systems you see advertised towards children during a single holiday season, never to be seen again.
of course, id get anything that nintendo is releasing their games on, so i will be buying one. my expectations are pretty low though, and i dont expect to see the system on store shelves through the whole of next-gen...
of course, id get anything that nintendo is releasing their games on, so i will be buying one. my expectations are pretty low though, and i dont expect to see the system on store shelves through the whole of next-gen...
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
neptunes said:
Perfect!!
Shogmaster
Sloppy seconds
DrGAKMAN said:
Dude, just let this go. Don't skew it into another wild speculation. Having a battery in there is pretty pointless unless it'd got an LCD as well. And if you think PSP battery life was bad, this thing would be much worse if you fed it with batteries, unless you shoved in huge 6 cell 4000+ mAh Li-Ion from a laptop.
DSN2K said:
It's not the RAM amount that's gonna prevent UE3 running on Rev. There's a XBLA game running on UE3 that's less than 50MB compressed (so less than 100MB uncompressed max) for the entire game.
It's gonna be the lack of CPU and GPU oomph that's gonna prevent Rev from running UE3.
imastalker co.
Banned
What Mind Set Will $99 Put Developers / Publishers In?
the following question are all under the circumstances that the system launches at $99-$129...
- do you think certain developers, let's just say Treasure for example, will ever find themselves sitting there thinking... "hmm... should we make a PS3 game? or should we make 3 Revolution games for the same price?"
- will big publishers actually end up taking risks with what they throw on the system? do you think they'll just do more of the same, but try it with new controls? or do you think that since there's less money involved, some will finally start messing around with genres that they've never even considered before?
- with a lower price, lower dev cost, and an entirely different interface, how do you think this will affect the way developers / publishers do business with Nintendo, and in the console industry in general?
Revolution = More Arcade Ports Than Ever?
if Nintendo ends up making Revolution arcade hardware, what do you think are the chances that we'll see more ports than Naomi to Dreamcast?
also, if they did make the hardware, what do you think this would mean for the arcade industry?
the following question are all under the circumstances that the system launches at $99-$129...
- do you think certain developers, let's just say Treasure for example, will ever find themselves sitting there thinking... "hmm... should we make a PS3 game? or should we make 3 Revolution games for the same price?"
- will big publishers actually end up taking risks with what they throw on the system? do you think they'll just do more of the same, but try it with new controls? or do you think that since there's less money involved, some will finally start messing around with genres that they've never even considered before?
- with a lower price, lower dev cost, and an entirely different interface, how do you think this will affect the way developers / publishers do business with Nintendo, and in the console industry in general?
Revolution = More Arcade Ports Than Ever?
if Nintendo ends up making Revolution arcade hardware, what do you think are the chances that we'll see more ports than Naomi to Dreamcast?
also, if they did make the hardware, what do you think this would mean for the arcade industry?
soundwave05
Member
mckmas8808 said:
It's not a next-gen console.
It's a current gen console with a next-gen controller, which I would say makes it an "alternative console".
If it launches at more than $149.99, I'm calling it a flop outright. Maybe not of Virtual Boy proportions, but pretty damn close.
The whole upside to having a GameCube "Turbo" level chipset is to get a low price point.
dillingerx
Banned
So who's going to create the "Turn in your Nbot jacket" thread ?
soundwave05
Member
It may launch at $149.99, but if the system makes any hay it'll be between the $49.99-$99.99 price range.
That's a price low enough where the hardware is basically a non-issue -- which is exactly what you want when you're trying to convince someone who doesn't play video games to take a risk and purchase a game console.
That's a price low enough where the hardware is basically a non-issue -- which is exactly what you want when you're trying to convince someone who doesn't play video games to take a risk and purchase a game console.
imastalker co.
Banned
it just has to do with how much money they spent on development, and what the technology is capable of.Joe said:
taking that into consideration, it's hard to imagine this being over $150. that's also with Nintendo taking advantage of early adopters.
Warm Machine
Member
So the strategy facing the PS3 launch next year in North America around the same time is going to be what?
150 dollar console
+ 20 years of Nintendo
+ HUGE marketing campaign (they'd better do)
+ Hopefully great games
They'd better let lots of people try this out somewhere. If they can get great (party) games out on Revolution, it will be huge. People playing this at other people's houses and buying one for themselves would be ideal for Nintendo.
I'd hope Nintendo gets some pre-order plan started just like the 360 one.
+ 20 years of Nintendo
+ HUGE marketing campaign (they'd better do)
+ Hopefully great games
They'd better let lots of people try this out somewhere. If they can get great (party) games out on Revolution, it will be huge. People playing this at other people's houses and buying one for themselves would be ideal for Nintendo.
I'd hope Nintendo gets some pre-order plan started just like the 360 one.
phantomile co. said:
Early adopters generally don't care squat about price. Why would Nintendo throw away money for every console if they can get away with it? The casual consumer in the market for a new console will still find it the cheapest out of the three by a large margin.
imastalker co.
Banned
do you guys think this hardware will allow Nintendo pump more out than the competetion? allowing them to do a worldwide launch with ease? or all within a couple weeks like merrick said?
jiggle said:
It does seem very likely now that TP will be moved to revolution.
I'm not that excited anymore though. Next-gen Zelda is the number 1 victim of these low-specs. It's not going to look much better than TP or at least not even close to other epic next-gen games. It was my most anticipated videogame and now it's just... well I still can't wait to see it but I'm not losing sleep thinking about it.
Hopefully they only make one Zelda game for revolution (+handheld ones outsourced like GBA) so they could get started as early as possible for Zelda on the console after revolution.
Warm Machine
Member
Jonnyram said:
What is going to happen?
Haha, I just thought of this, we KNOW it will be extremely difficult for third parties to port their XBox 360 and PS3 projects to the Rev., but it will be hella easy (well, easIER) for them to port a lot of their titles on the PS2 and XBox to the Rev. with the new control functionalities, maybe even with a graphical facelift. Hell, I wouldn't mind playing Burnout 3, Devil May Cry 3 or Fable with the Revmote.
Hurricane_Chris
DDK
Remember when everyone here was saying the Gameboy Micro would be super cheap $49-$79? Nintendo squeezes their rabid fanbase for every bit of expendable income they've got.
soundwave05
Member
Portables are a completely different business model though.
People don't buy as many portable games as they do on consoles so Nintendo has always sold their portables at a profit.
People don't buy as many portable games as they do on consoles so Nintendo has always sold their portables at a profit.
Warm Machine
Member
capslock said:
They are not going to port what will be 2 year old+ games to the Rev and certainly not the ones on your list. Besides, just play those games here and now with a standard controller.