Explain to me...

[AaronChance]

The games aren't very large though, only going more than a few meg with N64 titles, so I think it's more logical that they're downloaded instead of having to connect to them for each play. They'd probably have to be loaded all into memory to play them anyway just as other emulators do it. You probably will have an account that keeps track of the games you've bought, so you can clear them out of memory and download them again if you need the space without having to pay up a second time.

Or is it too much too expect logic from Nintendo?

[Drewbacca]

The Revolution is supposed to ship with an option to access multiple webcams located in Shigeru Miyamoto's home so you can watch his daily activities on your television, 24 hours a day. Of special interest is the "toilet cam," which is mounted in the bowl pointing straight up.

I wonder if he squeezes out pieces of shit that look like Tetris blocks?

[Mzo]

Maybe Alexei Pajitnov does.

I bet Miyamoto poops yoshi cookies.

PS - Is that the right Russian guy? I could be wrong.

[Drewbacca]

It's easy to tell Dolemite made up that news. Miyamoto drops his load down a giant green tube, not a toilet.

I hate the idea of paying vast amounts of money for these games. 5 dollars for a SNES and NES game is far, far too much money. They should structure it like an iTunes. 99 cents a game and you can play it as many times as you'd like so long as you have a Revolution. Anything more than that and I'm not buying in. $5 to play Excite Bike does not excite me, seeing as though I'd only probably play it for a day or so before getting bored. 99c a game is smart because consumers are already more accustomed to that pricing structure because of iTunes and music download services. Remember when this was going to be a free pack-in with the Revolution? Oh that was a glorious two days.

They should also offer special deals. 10 for 5 deals where you can get 10 NES or SNES games for 5 bucks as an incentive for people to buy more.

I also don't see Nintendo actually letting you download the game to their system's memory. People would be able to bootleg and rip the games from their hardware eventually. Nintendo's more controlling than that, so I fully expect you to connect to their servers in order to access the game of your pleasure.

[Zerodash]

Another question: given the Revolution's retro catalog and XBox Live Arcade, what will Sony do to match?

[cka]

true hd gaming

[Kev]

Didn't Sega have some sort of online program with the Dreamcast that let you play Genesis and TG16 games? How'd that work? Was the emulation decent?

[StriderKyo]

Another question: given the Revolution's retro catalog and XBox Live Arcade, what will Sony do to match?

Backwards compatibility with every Playstation game.

[JefmcC]

Another question: given the Revolution's retro catalog and XBox Live Arcade, what will Sony do to match?

Sony will still have the largest game library. Besides, won't the PS3 play all previous generations of Playstation games?

[gamevet]

I'd guess it won't be a credit card-only system - they'll go with "revolution points" or something, based off cards you can buy in a store, and which may be offered as pack-in incentives in other games. (I'd wager they take the opportunity to cross-market from their portable line with this type of offer).

This sounds reasonable. I'm sure they could use promotional cards as well. Buy a DS game, get $5 in Rev. points. Buy a Rev. game and get $10 in points.

I don't think they've confirmed that the games would be saved entirely onto your system. I think it's more logical that with that little memory, you'd be downloading a small file that says "yeah, I bought this" that would connect to them and let you play it. I see a monthly fee plan with unreasonable, GBA-rehash prices to permanently buy it.

512 Mega Bytes isn't that small. Something like Street Fighter II: CE on the Genesis was 16 Mega Bits. That's like 2 Mega Bytes of data.