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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.

Strafio wrote:
> Well, you've got to have some reason, otherwise it doesn't go
> anywhere.
> Get's too repetitive.

Yeah, 'tis starting to get a bit so.
I'll leave it here, methinks. Until another groundless rumour breaks through, then I'll be off again.

> Anysway, stop binge bashing Dringo, get a proper design of your
> "pop out touchscreen buttons" idea and get it sent to
> Nintendo.
> That would the answer to ALL control problems (and leave Sony and MS
> in the dirt for a generation).

It would indeed.
Any ideas of how it could possibly work in a million years would be quite nice.

They'd need a screen that could pop out about 0.5 cm...
No tech around that can do that at the moment.
Also, it would have to be pressure sensetive (I mean, touching it is one thing, but touching it a certain hardness...).

The screen bit would be a piece of cake after that! :-D

Excuse me for being cynical but what's the point of having a touchscreen with pop out buttons? Why not just use regular buttons? Is it so you can have different amounts of buttons for each game? It would mean you had to learn a completely new layout for each game. Hardly easy to use.

It would mean that the game could choose for itself the best way to control it, rather than being held back by the pad.
I know that using C-buttons for beat em ups was a nuisance and any game requiring a d-pad struggled on the GC.

Those examples come straight to mind.

I guess there could be personalisation software where you can design your own favourite pad set-up. :-)

Can't wait to see what Nintendo have got in store?

Either:

1) I'll get the time machine

2) Wait and see, young ones

Sorry to bring up an old topic but it just goes to show that you shouldnt believe everything you read on the net *coff* dringo *coff*

Taken from nintendo europe...
According to the early information, Revolution will combine powerful technology and gaming-focused features in Nintendo's smallest home game console yet.

and...

Thanks to Nintendo's hardware development partners IBM and ATI, the small system will be packed with power that will enable it to wow players with its graphics.

But that is also a rumour...

Christ almighty.

I did say it was a revolution rumour we've been doing revolution rumours for months and discussing them.

Well, not long now and we'll know for sure.