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Nintendo Revolution Details Emerge

Posted by Zonk on from the you-say-you-want-a-revolution dept.

Pyrohazard writes "Nintendo has posted some details on the Revolution to their official site, finally giving us some insight into what the console will be like. From the site: 'It will be about the thickness of three standard DVD cases and only slightly longer.' This makes it the smallest Nintendo console yet! It will also be able to stand up, similar to the PS2, and the Xbox 360. It will be backwards compatible, and it will also play '12cm optical disks in the same self-loading media drive'. It also states that it will have a very quick start-up time, and be very quiet. It finishes by stating 'Get ready for the Nintendo Revolution in 2006!'" C|Net has an article up arguing that Nintendo is making an error in missing the 2005 Holiday season.

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  1. Very Quiet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It also states that it will have a very quick start-up time, and be very quiet.

    Aiming to capture the market for game-playing wabbit hunters.

  2. Re:Finnally! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Finnally", "dosnt"... Considering your spelling qualities, I'm surprised you haven't had an article published sooner.

    Oh, and my first /. comment!

    And wouldn't it be funny if it got modded down as Redundant?

  3. No MTV Special by rollingrock · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's not going to be an MTV special since The Revolution won't be televised. (rimshot)

  4. Elmer Fudd says... by game+kid · · Score: 2, Funny

    he he he he he he h--(stabbed in stomach by an annoyed Link's sword)-- GAAAHHHH!!!

    (four-note song plays) You received the double-barreled rifle! Now you can blast rabbits and Hyrule soldiers through their ears.

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    You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
  5. I see a problem pertaining to sales by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The Revolution will not be televised.

  6. Why not rely on a console's built-in DVD player by tepples · · Score: 3, Funny

    On the one hand it seems silly not to include it

    If your video game console and your movie player are in the same box, and you want to play a game, then you have to sit on your @$$ and wait until an older sibling finishes watching a 12-hour Meg Ryan marathon. There's a reason why Nintendo has consistently priced the GameCube $50 lower than the PS2 or Xbox.

  7. are they all goin in circles by jlebrech · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are all these new console companies goin round in circles, one is called 360, the other is revolution, what next?! a console called elipse!

  8. Re:Backwards compatability - this will help by wyldeone · · Score: 2, Funny

    The PS3 does not use PPC. It uses the cell architecture, and while IBM was part of the STI that created the Cell (which also includes Sony and Toshiba, as the 'S' and the 'T'), which in no way is the power pc archetecture.

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  9. Re:12-hour Meg Ryan marathon by sjf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can I have your sister's telephone number ?

  10. VERY old news by Darthmalt · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've been moving my controller to make mario Jump higher since the NES...


    Oh you mean now it'll actually do some good? Awesome

  11. How wide is it? ;) by Total+Cult · · Score: 2, Funny
    'It will be about the thickness of three standard DVD cases and only slightly longer.' This makes it the smallest Nintendo console yet!
    No it doesn't - it could be ten feet wide, for all the original poster knows.
  12. Re:A revolution too late I'd say by jericho4.0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    No, it would apear that you havn't looked at the PS3 stuff at all. If you had, you would know that the PS3 will be powered by the "Cell". The Cell is made of hundereds of Cray supercomputers, shrunk by magic, by a specially bred race of japanese Dwarves. The PS3 will solve many of mankinds more pressing problems in O(n log n)!!!

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  13. Re:Mod option request.... by Deadguy2322 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mod Option Request -1 (Clueless anti-free enterprise zealot)

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  14. Re:A revolution too late I'd say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm sure Nintendo is verry worried that the group of people in the world who can't spell "no" thinks they suck.

    Now go back to watching MS propoganda on MTV.

  15. Re:A revolution too late I'd say by geminidomino · · Score: 2, Funny

    Third.. Of all the Power PC-processors out there, 970 is one of the least suitable for a game console.

    "That settles it. Order a batch of 500,000 PPC 970s for the X-Boxes."
    -Microsoft X-Box 360 Lead Engineer