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I thought I'd make a post about them because I like them.
Here are the rumours in brief:
Regarding Mario 128 and Zelda.
. Nintendo tried to re-invent the franchises with Sunshine and Wind Waker. Failing to do so has upset the company but they have given into public demand and created a more mainstream set of titles.
. Mario 128 will be more nostalgic, featuring areas and enemies consistant with the Mario series.
. Zelda will go for the dark adventure look it has always promised to be. Giving a nod towards Lord of the Rings on the way.
Regarding Revolution.
. Since Nintendo invested in Gyro technology it is assumed Gyro controllers will be used. These controllers allow for motion control gaming.
. These controllers won't be wireless initially, Nintendo are developing such an idea though.
. Broadband from the box with online a standard. DS will launch Nintendo's online service but Revolution will follow. Square-Enix are Nintendo's unlikely partner here.
. DS will not link to Revolution. The future Gameboy Evolution probably will.
. The system is backwards compatible with the Gamecube.
. The unit itself will have four controller ports, a hard drive, and support for high-resolution displays and Dolby Digital 5.1 channel surround sound
. The system will also use dual processors.
. There is more "revolutionary" features to come but not even the rumour-mill would give these up due to Sony and Microsoft copying.
. The Revolution will us HD-DVD. The cheaper competitor to Blu-Ray. It isn't as large as Blu Ray but it does use existing hardware allowing both the console and the games to be produced cheaper. It also means DVD playback is likely. It is still roughly 4 times larger than normal DVD.
. Mario game and Smash Brothers will launch the system. A Zelda game is already being worked on.
Sounds pretty good. Glad to see HD-DVD being used. If Microsoft use it too then it'll make the HD-DVD Vs. Blu Ray fight very interesting.
I think it is a shame Nintendo aren't so keen to experiment with existing franchises. But its nice to get a consistant set of sequels and this may encourage Nintendo to develop new franchises rather than fiddle with old ones.
Thoughts?
Here's to the future.
Dringo.
Here are the rumours in brief:
Regarding Mario 128 and Zelda.
. Nintendo tried to re-invent the franchises with Sunshine and Wind Waker. Failing to do so has upset the company but they have given into public demand and created a more mainstream set of titles.
. Mario 128 will be more nostalgic, featuring areas and enemies consistant with the Mario series.
. Zelda will go for the dark adventure look it has always promised to be. Giving a nod towards Lord of the Rings on the way.
Regarding Revolution.
. Since Nintendo invested in Gyro technology it is assumed Gyro controllers will be used. These controllers allow for motion control gaming.
. These controllers won't be wireless initially, Nintendo are developing such an idea though.
. Broadband from the box with online a standard. DS will launch Nintendo's online service but Revolution will follow. Square-Enix are Nintendo's unlikely partner here.
. DS will not link to Revolution. The future Gameboy Evolution probably will.
. The system is backwards compatible with the Gamecube.
. The unit itself will have four controller ports, a hard drive, and support for high-resolution displays and Dolby Digital 5.1 channel surround sound
. The system will also use dual processors.
. There is more "revolutionary" features to come but not even the rumour-mill would give these up due to Sony and Microsoft copying.
. The Revolution will us HD-DVD. The cheaper competitor to Blu-Ray. It isn't as large as Blu Ray but it does use existing hardware allowing both the console and the games to be produced cheaper. It also means DVD playback is likely. It is still roughly 4 times larger than normal DVD.
. Mario game and Smash Brothers will launch the system. A Zelda game is already being worked on.
Sounds pretty good. Glad to see HD-DVD being used. If Microsoft use it too then it'll make the HD-DVD Vs. Blu Ray fight very interesting.
I think it is a shame Nintendo aren't so keen to experiment with existing franchises. But its nice to get a consistant set of sequels and this may encourage Nintendo to develop new franchises rather than fiddle with old ones.
Thoughts?
Here's to the future.
Dringo.
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If you compress things down though you naturally lose quality don't you?
Dringo wrote:
> Macintosh it'll be more than enough.
>
> If games are bigger, 2 discs. You can compress that to 10 GB if needs
> be.
>
> Stop bloody moaning and find something important to complain about.
The year is 2008, and the latest high def games running and a trillion gigaflops per second are shared over 2 discs. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
> Macintosh it'll be more than enough.
>
> If games are bigger, 2 discs. You can compress that to 10 GB if needs
> be.
