Nintendo on top with rev?

okay, don't just go shrugging this off with meatless anti-nintendo sentiments, the most supremely flawed logic i've ever seen came in the form of:
"the only way you can have any positive expectations of nintendo is to be a nintendo fanboy"

okay, so looking objectively at what the system has to offer makes me a fanboy, and it's NOT fanboyish to think that anything coming from nintendo will fail?

okay, here's what i see rev having going for itself.

1. the biggie: lower price point.

granted the price hasn't been announced, but it's being estimated at about $200 even if it's a bit higher at 250, you could get TWO of them for the cost of one xbox currently.

granted being $50 dollars less, didn't help the 64 or cube much, but here we're probably looking at a price difference of a couple hundred dollars. definitely signifigant.

i'm not good with names, but i remember somone big from nintendo talking about nintendo being a secondary system also bought by those who already have other systems, it's probably going to be priced to do so.

2. the controller.
if you havent taken a look look at it so far, go to nintendo.com and read the articles on it.

this is a big thing in two ways.

1. it doesn't scare non-gamers as much. this mean we get more NEW gamers buying it than probably the other two systems combined (especially with that price difference.

2. new contol method.
let's take an FPS, and throw it on this controller. let's see what i can think up here:

first it would be very good foor camera control, probably as precise as a mouse. the vertical angle of the controller. for turning horizontally, it'd probably be difficult to keep turning the contoller in circles as you run around, so just have it where the screen scrolls as you point it left or right, turn it further, faster scrolling, probably with some adjustable no-scroll wiggle room so you can make precise shots.

now, it doesn't just detect angle but movement as well. take your screen scroll and apply it top moving your character. move the controller forward, or towards the TV to to move foraward. further forward, faster movement, and just move the controller sideways to strafe.

don't forget vertical movement! lower the controller to crouch, move it up to jump. oh, and the controller even picks up rotation. need to change weapons? twist the controller to switch guns.

see what i've done here? the motion controller acts as 2 andalog sticks, and about 4 buttons, two of them can even be pressure sensitive, not not all 4. now that i've used up all the motion control, what more do we need? oh right, shooting and an action button. B and A respectively. and look at that! we even have a whole D-pad left over! this could have control options  to be used for weapon changes or movement if you just can't use motion control for them. all that, and we didn't even have to attach the nunchuck.

3. potential for 3rd party support.
IMO, this is the only reason nintendo's behind ANYONE. i don't think it's sony or microsoft nintendo's competeing with, but the third party developers making all the great games on those platforms.

this depends on sales almost entirely. i'm sure the first ting a developer worries about is how many copies they can sell, meaning they want the system with the most sales, and thus, the most potential customers. and if nintendo can get sales that bring third party developers back to thier aid, there really isn't anything i can think of that could stop them from ruling the industry again.

rev could move, it's (almost certainly) much lower price, and controller that's new and exciting to current gamers, and approachable looking and intuitive for the ininitiated. so far, there isn't much i can see that would prevent it from flying off shelves. if it achives that, third party support is almost a given.

i should be finishing up, maybe i'll speak of the competition in another post. later!

Melee, added totally statues, destroyed the gameplay by nerfing good characters, and making ass backwards physics, looked prettier. I had fun everytime I played the 64 version, I have never ever enjoyed playing Melee. I've been playing videogames since nes and 5 and whatever nths of an inch flppies (wish I still had them, and a drive, some good shit is on that format)

Not only twice the bits per cycle, but on much faster loading cartridges, like I said, it sold like mad. Only people who didn't have think of it negatively (people only owning psxes), everyone who has ever touched it has loved it.

My main point is this gc=xbox=ps2 (slight graphical differences, same format) == bored ass developers who have been doing it since 68165 and 6a05
Revolution console = new format (4 3dmotion wands+16 dses) == really excited developers who already have been focusing on doing new things since the advent of the DS, and also looking to continue on the financial success of the DS with a home console that can have connection between the two.

People developing on rev are looking at nothing but POSSIBILITY in game design.
People developing on xbox2nd and snescd the third are looking at a POSSIBLY exhausted medium for bringing a game to, and have to work really fucking hard to make their game unlike anything that has already been done on that format before (and already done better years ago by nintendo)

You wanted the projection right? I don't see the revolution console having the possibility to fail at this point, nes, snes, sms, genesis, maybe even pce10 (please please nintendo, nec's making something on that console right? give us the pc10 releases) onto your sd card off of the internet, into your favorite sd to gba adaptor and enjoyed in beautiful 256x192 completely portably, and onto your pc for further storage when you need sd room. Maybe ninty will even find a way to sly out an n64 emulator to make it playable by the ds, if they do the future will rock soooooo fucking hard, but of course they'd have to be super badasses to pull it off, I wouldn't doubt them since they made the original hardware (n64) and know it better than anyone else, but the accomplishment would make me piss my pants.