Re: Revolution? Nintendo bows out of NEXT-gen war, brings out GCN 1.5

I have no problem with Nintendo's games, but I see little point of
designing a whole new system, thus forcing Gamecube owners to upgrade,
simply to make it ' a little bit more powerful' when the remote control
controller could have been made for the 'cube.

To me, Nintendo make great games. Addictive and fun.
However, the variety is just so poor. It's all cartoonish throwaway
fantasyland and nothing much beyond.

Mario 64 DS, Yoshi Touch and Go, Nintendogs, etc all are all incredibly
addictive, but they dont have that more mature approach that I and
millions of others now seek from their gaming experience.

I for one cannot justify spending mony on a system just to play a small
range of games, even if they are Nintendos. I'd rather have a system
that plays a variety of genres.

Sure, metroid is more mature, but dont forget it's just the exception to
the rule.

Yeah, I can get Resident Evil on the GC, - but it's not a platform
exclusive.

I personally think Nintendo has given up trying to compete with Sony and
Microsoft, and instead are just concentrating on pleasing the people
that will buy their stuff anyway. There's a good sized market for that,
and it's served them well enough.

The only danger is that they might alienate people with that controller.
Fun as it looks, it only has a limited number of uses and the add'ons
dont look comfortable.

The 360 and PS3 concentrate on graphics, but if the PS3 is anything like
the 360 for online, it's far more than that. XBOX live makes gaming far
more social - co-op play in Kameo, multiplayer deathmatches, Gothem Live
TV, comparing scores in any game, unlocking acheivments etc.

If sony does the same/similar it's going to be fantastic.

But hey, what do I know. The DS is doing very well even without adult
games, and high end specs. It's possible the Revolution is going to be
the same.



"Air Raid" wrote:
>http://revolution.ign.com/articles/673/673799p1.html
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>based on IGN's information which is straight from the mouths of
>developers......
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>it looks like Revolution is barely more powerful than Gamecube or Xbox.
>
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>It seems the Revolution chipset, IBM Broadway CPU, ATI Hollywood GPU,
>are little more than souped up versions of the Gekko CPU and Flipper
>GPU used in Gamecube. Revolution might not *even* be 2x as powerful
>as Gamecube, but *between* 1.5x and 2x
>
>The amount of RAM is also astonishingly low: 88 MB of 1T-SRAM main
>system memory, 104 MB if you including the incredibly slow DRAM in
>Gamecube.
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>to clarify, Revolution builds on Gamecube's memory configuration by
>adding 64 MB of IT-SRAM.
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>Gamecube: 24 MB 1T-SRAM + 16 MB slow DRAM + 3 MB 1T-SRAM in Flipper -
>then for Revolution, it adds 64 MB 1T-SRAM.
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>or in english: IT FUCKING SUCKS!
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>as far as a leap over Gamecube, it sounds like Revolution is gonna be
>like going from
>Atari 5200 to Atari 7800 or GameBoy to GameBoy Color. we might
>hardly notice any improvement
>
>oh well, Revolution is just a slightly beefed up current-gen console
>then.
>
>
>I hope that controller really makes all the difference.
>



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