Joe DeFuria said:Nintendo speaks...
http://revolution.ign.com/articles/674/674611p1.html
Says pretty much what I've been saying...
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Joe DeFuria said:Nintendo speaks...
http://revolution.ign.com/articles/674/674611p1.html
Says pretty much what I've been saying...
Teasy said:That's just a general response sent to anyone who emails Nintendo about Revolution and Power/HDTV. It even says as much at the start of the page, I wouldn't take a cut and paste job like that as confirmation. I'm awaiting some kind of Q&A with Nintendo and hopefully whoever does it will ask some very direct questions, then we can know for sure.
Well, not trying to be a rumor-monger, but you might get at least part of your wish:Ingenu said:I still think many people don't want "just a NGC on steroïd", and want something more.
I still want a 970MP@2GHz, with (now) an RV530 with embbed framebuffer, and 256MB of RAM
Fox5 said:I think he was referring to the Gameboy camera from the black and white gameboy games. (compared to the eyetoy)
g35er said:Until we have graphics that are virtually indistinguishable from at least broadcast 480p TV, we're not done yet. Imagine someone walking into a room seeing you watch a basketball game and they sit down next to you and all of a sudden realize you're controlling Tim Duncan. Imagine playing a movie based game such as King Kong, but the visuals of the game are exactly like the movie.
Ty said:http://revolution.ign.com/articles/674/674611p1.htmlImo, they've pretty much confirmed the leaked rough estimates by NOT denying them whatsoever.
OtakingGX said:Well, not trying to be a rumor-monger, but you might get at least part of your wish:
http://www.revogaming.net/html/modules/news/article.php?storyid=172
Well sure it's not concrete confirmation but pretty much tacit confirmation because they could have easily said, 'the rumors are wrong' or 'the Revolution is quite a bit more powerful than what has been released'. But they didn't. So why not? Because it's true?
Teasy said:You've missed the point there, this isn't a response to any rumours or anything in particular AFAICS. It looks like the same old pre written reply that everyone gets if they write an email to Nintendo with the words "Revolution, Power or HDTV" in the title or body. So no I wouldn't expect it to say anything about rumours or info that has been released lately. Hopefully we'll see some direct questions asked of Nintendo soon.
Online reports are shedding new light on the horsepower for Nintendo's next-generation console, codenamed Revolution, and gamers are reacting. Fans who write Nintendo of America about Revolution's power will receive the following official response:
Ty said:I don't think so considering IGN writes at the top of the letter:
Which seems to imply (at least from IGN's perspective) that the two (early spec release and this letter) are related. That said, you could very well be correct, it might just be a form letter written not in response to any event in particular and this could easily be proven if you know when this letter first started going out. That is, if the letter started going out before the release of specs, then you're likely correct. If, however, the letter only started circulating after the release, then at best it's coincedental.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Welcome
Goodevening.
After tomorow we developers are free to talk about development of Revolution. So fare we wern't allowed to do so, but we got a go from Nintendo, stating we can talk about Revolution developement in general after tomorow.
Two months ago our studio aswell was still working with a Revolution development kit that had slightly more power than the current xbox. Less than a month ago however, we've again received upgraded development kits. Now I suspect ( no I'm actually positive ) this studio talked with IGN just before Nintendo handed over new development kits.
I can even confirm to you the newest development kits are the first development kits that includes prototypes of both Hollywood and Broadway. The previous versions didn't have those included.
Revolution's power is not underpowered compared to xbox 360. I can't speak for Playstation 3, because I've no acces so any stuff involved to Playstation 3 development.
However, Xbox 360 has more power than Revolution, but Revolution isn't underpowered.
Development for Revolution is easy and cheap compared to compitors consoles.
If you know the specs you will become so confused, because you would think there's no posibility Revolution is able to perform visuals of the level you will see with the given specs
mckmas8808 said:So is B3D so stupid that if he or Nintendo gave us the specs, we couldn't figure it's position of power?
fearsomepirate said:Given that everything in the letter is just a restatement of things Nintendo has been saying since at least TGS, I'm gonna go on a limb an dsay it's not a specific response to the Current Unpleasantness.
AlphaWolf said:What that quote says to me is, yes the specs are low, but we will surprise people with the visual quality.
That was linked twice on the previous page of this thread.jvd said:http://revolution.ign.com/articles/674/674611p1.html nintendo responses