The Wii is Here.

[Silver_Brian]

I am loyal to Nintendo forever. The controller design looks a bit tricky, but the system looks like it overall has amazing potential.

[PrinceVegeta]

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So beautiful..

EDIT: I'm not too impressed by the Zelda trailer though. Not much improvement from the GC.

but it IS for the gamecube.....

[Zarbon]

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If it is really gonna be that cheap, noone's gonna stop me from getting it! It will be very hard for the 360 and ps3 to compete with that!! I think more people will buy this for either A. not enough money for the other two, or B. they are major fanboys of nintendo. I am pretty much both =P I need a job...

[Squeek]

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Well, since this was bumped, I might as well put my thoughts in as well.

As was stated earlier by someone else, I thought the same way about graphics. Obviously going from 4 to 8 to 16 and so on was HUGE. But now... it's not really much different. Put a 256MB card in your computer and see if there's a huge difference between that and a 128. Yes, there is a difference, but you're going from almost-lifelike to... almost-lifelike.

Everytime I see a crowd of people watching that kid play the 360 in the store I wonder why. He's playing Perfect Dark. It's just another generic first-person shooter. The only thing it has over other FPS games is that it's the first one on a new console. But no matter how I look at it, it looks like just a regular Xbox game. I see no increase in graphical capabilities utilized whatsoever.

This is where Nintendo steps in and says ENOUGH OF THE CRAP. DS was revolutionary enough. The first new system that CANNOT be emulated on a PC. Now comes the Revolution which also cannot be emulated. They are promising games that you enjoy playing. Games that you can get into. Games like what they should be.

If Revolution doesn't sell well, it means people really are idiots. I actually once had this guy at Best Buy overhear a conversation I was having with my friend about the Revolution and asked if he should get his kid the 360 now or wait for a Revolution to come out. I most certainly convinced him against the even-more-expensive paperweight that was the 360 along with the PS3.

Who would spend more than $400 for a console? Seriously? And $60 for each game?! Ok money-whores. Get out of the market. The gaming community will change once the Revolution is out.

~Squeek

[vashthestampede0987]

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The gaming community will change once the Revolution is out.

~Squeek

More like they're all to mainstream to realize that. Then they will claim that the revolution sucks because they can't adapt to the controller and because it doesn't have Halo 2.

gg Xbox, way to fuck over the gaming community.

[jamuko]

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Microsoft doesn't care if they screwed over the gaming community. They made plenty of money, and they are in a good position to be making more money, and that's all they care about.

Of course Nintendo cares about money too (that's life :/ ), but since gaming is ALL they do, they have a much clearer vision for where the market should go; and I honestly believe they care more about gamers than Sony or Microsoft do. While everyone's in it for the money, Sony and Microsoft see it simply as a highly profitable business venture... they'll give gamers tried-and-true things they know they'll like and pay lots of moolah for. Nintendo sees it from the perspective of their entire company, and the direction the market goes is essential to the survival of the whole thing. Being a little bold and trying something new is a good thing. They know what they're doing here, and it's going to be great.

I think it's good that Nintendo has decided to stay out of direct competition with the PS3 and 360. Let the two big lugs duke it out until they both stagger when nothing can really be 'improved' power-wise, and gamers get tired of paying crazy high prices for things that really aren't any more fun or interesting than their predecessors. Once that happens, the market will wake up and realize that the Revolution isn't stupid; it's a breath of fresh air.

[Tokzic]

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I'll consider putting $150 into a Revolution when Nintendo shows me that their good games drought is over.

[jamuko]

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I think the Revolution's innovation alone will be enough to spark a new life into the "good games" fountain. Just look at the DS... it's only a handheld, and already there are lots of new and interesting games out for it merely because they couldn't have been before.

For a good while I didn't think I needed a DS, but now that I finally got one and some key games, I'm impressed.

[Squeek]

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I'll consider putting $150 into a Revolution when Nintendo shows me that their good games drought is over.

The latter half of 2005 was just terrible for gaming all around.

Nintendo has purposely held back on Gamecube releases to strengthen hype around the Revolution and Twilight Princess.

~Squeek

[Tokzic]

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The latter half of 2005 was just terrible for gaming all around.

As true as that is, I'm talking about a much larger timeframe. I've been disappointed with Nintendo for a long time - after producing great N64 games, they brought out Gamecube, and all was good. It only lasted a year, however. Following great games like Metroid Prime and SSBM, they started to decline quickly. By the time 2003 came around, a good game from them became rare. With the exception of a few, there have been no games that stood out from the crowd since then, even considering DS. I don't know what change brought it around, but whatever it was, I'm hoping it doesn't last forever, or my little hibernating Nintendo fanboy inside me may never wake up.

[Zarbon]

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Either way, I hope that the Revolution can live up to all of this hype.

[Grandiagod]

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If the Revolution can overcome the whole gimmick thing and actually innovate it could well be the future of videogames. Nintendo has lost some of my confidence lately but if anyone can do it they can.

[Zarbon]

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That's true. It's the controller mostly throwing me off but I bet after a good day or so I will get it down.

[lord_carbo]

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I think it's good that Nintendo has decided to stay out of direct competition with the PS3 and 360. Let the two big lugs duke it out until they both stagger when nothing can really be 'improved' power-wise, and gamers get tired of paying crazy high prices for things that really aren't any more fun or interesting than their predecessors. Once that happens, the market will wake up and realize that the Revolution isn't stupid; it's a breath of fresh air.

Trust me, they won't. They'll keep playing the generic crap like Perfect Dark Zero while ignoring anything that might be pretty uniqie like Katamari Damacy or Psychonauts.

That's why Nintendo is considered an outcast. All of their franchises, from Mario to Pikmin, from Metroid to Animal Crossing, are much more different than franchises such as what you can find on other systems, like Halo or Final Fantasy. Sure, there are those games on other systems that are just plain unique that aren't for Nintendo, just like there are Nintendo franchises like Zelda that are somewhat generic, but Nintendo is just bigger in the whole non-conforming department.

I'll consider putting $150 into a Revolution when Nintendo shows me that their good games drought is over.

Actually, Nintendo released some nice games for the DS in Q3 and Q4 this year. I'll admit, though, for the Gamecube, they haven't released so much this year. Fire Emblem and Resident Evil were really the only must buys throughout the whole year for the Gamecube although this entire year wasn't all that impressive at all for gaming.

The latter half of 2005 was just terrible for gaming all around.

As true as that is, I'm talking about a much larger timeframe. I've been disappointed with Nintendo for a long time - after producing great N64 games, they brought out Gamecube, and all was good. It only lasted a year, however. Following great games like Metroid Prime and SSBM, they started to decline quickly. By the time 2003 came around, a good game from them became rare. With the exception of a few, there have been no games that stood out from the crowd since then, even considering DS. I don't know what change brought it around, but whatever it was, I'm hoping it doesn't last forever, or my little hibernating Nintendo fanboy inside me may never wake up.

The only good thing is that there were so many good games released during said timeframe that they can keep you busy for quite awhile. Personally I feel Nintendo's "drought" started in late 2004, though :/ There are still about 10 games on my list of games I want for the Gamecube, all except two being unique to the Gamecube (Resident Evil 4 and Alien Homonoid)

[suicidalmuskrat]

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Microsoft doesn't care if they screwed over the gaming community. They made plenty of money, and they are in a good position to be making more money, and that's all they care about.

I don't have any official numbers on me, but Microsoft lost a shit-load of money with the X-box. Sony made plenty of money, and Nintendo made plenty of money.