Nintendo Revolution

TonyMontana · **Nintendo Revolution -** 05-15-2005, 10:28 AM

Well here it is...

[quote:0a31a]Nintendo's next-gen console will also be around an inch tall; will support GameCube and DVD discs.
Speaking to GameSpot several weeks ago about the imminent launch of the Xbox 360, Robbie Bach, Microsoft's chief Xbox officer and senior vice president, weighed in on the next-console race. He said he largely saw the next several years as a two-party conflict between Microsoft and Sony.

"Nintendo is good and cute...and there's nothing wrong with that," he said. "They'll be a competitor, but in a different category almost. I don't think they have the same ambition that either Sony or Microsoft does in the more mainstream interactive entertainment space."

Bach's words were presumably based on Nintendo's long-standing policy that game consoles should be for games, period. This philosophy was at the core of the company's current-generation console, the GameCube, which uses a proprietary three-inch disc format, versus the DVDs used by the PlayStation 2 and the current and next-gen Xboxes.

However, it appears that will soon change. In a statement on its official Web site, the company "stated loud and clear that [it is] not to be overlooked in the next-generation home console race." Nintendo announced that its new console, code-named the "Revolution," will play DVDs and be backward compatible. "Nintendo's legions of loyal fans will be happy to learn that Revolution will be backward compatible, playing both Nintendo GameCube three-inch discs, along with its own standard, double-layered DVD discs in the same self-loading media drive," said the company.

Speaking of DVDs, Nintendo also mentioned that the Revolution "will be about the thickness of three standard DVD cases and only slightly longer." This would make it the Japanese game giant's smallest console to date, as well as making it barely larger than Sony's new slimline PS2, which is about two times as thick and about an inch-and-a-half longer than a DVD case. Like the PS2 and the Xbox 360, the new Revolution will be able to lie on its side or stand on one end for horizontal or vertical display.

Unfortunately, Nintendo's statement, which appeared strategically timed to deflate some of the hype surrounding the Xbox 360's unveiling, had few other specific details. It reconfirmed details revealed in Nintendo president Satoru Iwata's 2005 Game Developers Conference keynote address. Namely, it reconfirmed that the Revolution will be "wireless Internet ready out of the box" and will be powered by an IBM CPU and an ATI GPU.

That said, the statement concluded with a tantalizing tease for Nintendo fans. "There's much more to Revolution that will be revealed over the coming months," it read, "but the combination of its compact size, wireless Internet, backward compatibility, quick start-up time, and quiet, low-power operation add up to the start of a great game system."

Nintendo also confirmed what has been long suspected...that the Revolution won't arrive until next year. The last line of the statement read, "Get ready for the Nintendo Revolution in 2006!" [/quote:0a31a]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/13 ... 24449.html

Miscguy · 05-15-2005, 10:53 AM

Seems interesting but i've never really been one for nintendos cartoony graphics. They have done a few games like RE4 that were nice, but so few that are up my alley. it will be interesting to see what this comes out to be since nintendo seems to have a one up on sony and micosoft in reguards to price. Though Sony and microsofts next gens will be 3/4 of a year old when we see nintendos offering, leaving it either poised to catch a wave of customers due to lack luster other consoles games/price. Or it will be to late and the others will have a price drop giving them a second lease on life.

elstatec · 05-15-2005, 12:14 PM

only thing that made nintendo appealing to me was goldeneye and perfect dark.

05-15-2005, 12:28 PM

This seems interesting.... Perhaps since XBOX 360 is the first to be released, it will also be the weakest of the next-gen systems? Also, I really hope that Revolution games wont cost 70$ like new XBOX 360 games.

elstatec · 05-15-2005, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Acideyez

Perhaps since XBOX 360 is the first to be released, it will also be the weakest of the next-gen systems?

i highly doubt it nub.

Bullitt · 05-15-2005, 03:59 PM

microsoft is releasing theirs to early, sega did the same and the saturn and dreamcast died

Miscguy · 05-15-2005, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Bullitt

microsoft is releasing theirs to early, sega did the same and the saturn and dreamcast died

And what were there opening titles? How well edvertised were they? I think your looking at about a hundred fold increase in advertising for the new xbox as compaired to anything sega has ever put out, combined.

05-15-2005, 04:40 PM

Dreamcast > PS1/N64

It had graphix comparable to PS2, if not better. man i miss playing NBA2k2 on it.

Milla · 05-15-2005, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Acideyez

Dreamcast
It had graphix comparable to PS2, if not better. man i miss playing NBA2k2 on it.

rofl, your on crack.

TodzumPapst · 05-15-2005, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Acideyez

Dreamcast > PS1/N64

It had graphix comparable to PS2, if not better. man i miss playing NBA2k2 on it.

Ya i can agree with you that SOME dreamcast games had better graphics then ps1 games and all n64 games. But comparing ps2 to dreamcast is like comparing gameboy color to the gamecube. Ps2 gaming engine is so much more advanced then the dreamcast and thats pretty much all i need to say.

elstatec · 05-15-2005, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Miscguy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bullitt

microsoft is releasing theirs to early, sega did the same and the saturn and dreamcast died

And what were there opening titles? How well edvertised were they? I think your looking at about a hundred fold increase in advertising for the new xbox as compaired to anything sega has ever put out, combined.