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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+87Dear Nintendo,
If I ever doubt you again, I give you permission to shoot me. - robotplague, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41$199 console launch with $39.99 games, that would hit the spot.
- JDOG, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42Does "under $50" mean $49.99?
- lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26I wonder if it will support the iPod (disk mode). Huge portable storage. Plus you could easily take your games to your friend's house and play on their revolution.
- Dgen_X, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/29/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm
I finally found the cnn money story
I haven't heard anything about Colecovision...but with NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, Turbografix16, and Gamecube discs I'm sure you'll find a version of digdug anyway =) - silverSurfer84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25YES! I was hoping they would do this. Good job Nintendo, giving customers the choice of storage medium! I cant wait for E3.
- rudolphdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Is Nintendo going to pull a George Mason and stun MS and Sony with providing a realistic system to most of us non-oil sheiks out there?
- ModernTenshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Lets see . . .
20GB HDD for Xbox 360: $100
100GB USB 2.0 HDD from Seagate that I can use with Nintendo Revolution for the same $100: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148118
Not to mention that Revolution will cost about half as much as 360.
Gee, whatever will I go with? - JustJon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23It's just unfortunate we won't have the Rare games in there.
- EvilBadger, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26lol, load an extra bullet for me
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22I'm not a Nintendo fanboy at all (I own a PSP, Xbox, PS2) but I would pre-order the Revolution today if I could.
- DoctorShim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Damn! That Nintendo Revolution will be hotter than the backside of that Britney Spears statue!
- hutch113, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Is it just me or is Nintendo doing basically everything right with the Revolution and Sony has thus far screwed up everything in the public forum with the PS3.
I know that I am excited about the Revolution and I might even get one within a year of it's release unlike ANY other gaming console that I own. The Revolution looks like it will give us some very cool futuristic things while keeping the price at a limit that most people can pay for. - Flameel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Yes, that penny is very important.
- aztekm30, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Finally a "true" gaming machine. I really hope they get the third party support the deserve, fancy graphics is not what i look for, besides i doubt the graphics power in this is going to be horrible compared to 360 or PS3.
- Bluezdood, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19douchebag
- akkad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I have to admit i haven't been all that interested in games for many many years. I try to keep up, and I always like to play the latest games a little, but overall my interested have gone to other things.
But the new Nintendo sounds amazing, and the more they talk about it, the more i want it.
Cool new controller sounds great
Old School games are sweet
Plus they actually are creating new types of games that sound very cool such as animal world, pikmen, brain age, ect...
It looks like i need to start saving a little money to buy this thing once in comes out.
I hope they have a special bundle deal with the Nintendo Rev & DS lite - CaughtThinking, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Revolution is going to kick *so* much ass.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15There's no changing minds, wraith. Rare's owned my Microsoft. Why would MS want to do anything to benefit their competitor?
Unless they want to gang up on Sony. Muahahahahahaha! - tehJR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I say, buy stock in Nintendo. From all the responses I've seen here and on other sites, they really have the right idea and they seem to know what people want. And in typical Nintendo style, they are doing it all in an innovative way.
Hell, I'd even consider buying a Revolution just to support Nintendo even if I wasn't going to play it much. I can't say that about the 360, which I've wanted but haven't seen enough content to put my money out yet. - silverSurfer84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Im guessing the majority of games will be 39.99 to 49.99. Although with 360 games at $60 and PS3 potentially at $70, Rev games for 49.99 is probably more likely.
- raynor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I was hoping too! I can also see them doing this so that people can just save all their favorite games to a flash drive (thumbdrive) and take it to a friends house.
- RubyPAL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Speak for yourself douche. I'll take SSMB and Mariokart over Blood&Guts 2007 any day.
- Cerberus047, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13and the dev kits are 2000 dollars... i know nintendo said they werent trying to win the console wars but c'mon
(i mean that in a good way) - aggieandrew, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I remember paying (or I guess my parents paying) upward of $70 for "Turok: Dinosaur Hunter" when it came out for N64 about 9 years ago.
$50 doesn't sound bad. - DigitalDud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Microsoft does let Rare make GameBoy games for Nintendo.
- beters, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Yes, Yes you are.
- dracula7, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16excuse me?
- sixister, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Sweet. Dig dug here I come!
