Gamasutra scored an interview
with Pandemic's Josh Resnick, the second
Pandemic member to speak their opinions on the Revolution. While more focused on the joining of the two distinct
development houses, there is some talk of the Revolution. In asking about the difficulties the Revolution presents from
a developer's point of view, Josh said "I don’t think it’s going to be as easy to take a product from
one console to the Revolution, and so I think we are going to be looking to see how we can tailor our products to that
platform. But we do that also with other platforms as well, it’s just that the Revolution may challenge us even
more."One of the initial concerns after the Revolution's remote was shown was just how third-party titles would be ported over to the console, something Nintendo stated would be easy provided a shell was acquired by the user. Josh's statements show a bit of reluctance toward porting over their established franchises to the Revolution and instead reaffirm the belief that the Revolution will see fresh titles, exclusive to the platform, from development houses.
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3-31-2006 @ 1:03AM
Nushio said...
E.A. should be taking notes.
We dont want to play the same garbage from other consoles (That will no doubtly "look good") into a watered-down version of the same game "just because it shortens development time".
If I'm buying a Revolution game, it will either use the remote in a fun, new interesting way, or is a sequel to a great game (Such as Animal crossing DS was to the GCN,or Mario Kart DS was to the GCN)
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3-31-2006 @ 6:00PM
cheeze doodles said...
I hate when developers say, "oh it's going to be so hard to port games on the Rev". That to me is B.S. how come they didn't complain when they created games for PS2 and then ported them to the other consoles ?????
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4-04-2006 @ 12:38PM
RB said...
"That to me is B.S. how come they didn't complain when they created games for PS2 and then ported them to the other consoles ?????"
Well for one, the revolution will be seriously underpowered compared to the PS3 or the 360. Secondly most games take advantage of the numerous buttons on playstation and xbox. Since revolution has less buttons, this will make it harder to port games to it. I know that you're thinking "what about the shell controller". The shell controller has never been confirmed by Nintendo as being included with revolution. It would be hard to sell a game that is not compatible with the revolution's default controller, forcing the consumer to purchase an accesory to play it.
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