Dear Customer, thank you for your e-mail.
I do accept what you are saying but the same argument is in reverse. If the game you wanted most definitely to play, say Zelda, was only on Revolution, would you refuse to buy it and not play it at all? There are far more non HD TV's in operation in Europe and will continue to be so until the prices fall and there are more HD broadcasts for people to receive. To add this technology to a unit and increase the price and, potentially, the programming difficulty, for a limited return is arguably not worth it.
Kind regards,
Your Nintendo Team
If/when I get replies from the NOA and Japan I'll post them here as well.
Basicly what's in my first post here. I should have made a better argument, but I wasn't thinking clearly that late at night after only having a few hours sleep the night before.
Some PS2 and Xbox games already support true HD (720p, 1080i) this generation! (Game lists courtesy of HDTV Arcade.)
Source: http://1080up.org/
Edited by - Luigison on 7/27/2005 2:37:39 PM
There are already over 30 games (this gen) that are 720p or 1080i. Next gen almost all PS3 and Xbox 360 games will be HD. Nintendo will only support 480p.
I'm afraid Nintendo is treating HD next genereation like it treated Online this generation. They say it's not popular because few people bought the cables for it. Duh, they were only available online at the Nintendo store. I would have bought them if they were at a local retail store and they hadn't remove the component support from GCN.
I'll buy the PS3 version of third party games like RE5 even if there is a REV version because I want to play them in HD. I think this will hurt Nintendo's 3rd party games again. Since most GCN owners also on another system this trend might continue with the REV. If a better version (read HD) of a game is available gamers will buy that version leaving Nintendo without much 3rd party support.
Since all new TV will be by law digital (this was just extented), broadcasts will be in HD, and Sony/Microsoft consoles are HD, I predict the HDTV will become a lot more popular as it's prices fall. You can get a 32" HDTV now for under $300. I paid about two thousand for mine a few years ago. Prices are falling and will continue to.
Go to http://1080up.org/ to find out more.
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Edit: I used HD in this thread to refer to High Definition, not Hard Drive. While I think a Hard Drive would be useful considering only 512 flash for downloading games, that's for another thread.
Edited by - Luigison on 7/28/2005 11:26:45 AM