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"Revolution - Any basic info?"

Anyone give me a link (or answers) for the following info:

1. Any idea of launch date/price etc?
2. How will the whole backwards compatibility work?
3. Will it purely be for games or play DVD's etc?
4. Any form of online play planned?

Cheers :-)

That's not what I had gathered. I thought you had a flash card in the Rev, you download a NES/SNES/N64 game onto it and boot it up from there. You'd only be able to have one downloaded game at a time (unless you had multiple cards) but you'd be able to re-download any game you had alreayd payed for once for free as many times as you like.


I don't think you'll need it plugged into your PC all the time, all the evidence suggests it will be wireless, more likely you will get a little box like the Wavebird's controller port and plug that into your PC.

Chipseh wrote:
> No hard drive, just 512Mb Flash Memory, I think. Nintendo are
> currently looking at trying to store downloaded games on a PC
> accessible over the network, though they're having some problems
> internally as some departments don't agree with this policy- as it
> leads to piracy.

That doesn't sound particularly user friendly. One of the main reasons that I may get a Rev is to play all the older games.
Don't really want to leave the damn thing connected to my PC to be able to do it though...

Sounds like it.

I'm so helpful and ignorant :)

No hard drive, just 512Mb Flash Memory, I think. Nintendo are currently looking at trying to store downloaded games on a PC accessible over the network, though they're having some problems internally as some departments don't agree with this policy- as it leads to piracy.

Whitestripes DS wrote:
> Well you put the GC discs in the drive...

Thanks :-)


> It's compatible with the GC controller and rev controller also
> doubles up as an old NES pad. NES and SNES games will be
> downloadable, probably for a small fee.


What about N64 games? It will have a hard drive in then, to store these downloads?

Wasn't there talk of the Revolution acting as a wireless router for DS?

It will play DVDs, but you need to buy something extra for them to work on it - apparently so that those who don't want to won't have to pay the extra price for it.

Rai wrote:
> [URL]http://www.googleityoumoron.com[/URL]

If you do that, you only get info on the controller. Moron.

Your Honour wrote:

>
> 1. Any idea of launch date/price etc?

Around Christmas next year if we're lucky.

> 2. How will the whole backwards compatibility work?

Well you put the GC discs in the drive...

It's compatible with the GC controller and rev controller also doubles up as an old NES pad. NES and SNES games will be downloadable, probably for a small fee.

> 3. Will it purely be for games or play DVD's etc?
Not sure.

> 4. Any form of online play planned?\
Yes. We don't know what yet, but the one for the DS is a pretty good indication (i.e free and wireless)

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