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Revolution info leak?

Sounds like someone likes the way Homeland works and decided that must be how the Revolution will function.

Not unlikely, but I doubt there is much truth to this 'napkin' tale.
 
"- "Nintendo Home" machine is like a base station that will be put in many places and uses the PHS network for communication (popular mobile phone network). Will connect to handheld game machines and supports "Home Game function", also sends latest info from Nintendo."

Wait ... as I understnad it now ... these stations will allow you to connect with other systems, correct?
 
They'd need some pretty major partnerships to get this kind of idea working in other countries, but the network infrastructure in Japan would support this. That's why it sounds believable and that's why I posted it. It has more credibility than just seeing the CPU specs and such.
 
How would this work in the US? How close would we really have to be to the next Nintendo21 to connect? Hrmm... if this works (country-wide)... and it's free... that'd be amazing.

~Cris
 
Hollywood said:
Wait ... as I understnad it now ... these stations will allow you to connect with other systems, correct?
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Yeah... It would suck if you live in a rural area though.

I assume it would connect to DS too.
 
Considering how many bad mistakes they have made,this is definately possible. But i am not sure if even Nintendo is dumb enough to have a double sided GC dual layered gc disk unless they are going for something that can be used in a handheld later.
 
Hmm, I REALLY hope they include a c-stick.



Also, is 5.4gb enough? I figure next gen games will need way more than that....but then again I guess they could just use two disc.
 
I wonder what would the shape of the slot be, given that the whole controller supports rubbing~

btw, there's an arrow that points to the name and says DS2 blah blah blah?
 
AndoCalrissian said:
Waitwaitwaitwaitwait.
Let me get this straight.
So, the thing uses UMD style discs (just larger), yet it is still a top loading machine?
:lol
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Perhaps made in such a way that both the encased discs and GCN discs would both go there.

shpankey said:
i pray this is true just so i can watch all the Nbots cry cry cry
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Nbot here. If this is accurate the only real thing to cry about is the small storage space (again). Other than that the mentioned features seem interesting, and the unmentioned features like what the system is actually capable of, whether it's backwards compatible, what the games are like, price, size are... unmentioned.
 
This makes perfect sense to me, as there are at least 10 people hanging out in Pictochat around here every time I turn my DS on.
 
Scrow said:
Nintendo's coming of age?
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I hope that if they WERE going to have a campaign like that they'd actually back it up with games!

None of that "Nintendo is growing up.... WITH A NEW KIRBY RUB!"
 
yelling.jpg


:lol @ the guy on the left and on the right
 
Amir0x said:
I hope that if they WERE going to have a campaign like that they'd actually back it up with games!

None of that "Nintendo is growing up.... WITH A NEW KIRBY RUB!"
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It would be called "Kirby Rub One Off". It's mature.
 
Uh oh.

I'd be surprised if this was true. I wonder how the rubbing would work though, especially with buttons.

Sounds very abstract to me.

Especially when hand-grime comes into play from all the rubbing.
 
Wasn't Nintendo's inert partnership with Konami called Mobile 21? My memory of it is very vague but I think there was some networking aspect.

If anything, I'd assume Nintendo 21 is a codename and not the final name.
 
Wario64 said:
I guess there's no problem doing backwards compatability since the controller is simiilar to the Gamecube, and the game discs are the same size as GC discs
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If this is is the real deal the Revolution games will be in a shellcase so how would the GCN games fit in a system designed for 8cm discs in a shellcase?
 
The more I think about it, the more I really believe this news is true. Nintendo has expressed reservations about going online, and RIGHTLY SO, in my opinion. Think about it: can a 9 year old sign up for a credit card to get on XBL? Nintendo's younger market that drives their sales simply can't take advantage of the traditional online model.

THIS, on the other hand... it literally solves all their problems with online gaming. Its FREE, because the systems create, maintain, and relay that signal themselves. Doesn't cost Nintendo anything. It doesn't even REQUIRE an internet signal. No need to have an ethernet cable or even be in a wireless hotspot.

