25th March 2006, 3:16 PM
I'll have to go find the article but voice chat on DS and Revolution is going to be a main-stay says Nintendo
it's also important to realize that Nintendo will have similar multiplayer on rev games that are done with DS, such as single-disk multiplayer where one person has the game and can invite people in to its multiplayer by letting them d/l the content (also letting the other players demo the game). of course, it will be limited but should be 'enough' for the players who dont have the game to decide on a purchase or not and atleast play a simplified version of the game.
then we have Miyamoto's and Iwata's recent comments of 'games shouldn't cost 40, 50 dollars" and all the big buzz around the 'I-Tunes-like' setup of Nintendo's virtual console. if you're not familir with i-tunes, it's basically winamp that has links next to each song to find the CD of where it's from and purchase it; usually for cheap, sometimes even used and hovering around the 10 dollar mark. If we're going to buy games online and d/l them, who's to say we wont be buying Revolution games as well off the network and either d/l it or have it sent to you in the mail.
This generation just might be the first signs of the death of the game store. PS3, Xbox 360 and Revolution have the capability to connect to the net and purchase whatever, including games. nintendo has had problems with distribution lately, some people cant find battalion Wars anywhere, or Chibi Robo, and alot of games simply get excluded from stores completely. Try to find King Kong for GC at a Blockbuster, it aint happnin. Nintendo has to get companies to bid on what they will put on the shelf, and the first ting they go for is PS2, then 360, then XBox, then gamecube, at the end of the list and we get screwed out of games. buying them over the network completely elliminates that entire struggle and allows developers to sell the games at a cheaper price AND reach a larger audience - especially if you're d/l the game, they wont even have to press it on disks or manufacture anything.
you turn on the rev, enter the network, see a banner ad for Metroid Prime 3, click it, put the 25 dollar game on your tab, hit the d/l button and you download the game while you go chat and play. In an hour or so, you now have MP3 along with cool artwork for your rev's background and a flash presentation of the manual with movies instead of screen shots with a voice over. I KNOW Nintendo wants this in the near future, and they've said again just recently you can d/l Game Cube games on Rev's network, so a hard drive is definitely coming. or atleast some kind of larger storage device - there's a rumor about Nintendo upping the internal 512 MB.
this coming gen is going to change alot of things for the better.
it's also important to realize that Nintendo will have similar multiplayer on rev games that are done with DS, such as single-disk multiplayer where one person has the game and can invite people in to its multiplayer by letting them d/l the content (also letting the other players demo the game). of course, it will be limited but should be 'enough' for the players who dont have the game to decide on a purchase or not and atleast play a simplified version of the game.
then we have Miyamoto's and Iwata's recent comments of 'games shouldn't cost 40, 50 dollars" and all the big buzz around the 'I-Tunes-like' setup of Nintendo's virtual console. if you're not familir with i-tunes, it's basically winamp that has links next to each song to find the CD of where it's from and purchase it; usually for cheap, sometimes even used and hovering around the 10 dollar mark. If we're going to buy games online and d/l them, who's to say we wont be buying Revolution games as well off the network and either d/l it or have it sent to you in the mail.
This generation just might be the first signs of the death of the game store. PS3, Xbox 360 and Revolution have the capability to connect to the net and purchase whatever, including games. nintendo has had problems with distribution lately, some people cant find battalion Wars anywhere, or Chibi Robo, and alot of games simply get excluded from stores completely. Try to find King Kong for GC at a Blockbuster, it aint happnin. Nintendo has to get companies to bid on what they will put on the shelf, and the first ting they go for is PS2, then 360, then XBox, then gamecube, at the end of the list and we get screwed out of games. buying them over the network completely elliminates that entire struggle and allows developers to sell the games at a cheaper price AND reach a larger audience - especially if you're d/l the game, they wont even have to press it on disks or manufacture anything.
you turn on the rev, enter the network, see a banner ad for Metroid Prime 3, click it, put the 25 dollar game on your tab, hit the d/l button and you download the game while you go chat and play. In an hour or so, you now have MP3 along with cool artwork for your rev's background and a flash presentation of the manual with movies instead of screen shots with a voice over. I KNOW Nintendo wants this in the near future, and they've said again just recently you can d/l Game Cube games on Rev's network, so a hard drive is definitely coming. or atleast some kind of larger storage device - there's a rumor about Nintendo upping the internal 512 MB.
this coming gen is going to change alot of things for the better.