Quietly Returning Fire, Nintendo Loses Round 1, and the Nintendo's up in the Air....
Darien Allen
www.gameaddict.com some interesting news briefs today.....
****Nintendo Copyright Battle Falters
N64: Nintendo has lost the first round of its legal battle against
Prima Publishing. Nintendo alleged that Prima had committed wilful
breach of copyright with the publication of `GoldenEye 007
Unauthorized Game Secrets.' However, the lawsuit was halted by Judge
Dwyer of Washington who found that Nintendo had failed to prove that
Prima's guide included actionable copying. Judge Dwyer stated that
many of Nintendo's maps consisted of factual material, which is not
protected by copyright. The president of Prima, Ben Dominitz stated:
"We believe that Nintendo's action was prompted primarily by their
displeasure over Prima's growing pre-eminence in the strategy guide
area, where our two companies sometimes compete." ***
Possibly, Nintendo did use to make a killing on release strategy
guides for many of if's games back in the 16-bit days...Still this
more than likely isn't over.
***Sony scoffs at Rival Bombast
PlayStation: Sony has responded to Nintendo's aggressive new year
threats to bury opposition in the games market. Despite Nintendo's
claims that resistance is useless now that selected N64 games are
reduced in price, Sony is promising big things for `98. The firm is
predicting sales of 40 million PlayStation games in North America by
the end of its fiscal year, along with six million PlayStation
units.***
I read this figure yesterday at www.next-generation.com. I did a
double-take. For anyone who think's Sony doesn't take the Playstation
and it's profits very seriously...think again. They are going to have
to have a good long series of bomb *ss titles though....lineup looks
like it just might be able to do it. We know Nintendo will compete
this coming year...the interesting thing is Sega...will they bow out
completely for at least a year starting this year? Will they come
right back? If they do choose to bow out, that probably means another
round of purchasing possibly for Saturn owners going to another
system....
***Nintendo Satellite Plans Back On?
Industry: Nintendo is preparing new announcements on its slumbering
collaboration with the Nomura Research Institute and Microsoft to
create a satellite data transmission service featuring broadband
access to data and the Internet. The service was originally scheduled
to be available for home users mid `97, but DirecTV's emergence into a
similar area and other aspects of the business climate prompted a
shelving of the plans. Now however, Nintendo suggests that a new set
of plans should be revealed soon. ***
Nintendo and MS, I remember reading about that agreement awhile back
and shuddering. PEOPLE HERE IT IS. This is what could really push the
64DD into those home markets. Nintendo's been quite about it's modem
capabilities...couple the 64DD with a modem, get a viable satellite
transmission system in the US(They have done it for the home market),
provide multi-player gaming as well as Inet access. Thanks to MS it
will probably be packed with some form of browser, email package(A
possible CE derivative).
This modem thing just got a WHOLE lot more interesting it this fleshes
out....
Oh yes, they announced that Rampage: WT will come to the 64, better
graphics, more levels, blah, blah, blah. Sorry I loved the game as a
child, but just don't see it fitting in today. Also a quick comment
on Robotron 64, it's called graphically crude, but still a blast to
play...
Well, that's my news briefing for the day....back to the arguing.
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Michael Bahr
> > I read this figure yesterday at www.next-generation.com. I did a
> > double-take. For anyone who think's Sony doesn't take the Playstation> > and it's profits very seriously...think again. They are going to have
> > to have a good long series of bomb *ss titles though....lineup looks
> > like it just might be able to do it. We know Nintendo will compete
> > this coming year...the interesting thing is Sega...will they bow out
> > completely for at least a year starting this year? Will they come
> > right back? If they do choose to bow out, that probably means another> > round of purchasing possibly for Saturn owners going to another> > system....
Since the Dural is supposed to hit in time for Xmas '98, the Saturn
front will probably be pretty quiet this year. The Saturn is still
hoppin' in Japan, so that's where all the good games will go. As for the
PSX, sure they'll market it well, but there's only so much they can
still do with such an antiquated machine. The games coming out now are
as good as it's gonna get. The question will be one of how well they can
push those titles. As for N64... they'd better get their shit together,
that's all I can say.
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Darien Allen
On Thu, 08 Jan 1998 00:30:51 -0700, Michael Bahr <dur...@goodnet.com>
wrote:
> Since the Dural is supposed to hit in time for Xmas '98, the Saturn
>front will probably be pretty quiet this year. The Saturn is still
>hoppin' in Japan, so that's where all the good games will go. As for the
>PSX, sure they'll market it well, but there's only so much they can
>still do with such an antiquated machine. The games coming out now are
>as good as it's gonna get. The question will be one of how well they can
>push those titles. As for N64... they'd better get their shit together,
>that's all I can say.
Michael I don't want to run this line of argument with you or Ed or
anyone else anymore...antiquated or not if the system is still putting
out good games, if programmers are STILL finding ways to do things not
previously done, If developers are FINALLY taking advantage of the CD
format(Gran Turismo), and last but not least...if the system is still
selling STRONGLY, then antiquated or not it's fine with me.
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