28th June 2005, 11:18 PM
When they say that "you can play every Nintendo game ever made", I'm pretty sure that they ONLY mean NINTENDO games, from EAD or Hal.
So, sorry, I'm pretty sure no Battletoads or Ninja Gaiden...
However, there's hope so long as Nintendo can make some deals with other companies. Look at their line up of NES games on GBA (which I will never buy). At first it was just Nintendo's stuff, but they made a deal with both Hudson and Konami and now Bomberman and some Castlevania games have come on in.
The real problem is some companies have gone out of business, and some are owned by competitors, and some others are just mean. Plus, Nintendo does have to actually work out the deals with each of these companies. The thing is, these things take time and effort, and Nintendo can't do EVERYTHING, just a few things they consider worth it at the time and then they move on. lazy tends to fall into the same trap I used to. I imagine something awesome that is TECHNICALLY allowed by the laws of physics, but I never actually think through how feasible it is in the sense of both manpower and end payoff for the company. I've had to disappoint myself by a massive degree by starting to do that....
The real problem is this. Every single Rare game that had Donkey Kong in it, that's owned by Nintendo as part of the deal when MS bought them. We'll be seeing DKC on there and all. However, Banjo is Rare's property. MS has let them work on GBA games for now simply because the money they make from the game sales make up for any potential sales losses the XBox would suffer to the GBA (though they really don't go around getting ALL their companies to make GBA games, make it too attractive and it will hurt more than it helps...). The question is this. Would the pretty minor profit MS would gain from some VERY cheap game sales of stuff like Banjo-Kazooie on the Revolution make up for the possibly minor advantage the Revolution would gain from having that game?
I may have mentioned this before but, I see this situation playing out more like this...
"Sir, Nintendo wants to know if we'll allow them liscensing rights to download all the non DK games from past systems onto their revolution system, in exchange for a minor cut of the profits made."
"No, I think I have a better idea..."
Consumer: "Wow! I can download Battletoads onto the 360!
Nintendo: ...This is dumber than that time I turned the stairs into a slip and slide...
So, sorry, I'm pretty sure no Battletoads or Ninja Gaiden...
However, there's hope so long as Nintendo can make some deals with other companies. Look at their line up of NES games on GBA (which I will never buy). At first it was just Nintendo's stuff, but they made a deal with both Hudson and Konami and now Bomberman and some Castlevania games have come on in.
The real problem is some companies have gone out of business, and some are owned by competitors, and some others are just mean. Plus, Nintendo does have to actually work out the deals with each of these companies. The thing is, these things take time and effort, and Nintendo can't do EVERYTHING, just a few things they consider worth it at the time and then they move on. lazy tends to fall into the same trap I used to. I imagine something awesome that is TECHNICALLY allowed by the laws of physics, but I never actually think through how feasible it is in the sense of both manpower and end payoff for the company. I've had to disappoint myself by a massive degree by starting to do that....
The real problem is this. Every single Rare game that had Donkey Kong in it, that's owned by Nintendo as part of the deal when MS bought them. We'll be seeing DKC on there and all. However, Banjo is Rare's property. MS has let them work on GBA games for now simply because the money they make from the game sales make up for any potential sales losses the XBox would suffer to the GBA (though they really don't go around getting ALL their companies to make GBA games, make it too attractive and it will hurt more than it helps...). The question is this. Would the pretty minor profit MS would gain from some VERY cheap game sales of stuff like Banjo-Kazooie on the Revolution make up for the possibly minor advantage the Revolution would gain from having that game?
I may have mentioned this before but, I see this situation playing out more like this...
"Sir, Nintendo wants to know if we'll allow them liscensing rights to download all the non DK games from past systems onto their revolution system, in exchange for a minor cut of the profits made."
"No, I think I have a better idea..."
Consumer: "Wow! I can download Battletoads onto the 360!
Nintendo: ...This is dumber than that time I turned the stairs into a slip and slide...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)