It’s obvious that with the unveiling of the Revolution Controller, Nintendo would be on the rise with search indexes. “Nintendo Revolution” was the fourth most gaining searched subject on Google last week. While this is promising news for the company, what can be done to keep this momentum?
It appears the hype of the controller lived up to it’s unveiling, but Nintendo still has an uphill battle. They need to unveil the most important half of the equation; playable games not just concepts. They will need to “wow” gamers and media yet again if they wish to stay in the driver seat.
How will this recent interest in Nintendo affect the 360’s launch in late November? According to Forbes, Microsoft has lost 4 billion on Xbox. Four. Billion. Dollars. That just looks ugly on any 
balance sheet, even for a company of their size. It’s looking like they need to do something fast if they wish to have a successful launch. If they don’t, how long will Billsoft stay in the game?
All in all, every one of the major three players in the industry has it’s challenges, Sony included. It’s shaping up to be an exciting next generation where more than ever the market share could shift. Only this time, it appears that Nintendo is better prepared by differentiating itself and the competition can only take notice. They obviously have with recent statements by Peter Moore and other developers.
Kiddie or not, Nintendo is making money, they’ve got money, and they’ve recently announced an interface that could change how the industry plays games and makes money. As a Nintendo enthusiast, and for gaming’s sake, here’s hoping it does.
RavenHero23
WTF is up with these last posts, is there anything game related to them besides I love this site? Anywho I agree with this post, when I first saw the rev controller I was like wow this could be a fun and very interesting device. But then after seeing the trailer I was like, come on nintendo show us sreens so we can at least have some idea on the power of the machine and the next-gen resolution. I mean I think the cube has great graphics and even a minor upgrade on those would be enough of a difference, given the completely new and innovative style of gameplay. Just a long drawn out thought, and this is not my blog, but I think if you’re just going to plug a site and not share any thoughts bug off!
Steve
blogger.com blogs are getting bombarded with spam comments lately. I get an almost instant spam comment every time I post on my personal blog too.
Good post though Blake, I’m concerned that one of the big players is going to rush out a Rev style controller for their launch now and just kill all the hype. I can guarantee a good lot of the PS3 and Xbox diehards look at the Rev controller and think “damn, I wish they had one like that for xbox/ps3”
jakey
i think if it were 3 times more powerefull (3 x the ram, 3 x more powerfull cpu, gpu, sound chip.
but add to all this a ppu that can handle all the physics.
the physics could be taken to the next level such as running like a human being (and not like a robot on an ice rink) or falling over randomly, things can break realisticly when you shoot them or drop them, you could have fully realistic enviroments think of walking over to a desk a tipping it over and all the stuff falls off or being shot in the arm and your arm being hurt and not just your health bar.
the remote will add to that so much, even though it will eat up physics clocks.
with a ppu the rev would be the next step towards virtual reality.
but anyway if the physics are realy good and the graphics and sound are three times as good as re4 from the launch of the system to the end of its cycle
it could end up being the most cinematic system ever.
even if the ps3 can push 100 million more polys the rev will be twice as cinematic.
i reckon if the ps3 is 10 to 15 times more powerfull than ps2 and rev is 3 to four 4 more powerfull than GC with the extra physics i reckon the rev will be more cinematic (and maybe more powerfull) than ps3.
ps. thats inside gameplay, the rev cant stand up against ps3 in fmv (not with blu ray).
pps. i realy realy hate fmv kills gameplay
pppps.games like sands of time used a lot of in game techniques to convey cinematic storyline.
thats what rev will be brilliant at.
have a good day.
Anonymous
In regards to the post above mine,
PPU does not exist neither does physics clocks, it is ridiculous.
FMV games have nopt been around since the Sega CD, Full Motion Video is a game that is designed like a interactive DVD, The PS3 is no better at handling them then any other system, as far as cinematic cut scenes then yes the PS3 could probably hold 3 days worth of Cinematics but then again why would it need to? If the graphics are so good that they look the same then there is no need for CGI Cinematics.
Video Game physics depends soley on a software level, ofcourse the Faster the CPU clock speed and buswidth along with other varying components will result in better support of more advanced physics engine software.
Why would this controller need speciall physics software and not any other.
This is the list of control parrameters.
