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Re: [N-Scene] Nintendo Squashes Feature-Length Legend Of Zelda Fan Film

2010-01-02T07:55:01Z

Heh, soon as i heard of this i went and searched online and found tons of
spots it still exists, all with the included story from different sources,
Seems that it was planned to be taken down but Nintendo but they were nice
about it and waited for the Holiday season to be over to take it down,
anyways, just do a quick Google search you'll easily find it, tho some have

Re: [N-Scene] Nintendo Squashes Feature-Length Legend Of Zelda Fan Film

2010-01-02T07:40:35Z

hmm... I'm sure there are copies floating around the 'net. While I would not encourage an illegal action against Nintendo... I *would* like to see this. Darned spoiled sports...

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Nintendo Squashes Feature-Length Legend Of Zelda Fan Film

2010-01-02T07:25:21Z

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From the trailers out there, it's seems like quite a good production. Definitely something for the fans. Has anyone seen this proper?

Re: [N-Scene] Re: Nintendo and Intel in Talks on New Console Rumor Suggests

2010-01-02T06:26:33Z

I know how OnLive does it, but that is not the only means of digital distribution, just the one mentioned in that article. This method only really works if the end-user has a fast enough connection. So, until the majority of a perceived customer base falls into that broadband category, it would be foolish to move from a download-to-your-own-hdd mode of digital delivery. Not to mention, unless I am seriously mistaken on how video rendering and audio quality are generated, it is FAR preferable to do those types of things on the receiving/using end of a digital transfer. Anyone more savvy on how these things are coded and such?

Re: [N-Scene] Re: Nintendo and Intel in Talks on New Console Rumor Suggests

2010-01-01T23:39:10Z

err... did you read the article?
Unless I misunderstood the concept, all the game data is stored on the game servers and all you have at your end is the game controller. The control data is fed to the game server and all that is fed back to you regarding onscreen visuals is FMV (full-motion video). Kinda similar to the way digital TV works... you press buttons to switch channels and bring up the menu's, but all you are really receiving is essentially FMV.

Re: [N-Scene] Re: Nintendo and Intel in Talks on New Console Rumor Suggests

2010-01-01T20:05:18Z

Just thought I'd point out that there's practically no way anyone will
be using HD-DVD in their next console. The format is 100% dead.
Toshiba stopped manufacturing the discs completely in 2008 and I think
that overhauling one of their factories to put the discs back into
production just so that one company could use them would be too cost

Re: [N-Scene] Re: Nintendo and Intel in Talks on New Console Rumor Suggests

2010-01-01T19:14:09Z

Good point!
I wonder if they (or anyone else in a business that stands to profit from such a line of thinking) have thought of that. Though, I suppose it all depends on when they release their next system...whether or not something else piques their interest.

I don't think they intended the download stuff to be that heavily pushed, more a temptation. After all, they were trying to focus on drawing in the typically-non-gamer audience...who may also be non-internet (or at least non-broadband) folks too.

Re: Nintendo and Intel in Talks on New Console Rumor Suggests

2010-01-01T17:50:26Z

The point is that the HD-DVD tech is pretty dead, but it was fully
developed. So if Nintendo uses this format there are very little
drives out there to facilitate home pirating. They'll probably get a
nice deal from Toshiba who should be keen to recover a little coin on
their investments.
Nintendo will probably stick to a real medium for their next

Re: [N-Scene] Re: Nintendo and Intel in Talks on New Console Rumor Suggests

2010-01-01T05:23:45Z

I'm not sure why you would think there would need to be so may servers per game. Under the download-to-your-own-HDD method, you could definitely fit more than 10 games on a server. Even if the server had only a single HDD (which is unlikely) I'd imagine *at least* 2TB... so unless games got seriously larger and so badly coded their was no compression to the install file, I can't see why you couldn't get 100-1000 new games on a drive.

Re: [N-Scene] Re: Nintendo and Intel in Talks on New Console Rumor Suggests

2009-12-31T18:02:58Z

So I guess if this new shebang goes ahead, you would have to pay to play all existing games on the service again.
Not to mention the number of servers required for this... I mean, say 10 servers per game and 1000 games... that's an awful lot of servers - and that's just an example.
Whilst you would lose the whole packaging thing, you would have a huge increase an energy consumption, as those servers would be on 24/7, unlike our games consoles which are only on when we use them.

Re: [N-Scene] Re: Nintendo and Intel in Talks on New Console Rumor Suggests

2009-12-31T15:26:55Z

Actually, MS has ready been dipping their feet heavily into those waters...as has Nintendo! LIVE Arcade title are downloads, as are play-on-demand and XBox Originals. Nintendo has been doing not just the VC titles, but WiiWare and DSiWare.

While I too prefer having some physical thing to hold forever, that enables me to play years later...the cost to produce those formats as well as their effect on the environment in packaging as well as defunct carts or discs have been gradually swaying many companies to offer digital formats (maybe not as sole versions, but at least as alternatives)

Re: [N-Scene] Re: Nintendo and Intel in Talks on New Console Rumor Suggests

2009-12-31T13:54:33Z

Whilst that may be cool for some people, I hate that idea.
1) Games will never be supported "forever". Atleast with a disc-based medium I can play it whenever I want regardless of whether the company has gone under, or removed support for that game.
2) I love having my games consoles. Not only are most of them well designed, some of them are damn sexy (Japanese Sega Saturn springs to mind).

Re: [N-Scene] Re: Nintendo and Intel in Talks on New Console Rumor Suggests

2009-12-31T13:45:08Z

Nintendo may well adopt hd-dvd. It's dirt cheap. And they could latch on their own security algorithms just like they're doing now with the wii. It'll be cracked in the end like everything else has.

The most important thing for the next console to be a success. Is that it'll be easy to port games across platforms.

Re: [N-Scene] Re: Nintendo and Intel in Talks on New Console Rumor Suggests

2009-12-31T13:37:15Z

HD-DVD is even easier to crack than Blu-Ray and it still required licensing
fees.
Hell, even using HDMI requires licensing fees.
My belief is that HD-DVD is dead forever.
Tom

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I've been expecting new hardware for a while now. But now that sales

Re: Nintendo and Intel in Talks on New Console Rumor Suggests

2009-12-31T13:02:49Z

Disks will become obsolete as soon as the cloud becomes more stable,
and as more people move to broadband connections. A number of
companies are working towards this end already, Netflix, MS, On live.
I know these are technologies that have yet to be proven.
Check out this as the future.
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