   Nintendo Revolution to be unveiled May 9th 2006...
  Hi,Just a heads-up for people really. Ran a search on the forums/news and couldn't find it anywhere on this site yet.Anyway, spotted it on Beyond3D's forum here - apparently Nintendo sent out a press release stating that 9.30am, May 9th 2006 is when they'll be unveiling the full details of their Revolution console. Some pre-E3 press stunt by the looks of it [smile]So, if you're interested in said console, seems like you've got around 160 days to wait.Cheers,Jack   
  Is that about the time the PlayStation 3 is coming out? I'm actually interested in getting the PS3 and the Revolution, but I'm more interested in the PS3 right now.   ;Quote:Original post by Stompy9999Is that about the time the PlayStation 3 is coming out?I've not seen anything concrete on that myself. Lots of speculation and reading between the lines, but that's it. Although, the general consensus seems to be that it'll come out some time around then. Given that it'd be E3-time, that could either be a good tactic (spam E3 and turn it into a PS3-fest?)Quote:Original post by Stompy9999I'm actually interested in getting the PS3 and the Revolution, but I'm more interested in the PS3 right now.I think everyone is interested in the PS3 and XBox360. Revolution has been very quiet - could mean they're hiding something or they truly are going to be the "dark horse"Jack   ;  Really I just want some footage of the games and some gameplay.Hardware specs and the ooooh and ahhhhs can wait.   ;  The PS3 is rumoured to be on sale in "Spring 2006" - no further details as yet on that front.If that's the case, then the Revolution will be the last next-gen console released... that could make things different in terms of clawing back the market from the XBox360s and PS3s that people will already have bought.   ;No HD formats whatsoever. At MOST 128 MB of RAM.That controller/remote had better inject people with heroin, or they're in trouble.   ;  depends what they are aiming for, with the small specs to work with your game had better be fun and not just some graphical candy with a game in there somewhere.Also, price will play a strong roll in it, as will issues such as older games running on it and maybe even homebrew support.. Sure, if you want the latest HD shiney gfx console it probably wont be for you but I'll reserve judgement until I know everything I think [smile]   ;Quote:Original post by PromitNo HD formats whatsoever. At MOST 128 MB of RAM.That controller/remote had better inject people with heroin, or they're in trouble.It is mentioned a number of times in that article that the controller is "very nice" - so maybe it does inject people with heroin [lol]Towards the end, there's this interesting quote:Quote:whether they'll say, "Okay, let's do something completely original for it," that's the other question because it could be quite expensive to do that. Not as expensive as doing a PS3 or Xbox 360 game. But if you're a third party and you want to do cross platform, if you're doing a game on 360 you can do it on PS3 or PC using the same assets and that does make it a bit easier."So if, in order to really use the Revolution, they can't just port PC/360/PS3 titles and thus can't share assets I wonder if we'll get a whole new set of developers working exclusively on it...Jack   ;  I doubt we'll see cross-platform games here. The specs are looking to be WAY below average (comparable to this gen's XBox, I'd say), and controller issues will be paralyzing. Let's hope that Nintendo's first-party developers are up to the task of carrying the console, as I feel 90% of their 3rd-party franchises are gone.   ;  There is always the numbers game. Publishers seem to love the numbers game [smile]If the revolution sells well (cheap, novelty, interesting...) then that makes for a decent sized consumer base to whom you can sell software titles. The publishers see this and they'll obviously want to get a piece of the pie - which means releasing their titles.Sweeping generalization I know, but I'd imagine that publishers won't care for the technical aspects and will tell developers that want a Revolution-port of their game. Let the developers stress about how they make that happen.So I suppose that it all depends whether the publishers will fund original Revolution-specific titles to get their piece of the pie, or just push to re-use the marketting/technology/investment and try cross-platform... I'd imagine the latter is safer from their point of view.Jack   