-Internal Sensor
-Up
-Down
-Strafe left
-Strafe Right
-Forward
-Back
-Roll Left
-Roll Right
-Pitch Up
-Pitch Down
-Yaw Left
-Yaw Right
-D-Pad
-Directional Up
-Directional Down
-Directional Right
-Directional Left
-Buttons
-A Button
-B Button (Pressure sensitive)
-a Button
-b Button
-Start Button
-Select Button
-Home Button
-Analog Attachment
-Up Pressure sensitive
-Down Pressure sensitive
-Left Pressure sensitive
-Right Pressure sensitive
-Z1 Button
-Z2 Button
Obvously there are far more contorls then any other controller but not so were it would need some ridiculous made up chip called a PPU.
Ofcourse teh SDK for the Revolution will have Preset code for translating that data into a mroe programming freindly set of variables.
Viola
For the smartguy above:
http://www.ageia.com/technology.html
Jack
With blogspot there’s a feature with comments called verification or something that can be turned on in the preferences. Not that these are hard to spot… you get tipped off pretty easily when Nigerian Diamond miners need you to take a Ferrari off their hands and they come to a Nintendo game site to look for buyers.
Side note: you know your site is getting popular when the Sony/MS die hards arrive to attack you with ballsy “anonymous” posts and their best post involves the terms “kiddie” or “fanboy.” (full disclosure, enterprising PSP fanboys who would like to discover who i really am can do so with a little homework and mastery of a thing called… wait for it .. Google)
nic
Great little blog. I visit every day now. Thanks~
As somebody who’s stuck with Nintendo all these year, I’m starting to feel happy as heck about thier direction. I think Sony PSP points to some very dire problems within that company’s Playstation direction. I feel if the PS3 comes in at a higher price than $299 (virtually garuanteed), then Sony’s going to be losing bigtime to Microsoft and Sony. The PS2 did nothing to me. I had no connection wiht any of the game. I played Ico the Jak games and tried to get into MGS and Final Fantasy 10, but I couldn’t enjoy them. I broke down and got an XBOX last summer for Halo 1 and 2 and had the biggest blast ever. M$ might’ve focus-grouped their system to hell, but they put out a system dedicated to a certain type of gaming. Sony’s quickly becoming a company with no soul. It’s debatable they ever had one to begin with.
I see Microsoft taking its early release and kick-ass Live and capitalizing on it this round. I see Revolution following the DS’ lead and kicking Nintendo back into major public recognition. The games will be fun and new, and that’s all that matters. The little Rev looks hot, too, so that’s a plus. Hot, and it’ll be $199. Sony will follow through stictly on momentum and be a relative success, but I’m positive it won’t be on fire. Too many past mistakes on Sony’s part, too much hubris.
Thanks again for thee blog.
-nic
hilker
“Nintendo Revolution†was the #4 gaining query on Google last week. Many more people searched for it last week than the week before, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it was anywhere close to the most popular searches overall.
Anonymous
Nor was that implied.
hilker
It was before this post was edited.
jakey
i think if it were 3 times more powerefull (3 x the ram, 3 x more powerfull cpu, gpu, sound chip.
but add to all this a physical processing unit that can handle all the physics.
the physics could be taken to the next level such as running like a human being (and not like a robot on an ice rink) or falling over randomly, things can break realisticly when you shoot them or drop them, you could have fully realistic enviroments think of walking over to a desk a tipping it over and all the stuff falls off or being shot in the arm and your arm being hurt and not just your health bar.
the remote will add to that so much, even though it will eat up the power of the ppu (because everyting you interact with will have to move in a way dictated by your hand movements and not just an animation).
but with a ppu the rev would be the next step towards virtual reality.
but anyway if the physics are realy good and the graphics and sound are three times as good as re4 from the launch of the system to the end of its cycle
it could end up being the most cinematic system ever.
even if the ps3 can push 100 million more polys the rev will be twice as cinematic.
i reckon if the ps3 is 10 to 15 times more powerfull than ps2 and rev is 3 to four 4 more powerfull than GC with the extra physics i reckon the rev will be more cinematic the graphics might not need to be better if everything onscreen is interactive.
ps. thats inside gameplay, the rev cant stand up against ps3 in cutscenes (not with ps3s 2 hd screens and blu ray).
pps. i realy realy hate cutscenes they kill gameplay
pppps.games like sands of time used a lot of in game techniques to convey cinematic storyline.
thats what rev will be brilliant at.
have a good day.
are you happy now.
i think you new what i meant all along but because im not technichaly savvy you decided to pick my post apart(dork)
if you didn’t know what i was talking about you only had to ask me to rephrase.