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Nintendo Talk About Graphics And HD For The Revolution

by Steven Williamson on 9 December 2005, 15:10

Tags: Nintendo Wii, Nintendo (TYO:7974), Wii

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Nintendo Centrum have received an email from Nintendo giving us a further insight into the power of the Nintendo Revolution.

'Our competitors would have you believe that the next generation of gaming will be solely defined by high definition graphics. High definition graphics look fantastic, but come at a price. To shine, high definition games must be played on high definition televisions, which aren’t cheap. Games with high definition graphics are expensive to develop because they must be developed in both standard and high definition formats. Those development costs are passed on to you in the form of more expensive software. Finally, playing games with high definition graphics requires a system with loads of RAM and costly high-end graphics chips, both of which make it prohibitively expensive for most consumers.

Sharper graphics are certainly part of the next generation. We know that games for the Revolution will look brilliant whether played on a standard television or on a high definition television. However, is that all there is to next-generation gaming? We feel that sharper graphics should be combined with a new way to interface with the game itself. Our controller is a sharp departure from the current standard, to be sure, but it will provide a level of interactivity you can’t get currently.

We believe in providing a single system that can play not only the previous generation’s titles, but also games from a massive library built over 20 years of creating innovative and exciting games. We also believe in providing a complete wireless online experience right out of the box.

Nintendo has created a gaming system that is sleek and compact in size, powers up quickly with minimal load times, makes game development easy and fast, is easy to use, and is affordable for everyone. We are confident that gamers and non-gamers alike will support the truly next-generation experience only Nintendo can provide. Once you have a chance to play games on the Revolution, we think you’ll agree!'

Although unconfirmed, the Revolution may retail for as little as $99 - cheap as chips for such a desireable console.

Viva La Revolution




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I think Nintendo are going about the Revolution in the right way. Their controller could be the biggest selling feature out of all 3 next gen consoles, finally someone is actually thinking about the human interface rather than how much power it has under the bonnet.
i'll be curious about this one

i'm sure i'll get flamed for this, but i'm so totally unexcited by 360 et al. you look at one in use, and it's “woo, slightly improved graphics”. even the gamecube/ps2/xbox didn't offer much over the previous gen (bar maybe xbox live)

perhaps i'm just getting bored.
directhex
i'll be curious about this one

i'm sure i'll get flamed for this, but i'm so totally unexcited by 360 et al. you look at one in use, and it's “woo, slightly improved graphics”. even the gamecube/ps2/xbox didn't offer much over the previous gen (bar maybe xbox live)

perhaps i'm just getting bored.

So far out of all of the titles for xbox 360 that I have played, the most impressive thing is the graphics or the dashboard (I've probably spent more time on that)

There is no ground breaking game that revolutionises the way games are played.
I have to admit I was perhaps expecting just one game to totally blow me away.

I think the best is yet to come. - i hope so.
directhex
perhaps i'm just getting bored.


what you need is a giant opera-singing pooh, and a squirrel that throws bog rolls at it :)

thats what YOU need :D
hehe…

The thing is, until someone comes up with an immersive, full sensory input system, designed by an all-male Russian ballet troupe… nothing is going to do anything other than ‘faster and prettier’.

ps. A virtual cookie to the first to name the extremely oblique book reference….