Imagine being in the woods, and if there's enough N21's near you you can go online with your DS. If every nintendo system from here on out uses this protocol Nintendo would have their own gaming network running, entirely separate from the "internet." Every hone with one of these systems sending a signal is then a "Nintendo home" and helps to strengthen that signal.

I think that if you live in a rural area a traditional internet signal could augment the service, to allow you to play others, perhaps.
 
Oh yes, it was concerned with networking!

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/07/mobile.games.idg/

When connected to a cellular phone, the handheld Game Boy Advance machine will offer a host of Internet functions, including Net surfing and online gaming, according to the companies. The device will be equipped with a digital camera so that online combatants can see each other while gaming
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This was supposed to be implemented for the GBA but I think it was only done on a small scale. I suppose it's possible that R&D has been going on all these years and they are ready to roll out some kind of 'online' plan.

Hmm...and Konami has some announcement for the 26th or 27th. Could it be related to Nintendo's supposed press conference? Who knows.
 
chespace said:
This is gonna get ugly real fast.
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Ugly? Maybe. Fast, for sure!
JoshuaJSlone said:
If this is accurate the only real thing to cry about is the small storage space (again).
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Well, there's also the lack of CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray/8 Track cassette support (again), which will give the casual users (and pirates) some grief.
 
impirius said:
This makes perfect sense to me, as there are at least 10 people hanging out in Pictochat around here every time I turn my DS on.
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What? I thought the range of the DS was only a few feet?
 
GDJustin said:
The more I think about it, the more I really believe this news is true. Nintendo has expressed reservations about going online, and RIGHTLY SO, in my opinion. Think about it: can a 9 year old sign up for a credit card to get on XBL? Nintendo's younger market that drives their sales simply can't take advantage of the traditional online model.

THIS, on the other hand... it literally solves all their problems with online gaming. Its FREE, because the systems create, maintain, and relay that signal themselves. Doesn't cost Nintendo anything. It doesn't even REQUIRE an internet signal. No need to have an ethernet cable or even be in a wireless hotspot.

Imagine being in the woods, and if there's enough N21's near you you can go online with your DS. If every nintendo system from here on out uses this protocol Nintendo would have their own gaming network running, entirely separate from the "internet." Every hone with one of these systems sending a signal is then a "Nintendo home" and helps to strengthen that signal.

I think that if you live in a rural area a traditional internet signal could augment the service, to allow you to play others, perhaps.
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The system would have to be almost always on, at some level, transmitting the signal for anything like this to work. And the minimum range for said signal would have to be many, many miles, unless Nintendo hopes to plug all the holes with something permanent.

Could be an interesting way to cut costs of a network, but I don't think this is possible.
 
DMczaf said:
And for the other 98% of us on GAF that can't read Japanese...
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I don't think it's directly related, but they made an agreement together to develop some kind of digital broadcast channel, aiming for a 2000 launch. They put an awful lot of money into it, though, so perhaps it is related.
 
vesuvious said:
If this is is the real deal the Revolution games will be in a shellcase so how would the GCN games fit in a system designed for 8cm discs in a shellcase?
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well... it would be very easy to, say, take an empty case like this, insert your favorite gamecube game into said case and enjoy! unless i'm not seeing at all what you mean, but i think youre saying the "revolution" game+the case=8cm, in which case i dont think that would make much sense.
 
Okay - after looking at that link - I think I might believe this news. Kyocera and satellite broadcast technology? Is Kyocera the company that worked with Nintendo on Satelliview?

Because Homeland is using a gamecube as a server, and because of Kyocera being mentioned, while still hard to believe, I could see the leak being true.

Interesting. Have to say though, I REALLY don't care for the concept of the controller. Maybe I'd love the execution, but in concept it sounds stupid.
 
Matlock said:
yelling.jpg


:lol @ the guy on the left and on the right
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i agree. the guy's expression on the right is so priceless i decided to make it into an avatar for whoever wants to use it. :)

OMG.jpg
 
G4life98 said:
so are these "base stations" just kyocera made waps?

my guess is:
regional access = free
worldwide access = fee
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thats exactly what i was thinking. im not understanding why people are thinking something like this would be local connection only.
 
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