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"More Revolution rumours"

Pretty much confirmed news:

The Revolution will also be a wireless router for the home, connect broadband to it and it will allow nearby consoles to link and go online. Such as a DS for example.

Rumours:

Revolution will be VERY cheap, will be only a little more powerful than a Gamecube and vastly inferior to X-box 360 and PS3. There will be multiple controllers, touch screen, gyro and camera are all being touted.

If the latter is true then I told you Nintendo are gunning for a different market.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Dringo wrote:
> gerrid wrote:
> Dringo that isn't an answer. What this shows is that if Nintendo go
> ahead with the Revolution you've described, almost 100% of it's
> fanbase will just disappear. How is that good? How is it good for
> me,
> or FFF, or you, if the only way we can play the Nintendo games we
> love
> is on a hyped up GC with a steering wheel?
>
> Oh go cry about it in the X-box forum.
>
> Oh dear.

Let's face it: the hardcore gamers keep ninty's consoles afloat in the early stages.

Taking away the facility for how they usually play games to go after new 'potential customers' who haven't bought your consoles for the last 10 years is daft.

Dringo wrote:
> gerrid wrote:
> Dringo that isn't an answer. What this shows is that if Nintendo go
> ahead with the Revolution you've described, almost 100% of it's
> fanbase will just disappear. How is that good? How is it good for
> me,
> or FFF, or you, if the only way we can play the Nintendo games we
> love
> is on a hyped up GC with a steering wheel?
>
> Oh go cry about it in the X-box forum.

Oh dear.

gerrid wrote:
> But if the games are confined by the hardware, then there won't be any
> revolution at all, will there?

I was saying ... Dringo's hell-bent on saying this new controller is going to answer Ninty's prayers and change gaming forever, but unless games make any real use of it, no-one'll care, you could easily just have a normal controller.

And we're left with an underpowers console with a weird control method most people just aren't going to bother with.

Of course, without the consoles themselves being better, we'd never get any decent games due to constriants of the graphics and processing or whatever. But we're at the stage now where the hardware has virtually no restraints on people's doing what they like.

No matter what you say, the gaming revolution may come from games and whatnot, but people don't want a revolution. People want to kill people with more gore and run from the police in bigger, better, more detailed cars with larger back catalogues of rap blasting out of the radio as they do it.

gerrid wrote:
> Dringo that isn't an answer. What this shows is that if Nintendo go
> ahead with the Revolution you've described, almost 100% of it's
> fanbase will just disappear. How is that good? How is it good for me,
> or FFF, or you, if the only way we can play the Nintendo games we love
> is on a hyped up GC with a steering wheel?

Oh go cry about it in the X-box forum.

I think we can say that processing power and analogue control changed gaming.

Both were needed.

I do see where Gerrid's coming from because the old arcade machines like space invaders etc used to have clunky "big black gold ball on a stick" style analogue sticks.

Dringo wrote:
> Oh... My... God.

A moment of horrible realisation? Or are you just unable to respond?

But if the games are confined by the hardware, then there won't be any revolution at all, will there?

Explain to me how gyroscopic control would allow for new types of games.

The revolution is going to come from the games, not the hardware.