Nintendo's Official Stance

[Zeus]

IGN report online reports are shedding new light on the horsepower for Nintendo's next-generation console, codenamed Revolution, and gamers are reacting. Fans who write Nintendo of America about Revolution's power will receive the following official response...



Our competitors would have you believe that the next generation of gaming will be solely defined by high definition graphics. High definition graphics look fantastic, but come at a price. To shine, high definition games must be played on high definition televisions, which aren't cheap. Games with high definition graphics are expensive to develop because they must be developed in both standard and high definition formats. Those development costs are passed on to you in the form of more expensive software. Finally, playing games with high definition graphics requires a system with loads of RAM and costly high-end graphics chips, both of which make it prohibitively expensive for most consumers.

Sharper graphics are certainly part of the next generation. We know that games for the Revolution will look brilliant whether played on a standard television or on a high definition television. However, is that all there is to next-generation gaming? We feel that sharper graphics should be combined with a new way to interface with the game itself. Our controller is a sharp departure from the current standard, to be sure, but it will provide a level of interactivity you can't get currently.

We believe in providing a single system that can play not only the previous generation's titles, but also games from a massive library built over 20 years of creating innovative and exciting games. We also believe in providing a complete wireless online experience right out of the box.

Nintendo has created a gaming system that is sleek and compact in size, powers up quickly with minimal load times, makes game development easy and fast, is easy to use, and is affordable for everyone. We are confident that gamers and non-gamers alike will support the truly next-generation experience only Nintendo can provide. Once you have a chance to play games on the Revolution, we think you'll agree!

Nintendo of America


News Source: <a href="http://revolution.ign.com/articles/674/674611p1.html" target="_blank">IGN.com</a>

[RottenFox]

now thats a response thats thought out,and well articulatedas well as informative.
nice one nintendo... ;)

[tray262]

I think this is my first negitive post on here ever, but that's a whole lot of info that really doens't say anything.

Sorry.

But thanks again to Zeus for the info.

Tray.

[gcmospeada]

nintendo doesnt care about good graphics, they really care about the gameplay and how good and adictive a GAME is.

For example, you can fall in love with the PSP graphics, but you wont see a review giving a 9/10 for a psp game, but you will see a 9/10 score on a nintendo ds game like mario & luigi and some others that are really adictive.
if you see the metroid DS demo its all squares and bad graphics but its damn good to play it using a pen.

[chukz]

that is true the games nintendo seems to succeed so well with are slightly off of what most people would think.

like for a racer they go with mario kart, no realism whatsoever, cartoony graphics, creative tracks, and the most depth in that game is using R to 'hop' to drift hehe

compare to games like PGR3 or GT4, focusing on realism and real tracks and realistic graphics/physics.

the difference? you can't just pick up PGR3 or GT4 for 30minutes and expect to get the most out of it... you gotta spend that 30min just customizing the vehicle... compare it to Mario Kart where the first 30min you can usually beat mushroom cup 50CC

this is what i think nintendo is going for, games that don't require you to do too much to really enjoy all the game has to offer, which is why i think they would rather not try and make these real life type graphics for games that you may only want to play for 30min at a time.