studvicious
11-10-2005, 03:50 AM
** EDIT **
The controller giveaway is confirmed.. sweet. :-P
http://cube.ign.com/articles/665/665354p1.html
http://club.nintendo.jp/rank_p/index.html
http://club.nintendo.jp/rank_p/tp01.jpg
** EDIT **
I just happened to come across this little site and it had some Revolution info that I haven't heard anywhere else. Just thought I would pass on some of the good parts here for all of you. And of course, all of this could be total bull urine.
The site: http://revolution.dcemu.co.uk/
The news:
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Chinese cooking simulator revealed
Posted on Wed 9 Nov 2005, 7:41 PM
So the first Nintendo Revolution software to be revealed as being playable over in Kyoto turns out to be the Chinese wok simulator as seen in the Revolution tech demo at this year’s Tokyo Game Show.
In a great interview with Games Life, Nintendo producer Hideki Konno mentions that the wok sim has set the offices alight.
“We're thinking of so many different things. We're still at the stage where we're trying so many different things. We're doing things with big, expansive movements and smaller, more concise movements. It's hard to narrow it down to one over the other. Did you see the Tokyo Game Show video? We actually have things using the movements you saw. Like the cooking game. We have this game with a big wok that you use to cook Chinese food, and it's really interesting to have the meat and vegetables frying in there, and use the controller to flip the food around without it spilling out of the pan.”
Of course, this got us wondering – are all the other tech demos seen from the TV’s perspective real, existing software? The wok simulator, that we’ll refer to from here on in as Wok: Chinese Food Master Gaiden III, was twinned with a slicing game. We wonder if that’s on the go in Nintendo’s offices too…
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Here's the pic:
http://www.4eternal.com/revscreen.jpg
more...
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Revolution could launch outside Japan first - Nintendo
Posted on Wed 9 Nov 2005, 7:25 PM
Revolution won't necessarily launch in Japan first, according to Nintendo Europe's senior vice president of marketing Jim Merrick, who also has some strong words for Epic Game's Mark Rein, who recently criticised the platform holder's next-generation plans.
Speaking in an interview with our sister site Eurogamer today, Merrick said Revolution might "not follow the stereotypical formula of Japan first, then the US, then Europe some time later". "Anything's possible," he said, when asked if the console could conceivably launch in Europe first.
Reacting to Mark Rein's recent suggestion that games using the Revolution's freestyle controller would be "gimmicky" and "cheap", Merrick paid tribute to Epic's strengths, but added, "he doesn't have a Revolution controller, he doesn't have a dev kit, he's talking about something he knows nothing about," ( LOL ) before issuing something of a challenge - "if he'd like to get a dev kit and really dig into it, then I'd be interested to hear what he has to say."
Merrick also answered questions about pricing possibilities for the Revolution's back catalogue downloads, talked about other download possibilities, and confirmed that the console's 512MB of Flash memory will be expandable. (sweet)
The Nintendo executive also reaffirmed, "I would be very disappointed if I went to E3 and didn't play Revolution games," and said that Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima was among developers working on the system.
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and last but CERTAINLY NOT LEAST - this awesome piece of news.... (I hope this is true)
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Nintendo Ships Revolution Controller Early or does it
Posted on Tue 8 Nov 2005, 8:37 PM
Nintendo of Japan has started giving away the controller you see pictured to the right of this news. The controller will be made available to Club Nintendo platinum members in the next few weeks, free of charge, and unfortunately for we western types, in Japan only.
But what is it? No, it’s not an actual Revolution controller. Aside from the fact that there would be no point in releasing controllers without accompanying hardware, Nintendo would not be best pleased with letting its rivals tinker around with the innards of the much-vaunted revolution in gaming it has planned.
It’s actually a universal television remote, designed we imagine to sit on the coffee tables of Nintendo enthusiasts while they await the all-new machine, expected to be launched around the world starting in Japan in June 2006.
As mentioned a couple of paragraphs ago, there are no plans for the eBay-igniting piece of memorabilia to see a release outside of Japan right now, though given Nintendo’s recent relaxation of cross-border promotional activities, there is some hope.
