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Nintendo's Next Console Revolution Will Have WiFi

Posted by Hemos on from the good-ideas dept.

nparasu writes "Nintendo released fresh details about its upcoming games console, codenamed Revolution, at a game developers conference. Satoru Iwata, Nintendo president, confirmed that the new console will be able to run games originally made for the GameCube. Despite the hardware announcements, most of Mr Iwata's speech, entitled "The Heart of the Gamer", was a call for more imaginative game design. Game creators cannot rely on better graphics and more powerful games machines to attract new audiences, Mr Iwata said. He also revealed that Revolution will come with wi-fi connectivity built-in."

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  1. Yes, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...will it run Linux...?

  2. Re:security? by superpulpsicle · · Score: 1, Troll

    But Nintendo is far better off providing like a PCI slot and user can just plug in their own WiFi adapters.

  3. And it will render polygons faster! by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Even more exciting - it'll plug into your TV and use electricity.

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  4. So What? by SimplePaul · · Score: 0, Troll

    IMHO, this isn't big news. Sony have pretty much confirmed that the PS3 will have WiFi (and so it should, as a next gen console) and that the PSP will act as a PS3 controller.

    This US Patent shows some interesting ideas from Sony: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P TO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv. html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&p=1&S1=20040266529.PGNR.& OS=DN/20040266529&RS=DN/20040266529

    If this is a big deal for Nintendo then I fear for their 'Revolution'.

  5. B.F.D. by oritpro · · Score: -1, Troll

    Unless it can automagically WiFi Aibo to fetch me a beer from the fridge and grab my girlfriend along the way back for a routine JoyStick alignment while I am busy saving the planet {once again}, who the f*ck cares?

    Sounds like a sales Gimmick to me.

  6. I have played almost virtually every single vers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Perhaps that is ehy you weren't doing your grammar homework?