Revolution Technical Specs

Mai Valentine

Mai Valentine

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There's some more details now on the Revolution.

Highlights:

1. According to recent information, Revolution will also be able to play high-definition games and regularly go online.

2. Although Nintendo has historically selected proprietary media formats, such as the GameCube Optical Disc, for its platforms, the publisher is with Revolution opting for a more standardized medium. The new console will play standard DVD media, according to the company. Nintendo has not yet revealed if Revolution will as a result be able to play Hollywood movies on DVD, but that seems very likely at this point.

3. At the Game Developers' Conference in March, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said that Revolution would offer Wi-Fi online connections out of the box and would be backward compatible with GameCube, or able to play GCN software.

For the full report, check out IGN's coverage.
http://cube.ign.com/articles/613/613340p1.html
 
Re: New Revolution details: standard DVD format!

i really like nintendo putting wi-fi on the console .... i have a wi-fi conection in my house and for a gaming router you better be willing to shell out $100 or more
 
Re: New Revolution details: standard DVD format!

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/13/news_6124449.html

Re-confirmed here again

1. It CAN play DVD movies

2. It IS backwards compatible with GameCube disc

3. It's Nintendo's SMALLEST system to date! 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.

4. Revolution will be "wireless Internet ready out of the box"
 
Re: New Revolution details: standard DVD format!

thats cool.

but is the DVD format (standard) beind abandoned? Is Blu-ray (spelling?) taking over?
OR is Sony making a large gamble on that?

†B†V† :hat
 
Re: New Revolution details: standard DVD format!

It seems like a gamble right now because its not standard. Blu-ray is competing against other DVD formats that want to take over. But I think itll be fine for the PS3 but as being the new standard for all dvd formats? I think it has a chance.
 
Revolution Technical Specs

-Stylized shell about the thickness of three DVD cases stacked flatly on top of each other

-May come in five different colors including a sleek, glossy black and an Apple-esque white

-Backward compatible. Plays both GameCube optical discs and proprietary 12cm discs, the latter of which may be dual-layered for upward of 8GBs storage capacity

-Slot-loading drive with stylized blue light

-One proprietary component/digital out located on the rear of the system

-Two USB 2.0 ports located on the rear of the system

-No Ethernet jack; Revolution connects to the Internet using 802.11b and 802.11g Wi-Fi wireless

-GameCube docking station features inputs for four GCN controllers and two Memory Paks

-Two front slots for 512MB flash memory, likely SD Card compatible

-Utilizes wireless controllers

-Custom-built IBM CPU, codenamed Broadway; speed and architecture undetermined at this time

-Custom-built ATI-GPU, codenamed Hollywood; speed and architecture undetermined at this time

-MoSys-developed 1T-SRAM solution; unknown amount of memory at this time

-Nintendo download service: connect online and download classic NES, S-NES and N64 games


For the full article, go here.
http://cube.ign.com/articles/618/618832p1.html
 
Mai Valentine said:
-Slot-loading drive with stylized blue light
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Im still having trouble with this. I stll dont see how you can fit both the small GC discs and regular discs in a slot loading drive. But if this is official then I want to see how they pulled it off.
 
It is quite simple, when the disc is inserted in, it could possibly move to a different slot based on size on the inside. or the same tray could be used for both discs (just like those tiny rectangular ovalish discs can be put into the CD drive on the Computers.
 
I know you can use a disc tray. But Ive never seen or heard of a slot loading drive be able to accept both regular size discs and smaller ones. How would the small discs slide into the right spot?
 
Maybe it has a way of loading the game directly into the center, regardless of where you insert the disc. Or maybe you just have to slide it in through the center. I don't think that's a really big step from a regular slot loading drive.
 
creepindeth04 said:
Im still having trouble with this. I stll dont see how you can fit both the small GC discs and regular discs in a slot loading drive. But if this is official then I want to see how they pulled it off.
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According to IGN, Nintendo said that the Rev is actually one of the first things to be able to pull that off. So they may have just created the technology to allow that.

The Revolution's slot-loading drive is unbelievably gorgeous when viewed up close. It really is striking. The drive is not just illuminated, but surrounded by a sleek blue light, and it accepts both GameCube Optical Discs and new 12cm discs designed specifically for Revolution. The interesting bit is that the drive easily takes both sizes without any fuss. Gamers just drop any GCN or Revolution title in and it automatically works. Nintendo indicated that the drive is one of the first to intuitively do that.
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http://cube.ign.com/articles/617/617195p1.html

There's also some pics of the concept design in different colors.

e3-2005-hands-on-revolution-20050519020546897.jpg


I like the lime green one. But I would probably get the white one to match the XBOX 360 (which I plan on getting as well).
 
In the future.....I can imagine. But this is what, less than a year down the road? Some people are still using Dial-up, how can they expect everyone to switch to wireless?
 
mastermario said:
So, they're going to make people purchase wireless routers?
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:lol

don't complain.
Wireless switches are cheap... they can be added on VERY easily to existing routers.

Many people have gone wireless in their house.... I forget what the percentage... but its a large percentage of Broadband users. BB users are growing .... so those on Dialup are going to be left behind pretty soon. You just can't do anything on Dialup...... thats a fact. It was cool to seethe Gamecube still support Dialup.... but if you noticed... it made everyone lag when they came into the game. Although... they played just as fast as everyone else (Sega did a good job with that).

You might be able to get wireless to work with a dialup modem as well... in fact, I am pretty sure you can.... its just the Dial up is 4-6 kb per sec..... (speeds that I have seen in downloads on a 56K modem)..... versus 300-600 Kb per sec (in which I get with my cable modem constantly).

The cost is greater... but I will admit.... I would NEVER be able to switch back to dialup.


BV :hat
 
Well us dial-up users have been left behind already. There are no wireless routers available to us. So for the time beign no wireless internet will be in the house until we upgrade, and have new computers. Dial-up is slower but I believe they should have a smaller thing for people to use, even if it is slower, let all of us slower folk play against our ownselves.
 
mastermario said:
So, they're going to make people purchase wireless routers?
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It can't be that much more expensive than Microsoft "making" people get broadband if they wanted to play on XBOX Live, or "making" people buy $80 XBOX Live starter kits if they wanted to go on XBL.
 
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