How Awesome is this
Wednesday May 18, 2005 - 10:52AM EDT
I am stil trying to fathom how awesome downloading old school Nintendo games will be. They could make massive amounts of money. I hope it is free. But they could even just charge a yearly subscription fee for access and I would pay it. Or even a cheap per download fee of like 50 cents. It would be bigger than ring tone downloading.
Redefining term of backward compatability." It's a virtual console, able to download 20 years of Nintendo content. You will be able to Download NES, Super NES and N64 games. You can get every Nintendo game ever made
That is is from this article. I hope that means that all games, not just ones published by Nintendo will be available. Like Bad Dudes. Besides what previous publisher of Nintendo games wouldn't want to get in on that action. They would just be old games sitting in their libraries that noboy purchases anymore, why would they keep them locked up for no one else to ever play again. Now if they got Sega to publish their library of Genesis games on Revolution's download service I would shit my pants 4 times over. Dude, I just want to play freaking Punch Out again. Dude, I can't wait to see what they do with their online service. It better be good and not crap. I was just reading that Nintendo invested a while ago in a company that makes input devices that detect motion with gyro scopes. Gyration. But nothing on Gamecube ever used the technology. Nintendo's new revolution controller is suppose to be revolutionary. Maybe it is a two piece controller. Dude, what if it was a controller designed to use your wrist movement to control the game. Dude, what if it was two piece and in one hand you had an ultra accurate aiming device that used a gyroscope to detect your wrist motion while in the other hand was a Spaceball type input for movement. Think of the possibilities in first person shooters. It would make it so easy for someone to pickup the control scheme. You aim and fire with your right hand and move with the left. I would be very intutive. A Spaceball is this really awesome input device for controlling movement in 3D space. It is mainly by used 3D designers and never really caught on for anything else. I've never used one but I heard they are awesome and easy to used. It allows simultaneous movement in all directions of 3D space. I've done 3D modeling and I can tell you that the mouse can somtimes be a headache for navigating in 3D space because you can't move in all directions at once you have to stop and click a button then change direction. It slows things down a lot. I have a feeling Nintendo's new controller is going to use one or both of the things I've described. That would be interesting. How would one play Madden with something like that. Actually it could make all games easier to control and more accesible to all people. Maybe the days of just using your thumbs are over. Nah it will probably still have the same old thumb buttons for backward compatibility.