Nintendo Revolution?

Yikes, this is troubling:

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/673/673578p1.html
(Note: IGN is fucking gay but they have the coverage...)

The GC was great because it outperformed the PS2 visually and was by all means competitive. I have one and play that fucker non stop; between the Resident Evil games and GBA adapter I'm one happy camper. (not a fanboy; have a PS2/XBox as well)

However going up against the 360 and PS3 with a 'souped-up GameCube' seems like a really, really bad idea. It's obvious the other two systems (moreso the PS3) will have extremely ramped up video hardware capabilities. And the 360 has shitloads of RAM - 512MB. Good stuff, but the Revolution seems a bit lacking.

If it had, say, a dual-core PPC and 256-384MB RAM (minimum) then I'd be more excited. And I just assumed the video chip would be the next generation of whatever technology ATI dreamed up, rather than what sounds like tweaks added to the old hardware. Though we still aren't hearing if there's dedicated video RAM or if it's a UMA setup; the 360's 512MB RAM is shared between all three CPU cores and the video hardware which is an important distinction.

Anyway, I think if Nintendo souped up the hardware, threw in a 'regular' GC pad along with the fancy remote (or dropped the remote-style controller alltogether) they'd have a hit. But this concept of minimalization is too extreme in this case. Gamers don't want a GameCube 2, they want a fucking Revolution.

Side topic: every electronics or videogame store I've been to in the last two weeks has had NOBODY on the 360 demo units. The games they show (dunno the names) look lackluster. First generation blues or will the 360 not deliver? :-D

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well, they're pretty unwilling to bleed the kind of money that sony and MS are preparing to bleed. sony's in a life-or-death situation, and MS can bleed money longer than anybody else in the world can. meanwhile, nintendo has their market, they like it, and they're sticking with it. look at the next-gen graphics debate. there's a difference, but it's not blowing people away because the current generation is so close to being enough. the average buyer just will not see the difference, especially the parent, and nintendo is gonna swoop in with their cheap console and probably make a good profit.

the 360 demo units are the punchline of this joke of a launch; the playable games aren't even the best games of a weak selection. they're the b-list. the launch is pretty sad, but remember that the ps2 and xbox and GC launches were similarly crappy. they all sold on marketing and their brand names. it's too early to make any kind of a call at this point.

Surely the difference in graphical quality can't be THAT great? Having 0 apples and recieving one is much nicer than having a hundred and recieving one.

I think Nintendo's wrong, and they should have saved a "revolution" for the next console battle. I notice an extreme amount of increase in the detail of textures between PS2 and PS3 demos like the one for UT. Nintendo should have gone with the flow for now, and pull out the revolution after. The reason being, this looks like it may be the final possible graphical enhancement movement. You're going to hit the wall for realism after PS3, not before.

Summary: Good idea, bad timing, bad controller. People notice graphics first, so the very first thing you'll hear from fanboys of the other two is Nintendo's graphics don't look anywhere near as good. Sony'll hit a creative wall for PS4 unless they get some ingenuity cranking, because this'll be the last battle fought over pure graphic capability. It's all storage, calculation speed/memory, and usage from here on out.

*ahem*
Displacement mapping anyone?  Good grpahics, less power.
http://nintendo-revolution.blogspot.com/

And the Rev is looking nothing like a GameCube 2.  I think Nintendo has an obvious advantage in the fact that the 360 and PS3 will be just improved versions of their predecessors.  The new method of gameplay I think gives it more of a lasting appeal.  Pong with better graphics is still just pong.

Graphics just keep getting better and more expensive to create, whereas the actual game playing stays basically the same. The Revolution goes away from that sameness.

When is this shit coming out? I hope it's better than the Wii.

Check Em.

Wow, crazy to look back at the speculation.
Nintendo done trolled us good.

Unthinkable to see a thread from 2005 on /v/. Probably because it was made in 2006, but that's besides the point.

Wow, the way /v/ typed then is substantially different from how /v/ types now...

Yeah, /v/ used to be moderately thoughtful and not all XBAWX 3-SHITTY, PS3 HAS NOGAEMZ, etc.

I miss old /v/

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