Shigeru Miyamoto on Family & Revolution

[fitbabits]

Found the following story (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_45/b3958127.htm) on Buisiness Week - Onlline Edition (http://www.businessweek.com) (no sniggering in the back).

How will Nintendo's next-generation platform, Revolution, differ from others?

Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don't. They should belong to the entire family. I want families to play video games together. That was the concept behind the Revolution In the future, what do you think video games will be like?

It's convenient to make games that are played on TVs. But I always wanted to have a custom-sized screen that wasn't the typical four-cornered cathode-ray-tube TV. I've always thought that games would eventually break free of the confines of a TV screen to fill an entire room. But I would rather not say anything more about that.
Some interesting comments from Mr. Mario, especially the last sentence of the second quote.

[Draft]

Nintendo Revolution To Use Holographic Projecting Technology! Omgfragglebraggle Next Gen Take Me Away!

[fitbabits]

Omgfragglebraggle
I laughed so hard I almost crapped my pants. :D Two words - turtle head!

[Borys]

Did he just make a Freudian slip there?

[fitbabits]

Did he just made a Freudian slip?
Draft or Shigeru?

[SnappyCrunch]

I can understand Miyamoto not wanting to comment on that. He doesn't want people speculating that it's something N is going to do for their next console. I think he wants people to keep fresh ideas in mind, and he wants people to know that N is looking at lots of different ways to play games, but that sort of technology is years down the road, if it ever can be feasible.

[Borys]

Miyamoto of course.

[NoName]

Just you wait, if anyone can mass market a holo deck, it'll be Nintendo. :D

[The Iron Weasel]

Just you wait, if anyone can mass market a holo deck, it'll be Nintendo. :D

And you know the rabid Nintendo fanboys, would sell their, children, homes, and bodies, to get one.

[NoName]

And you know the rabid Nintendo fanboys, would sell their, children, homes, and bodies, to get one.
Hehe, I think a lot more people than just Nintendo fanboys would get rabid if Nintendo actually had a holodeck to sell.

Then again maybe I have a biased view, and future children I may have would be a small price to pay for a holodeck. ;)

[midrael]

The strangest thing is that.. as fantastical a thought as that is.. for some reason, if only for a split second, I pondered if Nintendo was actually trying to do something like that. If anyone markets a holodeck, I could definitely see it being Nintendo.

Something tells me that'd run more than $499 though.

[Danin]

And you know the rabid Nintendo fanboys, would sell their, children, homes, and bodies, to get one.

Yeah but it'd only get like two good games a year, all the third party support would go to the Xbox 1080 because it's "too hard to develop cross-platform titles for the Holo".

[megaman]

All this talk of the rev being a family console just leads me to believe it's gona offer very simple dumbed down party games playable for all ages...

[fitbabits]

All this talk of the rev being a family console just leads me to believe it's gona offer very simple dumbed down party games playable for all ages...
Next generation Twister, anyone?

[31 Flavas]

[...] all the third party support would go to the Xbox 1080 because it's "too hard to develop cross-platform titles for the Holo".Your half-way correct. Don't forget the Nintendo Holo will be "underpowered" because it won't do X-treme (hi)defintion. So who would buy the Holo when you could buy Madden 2010 and play in X-treme defintion.

[mister_slim]

I really liked the bit about the Rubik's Cube. That's the Nintendo Difference right there. I'd love it if more developers would figure that out (Bungie did, so can you).

[fitbabits]

I really liked the bit about the Rubik's Cube. That's the Nintendo Difference right there. I'd love it if more developers would figure that out (Bungie did, so can you).
Oh, can I finish the Rubik's Cube analogy?

[RMan]

All this talk of the rev being a family console just leads me to believe it's gona offer very simple dumbed down party games playable for all ages...
Oh, I'm sure it will, but as long as it doesn't JUST have that then that just means more to choose from.

Actually, when you stop and think about it, when the controller offers full 3D functionality, your TV screen does become something of a limiting factor. With full 3D support you could have that retinal projection tech that the military uses and produce a fully 3D experience without having to actually produce a holographic view (after all, you don’t have to make a 3D image, just one that looks that way for the viewer). I don’t think they’d jump to that after the Revolution, that’s a bit drastic, but I also didn’t see the Revolution controller coming either. Ehh, they’re making me happy enough with the Revolution, I don’t care to think to much about what they’re doing next.

[Carnisaur]

Finally, the holodeck is a reality. Just a few more years until warp drive, baby!

[mister_slim]

Oh, can I finish the Rubik's Cube analogy?
Please go ahead. Can you do it without a sexual reference, though?

[fitbabits]

Please go ahead. Can you do it without a sexual reference, though?
Ah-ha, a challenge.... Let me see....

Bugger, I've actually forgotten how I was going to finish it. I think it was something along the lines of Nintendo spending time and money solving the Rubik's Cube 'properly' while Sony and Microsoft simply removed the colored stickers and matched them up.