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Revolution Horsepower Revealed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the look-inside dept.

Revo writes "IGN.com unveiled leaked specs for Nintendo's upcoming Revolution console today. The system really is about twice as powerful as a GameCube and a far cry from the Xbox 360 and PS3. Of course, the focus is on the innovative controller and the affordable price."

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  1. What is this susposed to imply? by ModernGeek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm getting a negative aura from this reporting. I don't think a weird controller is going to awe enough people to their platform. IIRC, the last I heard from the big cheese at Nintendo is that they are working with augmented reality for their next generation of consoles, and now we are getting a speed bump and a hard to use, tiny controller? Is Nintendo still doing the whole "this console is for kids" thing? Most studies show that the average gamer is 27, not 7. I suppose Nintendo is trying to either fill or a niche market or impress a disappointed crowd. I stopped believing in Nintendo ever since the release of the Game Cube.

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  2. Clarification by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So they are basically just repackaging the Gamecube and adding the new controller?

  3. Re:Revolution the most interesting development yet by Keeper · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Thing is, once you remove high-def support, you suddenly have a lot horsepower left to render great imagery on a 480p / 480i device.

    Except they don't. It'd be one thing if they had hardware capable of rendering hi-def graphics but restricted it to sd resolutions. But they didn't -- their graphics hardware is scaled back proportionally.

    I mean, they support NES/SNES/Genesis titles for Christ's sake, were those games crappy? They look GREAT on a TV screen, and some titles have gameplay unparalled in modern titles.

    If the only thing worth playing are games I played 10 years ago, why would I want to pay for them all over again?

    Nintendo apparently is confident in their vision, enough so not to get into the dick length comparison game Sony and Microsoft are doing with their machine specs.

    Translation: Nintendo knows that their specs can't hold a candle to the competition, so they make a point not to talk about it.

    I guarantee you if their box had a 6 core PPC in it running at 4ghz they'd be bragging about it all over the place.

    Also it has enough power and innovation for great new content, what could a gamer want? Value and entertainment or silly spec numbers?

    You assume that the two choices are mutually exclusive. They're not.