New details regarding Nintendo's next-generation console, codenamed Revolution, have started to sprinkle onto the Internet. The machine, which will be revealed during Nintendo's pre-E3 2005 show on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, will sport a slick, black design and a front blue light.
Revolution will be "two-to-three times more powerful than GameCube," according to Nintendo, which also acknowledges that the next-generation race isn't solely about new technologies. By contrast, Microsoft's Xbox 360 console is 13-15 times more powerful than the first, according to the publisher. And Sony says it's PlayStation 3 is roughly 35 times more powerful than PlayStation 2.
Nintendo also revealed that using Revolution's new Wi-Fi connection, gamers would be able to go online to a free gamer-matching service. Interestingly, in a move similar to Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade service, Revolution users will be able to download classic and new Nintendo games over the Internet. Nintendo cited such examples as Donkey Kong and Super Mario Sunshine, which suggests that Revolutionaries could have access to games for all the publisher's previous consoles.
I like how it looks vertically and from the front, horizontally and from the side...not so much. I hate how the 360 looks and the Revolution looks like a bare PS2.The S said:I'm also disappointed with the Revolution's design... it turns out the PS3 is the only one that actually LOOKS like a game console!
TRIFORCE89 said:I like how it looks vertically and from the front, horizontally and from the side...not so much. I hate how the 360 looks and the Revolution looks like a bare PS2.
Awful conference. What's with the Game Boy Micro? If you don't have a GBA by now, you probably don't want one. The Revolution would probably make an impression on us if they actually showed it in action! @@ I can't believe this.
First of all, I doubt that- Backwards compatibility is already hard enough from generation to generation. Developers don't simply take a PS1, add/change two or three components, stick it into a box then call it PS2 and hope it still works with previous games. Nor from PS2 to PS3.Shinin said:OK, people: with the Revolution, you will be able to download NES, SNES & N64 games, possibly like the video game version of iTunes!
That's not what I meant, I mean running an old game on a new system. I can download roms on my computer right now, and although my computer is many times more powerful than a NES or SNES, I can already tell you that it won't run exactly as smoothly as it was originally intended to be. And why is that? Not because my computer is teh suxxors- but because those games weren't originally intended to be run on a computer. Now if this Revolution is many times more powerful than a GCN, I doubt they would have the time, nor resources, or even desire to bring backwards compatibility that far.Shinin said:The Revolution doesn't have console things for NES, SNES & N64 cartridges, you DOWNLOAD them. Onto the system, I think.