Revolution supports Colecovision right? - alittlemelty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11you know it.
but i was just thinking about this very same issue the other day. i seem to recall my parents spending $49.99 on super mario brothers 3. and that was 18 years ago. i guess the fact that game prices have held steadily at that price for this long is a miracle. kudos to nintendo was at least trying to keep it that way. of course, they have no control over what 3rd party vendors will be charging for the games. but lately that hasn't mattered so much on nintendo platforms. - silverSurfer84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Im sure if it supports external hard drives it will also support ipods.
- crazyfan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"I cannot imagine any first party title [on Revolution] could be priced more than $50," he said. "I really don't think that there's going to be a lot of acceptance by current customers of the $60 price tag."
So the answer is yes, 49.99 aprox for high budget games.
So thats 10 bucks saved at the least :) - ronintetsuro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11It really kills me to say it, but I'm linking the Revolution *concept* more and more.
I'm still reserving judgement until i can get my hands on one. - sych0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12you say you want a revolution well you know we all want to change the world :D
- demonthises, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Nintendo is trying to do more than win the console wars (that never end). They want to put a revolution in every home. Hell, with the revolution as cheap as it is going to be, it will be the second console everyone will own. Plus with usb storage (assuming they do not lock it down with some kind of drm) it is looking to be user more friendly to third party hardware then MS or Sony will ever be. It looks like Nintendo wants their hardware out there for people to play with (both with actually playing the game and writing your own games).
- DoctorShim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yes, of her giving birth to a bear in fact.
http://www.cbsnews.com/images/2006/03/28/imageNYR10203282048.jpg
She commissioned it. Google for the story. (It's probably on digg already.) - DoctorShim, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Oh my lord. I have lost bowl control.
- smiley2billion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"I loved the SNES back as kid but I don't think Nintendo does understand the wants and needs of an adult gamer. "
Doesn't that sentence kinda go against itself? And also the SNES compaired to what? The Genesis? The SNES had better color, a faster processor, and better sound. I loved the Genesis as well, but honestly the SNES looked so much better.
This really is starting to look like a Revolution. - Bluezdood, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Oh happy day! Now if they would just release the darn thing already!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7And by the time the revo launches it will be even cheaper for an external USB HDD. :D I cant wait. I love the iPod idea above! Transporting data to a friends house easily, nice!
- Dgen_X, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8yeah, $50 is probabily the best price we could ask for for a new game
if those carts weren't so costly they would have probabily been near the $50 range as well - WDot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I don't know about you, but after the millionth First Person Shooter I think I have a bit of an appetite for "unneeded innovation."
- Hyperion, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Mod down, responded to wrong post.
- Bluezdood, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8There's a statue of Britney Spears?
- b00m, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6pullin stats out of yer ass are we?
- jdstorer2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7... for now. They might change their mind if they see the Revolution do well.
- danr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8one of the things that hurt Nintendo in the PlayStation v. n64 era was that Cd's were very cheap to produce, cartridges were not. Sony could release games as "greatest hits" for $10-20 because the actual physical product cost so little, companies publishing games for Nintendo never could have done the same thing without losing money. Nintendo stuck to catridges because 1) they explicitly stated that they thought cartridges were more durable for children/people with children although 2) it's obvious it helps to curb piracy. It's kind of ironic that cartridges were used to be more kid friendly, yet without the high storage capacity of CDs, most nintendo games used basic textures in their games, leading the game designs to be more "cartoony" or childlike, something adult gamers seem to criticize nintendo about since (the catroony, "kids system" part).
- dracula7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6e3 opens may 10th. mark your (i)calendars, 42 days and counting (down).
- drwiii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You can, for GameCube games. They plug in the top/left side. SD cards for Revolution storage plug in the front. I already have an SD card for my camcorder, so if Revolution uses a standard save file format it should work out well. (Then again, this _is_ Nintendo we're talking about..)
- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Just because they are giving us the option to use USB drives doesn't mean they'll be formatted in the same way. USB memory sticks are usually formatted FAT16, which is readable by all operating systems. USB hard drives are usually formatted NTFS (for WinXP), HFS (for OSX). iPods are formatted either HFS or FAT32, depending on if it was formatted in Win or OSX.
I doubt they'd let us use normal-format storage, to prevent people from saving their game, copying it to their computer, hacking the save file, and changing their savegame. -
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