BigTac Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1527445/20060330/index.jhtml?headlines=true Here are just a few things said: Full interview at link. Does Nintendo President Satoru Iwata have an ace up his sleeve? Or is he just a good bluffer? "Our primary focus with the Nintendo Revolution has been to create a system that can do things that the other systems can't, that has functionality that the other systems don't have," he said through a translator. "And speaking to that, there are some other unique features of the Nintendo Revolution hardware that we haven't discussed yet that we will be announcing at E3." E3 is the Electronics Entertainment Expo, the annual video game trade show held each May. "There's people in the house that don't play video games whatsoever. And when people see what we have to offer at E3, they're going to understand that that wall's been broken down and we now have created a system that's going to allow for a much, much larger user base than any system we've seen before." "Internally at Nintendo, with the success of 'Brain Training,' our own developers have gradually started offering their own unique ideas, and that's where we're really starting to see this come to fruition."When asked how Nintendo would cultivate innovation from American development partners, Iwata once again pointed to the May conference. "We're going to announce at E3 some games that are being developed by people we met with at the Game Developers Conference last year that will be for Nintendo Revolution," he said. There's one game creator Iwata said might be inspired by Nintendo's efforts. "Recently I have gained a little bit of interest in getting more involved in game development again," he said. But he quickly downplayed the idea. He was too busy on weekends preparing speeches, he said.
Demuwan Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 No real big info then. e3 couldn't be further away.
Nintendork Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 There's one game creator Iwata said might be inspired by Nintendo's efforts. "Recently I have gained a little bit of interest in getting more involved in game development again," he said. But he quickly downplayed the idea. He was too busy on weekends preparing speeches, he said. Cough cough Iwata's praise about Will Wright has earnt himself a game from the master. Perhaps we'll see Spore. GDC was a big advertisment I think, Nintendo put on a good show and inspired some developpers to say: lets make a game for this. I'm betting Will saw this, and has been interested for a while and E3 will be the announcement of a Will Wright game for Revolution (Spore probably) Unless anyone else can think of the biggest name in developping at the moment who is touring around and doing speeches on his new game?
ultrajamie Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 Unless anyone else can think of the biggest name in developping at the moment who is touring around and doing speeches on his new game? it surely means Iwata himself.
Nintendork Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 Ah, I took that as literal: "There's one game creator Iwata said might be inspired by Nintendo's efforts." I figured Iwata's been praising him a fair bit.. and we've heard about Spore for DS and the controller kinda works a bit then we might see it. And Will has been speeching rather a lot when he should be making the game :P Never mind.. I'm still hoping for Spore on Revolution.. knowing that EA is a publishing giant and will probably even put it on n-gage if it has any chance of selling.
ultrajamie Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 Ah, I took that as literal: "There's one game creator Iwata said might be inspired by Nintendo's efforts." I figured Iwata's been praising him a fair bit.. and we've heard about Spore for DS and the controller kinda works a bit then we might see it. And Will has been speeching rather a lot when he should be making the game :P Never mind.. I'm still hoping for Spore on Revolution.. knowing that EA is a publishing giant and will probably even put it on n-gage if it has any chance of selling. using the FHC for spore would be fantastic. lets hope eh!
guarana Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 MTV is good for reaching complete (atleast in america) morons who know nothing about REV and gave up on nintendo years ago .
dabookerman Posted March 31, 2006 Posted March 31, 2006 I admire will wright for always trying different and ambitious things, EA are very VERY lucky to have maxis, mind you theyve had them since the days of sim city.
ShadowV7 Posted April 1, 2006 Posted April 1, 2006 Hopefully this will have an impact on some people,but noting new just over a month for E3 now....
raven_blade2006 Posted April 1, 2006 Posted April 1, 2006 Yo, BigTac I got a question for you? Recently Sony announced that their total shipment of PS3 dev kits had increased from 4,000 to 14,000. Sometime in Feb/March Reggie said that Nintendo had shipped 1,000 dev kits. That seems a little low, doesnt it. Im sure there are more developers out there supporting the console than that. Do you have any idea how much developer support there is out there for the Revolution now, as it appears there is a lot of interest?
Nintendork Posted April 1, 2006 Posted April 1, 2006 Perhaps there's been some number twisting there. We know developper's kits go through phases as hardware is finalised.. Nintendo Revolution has had several ranging from an overclocked GameCube to one on par with an original xbox with a plug in wireless controller. We're yet to see the final hardware revision which as far as I'm aware only first party developpers in Japan have at this moment in time. The PS3 being much more advanced kit- and many developpers claiming they melt and had problems. Perhaps PS3 is a total count of all developper kits shipped.. if there have been 3 hardware revisions to each developper that would mean about 4,500 developpers in total. give or take a few because some developpers may require multiple systems for larger games. Perhaps the figure that Nintendo announced that there had been 1,000 kits shipped means there are around 1000 developpers with the latest kit in their hands, Sony are good at twisting the numbers. We saw this at E3 when they totalled the number of terraflops and tried to make it seem like their gfx was more powerful than the 360s. I'm confident that Nintendo have good support.. and ultimately quality comes before quantity- we see the DS swamped with quality titles and nobody is complaining that only 3 or 4 games are released a month.
The fish Posted April 1, 2006 Posted April 1, 2006 I recon for the PS3 it needs, say, 4 devkits minimum for a developer that has been around for a while. The revolution needs only 1 per developer as it is very similar to the Cube, so they can use cube devkits for most of the development, and use the rev devkit for the controller. I want E3 now!
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