The Nintendo Revolution is here!

[Hybrid]

Wait, do you actually post at GAF? You're not allowed to use their inside jokes! I do want to know what that joke means, but I believe it has to do with a megaton story taking place on said day of the week.

[bonesquad]

Sigh... it seems there's a real reason afterall Nintendo has been shy to say Rev's specs... they're weak as hell. Reports of a system that at best is 2x that of a GC seem to be quite accurate afterall.

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/673/673799p1.html

A cheap $150-100 Rev would be nice, but as Tork has said in the past, that could give people the wrong impression. Wait no, the Rev really is that weak it seems. (If all this is true... And game prices also better match this lower price...)

I'm not surprised at this. If you've been paying attention Nintendo has already done this in the DS. Rev is just the home version of the DS. A weak system that sells based on fun interesting games. Which there isn't nothing really wrong with, but... yeah. What's wrong with wanting both a nice technologically advanced system and an innovative one? Video games afterall are a tech media... And I mean I knew Rev wouldnt be as powerful as 360, but wow. One dev on IGN was quoted as saying it's really a current gen system with a nice controller. WTF? This is lower than I had thought. Much lower.

It hasn't really changed my mind much. I'm still lookming forward to it, I'll still probably get it (as long as it is dirt cheap), and enjoy a few fun games on it here and there, but clearly my gamer side is more excited for PS3 now. Much more.

I feel bad for Retro...

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[Conan]

Nintendo is dead.

[Hybrid]

While this is dissapointing, it didnt come as much of a shock to me. I read it wasnt going to be a lot more powerful than the cube months ago. I also remember that brief metroid prime 3 footage being totally unimpressive. While I'd love to see Zeldas and Metroids become insanely realistic, the fact is that I play a lot of games that aren't too impressive looking. I mean my career choice is 3D modelling/animation and it's not that important to me in games.

In the other hand, I am a graphics whore. I bought my HDTV JUST for videogames and I love seeing sparkly things explode in outer space. The PS3 should satisfy in this department (Gradius VI!) The only way Nintendo can really dissapoint me now is if they completely change the gameplay behind smash bros. It may happen and Hybrid May Cry.

[bonesquad]

It's just disappointing in that it could keep developers from making the best game they possibly could (I'm looking at you retro...). I had hoped for something that was maybe half as powerful as 360 even, but this sounds like it won't even be 1/5th as powerful... And if the Rev can play FPS as well as they say, since FPS's in general are graphic whores, it will just be hard to play looking at it in light of playing whatever FPS I am at the time no matter how cool the controller is...

Oh well, as long as its cheap I'll care less. But if they try to sell this for 200 or more and games at more than 50, THEN I'll get pissed.

[Conan]

You know they will.

300 on launch day, mark my words.

[Hybrid]

I see no reason why they couldnt launch the system at $200, but that's only because I think the tech behind the controller is expensive. I think it would be a very good idea to pack in 2 controllers since some games could really take advantage of using 2 at once. Dual wielding light gun games? mmm

$300 on the other hand is ridiculous and will NEVER happen. It goes completely against the whole point of making the system "affordable."

[Conan]

affordable is relative in the face of 400 dollar xbox and 300-500 dollar ps3 whenever they decide on the price.

[bonesquad]

How expensive is an extra controller going to be? 80 bucks? At that rate, and the rate the analog sticks broke on my GC controllers, it would end up costing more than a 360 in a couple years time.

200 is the most I could see myself paying for it, and it better have some cool launch games (read: not gimicky crap to show off the controller).

[bonesquad]

What's this I read on 1UP about Zelda TP being playable on the Rev using the Rev controller? Is that why it was delayed? For pete's sake, why don't they just make this a full fledge Rev game already. It would make for one hell of a launch game.

Though I guess if recent rumors are to be believed and the Rev isnt that much more powerful, maybe that's why they arn't bothering...

[Conan]

Dead I say!

[Psydd]

[bonesquad]

[Hybrid]

Jeeze bone, just go to work and swap it out with another used one...err I mean that sucks dude.

I remember when I swapped out my spicey orange controller for the wavebird when it first came out. One of my idiot friends probably broke the rumble function and the orange controllers have this weird tendency to get all green in the crevaces. Later that year I started working at gamestop...

Anyways my worst cube analog stick is just a little bit loose but not bad enough to hinder controls. The only games that I really want a perfectly tightened controller for are smash bros and ikaruga. I easily put more time into my 2 main controllers than bone so I have no idea how he busted his up.

[tN^SoUlBuRn]

My Wavebird died on me, so I took my spice controller, and one of the indigo/clear controllers that the analog was fucked up on, and made a customized orange/clear controller using all of the white buttons on the Wavebird except for the start button, which was too short.

... I then of course took the Wavebird back to Wal-Mart, and got another working one in it's place. ;D

You can kinda see it in this pic.