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Nintendo Revolution Details Emerge
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.
"This makes it the smallest Nintendo console yet!" No, the Game Boy is much smaller. The GBC, GBA, GBA-SP too. It will however be the smallest non-portable console ever from Nintendo
Has no one at nintendo realized that true innovation in required to jump above the pathetic third spot. To overcome Microsoft and Sony, Nintendo has to make gigantic leaps over the competition. The name is famous, and it made great advances in the industry. The Gamecube was a lovely system: compact, durable, powerful. Resident Evil 4 was one of the best games ever made. Tales of Symphonia, Windwaker, and others were outstanding. However, they arent enough against the great games Sony and Microsoft offer. The Revolution will have to stand apart and be a must-have to compete with the others...
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A quote on the subject of watercooling:
While this might be technically true, it carries a very heavy marketing spin in order to glom onto an enthusiast technology. To be succinct, the Xbox 360 is not water cooled in the way we, meaning just about every computer hardware enthusiast on the planet, tend to think of water cooling. The Xbox 360 motherboard we were shown did have a CPU heatsink in place that utilized a heatpipe. Yes, a heatpipe does have liquid in it and some H2O as well, but is usually primarily ammonia. In a heatpipe, the liquid at the "hot" end vaporizes, and is moved to the "cold" end of the heatpipe by a pressure differential and convection. Once the heat is transferred to the fins in the cold end, the substance condenses and the process repeats. The CPU cooler we saw on the Xbox 360 processor looked very much like this CPU cooler seen at Plycon except the Xbox 360 cooler was taller than wider and only utilized one copper heatpipe tube.
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BTW Nintendo has promised that the Revolution will be very powerful. It seems its coming about 6 months after the XBox 360. It's using the same hardware essentially- IBM and ATi.
I expect it to be at least as powerful if not more than the XBox 360. Rumors/developer leaks say the same thing.