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Reflections On The Revolution

Posted by Zonk on from the two-great-tastes dept.

Kotaku has been reporting from the Digital Interactive Entertainment Conference this past week, and they have a short piece on Industry giants talking about gaming on the Revolution. From the article: "Miyamoto keeps dropping his receiver, which is connected to an earpiece through which English is translated into Japanese. The perky student that greeted me at the door tells me that they didn't have money for a Japanese-to-English translator, meaning that I have to pay extra attention to what Miyamoto's saying right now. He's talking about the Revolution controller."

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  1. Don't RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    It's just the ramblings of a japanophile who's reporting more on the experience of being at a round-table discussion than any acutal news. Everyone on stage seems to have said 'no comment' or some variation thereof...

  2. Other Mentions by MBCook · · Score: 4, Informative
    I can't wait for the Revolution. The PS3 and the 360 are nice, but they are more of the same. The Revolution is the one that really interests me.

    However, I just saw a article on Kotaku that says a top guy from Valve is very excited about the Revolution (as is Kojima).

    Plus, apparently Miyamoto hinted at that same event that there is still some big feature of the Revolution that is under-wraps. Considering what they've already showed us, I can't wait to see what else they've got up their sleeves.

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  3. Re:El Controller & El Price by Sage+of+Lightning · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Also, what's the big deal about the controller? The only revolutionary thing about it that I've heard is that it's got a gyroscopic motion detector. Is there anything else, or should I be more excited about gyroscopes?" The Reveloution will sense the controller's postion in relation to the TV, not just the tilt, full detection in X,Y, and Z axis.

  4. Re:Are you sure about that? by Boogaroo · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm a bit tired at the moment, but I seem to recall there being two radio thingys to stick next to the TV.
    Triangulation would be the method used, it's not optical. No way could an LED interface do what Nintendo is having these controllers do. The Power Glove was IR, I know(I actually did pretty well with the thing playing Zelda 2), but unless Nintendo's come up with magic to improve IR these are guaranteed to be RF.

  5. Re:Games? by jchenx · · Score: 2, Informative

    No public footage. However, several demos were shown to the press (http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-15143-2567- x-x-x). It sounded like it was more "proof of concept" type of stuff. We'll have to see how it pans out in the end.

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