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Solid Nintendo Revolution Facts

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14th May 2005, 9:52pm
Here we have it: concrete information from the source about Nintendo's next console.

  • In its final form, Revolution will be about the thickness of three standard DVD cases and only slightly longer. You can stand it horizontally or vertically.
  • Partners IBM and ATI have apparently "packed [it] with power" - meaning amazing graphics.
  • The Revolution will be backward compatible, playing both Nintendo GameCube 8cm disks along with its own 12cm, dual-layered, 9GB capacity, optical disks in the same self-loading media drive.
  • Revolution will be wireless Internet ready out of the box. The controllers will also be wireless.
  • It also has a quick start-up time and quiet, low-power operation like the Gamecube. It still has an expected release date of sometime in 2006
Perrin Kaplan, from Nintendo of America, has commented that the system will bring a new standard of high-definition gaming - nice, since there's a distinct lack of it on the Gamecube. The self-loading media drive comment has me thinking of an Apple iBook or Mac Mini - but how would that work for the smaller disks? It's good that Nintendo haven't underpowered the system. It's also nice to hear that it's small, fast and quiet. You don't have to make too much of a stretch to guess that it would play movie DVDs, and also can link up with the DS.
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by Nick Schaedel