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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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always remember this rhyme:
blu-ray is gay
blu-ray is gay
Strafio wrote:
> DVD's were set to take off, with or without the PS2.
It wasn't that simple Strafio. DVD wasn't the only thing gunning for the VHS position. So was something called Div X. They all had their fair share of supporters but the success of the PS1 meant that the PS2 could use DVD and kill off DivX. And it did.
Sony hope to do the same.
> DVD's were set to take off, with or without the PS2.
It wasn't that simple Strafio. DVD wasn't the only thing gunning for the VHS position. So was something called Div X. They all had their fair share of supporters but the success of the PS1 meant that the PS2 could use DVD and kill off DivX. And it did.
Sony hope to do the same.
Erm, DivX is an extremely popular video codec, not a storage medium...
What???
DivX is just the Unix equivilant of Window Media Player.
Software encoding, not a storage system.
I think you've gotten something seriously muddled here.
DVD's replaced VHS like CD's replaced Audio Cassettes.
DivX is a format of video which is becoming popular, but it's rivalling the likes of Quicktime and WMV, not DVD's! :-D
DivX is just the Unix equivilant of Window Media Player.
Software encoding, not a storage system.
I think you've gotten something seriously muddled here.
DVD's replaced VHS like CD's replaced Audio Cassettes.
DivX is a format of video which is becoming popular, but it's rivalling the likes of Quicktime and WMV, not DVD's! :-D
mermoid wrote:
> Erm, DivX is an extremely popular video codec, not a storage medium...
OH MY GOD.
Hang on I'm gonna dig out my GAD winning post to show ya, if I can find it.
> Erm, DivX is an extremely popular video codec, not a storage medium...
OH MY GOD.
Hang on I'm gonna dig out my GAD winning post to show ya, if I can find it.
But you wrote that...what exactly do you hope to prove?
It's a software codec, like Strafio and I have said.
head over to www.divx.com if you want
It's a software codec, like Strafio and I have said.
head over to www.divx.com if you want
It is now it wasn't originally.
It was an article based on one from IGN.
I'll dig that one out for ya instead then.
It was an article based on one from IGN.
I'll dig that one out for ya instead then.
Maybe DivX competed with the video compression system that's used on DVDs, but I'm highly sceptical that there was a type of disc named 'DivX'.
[URL]http://cube.ign.com/articles/552/552926p1.html[/URL]
Okay.
Big confusion.
Dringo is talking about DIVX, which DivX was named after as a kind of mickey-take as they seem to be opposites.
DIVX was still done on DVD format though, although rather than simply being bought and watched, a film was bought, watched a certain amount of times and then became pay-per-view.
The DIVX players even played normal DVD's, but special DIVX discs were encrypted and had storage space to include usage info and other things to allow them to work in the pay per view mode.
[URL]http://w02-0652.web.dircon.net/10dvd_DIVX.htm[/URL]
Either way, DIVX wasn't really going to replace DVD's.
Heck, it was just a modified DVD.
The ONLY difference was whether the market was going to go pay-per-view.
Which it clearly wasn't ready to yet.
Although back to the original market, so long as these new "DVD" players are backward compatable, I guess that they could gradually phase out the current ones (although, really, what is the point? THe current ones already do what we need them to! Are we going to start seeing entire TV series' on single discs?).
Putting two new formats out though, who's going to bother choosing between them. Seeing as they'll offer practically NOTHING that current DVD's can't already do (other than a few red herrings that we don't care about anyway!) people will just stick to DVD's until atleast one of them goes bust.
Big confusion.
Dringo is talking about DIVX, which DivX was named after as a kind of mickey-take as they seem to be opposites.
DIVX was still done on DVD format though, although rather than simply being bought and watched, a film was bought, watched a certain amount of times and then became pay-per-view.
The DIVX players even played normal DVD's, but special DIVX discs were encrypted and had storage space to include usage info and other things to allow them to work in the pay per view mode.
[URL]http://w02-0652.web.dircon.net/10dvd_DIVX.htm[/URL]
Either way, DIVX wasn't really going to replace DVD's.
Heck, it was just a modified DVD.
The ONLY difference was whether the market was going to go pay-per-view.
Which it clearly wasn't ready to yet.
Although back to the original market, so long as these new "DVD" players are backward compatable, I guess that they could gradually phase out the current ones (although, really, what is the point? THe current ones already do what we need them to! Are we going to start seeing entire TV series' on single discs?).
Putting two new formats out though, who's going to bother choosing between them. Seeing as they'll offer practically NOTHING that current DVD's can't already do (other than a few red herrings that we don't care about anyway!) people will just stick to DVD's until atleast one of them goes bust.
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