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EGM interview with Reggie at 1up.com (Rev, DS etc)

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I was surprised this wasn't posted.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141656

Some highlights:
EGM: All right. We like free.

RFA: Free is good.

EGM: Let's start off now with Revolution by getting to the online side of things. How that going to be different from what's already out there? Microsoft had it pretty well handled with Xbox Live.

RFA: As we get into the Internet space, the first way we're going to get there, obviously, is with Nintendo DS, which is going to be having wireless-enabled games for this holiday season. So principles that we're applying for DS are the same principles we're going to apply for Revolution, which is, we want to make it easy and included for the consumer. We want our games to be, if you will, optimized for online play. We want it to be free, so that there are no cost barriers, but we want it to be an overall fun experience so that there's also no what I call experience barriers.

By doing all that, we believe we can drive up our participation rate of online play to be well in excess of about the 15 percent you see today. And the 15 percent comes from a number of industry sources, but if you think about it, 15 out of every 100 consumers who buy an online game actually go and play it online. That's pretty small. Versus what we want to see, for example, with Mario Kart, is we want to see 80, 90, 95, near 100 percent of folks who actually enjoy the experience so much, who have access to the experience, to go do it online.

That, philosophically, is quite different than what our competitors do. There's going to be no subscription fee; we're not looking at this as a profit-driven program. We're looking at it as a way to bring more enjoyment and satisfaction to the game. And we think with what we're doing on Kart, what we're going to be doing on Animal Crossing, what we're going to be doing on future Revolution wireless Internet games, we think that's a fundamentally different model than what's being done today.
Hmmm. This isn't exactly confirming that the Rev will be wireless only. And that whole 'lack of ethernet jack' business was on the concept model, so who knows?

EGM: So you would say for Revolution, that we should expect more of those key franchises you already have to kind of drive and launch Revolution?

RFA: Absolutely. And as Mr. Iwata said, so we're working on our next true Mario platformer for Revolution; we're working on our next Metroid, and we showed snippets of that work. And I'm actually meeting with Michael Kelbaugh to spend some time with him to understand the vision for our next Metroid Prime game. You'll see Zelda. You'll see Smash Bros. And Mr. Iwata certainly wants that to be a wireless Internet-enabled game because we know it would be so much fun for the core gamer.

So absolutely, for Revolution you will see all of our franchises, plus, we've gone on record to say that we are aggressively working on a number of new franchises. And that is something that has been a criticism of the past, you know, "Folks, are you milking Mario and doing too many Mario-type games?" We are hard at work at new franchises and we believe that's going to be critical to the launch of Revolution.
Sounds good so far.
 
IMO they should buy a Russian/East-European studio for new TEHADULT franchises. That would help in American/Europe with their line-up and it wouldn't be too expensive. But is there somewhere mentioned if you can set up your own hot-spot ?
 
I'm going to be dumb for a minute.

All this WiFi business Nintendo is spouting... you have to be within a certain distacnce of another player in order for that to work? I'm a little confused on how they think WiFi will be better than straight up broadband.
 
worldrunover said:
I'm going to be dumb for a minute.

All this WiFi business Nintendo is spouting... you have to be within a certain distacnce of another player in order for that to work? I'm a little confused on how they think WiFi will be better than straight up broadband.

You use the WiFi to connect with a wireless router, which connects you to the internet...it's WiFi in the sense that the internet connection would be wireless. What you're describing is basic local wireless.
 
worldrunover said:
I'm going to be dumb for a minute.

All this WiFi business Nintendo is spouting... you have to be within a certain distacnce of another player in order for that to work? I'm a little confused on how they think WiFi will be better than straight up broadband.

I think they're talking about wirelessly connecting to the internet, not wireless LAN (though I'm sure they'll have the latter too).
 
Ah, ok, so Nintendo's just cutting out the middle man... sort of.

Also, how does that work with the DS? If I walked into say, a Panera or Starbucks with my DS (after the network is up this fall or whatever), I could play people online from there?
 
Reggie on GB Micro:

And we think that that is a huge proposition, and again, I have to tell you: The retailers have been all over it. You know, they know their consumers about as well as we do, and the belief is that it's going to be the hot Christmas item this year. Especially when we announce the pricing.

I like the sound of that.

I like how he infers third parties have seen the Revolution pad or at least heard the concept too.
 
Reggie is defending the current GC linuep and says it's good :lol

Comon even as a Nintendo fan I think it's really abysmal except for Zelda. But I understand him, he is a PR person and he needs to say the postive things.
 
Jacobi said:
IMO they should buy a Russian/East-European studio for new TEHADULT franchises. That would help in American/Europe with their line-up and it wouldn't be too expensive. But is there somewhere mentioned if you can set up your own hot-spot ?

