Important Nintendo Revolution Interview

"As the next round of the console wars is set to begin, Boomtown exclusively talks with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata. Here Iwata discusses the latest Nintendo revelations, the company's new consoles and the future of this longest surviving console manufacturer."

You can read the interview with Satoru Iwata here.

As I've read other people saying, it seems like this is a clear message saying that Nintendo is more-or-less not going to try to fully compete against the PS3 and 360's 'graphics' war, but try to carve a new area and push the envelope on gaming in a new direction. Trying to appeal to a different audience, not todays gamers. Moreso, that this will create even a greater rift for Nintendo against the other console companies--not in a negative way, but that when people think of Nintendo, they may no longer be thought of with the other game companies, but as an individual stance all of their own. So much more to say on this, but those are the main points at the moment.

 

just hope they won't ignore their old harcore gamer audience, but the full retro compatibility seems to say they won't

 

I actually found that interview to be very confidence inspiring.

To be honest, I'm generally a big fan of most of Nintendo's efforts, even the recent ones. My only concern is for the health of their business so that they can keep producing products that I enjoy. Given their continued profitability throughout nearly 10 years of semi-adverse circumstances, I don't really see any need to worry about them.

I'm glad there's someone that's doing new things, just like I'm glad there's someone else (Sony) who's really pushing the technology barriers and going for photo-realism and AV integration.

I was expecting to be really depressed by Nintendo's seemingly lackluster E3 offerings, but I just can't bring myself to be. I know that when they do deliver, it'll be good stuff, because it's always good stuff.

It seems like all the fanboys just want them to release bright shiny new Mario & Zelda games every few years, and I'm glad that's not the tack their taking. They tried something new with the DS, and given some of the E3 software, I think it's going to pay off. They made a believe out of me for the system at E3, I'm going to go pick one up now (read: today).

 

Please people tell me that you arent all suckers... Ok its a nice feature specialy if its free but its nothing you cant do on the pc your sitting on right now. Or a modded xbox or an old laptop... Or even all those nintendo consoles you hardcore nintendo fans have...

I know even if i do get a revolution (which ill play some gamecube games i missed on) i wont be playing any of their emulated games even if they are free which is unlikely.

 

what's the point with you paulo, really? i mean, old gamers played old games, it's not like nintendo forgot about the old gamers to concentrate on a new public, it's a small move that tells alot, and if they did this they certainly will make new things for those people who bought the system for this feature (and apart of prototypes, never released games and obscure games that weren't released here, i don't emule anything, since it's illegal and that i love getting originals way better. but now it's not illegal.) i really don't think new player and/or that targeted audience that don't already play video games will care about the old games, apart if they're curious.

c'mon paulo, i like you alot, but you were just anoying me these past days and i hope it will pass soon.

 

Think about this though. People here are generaly complaining about having to buy a new copy of halo (thats if they have to buy it). You say its a bad move by microsoft bla bla i know its a bad move. It would be the most stupid thing ever.

However you then come on to talk about how this amazing emulation of the revolution. This time your fine with having to pay for old games though. As its very unlikely it will be free.

Also as you said and as i think its unlikely to be apealing to new people (i know emulation of any console doesnt apeal to me much) so its appealing to people who most likely already have these clasic games that they want to play. Also think about how you dont know what games nintendo are going to make available. Someone brought up the point (i dont remember what console it was about but i think it was Rev) that are they going to be able to bring out all the games from other developers or only nintendo games?

Im not trying to be annoying but people are shooting the 360 down, the ps3 down, the rev down mostly with features we dont even know any detail about.

 

going with you on a point, people are shooting everything down, true. but you doesn't seems to do the exception either (no offend wanted here). As for the emulation on rev, everyone's talking about free dowloads right now, so i'm going with the good vive, though nothing was officialised. i wouldn't like this feature as much if it wasn't free. and it's not like microsoft couldn't force themselves and emulate xbox games right out of the box, without the need of buying the game twice, since it's on the same format (and cartriges aren't the same format as dvds, on the other side)

And i know alot of old gamers than still play to new games and fall in love with my collection of old game, just because they want to replay theses games they played while they were kids. They envy me, because as the oposite of me, they have very limited space were they live and don't always have the time to hunt garage sales and flea market for an old console (as i do (i proffit of this fact while i'm still young and not overwelmd by studies and/or work), and i already know they falled in love when they heard the anouncement of nintendo to make these olds games they played long time ago downloadable (and it seems to be a free service for now)

hope it's clearer to you now.

 

Hell yes! Im not offended at all. Im bitching about aload of stuff. However im also bitching about stuff i did before. I think the xbox is too big and kinda ugly for a console. However i also think the PS3 is. Aint no way in hell im paying for xbox games for the 360... same goes for rev and so on. I just dont like the way some people say this is bad about this console but wont say it for another console.

However just as nothing is official with the nintendo nothing is official with the xbox. Half the things they say seem to scream emulation then they come out with the whole haing to recompile the games... and so on! Also fine they are on dvds but they are two very very different consoles. Think about the money they might have to pay Nvidia and Intel if they did emulate the games. Its not as simple as write an emulator.

Yeah its a very nice move by nitendo if they can provide a quality online service for free. (look at xbox live. Its not a cheap service to run). However if they are made to pay tell your friends they are better off with a pc emualtor and free games.

 

If Nintendo is smart, it will be a cheap monthly cost to play old school games. They're not going to just let you download whatever game for free. They should look at what happened to the Dream Library in Japan though.

 

I watched the Nintendo conference and I find now I'm already setting up my gameroom after abandoning it for some long length of time. That should say enough about that.

 

i think they could make a special download by month, this would make some consumers speed up a bit to buy their Rev to collect every games they would release on the server in their flash memory. maybe that could work (or maybe not), just a thought like that.

 

In all honesty, I will probably only download/play a handful of N64 games as I never owned the system. As Paulo has said quite a few times... you can already play all these games on a computer. Not to mention that if the Revolution does not output a 15khz signal, the games will be scaled and look inferior to what you can achieve through emulation on the PC.

 

but emulation on pc is for bad boys!

and nothing's better than felling the pad and sit on your sofa, playing on your tv (other than doing all this, but with the original of copy, console and pad)

 

Dabg at least I won't have to build an Earthbound NES cart to play it on a Nintendo console.

 

So get an Arcade video card, and make an emulation cab w/ an interlaced monitor. Will look better than on your PC, and presumably than out of a Revolution (unless Nintendo makes an unexpectedly very cool move for the 2% amongst the 5% of hardcore gamers that care about such things).

 

By the looks of it, they are going the route Apple has made themselves out to be with the iMac, iPod, etc.

 

Emulation is for bad boys!
Still, though, I can't take my PSX to work (where there's NOTHING to do), and now it's dead anyway.
And my laptop has its own screen. I already paid for a PSX which no longer works, and my PC is nice and portable and reads the games!

I say the revolution has got some serious potential here if the price is reasonable (or the downloading scheme is quite an innovative one). It's gonna be a serious force to be reckoned with.

 

The idea of free WiFi play for 1st party titles is very nice. I like this new road Nintendo are taking while the other two battle it out to say who's got the best looking games. I love good looking stuff just as much as anyone else but for the last 3 months I've been playing mostly Saturn games and can honestly say that I still find them very enjoyable. Sure, some of the 3D stuff looks wank these days but that's not to say it plays well. Let's hope Nintendo keep to their word and wow us with something special.

Yakumo

 

Yeah 3D doesn't age as well as 2D. Leynoss still looks godly to me.

 

that's what i wanted to say! but legal emulation is conscience aproved! :happyhap: