Revolution info/speculation from ex Nintendo employee

[Ooh-videogames]

Wasn't it Matt who didn't believe the Revolution will be backwards compatible?

 

[oli2]

You're just justifying your belief in the rumors ...

There's no need to go further : either you missread my point, either i can't make myself understood ...
Not a big deal, as in 2 weeks, things will be clearer from Microsoft, and hopefully from Sony and Nintendo ...

 

[pc999]

UT2k7

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=2&cId=3140119

For example, each level will have specific locations that you'll be able to use voice command to tell the bots to act on, so you can say, 'Go cover the cavern,' and they'll know what that means. They'll also be a lot more responsive, so you'll be able to ask them questions about their status: 'Is there anybody down in the cavern?' 'No, cavern's all clear.' Or you can throw out warnings like, 'There's a sniper on the tower. Go get the sniper.'"

 

[pc999]

6 mouths later, what do you think?

Sorry to come back with these old thread but I did a search and saw this and while rereading these I noticed that almost everything that we know know (apart the E3 revelation that man said it has been a last minute thingh) checks with this info (specialy about the games)and it make me wonder if these info (both the already know and the unconfirmed one) is true, IMO it does have a great chance to be (90%+), which make me happy as many suprisses, great free online and good voice control seems to be true.

Anyway what do you think about it now

For those who think that it may be true:

Like I said, I’m not going to tell you the revolutionary aspect of the system. Nintendo has some cool pre E3 plans for that.

but

It will also have gyroscopic controls(...)This game will use the gyroscopic controls for aiming as wel as other things

and

No, we have not entirely pulled back the curtain on Revolution just yet. There are lots of exciting details about its capabilities and the unique gameplay you'll experience on it that we're keeping under wraps -- for now.

In my eyes, the online system they have set up is the most revolutionary part of the system.

Althought a bit of doubt here

it will be more powerful than the Xbox 360

 

[DuckThor Evil]

I still doubt it, I mean weren't those gyroscopic patents allready in the know when this guy made his comments, other than that he didn't say much, and the fact that he said it will be more powerfull than X360 allready says quite a lot of his credibility.

 

[pc999]

Personally I think it is to much speculation to be done without errors (about games and companys also) to really be speculation, the coment on XB, well that may be a subjective (in a PR sense, which is very bad IMO) the coment about the controler get hot it is very hard to belive too (to expensive money and batery wise, hard to implement in a pratical way etc...).

Any more reason/opinions?

 

[Shifty Geezer]

From the beginning post...

The controller will also be pressure sensitive. The pressure you put into it will determine certain things, such as movement.

The Nintendo Revolution will also include voice control more advanced than anything seen so far.

As Nintendo has stated before, the system will be online. In my eyes, the online system they have set up is the most revolutionary part of the system. While Sony and Microsoft are busy turning their systems into trojan horses for their other electronic devices, Nintendo is going to use the Revolution for direct communication with gamers. The only way I can describe it is as an internet service. Imagine turning it on and checking your mail on the system. You see previews and demos of DS and Revolution games that you can download. A magazine similar to Nintendo Power will be exclusive to the system, and you will be able to access it on the Revolution’s homepage. As you check you mail, you will also see various invitations from gamers on your buddy list who want to play you. There are so many other ways this is going to be used. Once the Revolution comes out, there will be no reason to hang out on message boards. Message boards as well as chat rooms will be available on the Revolution so that gamers can discuss and challenge each other all day. And the best thing is that the entire thing is totally free and easy to use. Why play Madden on Xbox Live when you’ll be able to play it for free on the Revolution with much better services?

For instance, the pressure sensitive grips on the controller make racing games much easier to control and play. Wave Race (yes, it will be at E3) is going to be very impressive because it will use this function. It will be sort of like controlling a game with one of those stress balls. You squeeze it and you go faster. It’s hard to explain though.

