Nintendo Revolution

The Nintendo Revolution is a new console currently being developed by Nintendo. This new console was 1st revealed to the world by Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata, On stage at Nintendo's pre-E3 2004 press conference. The world was shocked by this announcment as it completely took them by surprise. And here began the saga of Nintendo's next generation console the "Revolution". The Revolution probably has more rumors and more critics than the PS3 and Xbox 2 combined. However Nintendo was focused on not letting these critics get to them and that they were going to make a console unlike any other.

Revolution Controller Rumors

Now onto the Controller. Nintendo's controller for there next generation console has gotten more coverage than the Xbox 2 and PS3 combined! One of the biggest rumors was that the Revolutions controller would be like no other. It was said that it would feature no buttons what so ever, and would instead use a new technology that Nintendo is supposedly working on. Such as the controller just being one big touchscreen, or the controller haveing gyroscopic motion sensors, and Satoru also confirmed that a microphone is one of the input devices under consideration for the controller, I also came across some info suggesting that the controller would come with Haptic gloves which would let you manipulate as well as control the items or objects on the screen. Sadly none of these rumors have been cleared up as Satoru said in a interview with a japanese business magazine "We are not commenting on any of the Revolutions controller rumors at this time". So pretty much the haptic gloves, gyroscoptic motion sensors, and microphone are still up for grabs. Nintendo doesnt seem to be very eager to clear up any of these rumors, this seems to be an attempt to keep all eyes on them. How ever Satoru did say " The new controller may satisfy the hardcore gamers, but they've become too difficult for more casual gamers." That may be a clue as to how complicated the controller may be for the Revolution.

Known Nintendo Revolution Specs

The controller isnt the only one who is getting there fair of coverage. Recently some big announcments have been made for the Revolution. The biggest announcment so far is that Nintendo is finally jumping on the online bandwagon. By that I mean the Revolution will have online play!! However it will be limited to WiFi aka (Wireless lan). With this amazing announcment Nintendo fans will finally be able to share there love of games online with each other! Another amazing feature that the Revolution will have is that it will be able to hook up to computer monitors. Here is what Nintendo engineer Genyo Takeda said in June of 2004: "You'll be able to play [Revolution] not just by linking up to a television but to a computer monitor as well." I am very confused as to how this is supposed to work but we'll see in the future. In March of 2005 at GDC Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced that the Revolution will have backwards compatibility, so you'll still be able to enjoy all those great Gamecube games on the Revolution. It has also been confirmed that both IBM and ATI would supply the CPU and GPU respectively for the Revolution console. In another amazing discovery Nintendo has also announced that they have already sent out development kits to software houses. A price has yet to be set for the Revolution... same goes for a release date. We can expect to hear more at E3 2005. So stay tuned!

NO GAMES FOR THE REVOLUTION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY NINTENDO

RE-CAP

Nintendo will feature Online play via (WiFi)
The Revolution will be able to hook up to computer monitors
The Revolution will be backwards compatible
ATI will be creating the Revolutions graphics Chip
IBM will be creating the CPU
No release date or price has yet to be set
Nintendo has yet to comment on any controller rumors.
No games have been confirmed as of right now.

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