23rd March 2006, 3:07 PM
Yep, which is nice unless you want to store a fully customizable game in the current generation on it, or download decent sized demos, or a large number of smaller Revolution designed games. 4X the included memory isn't exactly bursting at the seams.
Nintendo had it right when they decided to make a hard disk add-on for the N64, except that they launched it at the end of the system's life span and costing far too much money. If they include a hard disk with a size competitive with the PS3 and 360, they would certainly get it out to a lot more people and they would love Nintendo for it. Imagine a far improved version of that Giants game, or a Pikmin game where the Pikmin evolved into various all new creatures and expanded to ridiculous degrees (oh right, Spore is that already...). Imagine... um... let's see a game combining the "wand" and high memory storage... MARIO ENGINEER! Design all sorts of amazing gizmos like the rotating spinmajigger babymabopper, with full demonstrations of it in some sort of highly developed toon physics, or realistic physics, or whatever!
You see, high rewritable data storage has a lot of potential if Nintendo will only humor it. Of course, there's the cost issue, but Nintendo could pull what MS did and do some minor segretation of the market with two Revolution packages.
Nintendo had it right when they decided to make a hard disk add-on for the N64, except that they launched it at the end of the system's life span and costing far too much money. If they include a hard disk with a size competitive with the PS3 and 360, they would certainly get it out to a lot more people and they would love Nintendo for it. Imagine a far improved version of that Giants game, or a Pikmin game where the Pikmin evolved into various all new creatures and expanded to ridiculous degrees (oh right, Spore is that already...). Imagine... um... let's see a game combining the "wand" and high memory storage... MARIO ENGINEER! Design all sorts of amazing gizmos like the rotating spinmajigger babymabopper, with full demonstrations of it in some sort of highly developed toon physics, or realistic physics, or whatever!
You see, high rewritable data storage has a lot of potential if Nintendo will only humor it. Of course, there's the cost issue, but Nintendo could pull what MS did and do some minor segretation of the market with two Revolution packages.
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