If you're asking what I think you are - they've already said that existing 802.11b/g routers already on sale will work with Revolution. They'll also work with DS and PSP. Not a bad investment really.

They are going to be bringing out a Broadcom/Nintendo branded router though IIRC.
 
SantaCruZer said:
Reggie is defending the current GC linuep and says it's good :lol

Comon even as a Nintendo fan I think it's really bad except for Zelda. But I understand him, he is a PR person and he needs to say the postive things.

Fire Emblem, Mario Sports Titles, another Mario Party, Zelda, Battalion Wars...I mean, I think that they have some relatively good software. Now, if he's defending its diversity or its third party lineup, he has issues. But, from the perspective of Nintendo itself, I'd say that there's enough software coming for Nintendo to make some dough on software this late summer/fall.
 
SantaCruZer said:
Reggie is defending the current GC linuep and says it's good :lol

Comon even as a Nintendo fan I think it's really abmysal except for Zelda. But I understand him, he is a PR person and he needs to say the postive things.

It is good though really. He points out where GC is on it's lifespan... they're winding down. The people who are buying 3/4 years into it's life are hardly going to be hardcore enthusiasts - they're buying Gamecube at a third of the price it launched at nearly...

Given that Nintendo have never bothered to go out and woo the smaller developers like Sony have in the UK and other parts of Europe and the US, or even as much as Microsoft, the line up looks as I'd expect to be honest.

The usual stuff off EA, Ubisoft, Atari etc and Nintendo games being the only big interesting games as far as Nintendo fans are concerned.

Now that GTA: SA and Conker are out on Xbox, whats the next big title there? Half Life?

PS2 is the only console that looks like it will sustain itself past the introduction of new consoles.
 
radioheadrule83 said:
They are going to be bringing out a Broadcom/Nintendo branded router though IIRC.
Thank you, I was hoping for something like this (which will be child-like easy to use for sure).
 
The fact that developers have seen the controller is a boost for me. The fact that he says it exites them is really good news for all involved in gaming. Its not a WTF at least.

Nintendo's DS strategy is so good right now, and their Game Boy strategy has always been excellent, if they could just transfer this to the home console it would be great. Just get the European pricing fixed dammit.
 
radioheadrule83 said:
It is good though really. He points out where GC is on it's lifespan... they're winding down. The people who are buying 3/4 years into it's life are hardly going to be hardcore enthusiasts - they're buying Gamecube at a third of the price it launched at nearly...

Given that Nintendo have never bothered to go out and woo the smaller developers like Sony have in the UK and other parts of Europe and the US, or even as much as Microsoft, the line up looks as I'd expect to be honest.

The usual stuff off EA, Ubisoft, Atari etc and Nintendo games being the only big interesting games as far as Nintendo fans are concerned.

Now that GTA: SA and Conker are out on Xbox, whats the next big title there? Half Life?

PS2 is the only console that looks like it will sustain itself past the introduction of new consoles.

Well It's the end of the life cycle but at the same time one can wonder how far away the Revolution is.
 
I thought it was also interesting the way he wouldn't commit to Nintendo Revolution being the best on price...

he's prepared for the eventuality that Sony or MS are batshit insane in taking losses.

Or there again, maybe the power-gulf implied by Perrin's HD comments were misleading.
 
radioheadrule83 said:
I thought it was also interesting the way he wouldn't commit to Nintendo Revolution being the best on price...

he's prepared for the eventuality that Sony or MS are batshit insane in taking losses.

Or there again, maybe the power-gulf implied by Perrin's HD comments were misleading.

kaplan is always misleading :lol
 
A guy at work told me you have to pay for a wireless online service (on top of the router) and I didn't believe him. Confirmation, anyone? It was the first time I'd heard of it.
 
AniHawk said:
A guy at work told me you have to pay for a wireless online service (on top of the router) and I didn't believe him. Confirmation, anyone? It was the first time I'd heard of it.

No, you don't. You pay for your internet service as per normal, but no additional fees for using wireless. Just the once-off cost of a wireless router.

If you wanted to use someone else's hotspot, they may charge you for that. But if you're plugging your own router into your own internet connection, there's no additional cost.
 
gofreak said:
No, you don't. You pay for your internet service as per normal, but no additional fees for using wireless. Just the once-off cost of a wireless router.

If you wanted to use someone else's hotspot, they may charge you for that. But if you're plugging your own router into your own internet connection, there's no additional cost.

Thanks.
That's what I thought.
 
radioheadrule83 said:
I thought it was also interesting the way he wouldn't commit to Nintendo Revolution being the best on price...

he's prepared for the eventuality that Sony or MS are batshit insane in taking losses.

Or there again, maybe the power-gulf implied by Perrin's HD comments were misleading.


Think that was a stupid question really, no company will ever say "yeah we're gonna be half the price of our competitors". Face it Nintendo may well have a cheaper unit as usual, but they will still set the price as high as they possibly can in comparison to Sony and MS.

