Nintendo renames N5 to Revolution : "Nintendo Revolutio

[Deadmeat4]

Nintendo to roll out "Revolution"

Game maker to reveal new console next year, calls it entirely different experience from GameCube.
May 28, 2004: 2:54 PM EDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co. Ltd. said on Friday it has codenamed its next-generation home console "Revolution," cementing a pledge to offer video game fans an entirely different gaming experience from current machines.

The company said on Thursday it would like to debut a new game machine at next year's E3, the game industry's annual trade show usually held in May, but Nintendo officials said it would be wrong to call Revolution a successor to its current GameCube console.

"This won't be a continuation, but rather something entirely different," Nintendo Senior Managing Director Yoshiro Mori said at an analyst's briefing. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata told Reuters earlier this month that the next-generation game machine would change how people now play video games, sitting in front of a television holding a controller.

The Kyoto-based game maker said it plans to boost research and development (R&D) costs 27 percent from a year ago to 20 billion yen ($180 million) in the business year ending March 31, in part to fund development costs for Revolution.

Nintendo generated buzz at this year's E3 with a new dual-screened handheld game called "DS," which will come with two, three-inch (7.6 cm) LCD screens, one of which is touch-sensitive and works with a pen-like device.

The company forecast on Thursday that it plans shipments of 3.5 million "DS" machines this business year, but Nintendo's Mori said the potential is much bigger.

"If it is well received by consumers, it's not out of the question to see shipments rise to 10 or 15 million units in the next business year," Mori said.

Shares of Nintendo rose 3.55 percent to 11,080 yen on Friday, boosted by the company's earnings forecasts for this year and a bullish outlook for annual dividends.

My guess on the revolutionary part of "Revolution" is a "projected" controller, while the rest of chipset is an enhanced GC chipset....

 

[Qroach]

projected?

 

[Guden Oden]

DM, you swore up and down a couple months ago N5 would NEVER HAPPEN, and now we have this press release...

Oh, what was that sound?

Guess it was the noise your last fragment of credibility made when it flew out the window!

 

[Bohdy]

I doubt that it even made it out of the window. You know what they say about animals that are caged and repressed for so long... they forget what it means to exist anymore.

Same goes for Deadmeat's credibility.

 

[I.S.T.]

Oh, lay off of him. I know he's a biased idiot but that's being way too insulting.

 

[Megadrive1988]

what do you mean by a "projected" controller?

 

[Teasy]

Why should anyone lay off him? He's banned and has been banned 3 times now. Yet he keeps re-registering and posting the same nonesense over and over. The guy is a total cretin.

Now someone please delete this thread.

 

[I.S.T.]

He's been banned five times, not three. He had an account that was banned months ago called DM(Insert two letters I cannot remember here.)I say lay off of him because I believe he's gotten enough slamming... If this topic had popped a motnh ago I'd be right in there with y'all slamming him. I just think it's been enough. Besides, didn't jvd or Sonic tell us to lay off of him a while back?

 

[thop]

The same exact thing was posted here: http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12840

 

[Teasy]

I agree he's been slammed more then enough for his past actions. Its his current actions that are the problem.

 

[Deadmeat4]

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what do you mean by a "projected" controller?

DM, you swore up and down a couple months ago N5 would NEVER HAPPEN, and now we have this press release...

Oh, what was that sound?

Nintendo Revolution is not a next-generation hardware, Yamauchi clearly realizes it would be suicidal to race with SCEI and MS's big guns Mhz for Mhz, polys/s for polys/s. Instead the Nintendo Revolution focuses on something else, the player presentation and interaction much the same path that the DS takes.

In other word, Yamauchi wants to give the players a new way to interact with games beyond the means of traditional controllers, and a projected controller would be it.

 

[I.S.T.]

You just danced around that one, DM.

 

[Guden Oden]

So the extent of your imagination of something "revolutionary" is a PROJECTED CONTROLLER??? Never mind that it will hardly be revolutionary since it already exists in keyboard form, how would you actually use it in videogames, since these are rarely played in front of a table or a desk? How would analog input work with it? This is a totally hare-brained idea whose origins in your mind I am unable to fathom.

First you say N5 doesn't exist and never will, and now you say it will have projected controllers. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're right on the money with that guess pal!

 

[Farid]

First you say N5 doesn't exist and never will, and now you say it will have projected controllers. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're right on the money with that guess pal!

Inexistent console = inexistent controller, you can't fight "some kind of" logic.

 

[Phil]

First you say N5 doesn't exist and never will, and now you say it will have projected controllers. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're right on the money with that guess pal!

Actually, he did make it clear that he was refering to N5 as something that would be somewhat technically comparable. On all his views, I do find the point he tries to illustrate about Nintendo's situation somewhat valid (actually, not any less valid than other views that are brought up by other posters) - it's just, well, so many seem to be more bothered by the author of the post/topic, rather than the actual points brought up in the post/topic, that makes this forum generate the amount of 'noise' it's getting lately.

Anyway, to get somewhat on topic: what does this latest act out of the house of Nintendo tell us about the future in console gaming? Are Nintendo just holding off their 'real' next generation console for a later launch - and what can we expect from this console? Another DS-kind 'revolution'? (not trying to be sarcastic)

 

[ninelven]

Projected controllers/keyboards suck.

 

[Deadmeat4]

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Actually, he did make it clear that he was refering to N5 as something that would be somewhat technically comparable.

That's not what Yamauchi is thinking and is financially not feasible either. Both SCEI and MS are poring billions into PSX3 and Xbox Next R&D; Nintendo's R&D budget is a peanut by comparison. It is not possible for Nintendo with its limited budget to match the multibillion dollar efforts of the titans. Yamauchi saw this and decided to steer Nintendo away from the performance race, focusing on exploring new interface options instead.

 

[Farid]

Anyway, to get somewhat on topic: what does this latest act out of the house of Nintendo tell us about the future in console gaming? Are Nintendo just holding off their 'real' next generation console for a later launch - and what can we expect from this console? Another DS-kind 'revolution'? (not trying to be sarcastic)

I don't know, another console to support will be too much, they will have GBA2, DS, "Revolution" and the N5 on the market...

I think that "Revolution" is the good ol' N5, i also think that Nintendo will play the subtlety card and will release a console with some new ideas for interactivity (Say LCD/touch screen on the controller, VR headset, gyroscopic controller, etc...)

 

[PC-Engine]

I think that "Revolution" is the good ol' N5, i also think that Nintendo will play the subtlety card and will release a console with some new ideas for interactivity (Say LCD/touch screen on the controller, VR headset, gyroscopic controller, etc...)

That sounds like a good guess.

 

[jvd]

Deadmeat you are banned from these forums. Any posts you make will be deleted on sight. Any threads will be locked. Please do not post here again .