Nintendo Revolution

[tristy]

Nintendo Reveals Early Details About Revolution

May 13, 2005

Big things to come in small package

Nintendo, the world leader in video game innovation, stated loud and clear that they are not to be overlooked in the next generation home console race with the revelation of several unique features of the company's next console system, code name Revolution, to key media outlets. According to the early information, Revolution will combine powerful technology and gaming-focused features in Nintendo's smallest home game console yet.

In its final form, Revolution will be about the thickness of three standard DVD cases and only slightly longer. The versatile Revolution will play either horizontally or vertically, allowing the user total flexibility in setting up a gaming session wherever they have a television.

Thanks to Nintendo's hardware development partners IBM and ATI, the small system will be packed with power that will enable it to wow players with its graphics. Nintendo's legions of loyal fans will be happy to learn that Revolution will be backward compatible, playing both Nintendo GameCube 8cm disks along with its own 12cm optical disks in the same self-loading media drive.

In the next generation, the addition of the Internet will be important to all consoles and particularly important to Nintendo. Revolution will be wireless Internet ready out of the box.

There's much more to Revolution that will be revealed over the coming months, 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. Get ready for the Nintendo Revolution in 2006!

[FunkAsPuck]

Im looking forward to Revolution more than I am PS3 or Xbox 360, mainly because of the fact that the GameCube has given me more gaming pleasure than the other two.

Judging what that article says, it should be quite good.

[The Kraig]

Cool. But I'll still be getting a 360 first.

But seriously, 3 DVD cases is fucking small! I'd probably hoover it up accidentally.

[Guest Grapehead]

Removed the Article

Welcome to 2001, Nintendo.

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[tristy]

I do too!

[zero]

Tristy has a point, this is stuff the Big N should have done with the Cube (minus backwards compatibility of course since they finally decided to jump to discs). 3 DVD cases isn't that small, the new model PS2 is smaller than that I'm pretty sure, still, nice to see Nintendo looking to make a sleaker device.

[Guest Grapehead]

well you have to remember there's 3 dimensions to measure, and since "3 DVD cases, and a little longer" isn't that specific, it could end up being roughly the same size as the PStwo.

[PkmnTrainerJ]

The power to make games on the Revolution makes me jizz in my underwear.

[Cactus Drags]

Make games? Like Net Yaroze for Ps1?

[zero]

Make games? Like Net Yaroze for Ps1?

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I think he's referring to a fan-made mock advertisement on IGN. It's not real and even if it were, the idea of making games will likely never work... at least not in this generation.

[Herr Matzat]

there actualy is (a prity artistic) comunety wen it comes to making ps2 games sinc the linux kid is around, so i would not rule it compledly out, you just need people with certain skills, but you will always need that for good games, not even RPG maker 2000 (wich kicks as wen it comes to making creating games easy) dos produce manny good games becaus 99.9% of that comunety are retards that need to make FF7 2 (oh how i hat almost every fan fic shit) but refuse to learn even the most basic pixelart, storytelling or "coding" skills and other shit like that (so actualy packing such an opertunety into something harder to learn (or lets say, start out with) like linux might save the gaming world from a lot...)

Edited May 16, 2005 by Michael Matzat

[Miami Vice]

The GameCube should of had these features. Nintendo will still be #3 after all the next-gen systems are released.

[Guest Grapehead]

Well talks are that Nintendo has something big they aren't talking about yet, so it's a terrible bet right now that Nintendo will come out behind the other two. With so very little known about any of the systems, it's dumb to make predictions now, because what they say will be the final product and what you plug into your wall could be totally different.