There was one person (Kaplin) who said Revolution would be pretty weak and since then there has been an avalanche of "the Revolution will make you say wow", "Nintendo knows that there is a standard of technology iit has to meet to simply sit at the next-gen table nevermind compete" and other quotes on that line. Its not that its weaker, its just that Nintendo is not playing the spec-card - which is normal!

I guess people are expecting another DS/PSP type situation, but why? Who's to say that power-wise itw on't be the GC/PS2 situation? Had no bearing on the eventual outcome though, both systems had some of the best games ever.

Its pretty much guaranteed that some Revo games will look as good as the best PS3 games. Not counting HD TV of course ....
 
AniHawk said:
I really can't believe that Fire Emblem is THAT forgettable here among Nintendo fans.

heh, well I imported the japanese version and later sold it because I decided to wait, so I have played a bit of it already. tbh, I prefer classic RPGs in favor of Stratety RPGs. It's not just my thing.
 
I didn't forget about FE. I just wish Nintendo would've spread out some of their releases, instead of lumping them all in the fall/winter.
 
Deku Tree said:
I didn't forget about FE. I just wish Nintendo would've spread out some of their releases, instead of lumping them all in the fall/winter.

Thats a fair point. I think the Nintendo faithful would buy Nintendo games all year around, and I guess I'm one of those even though I'm a multiformat owner. If they want to remarket certain games at Christmas as though they're brand new that's cool... but they seem to leave the Summer almost completely barren.
 
I think there's so much text in FE that they really couldn't do a simultaneous launch. Sounds like most of their resources are going into Zelda to get a worldwide launch (or close to it). Besides, FE came out in April. It took them 6 months or more for the GB ones as well.
 
I only got a GC recently so I'm quite delighted with it, huge backlog of games I need to buy and a handful of quality games to look forward to, for as Reggie said, GC is actually well placed for new buyers, lame excuse and no compensation for you guys but yeah, I'm lovin it.

ToS
Paper Mario
SoA
Resi Evil 4
Wind Waker
Metroid
Pikmin 2
Beyond good + evil

Games coming:

Twilight Princess
Chibi Robot
Mario Strikers (oh how I loved the Nintendo football game on the NES)
Fire Emblem
Maybe Battalion Wars
Pokemon for my bro maybe.
 
Shao said:
I only got a GC recently so I'm quite delighted with it, huge backlog of games I need to buy and a handful of quality games to look forward to, for as Reggie said, GC is actually well placed for new buyers, lame excuse and no compensation for you guys but yeah, I'm lovin it.

ToS
Paper Mario
SoA
Resi Evil 4
Wind Waker
Metroid
Pikmin 2
Beyond good + evil

Games coming:

Twilight Princess
Chibi Robot
Mario Strikers (oh how I loved the Nintendo football game on the NES)
Fire Emblem
Maybe Battalion Wars
Pokemon for my bro maybe.


Glad to see your enjoying it. Don't believe any dickhead that says there are no good games on the GC. I have about 30 some odd games for it and I can think of 30 or 40 more I want to get.
 
I mean, again, and Mr. Iwata did this during his presentation on Tuesday—if you just think about it, we're going to have the ability through wireless internet to download all of your great games from NES, SNES, N64. Think about it: Each of those controllers were different. How are you gonna play? That captured some the imagination of what our controller needs to be able to do, and certainly as you get into the meat of that type of innovation with the developers, their eyes truly light up because they start to imagine what's possible with that type of configuration, which is vastly different than a sheer horsepower type of game.


It HAS to be some kind of a touch screen controller. I mean, how else would you be able to play all those classic games? You would remap the buttons on the controller.
 
AssMan said:
It HAS to be some kind of a touch screen controller. I mean, how else would you be able to play all those classic games? You would remap the buttons on the controller.

I'm hoping that isn't the case. I like to feel my buttons dammit!
 
I'm much more inclined to believe that they'd sell multiple controllers...
or one customisable controller. There's already one for PS2 I believe. Is it by Mad Catz or Pelican or something?

A basic pad chassis, with clip on components for D-Pad, Analogue Stick, SNES style buttons, etc. Built in Gyro?

I don't know. They've said it won't have a touch screen though.
 
radioheadrule83 said:
I'm much more inclined to believe that they'd sell multiple controllers...
or one customisable controller. There's already one for PS2 I believe. Is it by Mad Catz or Pelican or something?

A basic pad chassis, with clip on components for D-Pad, Analogue Stick, SNES style buttons, etc. Built in Gyro?

I don't know. They've said it won't have a touch screen though.

So wait, wouldn't that then mean Nintendo were the ones copying the customizable controller? Oh ho, how the tables have turned.

