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More Hints at Nintendo's Revolution

Posted by Zonk on from the but-no-concrete-answers dept.

The Nintendo press conference touched on aspects of the Nintendo Revolution, but offered no details on what "the" revolution is. No word on the controllers or when the console will be released. One new tantilizing aspect of the console was announced, though: "The console also will have downloadable access to 20 years of fan-favorite titles originally released for Nintendo® 64, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System® (SNES) and even the Nintendo Entertainment System® (NES)." No word on pricing, of course, but exciting nonetheless.

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  1. good luck by Reignking · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nintendo can't even keep their web site up now, and they're going to offere downloadable content?

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    1. Re:good luck by HyperChicken · · Score: 3, Funny

      No wonder Nintendo.com went down, it's running a Gamecube Web Server!!! http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=nintendo. com

      (Yeah, yeah, Solaris OS... Blah blah blah)

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  2. Re:Nintendo: King of recycling. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The Xbox 360 looks like something from Fisher-Price, the PS3 looks like an overpriced CD player, and the Nintendo Revolution looks like a smaller first-gen PS2... sort of. That, or three DVD boxes glued together. ;-)

    If KillZone is as impressive as the video we've seen, I'm getting a PS3.

    But I'm getting a Nintendo anyway: Zelda, Metroid and all-around great Nintendo games (Pikmin, etc).

  3. Re:Indie Developers by justforaday · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, does this mean that Nintendo will somehow provide a way for indie developers to get around that barrier?

    Nintendo Financial Services?

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  4. Re:Nintendo: King of recycling. by jkeyes · · Score: 3, Funny


    If by port you mean designing an emulator so then all the games work and that they've already made a NES and N64 emulator for gamecube so they could probably use it on Revolution. Then yes that sure is a lot of work porting. I mean designing a SNES emulator for Revolution in less than what? 11 months? sure will be a challenge. Infact I imagine they'll delay the next Zelda because all the Nintendo programmers will be busy designing SUCH a complicated emulator or they'll steal ZSNES's code.

  5. that lack of details by GlenRaphael · · Score: 1, Funny
    The Nintendo press conference touched on aspects of the Nintendo Revolution, but offered no details on what "the" revolution is.

    That's because there were TV cameras present. The Revolution will not be televised.

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