A recent Nintendo Dream magazine out of Japan features commentary and impressions from 10 developers that woo the Revolution’s capabilities and innovation. This bodes well for Nintendo in that the development community has really taken a liking to the next-gen console.
What’s more important is that most of the developers in the article are third party. Could the glory days of third party support on the NES and SNES make its return? We’ll need playable games first to make that decision.
[Source: IGN]
I think the support will ramp up and be a big factor in the Rev's software, however, I think there's only going to be major support from, let's call them "smaller", developers.EA, Midway, etc. make the bigger selling games and what-not, and I doubt a huge lumbering beast like EA will be willing to invest the extra manpower to make their games work with the Rev. In my opinion, that's cool, I'd much prefer a console with nothing but Ico, Ikaruga and Electroplankton-type niche games making up a majority of it's library, as I'm sick of sports game after FPS after racer.I think this is what Nintendo want. A console that'll excel at bringing new experiences and gameplay mechanics to anyone willing to give them a try. On a different note, I hope they drop that lime green colour and change the colours of the buttons on the red controller, because they're just so damn ugly.
They are called "Prototypes" for a reason. Rememeber the DS at 2004 E3? I'm sure many told them about those colors and other things.On Third Party Support(TPS), yes they will have more then the Gamecube. But that's easy. lol. So to say that Nintnedo has been building that way since the 3 year of the GC. And with the Revolution I expect it to continue to grow. I would hope it would match the DS TPS, but even half of that would be better then the GC and would rival Microsoft's TPS.Either way, this controller is going to bring some really weird games to America…Be they from a big developer(Capcom) or a small one(Atlas)
I think your wrong. Small developers go for the biggest market, not the quirky small one. If Nintendo gains a big market boost then small developers will get new games for the system, not the other way around. The first third party develoeprs will se are Konami, Capcom, Sega, SquareEnix, Electronic Arts, THQ, Namco, etc, etc then we may see smaller studios jumping in. That's in the case that Nitendo doesn't find a way to help those small developers market their games, of course with them as a publisher, and they get an exclusiveness contract with nintendo. porting for big companies is easy, porting for smaller companies is too much trouble.Also, I don't think the Revolution will known for a mass of ported games, since most developers are thinking of new ideas for this systems, some even say they are redrawing their current ideas, which may be a sign that XBOX & PS3 may get a controller like this sooner or later. Just for the fact that they are thinking how to apply this new way of playing to their franchises, makes you think of what they may be up to. And like Nintedo said "Either they are with us or not" a good game will need to take the controller since the beginning, not your adapting it for a PS3 game, because it will look clumsy or poorly done. But whatever happens, new gaming is the best way to use this thing. No matter how cool Beautiful Joe is, it needs a fun new way to play it or just another sequel might look like more of the same. Look at Metroid Prime, Its very cool, but its a FPS and plays the same as nearly 100 past games, but the DS versions looks a look more fun because its different."EA, Midway, etc. make the bigger selling games and what-not, and I doubt a huge lumbering beast like EA will be willing to invest the extra manpower to make their games work with the Rev." EA makes Fifa 2006 for the symbian OS, they develop on everything with a somekind of input. The only developer who doesn't even make an effort to make something moe than what they can is just Polyphony. Man they couldn't even finish Gran Turismo 4 which was in development for like 4 years and still wasn't finished. let alone port it. Sit down if you are waiting for Gran Turismo PSP before 2007
I think Revolution will bring out alot of new talent. And if they do the online distribution of small games from small devs like i hope, a new scene will be born.
Perhaps smaller wasn't the word I was looking for. More likely to innovate is a better way of looking at it. Square, Enix, Sega, etc. are the kind of companies that will give something new a go. Smaller companies, the ones wanting to make an impression, I believe, will go for Nintendo. Nintendo fans are more willing to give new things a go, and the control gives them more opertunities to be different.For example, a unique, odd-ball game on the PS2 that should have gotten much more attention was Gitaroo Man. If this had been released on the GameCube, I believe Koei they would have sold more copies and there'd be a Gitaroo Man 2, which the world very much deserves. I think the thing that will seal the Rev will be a game or two from previously unheard-of developers that will storm the Revolution charts with concepts no one would have thought of as gaming before, inspiring more people to do the same, which is why I think the Rev will be a hotbed for new, innovative developers and older, more risk-taking developers alike.