Doesn't really matter, just no stupid designs, no touch screens, no split controller and it will be a buy for alot of people here.
 
AssMan said:
It HAS to be some kind of a touch screen controller. I mean, how else would you be able to play all those classic games? You would remap the buttons on the controller.


Well the same point gets brought up over and over when people mention that - if it's a touch screen you wouldn't be able to take your eyes off of the touch screen to know you're hitting the right buttons.
 
FitzOfRage said:
Well the same point gets brought up over and over when people mention that - if it's a touch screen you wouldn't be able to take your eyes off of the touch screen to know you're hitting the right buttons.
Unless its a force feedback touch screen, which can emulate any number of real world surfaces (ie: wood, rubber, plactic. etc) But that wont happen, it would cost too much, and Nintendo's cheap.
 
I don't want Nintendo to go 3rd party, I want them to go handheld only. Their so much better at providing the deep small experience and their console entries I find very unrewarding. Their also weakest when splitting up their development. I don't want them to pull away from the DS to support another lackluster console.
 
turok4n64 said:
just imagine 007 or PD in 60 FPS :D
MS owns PD and EA owns 007...so that won't likely happen.

@Cube-Lineup :
Release Giftpia and Nintendo Puzzle Collection already, Nintendo ! I even read somewhere Giftpia is already translated and it's just waiting in some NoE closet for release...
 
MS owns PD and EA owns 007...so that won't likely happen.

Why not? Im sure MS and EA would love to get a cut of the profits those two games would surely make. It would be the easiest money they ever made. They could split the GE profit 50/50.
 
Musashi Wins! said:
I don't want Nintendo to go 3rd party, I want them to go handheld only. Their so much better at providing the deep small experience and their console entries I find very unrewarding. Their also weakest when splitting up their development. I don't want them to pull away from the DS to support another lackluster console.

It's "they're," damnit! "THEY'RE!"

"THEIR" IS POSSESSIVE!

And I strongly disagree. If I can get Zelda next gen in beautiful 3D (in either TWW or TP style), then that will be great. DS is a decent deviation from the norm, but I want the norm too.
 
The buttons are probably on some kind of small "tract," so the layout of the buttons are fully custimizable. You know, if you want a fighting game, you can line them up vertically like an arcade machine, or if you want an NES game you can line up two buttons, or for SNES line up the 4, or a N64 you can set the buttons up that way. You just slide them through the small, individual tracts to get the set up you want. Everyone bitched that the GameCube button layout sucked for fighting games and so on, now you'll never have to worry about that again, because the Rev controller will have LAYOUT CUSTIMIZATION.

I dunno, I think thats cool - better than touchscreen.
 
yoopoo said:
Unless its a force feedback touch screen, which can emulate any number of real world surfaces (ie: wood, rubber, plactic. etc) But that wont happen, it would cost too much, and Nintendo's cheap.


Even with those, you only get feedback after you hit the button, so you'd still have to find it first You can't feel your way around like with a normal controller without unintentionally hitting things on the way.
 
John Harker said:
The buttons are probably on some kind of small "tract," so the layout of the buttons are fully custimizable. You know, if you want a fighting game, you can line them up vertically like an arcade machine, or if you want an NES game you can line up two buttons, or for SNES line up the 4, or a N64 you can set the buttons up that way. You just slide them through the small, individual tracts to get the set up you want. Everyone bitched that the GameCube button layout sucked for fighting games and so on, now you'll never have to worry about that again, because the Rev controller will have LAYOUT CUSTIMIZATION.

I dunno, I think thats cool - better than touchscreen.

That could be part of it, but I think it'll have more than one thing.

Besides:

PS2-Phoenix-Controller.gif
 
"I mean, again, and Mr. Iwata did this during his presentation on Tuesday—if you just think about it, we're going to have the ability through wireless internet to download all of your great games from NES, SNES, N64. Think about it: Each of those controllers were different. How are you gonna play? That captured some the imagination of what our controller needs to be able to do, and certainly as you get into the meat of that type of innovation with the developers, their eyes truly light up because they start to imagine what's possible with that type of configuration, which is vastly different than a sheer horsepower type of game."


That paragraph, right there, has got me perplexed. First he eludes to some sort of configurable controller.

Second he eludes to not only a controller, but a configuration as well. WTF?

Outside the box indeed.
 
Shao said:
The fact that developers have seen the controller is a boost for me. The fact that he says it exites them is really good news for all involved in gaming. Its not a WTF at least.

I wanna hear them say "This excites us.", not Reggie.
 
SatelliteOfLove said:
I wanna hear them say "This excites us.", not Reggie.
Square-Enix has already stated that. What they had to say was the most exciting quote ANYONE has had about the revolution, and it was a very tantilizing messege as well.

If S-E is going ape-shit over this, "revolution", then SOMETHING has to be interesting.
 
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