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Edge Revolution teasing

Twilight Rockstar said:
EDGE don't have anything new. It's just gonna be covering the demos they played behind closed doors. So erm… quit with the fantasies and the October 27-tons
AND these are the same demos everyone's already talked about. They have nothing new. Like Edge would really get an exclusive from Nintendo anyway.
 
Holy crap, BioWare is making a Star Wars game for Revolution.

The cells in the top right represent BioWare, and the LED light could be the Revolution, or it could be a lightsabre!
 
yoopoo said:
It'll be their impression from TGS, nothing more.

Some of you keep saying this, but even if thats true, so what?
Their editorial on it will be excellent and you can count on lots of commentry from editors of the magazine, and the people they interview about it. They'll get a really good industry perspective.

It won't be that simple though imo. There'll be things that we may not know in there too.

For example, in one of the early DS cover issues before DS was released, they'd spoken to Square-Enix reps who revealed they liked the system and were trying to get PlayOnline running on it, Bandai had it networking with home PCs, several developers extended the 4-8 typical multiplayer recommendation and had many more connecting wirelessly etc. They told of DSpeak long before it surfaced.

There's bound to be one or two note worthy things.
 
God's Hand said:
AND these are the same demos everyone's already talked about. They have nothing new. Like Edge would really get an exclusive from Nintendo anyway.


They were the ones who actually revealed the DS but it was instead the GBA....
 
God's Hand said:
AND these are the same demos everyone's already talked about. They have nothing new. Like Edge would really get an exclusive from Nintendo anyway.

I dunno. Maybe it was unclear, but in the context of their online article, they seemed to be talking about stuff other than the demos we know about. I'm not expecting that much from Edge, but Nintendo has to reveal more sooner or later and it might make sense to do it before the 360 launch.

Edge said:
But now it's back to waiting. Nintendo has not confirmed a release date, or anything else about the machine - simply, today's keynote explains that the hardware is in place and exactly what it is. Even the name of the machine is still to be decided, with the official announcement for today's controller unveiling strictly saying that Revolution is a code-name (and as you can see in the pictures the Revolution name is nowhere to be seen). Specific software is also off the menu, although early demonstrations of the device today included a toy plane game (where the user held the controller the way they would a toy plane), fishing and a first-person shooter section based on Metroid Prime 2.

These all proved that the device has demanded software creativity from even Nintendo. Other titles have already been demonstrated to a few select members of the press, including Edge, behind closed doors - and we will reveal our verdict on the Nintendo-developed ideas in an upcoming issue - but we're curious to know what form subsequent announcements from third party publishers take and how, exactly, games developers will use the new device.
 
Timbuktu said:
I dunno. Maybe it was unclear, but in the context of their online article, they seemed to be talking about stuff other than the demos we know about. I'm not expecting that much from Edge, but Nintendo has to reveal more sooner or later and it might make sense to do it before the 360 launch.


All of the publications that were privy to the tech demonstration said the "games" didn't have titles(they all made up different titles for their articles on each demo except for Prime 2), so I think Edge is talking about actual games.
 
Robobandit said:
All of the publications that were privy to the tech demonstration said the "games" didn't have titles(they all made up different titles for their articles on each demo except for Prime 2), so I think Edge is talking about actual games.


No. Honestly. They saw the same stuff that other press members and other industry types (such as Nagoshi-san) saw. You think NCL would grant a major exclusive to a UK mag that sells 25,000 p/m??? Erm…

Incidently, I spoke to Mr Nagoshi about Super Monkey Ball 3 on Revolution and he laughed and said that someone from Nintendo has just asked him the same question. It seems like an obvious title for him to develop -- let's hope he got the hint at TGS :D
 
yoopoo said:
It'll be their impression from TGS, nothing more.

That's what I'm thinking too. It may be old to us, but there's still a ton of people who do not look for game news online for one reason or another.
 
I believe that the press is under NDA about Revolution, this NDA was signed in the last TGS and EDGE has paid for an exclusive of some information like PSM is doing with the PS3.
 
Twilight Rockstar said:
No. Honestly. They saw the same stuff that other press members and other industry types (such as Nagoshi-san) saw. You think NCL would grant a major exclusive to a UK mag that sells 25,000 p/m??? Erm…

Incidently, I spoke to Mr Nagoshi about Super Monkey Ball 3 on Revolution and he laughed and said that someone from Nintendo has just asked him the same question. It seems like an obvious title for him to develop -- let's hope he got the hint at TGS :D

I would never expect it to be an Edge exclusive, they saw it with other press members and the news will probably come out around the same time, they are all under nda. whether that time is the end of october is another question.
 
You've already heard all there is to hear about the TGS meetings. The only NDA expired at the end of Iwata's keynote, and all was dumped onto the web.
 
Kobun Heat said:
You've already heard all there is to hear about the TGS meetings. The only NDA expired at the end of Iwata's keynote, and all was dumped onto the web.

Ok. Lets leave it at that.
 
Sumasshu said:
Well technically it's a blue line and cell, but I agree -- ps3.


The inner back page is always related to the inner front page, not the page it's facing. As an example, the previous months Edge had Space Invaders concept sketches on the inner front, and the same sketches drawn in a grid for the inner back. Kind of similar to the pages below left, but with 130 pages seperating the images.

invadernotes.jpg


The coming next month image could be a light sabre for all we know.
 
For the tenth anniversary edition of Edge, Shigeru Miyamoto drew a cover with Mario & Lugi.

I think that gives some idea about how special the relationship is between the magazine and Nintendo.

Don't know any other western mag that had a Nintendo employee draw a cover for it, let alone someone of Miyamoto's standing.
 
Xellotah said:
If it is just the TGS coverage, we should at the very least get some screenshots ...

of demoes that aren't running on Revolution hardware but show the use of the Revolution controller? I hope not! Because that would 1) be pointless and 2) lead ot people putting down the graphics despite them not being a true reflection of Revolution graphical capability.
 
Sunski said:
of demoes that aren't running on Revolution hardware but show the use of the Revolution controller? I hope not! Because that would 1) be pointless and 2) lead ot people putting down the graphics despite them not being a true reflection of Revolution graphical capability.

Well maybe some early screenshots of games. ( Although that wouldn't be very Nintendo like to release them this early )
 
There are no NDAs. Like Kobun Heat said, the Revolution NDA ended after Iwata's keynote and was in place because press went hands-on the day before (the Thursday). IGN has already reported on everything that was shown. There will be no screens of the demos or exclusive in-game Rev screens. I can't believe I'm sitting here saying point blank not to expect anything yet people are still fantasising.
 
Twilight Rockstar said:
I can't believe I'm sitting here saying point blank not to expect anything yet people are still fantasising.

Please tell us when we can expect more news, so we can stop fantsizing. I'd like to here/see something more this year, but who knows.

At least we now know the Revoluion is not just a boardgame with a microphone. :lol
 
Twilight Rockstar said:
There are no NDAs.

I'm sure there is, otherwise what's to stop John Japanese Developer working on Rev software from spilling the beans all over the internet? The real question is, are there still some members of the press under NDA's regarding other aspects of the system? Who knows.
 
All Edge did was get the same hands-on time with the demos that IGN and GameSpot reported on on the same day. But the report will still be good... trust me :)
 
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