20 Titles At Revolution Launch 78
Next Generation reports that NOA's George Harrison expects there to be 20 titles for the system at the Revolution launch. From the article: "The other thing we recognized is that you really make your reputation in the first year ... You've got to deliver software, not just at launch, but you've got to deliver software in the first six to nine months after launch. It has to be solid software. In GameCube, we didn't have that, we had kind of a drought for six months after it launched. By that time your reputation starts to solidify and it's hard to reverse that after awhile."
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And besides, when has Nintendo ever been known to release titles that weren't varied? Nintendogs? Super Smash Bros? Mariokart? Super Mario 64? Katamari Damacy? I'd say that small example of games shows quite a variety of titles, wouldn't you?
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Katamari is rumored to be coming out for the Nintendo DS.
It's been cancelled as a commercial project, and you will die before the elements of the three existing games, all of which are copyrighted, become available for use by homebrew developers.
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You can copyright the sequence of words used in a book to tell a story, but not the story itself.
I believe that's how it works. Perhaps all this is debunked by someone here who knows better than me.
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You can trademark the name and copyright the execution - the graphical design, sounds etc, but not the idea itself.
Sure, homebrew developers could make their own takeoff on Midway's Bubbles, but then it wouldn't be a KATAMARI(tm) brand game, as rehtonAesoohC speculated [slashdot.org]. And how do you know that there aren't patents involved, in which case it's not after you're dead but still after the DS is dead?
You can copyright the sequence of words used in a book to tell a story, but not the story itself.
But yo [plotpatents.com]
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On the other hand, a game library with 20 titles but no variety... well, I don't know what we can say about how much quantity it has, but regardless of the quality of the individual games, that isn't what I'd call a quality launch library. Variety effects quality directly, because most people get bored if they wind up having to
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, nobody's forcing anyone to buy those crappy games that come out alongside or in between the good ones.
For example, I'd dare say the PS2 has more "excellent" games than the XBox. Not just more games (that's indisputable) but more "excellent" rated games (according to actual players). Besides, I love that I can find the niche games I enjoy for the PS2 and my friends can play their sports games on their PS2s and we're both happy.
If you like the games available on another platform, enjoy them. However, a huge library with a lot of variety is an excellent goal -- especially since console makers make most of their money from the licensing, not the console itself.
I think there's at least 20 games still on my "definately want to play" list for the PS2 that I haven't got to yet.
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Exactly. I don't game much, but I just finished up Xenosaga II over the break. XSII wasn't a AAA game, but I'm a fan of the series and I enjoyed playing it quite a bit. Right now, I'm looking forward to playing some of the Shadow Hearts titles, of which I have two to catch up on before I get to the new one. Games like these don't come out for Nintendo consoles. Its as if everything is either a
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It'd be nice to always spell correctly when tossing my ideas out on Slashdot, but 'need'? I don't need to be able to spell any specific word correctly in a Slashdot reply, even though I do try.
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My bets for the 7 launch "window" titles are: Smash, Mario 128, Pennant Chase Baseball, WarioWare (fingers crossed), Metroid Prime 3, hmmmm. Can't guess the other two. But they'll be delayed anyways
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I also heard a rumor that "Mario 128" was the original codename for Pikmin, the original game
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But yes, that's where 2nd party games come into play. Technically, you'd call any game developed for Nintendo by someone else, and published by Nintendo as
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Unless you count "Wario's World" for the Virtual Boy.
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(hmmm... when will the Mario/Pikachu crossover happen I wonder...?)
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Also, I've thrown plenty of controllers in my day out of frustration. Haven't broken anything yet, including the controller.
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One piece of information was missed. This controller, like N's previous ones, is made out of Nintanium. It's like titanium but a bit harder. It won't break
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Swords. (Score:5, Funny)
This means about 20 developers thought "Hmm... that's a cool controller. Wouldn't it be cool if you could use it to swing a sword... or something."
The games are:
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Alex Trebek: It's actually not "Swords".. these are words that begin with "S". The answer is: "Popeye is this sort of man". [ Reynolds buzzes in ] Burt Reynolds.
Burt Reynolds: What is.. Popeye?
Alex Trebek: [ sighs ] No. [ Connery buzzes in ] Sean Connery. And, remember, these are words that begin with the letter "S", not "Swords".
Sean Connery: [ bangs podium, thinking ] Saber!
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Don't people have imaginations anymore?
I mean seriously.. Programmers and Gamers thinking there is nothing more to games than what we're doing now or have done in the past?
Why don't we just give up on the space program, science and math and just concentrate on what we have now?
sigh
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It's an exciting time
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For the person who's getting the Revolution as their first system, they have loads of games that they might choose from to buy. That's what I was talking about.
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Hey you forgot the Genesis and TG16! (no wait, OK maybe you can forget the TG16)
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fixed that for you, its getting bigger and bigger! I cant wait! WHEE! ***Disclaimer, The last nintendo device I bought was a GameBoy Color and before that SNES, but the Revolution looks so awesome I can't wait*** I also have had WAAAY to much coffee, I can't feel my arm
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OFFICIAL List of the 20 games (Score:5, Funny)
I snaked this list off a power point presentation given at a recent conference to investors of the Big N. For just a few seconds we got a look at the long list but they flipped to the next slide to discuss all of the different colors the Revolution would be released in and spent about thirty minutes discussing that. Really odd, I thought.
Anyway, after the presentation I went up to the machine hosting the presentation and move it onto my USB jump drive. Here is the list of the 20 awesome release games for the REvolution that will surely make it the greatest launch EVER:
Mario Kart: Revolution!
Mario Baseball: Revolution!
Mario Tennis: Revolution!
Mario Soccer: Revolution!
Mario Golf: Revolution!
Super Mario Strikers: Revolution!
Mario Golf: Revolution!
Mario Party 7: Revolution!
Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix 2: Revolution!
Mario Beach Volleyball: Revolution!
Mario Versus Capcom Versus SNK: Revolution!
Paper Mario: Revolution!
Sunshine Mario: Revolution!
Paper Sunshine Mario: Revolution!
Mario Classic Arcade: Revolution!
Wario Wrestling: Revolution!
Mario En Espana: Revolutiones!
Mario Bowling: Revolution!
Mario World: Revolution!
I cannot wait for revolution to come out. With a launch lineup like this they are going to annihilate the competition!
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the mario series is still the best platformer grouping of any system so far, and i'll buy a revolution the first day if mario 128 is a launch title. miyamoto's puzzles are genius.
metroid, zelda, and yes, even the golf series have been well-balanced and consistently fun.
and mario kart? i enjoyed double dash much more than i expected to (picked it up in a bundled set) and still like playing it.
games for nintend
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You mean Mario 'Third' Party? I think I have that on the list.
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only one-third of the titles would be Nintendo games, with the rest being third party.
Third party [wikipedia.org] will likely be available through Virtual Console.
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I've seen 3 or 4 Zelda games so far with Capcom's name on it.
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Yeah. You could probably use a simpler control system, come to think of it...
(Hint: fireball was B. Press A and you jump.)
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I mean, how many SNES games have super in it's title and how many N64 games have the suffix 64?
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About 1/3 of the games will be First Party Titles (Score:3, Insightful)
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