ultrajamie Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 i've noticed recently that a lot of websites seem to be saying that developers love the revolution. welll.... so what? developers loved the gamecube. it was easy and cheap to work on. just like the rev. however.... publishers did not like the cube because it made no money for tham and hence, regardless of how much devcos liked it, they would not fund the games. welll.... tell me any major publisher that is throwing it;s weight behind the rev? beyond one or two titles? hmmm. just a talking point really. what do you think?
mike-zim Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 well no one will be able to answer that question. reason you ask? becaus e no developer is allowed to. they all have NDA's. this thread should be put on ice till after E3 when everything is revealed
ultrajamie Posted March 31, 2006 Author Posted March 31, 2006 NDA's or not the leaks of info point to little real activity. a stark contrast to ps3 - where publishers are also covered by strict NDA's anyway edge were able to say that publisher are splitting their resource roughly the same was as this generation... which means the majority only forsee 10-20% of their output being on revolution
Charlie Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 well no one will be able to answer that question. reason you ask? becaus e no developer is allowed to. they all have NDA's. this thread should be put on ice till after E3 when everything is revealed They will still be able to put forward their own opinions though.
monkeyDluffy Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 not that I've read up alot about PS3/360 recently but do we know much about the future games of these two?
mike-zim Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 fair points. but if you believe what Big Tac has been saying and I do, then we really have nothing to worry about on the rev.
shade Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 No you don't. PS3 and been nearly fully unveiled. XBox 360 is out!! and you have screens and movies of games running on PS3 but nothing on Revolution why? Because third parties are waiting along with nintendo to show it all at E3. ultrajamie You really need to be patient.
ultrajamie Posted March 31, 2006 Author Posted March 31, 2006 No you don't. PS3 and been nearly fully unveiled. XBox 360 is out!! and you have screens and movies of games running on PS3 but nothing on Revolution why? Because third parties are waiting along with nintendo to show it all at E3. ultrajamie You really need to be patient. SHAN'T
Hellfire Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 I think most developers and publishers are waiting for the first round of games, to see what can be done and if it's worth to develop for it. Let's be honest here, Revolution is a very different console from everything we've ever seen. It's the first time someone in the home console market steps asides and says: we'll do something very cheap and easy to develop for and we want developers to think of new ways to play games. Point is, most of the games we'll see in the beggining will be ports with stupid use of the controller or tech demos. Just like with DS. If Revolution sells well and if Nintendo shows developers what can be done with the controller, I'm sure 3rd party support will be great.
ultrajamie Posted March 31, 2006 Author Posted March 31, 2006 I think most developers and publishers are waiting for the first round of games, to see what can be done and if it's worth to develop for it. Let's be honest here, Revolution is a very different console from everything we've ever seen. It's the first time someone in the home console market steps asides and says: we'll do something very cheap and easy to develop for and we want developers to think of new ways to play games. Point is, most of the games we'll see in the beggining will be ports with stupid use of the controller or tech demos. Just like with DS. If Revolution sells well and if Nintendo shows developers what can be done with the controller, I'm sure 3rd party support will be great. what i'm trying to say is that, apart from the controller <and that, of course, is a big 'but'>, the concept of cheap-easy-to-use-hardware-gets-high-support-and-innovative-games is exactly the same as the GC
Myke Greywolf Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 Only this time developers won't be as dependent on publishers, because they will be able to distribute their games online.
Nintendork Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 GameCube's only selling point was it was cheap to work on. Revolution offers a bit more because it is a familiar environment.. which the GameCube was not when it launched.. it will be a pleasure for developpers to work on and because the slightly enhanced hardware which is apparently built from scratch it will give their games a nice shine. Of course you have the controller.. You have a good point.. there are a lot of paralels between the Cube and the Revolution. I read an article comparing the paralels between the 360 and the Dreamcast and it was quite solid.. but the 360 has performed rather well outside of Japan. So I think it is much more multifaceted than whether the hardware is easy to develop on.. or whether it's cheap, things like these might not be important.
shade Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 problem with Gamecube was that it launched a year after Sony and did not have any real special feature. Revolution has many special features and will launch around about the same time as Sony. I think its silly to compare revolution to Gamecube as the strategy Nintendo is using for the revolution is very different.
raven_blade2006 Posted April 1, 2006 Posted April 1, 2006 ^You got it. It was designed from the ground up to be differentiated from the other consoles. The GC didnt really offer much that the others couldnt do.
ultrajamie Posted April 3, 2006 Author Posted April 3, 2006 Only this time developers won't be as dependent on publishers, because they will be able to distribute their games online. no they won't.... online distribution of full disc-based media is not in nintendos current plan - the storage included with the machine (512mb of flash mem) is WAY too small to hold all but the most basic games. it is, however, plenty big enough to hold a large number of 16bit titles and thats where nintendos see's it's online distribution.
YenRug Posted April 4, 2006 Posted April 4, 2006 no they won't.... online distribution of full disc-based media is not in nintendos current plan - the storage included with the machine (512mb of flash mem) is WAY too small to hold all but the most basic games. it is, however, plenty big enough to hold a large number of 16bit titles and thats where nintendos see's it's online distribution. You obviously missed Iwata's comment, in his GDC speech, about allowing new titles to be published via the online system; it was overshadowed by the news of Sega and TurboGFX games being made available on it, too.
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