>
> Stop bloody moaning and find something important to complain about.
The year is 2008, and the latest high def games running and a trillion gigaflops per second are shared over 2 discs. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Macintosh wrote:
> So future games using the new larger code required for the new
> systems wont use more media space. And, future games and movies in
> High Def format wont need any extra media space? 5Gb will be nothing
> in a couple of years time.
"larger code"
...
I highly doubt any game will go above 5GB in the next few years. Most games these days, even the large ones only take up about 2GB.
> So future games using the new larger code required for the new
> systems wont use more media space. And, future games and movies in
> High Def format wont need any extra media space? 5Gb will be nothing
> in a couple of years time.
"larger code"
...
I highly doubt any game will go above 5GB in the next few years. Most games these days, even the large ones only take up about 2GB.
If you are gonna produce a film or Videogame in HD then you will need a much larger format, because of the extra information.
Nintendo definetly needs to make sure their new system plays DVD movies and learn from their past mistakes.
Dringo wrote:
> Stop bloody moaning and find something important to complain about.
That would be best off in the life forum though as I'm sure Nintendo fans don't want to be hearing about the numerous STD's that Top score has given him.
> Stop bloody moaning and find something important to complain about.
That would be best off in the life forum though as I'm sure Nintendo fans don't want to be hearing about the numerous STD's that Top score has given him.
Macintosh it'll be more than enough.
If games are bigger, 2 discs. You can compress that to 10 GB if needs be.
Stop bloody moaning and find something important to complain about.
If games are bigger, 2 discs. You can compress that to 10 GB if needs be.
Stop bloody moaning and find something important to complain about.
Dringo wrote:
> Macintosh wrote:
> The original post claims the DS wont link to Revolution. But I saw a
> post the other day saying it would.
>
> It might. It might not.
>
> "Twin" processors? Apple/IBM twin G5 CPU's? Yea right.
> That
> would push up the price of the console too much compared with its
> rivals.
>
> Who knows Macintosh, the DS is still rather cheap.
>
> I thought both HD-DVD and Blue Ray drives could read existing DVD's
> and even CD's. The only thing you cant do is play a HD-DVD disc in a
> Blue Ray drive (or vise versa), unless someone invents a
> "combi" drive.
>
> Blu-Ray uses 2 lasers, blue for the blu-ray discs and red for the
> DVD's. HD-DVD just uses red.
>
> Then again, I would be suprised if Nintendo used any of the DVD
> formats. Its not like they have a good track record on this is it!
> Another post said Nintendo were planning another custom, mini DVD,
> but holding a max of 5Gb. That sounds more like it, but it would be
> commercial suicide. Nintendo cant afford to make many more mistakes.
>
> Why would it be commercial suicide? 5 GB is massive!
(Picks himself up of the floor after falling over with laughter).
So future games using the new larger code required for the new systems wont use more media space. And, future games and movies in High Def format wont need any extra media space? 5Gb will be nothing in a couple of years time.
> Macintosh wrote:
> The original post claims the DS wont link to Revolution. But I saw a
> post the other day saying it would.
>
> It might. It might not.
>
> "Twin" processors? Apple/IBM twin G5 CPU's? Yea right.
> That
> would push up the price of the console too much compared with its
> rivals.
>
> Who knows Macintosh, the DS is still rather cheap.
>
> I thought both HD-DVD and Blue Ray drives could read existing DVD's
> and even CD's. The only thing you cant do is play a HD-DVD disc in a
> Blue Ray drive (or vise versa), unless someone invents a
> "combi" drive.
>
> Blu-Ray uses 2 lasers, blue for the blu-ray discs and red for the
> DVD's. HD-DVD just uses red.
>
> Then again, I would be suprised if Nintendo used any of the DVD
> formats. Its not like they have a good track record on this is it!
> Another post said Nintendo were planning another custom, mini DVD,
> but holding a max of 5Gb. That sounds more like it, but it would be
> commercial suicide. Nintendo cant afford to make many more mistakes.
>
> Why would it be commercial suicide? 5 GB is massive!
(Picks himself up of the floor after falling over with laughter).
So future games using the new larger code required for the new systems wont use more media space. And, future games and movies in High Def format wont need any extra media space? 5Gb will be nothing in a couple of years time.
What's a DVD?
Mactintosh is living in the image that PS3 games will actually need all the space on their discs, hell I doubt there's many PS2 games that even use up the full space on a normal DVD.
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