Topic: Revolution Specs to Never be Revealed?

[Hostile Creation]

"People bought it initially because (despite Nintendo's insane attempts to prove otherwise) people saw it as the GBA followup and thus it sold well by riding on its predecessor's coattails."

You don't think Revolution, assuming that it has a bad launch/drought, can't ride on the coattail of every console Nintendo game ever made?

[Ian Sane]

"You don't think Revolution, assuming that it has a bad launch/drought, can't ride on the coattail of every console Nintendo game ever made?"

That's not how things work.  The Cube didn't ride off the coattails of the NES or SNES.  When it comes to a console purchase it's just "what have you done for me lately".  The N64 was Nintendo's most recent console and that's what people thought of when the Cube came out.  The Cube was largely held back by this.

When the Rev comes out the general assumption at first will be that it's another Gamecube.  That's BAD.  That will severely limit the Rev's potential.  So that have to overcome that stigma right away.  The era of Nintendo consoles being huge successes might as well be a million years ago.  The Rev is the Gamecube 2 until proven otherwise.

Would you make a predicition on a sports team based on how they played ten years ago?  No.  You would look at last season.

[KnowsNothing]

I think he was alluding to the Virtual Console...

[ShyGuy]

Geez, everyone in this thread seems to have gone insane..


IIRC, people have been getting taller throughout history because taller is the predominant gene (?)

Gearheads argue over car motors, so I don't think this is much different, but most people just drive to the store and get milk.

[IceCold]

...for Ruby's baby!

[ruby_onix]

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Napoleon was 168 cm or 5' 6, not short but still not 5' 10.

I don't think Napolean was ever really "unusually" short, but he was fully aware of his height, and was oversensitive and defensive about it. So he ordered all his friends and allies to never ever ever speak of anything even remotely related to height in his presence, under penalties of torture and death and whatnot. Which did absolutely nothing to prevent him from being made into a laughingstock behind his back, and only fueled his widespread mockery.

Which is exactly the same sort of situation Nintendo's trying to put themselves in with this business about specs.

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Gearheads argue over car motors, so I don't think this is much different, but most people just drive to the store and get milk.

This is now officially this thread's metaphor for game engines.

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...for Ruby's baby!

It's not my baby, it's Shiggy's. But I understand how you could be confused, since Shiggy doesn't even wanna tell us who it's father was.  

[Ian Sane]

"So he ordered all his friends and allies to never ever ever speak of anything even remotely related to height in his presence, under penalties of torture and death and whatnot."

That must have been annoying at amusement parks.  "Sorry Napoleon.  You can't go on this ride.  It says you have to be this tal....uh talkative.  Yes that's it.  You don't talk enough to go on this ride."

I sort of get what Ruby means.  By being so secretive and defensive Nintendo is actually making the Rev look worse.  It looks almost like they're a little ashamed of it.  They should be proud of their console and want to show off everything about it.  By being all "oh the specs don't matter" they're drawing more attention to them.

[Artimus]

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
"So he ordered all his friends and allies to never ever ever speak of anything even remotely related to height in his presence, under penalties of torture and death and whatnot."

That must have been annoying at amusement parks.  "Sorry Napoleon.  You can't go on this ride.  It says you have to be this tal....uh talkative.  Yes that's it.  You don't talk enough to go on this ride."

I sort of get what Ruby means.  By being so secretive and defensive Nintendo is actually making the Rev look worse.  It looks almost like they're a little ashamed of it.  They should be proud of their console and want to show off everything about it.  By being all "oh the specs don't matter" they're drawing more attention to them.

If screens are impressive, doesn't that become irrelevant?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Screens are impressive until footage shows framerates and animations are actually borked.
(lol killzone)

[Hostile Creation]

I don't even know how the Napoleon thing is relevant (), but Ian, I was referring to the games you'd be able to download onto Revolution.  I don't think they should have a bad launch or a draught, but that's 200 games you can download, and I doubt anyone has played all of those games.

[ThePerm]

so nampoleans specs werent as high as some others..he  was emperor...REVOLUTION!!!!

and i looked it up before you corrected me..he was 5'2 in french inches which is 5'6 in english inches.
still fairly average at the time...although his high gaurd  were  above average...so he seemed shorter.  I'm 5'10 so  he's as  short as my brother..who I pick  on all the time

[mantidor]

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Originally posted by: ruby_onix

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Napoleon was 168 cm or 5' 6, not short but still not 5' 10.

I don't think Napolean was ever really "unusually" short, but he was fully aware of his height, and was oversensitive and defensive about it. So he ordered all his friends and allies to never ever ever speak of anything even remotely related to height in his presence, under penalties of torture and death and whatnot. Which did absolutely nothing to prevent him from being made into a laughingstock behind his back, and only fueled his widespread mockery.

Which is exactly the same sort of situation Nintendo's trying to put themselves in with this business about specs.

The only case when this absurd analogy could make sense is if people released "specs" sheets about themselves and Napoleon hide them as well as himself forever. We will eventually see the games, what importance will specs have then? only annoying graphic whores and fanboys would argue this nonsense, the general public will most likely be really intrigued about the new controller,  not caring at all about how many gigaflops has. Come on! its not like they will be releasing N64 graphic level games, the graphics will look good, thats all that matters given the awesome controller.

[Don'tHate742]

I'd like specs for the system itself. Not in the graphic card, CPU sense, but in the how many ports it has, what type of disk it will use and of course all the rest of that secret stuff we don't know.

Maybe they should just do that?