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Seriously, how cool would that be?? You know you want one!! :-P
The controller giveaway is confirmed.. sweet. :-P
http://cube.ign.com/articles/665/665354p1.html
http://club.nintendo.jp/rank_p/index.html
http://club.nintendo.jp/rank_p/tp01.jpg
** EDIT **
I just happened to come across this little site and it had some Revolution info that I haven't heard anywhere else. Just thought I would pass on some of the good parts here for all of you. And of course, all of this could be total bull urine.
The site: http://revolution.dcemu.co.uk/
The news:
###########
Chinese cooking simulator revealed
Posted on Wed 9 Nov 2005, 7:41 PM
So the first Nintendo Revolution software to be revealed as being playable over in Kyoto turns out to be the Chinese wok simulator as seen in the Revolution tech demo at this year’s Tokyo Game Show.
In a great interview with Games Life, Nintendo producer Hideki Konno mentions that the wok sim has set the offices alight.
“We're thinking of so many different things. We're still at the stage where we're trying so many different things. We're doing things with big, expansive movements and smaller, more concise movements. It's hard to narrow it down to one over the other. Did you see the Tokyo Game Show video? We actually have things using the movements you saw. Like the cooking game. We have this game with a big wok that you use to cook Chinese food, and it's really interesting to have the meat and vegetables frying in there, and use the controller to flip the food around without it spilling out of the pan.”
Of course, this got us wondering – are all the other tech demos seen from the TV’s perspective real, existing software? The wok simulator, that we’ll refer to from here on in as Wok: Chinese Food Master Gaiden III, was twinned with a slicing game. We wonder if that’s on the go in Nintendo’s offices too…
###########
Here's the pic:
http://www.4eternal.com/revscreen.jpg
more...
###########
Revolution could launch outside Japan first - Nintendo
Posted on Wed 9 Nov 2005, 7:25 PM
Revolution won't necessarily launch in Japan first, according to Nintendo Europe's senior vice president of marketing Jim Merrick, who also has some strong words for Epic Game's Mark Rein, who recently criticised the platform holder's next-generation plans.
Speaking in an interview with our sister site Eurogamer today, Merrick said Revolution might "not follow the stereotypical formula of Japan first, then the US, then Europe some time later". "Anything's possible," he said, when asked if the console could conceivably launch in Europe first.
Reacting to Mark Rein's recent suggestion that games using the Revolution's freestyle controller would be "gimmicky" and "cheap", Merrick paid tribute to Epic's strengths, but added, "he doesn't have a Revolution controller, he doesn't have a dev kit, he's talking about something he knows nothing about," ( LOL ) before issuing something of a challenge - "if he'd like to get a dev kit and really dig into it, then I'd be interested to hear what he has to say."
Merrick also answered questions about pricing possibilities for the Revolution's back catalogue downloads, talked about other download possibilities, and confirmed that the console's 512MB of Flash memory will be expandable. (sweet)
The Nintendo executive also reaffirmed, "I would be very disappointed if I went to E3 and didn't play Revolution games," and said that Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima was among developers working on the system.
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and last but CERTAINLY NOT LEAST - this awesome piece of news.... (I hope this is true)
###########
Nintendo Ships Revolution Controller Early or does it
Posted on Tue 8 Nov 2005, 8:37 PM
Nintendo of Japan has started giving away the controller you see pictured to the right of this news. The controller will be made available to Club Nintendo platinum members in the next few weeks, free of charge, and unfortunately for we western types, in Japan only.
But what is it? No, it’s not an actual Revolution controller. Aside from the fact that there would be no point in releasing controllers without accompanying hardware, Nintendo would not be best pleased with letting its rivals tinker around with the innards of the much-vaunted revolution in gaming it has planned.
It’s actually a universal television remote, designed we imagine to sit on the coffee tables of Nintendo enthusiasts while they await the all-new machine, expected to be launched around the world starting in Japan in June 2006.
As mentioned a couple of paragraphs ago, there are no plans for the eBay-igniting piece of memorabilia to see a release outside of Japan right now, though given Nintendo’s recent relaxation of cross-border promotional activities, there is some hope.
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Seriously, how cool would that be?? You know you want one!! :-P