To Jesus: when you see the voice controls, you will be blown away. Go back and watch some sci fi movies with voice controlled vehicles (such as AI or I am Robot).

The pressure sensitiveness seems to be bunk, as does the advanced voice recognition, unless either of these are yet to be announced officially yet, and Nintendo have said they haven't demo'd everything yet, haven't they? The online services sound no different to Live! except being free. So taken overall it seems a lot of already expected stuff (gyros) mixed in with some wishlist specs. No reason to believe it any more as valid than any other Tunisian exports.

 

[Farid]

Fear The Night Of The Living Threads

If I remember correctly, the Aries guy was just a joke character from some gaming forum.
I remember reading a post of him saying that he made up thoses rumors, a few weeks before E3, in order to "incite Nintendo to make them true..." (sic).

Can the rumors specialists confirm this, though?

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Can the rumors specialists confirm this, though?

Are you thinking London-Boy, or any Tunisians on the forum?

 

[Guilty Bystander]

Revolution will not be powerfull at all!

As could be read in second last Edge.
Revolution will only be a little more powerfull than the Gamecube.

Gamecube should be about 70% of the Revolutions total power that's why Nintendo uses their Gamecube development kits as early Revolution development kits.
Nintendo isn't aiming at power at all they're hoping their radical controller and existing game franchises will be enough to get them by.
This will work for their hardcore fanbase and problably the alternative mass gamers (=eyetoy like gamers) but with the big gaming market currently Sony hooked sort of speak it just won't work.
Those people want to see bigger, newer, better etc. and why they spend all this money while they could have gone for a €79 Gamecube which does almost the same graphics.

So forget all about quad core PPC's, Ati RN520's, PPU's etc cause this simply won't be in the Revolution.
It'll problably end up being a slightly higher clocked Gekko (700MHz or something close) and Flipper (300MHz or something close) with some extra memory.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Gamecube should be about 70% of the Revolutions total power that's why Nintendo uses their Gamecube development kits as early Revolution development kits.

I don't think anyone here believes that. A 40% increase in power over 5 years is ludicrously small. Heck they could release a GC at 2x the clock for thruppence. You should be looking at a minimum of like 4x the power increase unless they're being really conservative on costs.

 

[pc999]

Revolution will only be a little more powerfull than the Gamecube.

Gamecube should be about 70% of the Revolutions total power that's why Nintendo uses their Gamecube development kits as early Revolution development kits.So forget all about quad core PPC's, Ati RN520's, PPU's etc cause this simply won't be in the Revolution.

Would this give similar images on a normal TV in Rev and XB/PS3 ?(as officialy stated)

BTW I never bellived on those specs.

 

[Guilty Bystander]

I don't think anyone here believes that. A 40% increase in power over 5 years is ludicrously small. Heck they could release a GC at 2x the clock for thruppence. You should be looking at a minimum of like 4x the power increase unless they're being really conservative on costs.

They are conservative on costs considering the controller will cost an arm and a leg for Nintendo and they want to sell the Revolution dirt cheap ($199 or close to that).
Putting expensive hardware in the Revolution in this case just wouldn't be an option.

Would this give similar images on a normal TV in Rev and XB/PS3 ?(as officialy stated)

BTW I never bellived on those specs.

No it won't but officialy Iwata also said he thinks Zelda the Twillight Princess looks similair to Kameo in graphics so what does that say about point of view on similair graphics.

 

[Teasy]

Guilty Bystander, your new here so I think you should do some reading on these forums before posting these kind of claims. The things your saying have been debunked here many times. BTW I happen to have the new Edge Magazine and they do not claim to know anything about the graphical capabilities of Revolution.

 

[Rodéric]

Guilty Bystander, your new here so I think you should do some reading on these forums before posting these kind of claims. The things your saying have been debunked here many times. BTW I happen to have the new Edge Magazine and they do not claim to know anything about the graphical capabilities of Revolution.

Great, that's just what I wanted to know before CLOSING the thread.