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The Last-Stop-Speak-In-Hyperbole Official Revolution Specs Thread

I WAS HERE

(this will definitely go down the archives again.)

will this be a TUESDAYTON or a WEDNESDAYTON btw? It would be cool if it would be a WEDNESDAYTON for GMT+1 timezones because it's my birthday tomorrow, yay! (ok thats not a really good reason...)
 
Goreomedy said:
You're from NZ? Nothing good has EVER come from NZ.

-- THE BASTARDS HAVE LANDED
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Peter Jackson Edmund hilary and the fuckin all blacks wooo

we have maoris too.

EDIT:

-KI ORA
 
The N64 launched at $250.
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No. I see people say that all the time. If you paid that much you got fucked. It was going to launch at 250, but Nintendo dropped to 199 about a month or so prior to launch.
 
Musashi Wins! said:
that's too much for the tech and their goals if this speculation is accurate.
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Well but like someone else said Nintendo knows their fans will buy. They don't seem to care about the market anymore imo, they are just going after nintendo fans.

To be honest if thats really the specs I don't know what to think, I'm taking a really wait and see. I had pretty much decided on 360 and Rev, but now I just don't know.
 
Drensch said:
No. I see people say that all the time. If you padi that much you got fucked. It was going to launch at 250, but Nintendo dropped to 199 about a month or so prior to launch.
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No they didn't. I still have my N64 box with a $249.99 sticker on it from Walmart. Somehow I doubt Walmart was price gouging.
 
For once I actually went to the last page of a thread instead of reading through it.

After seeing how much has been revealed so far, I've got to say I'm quite pleased with my decition. ;)

( What, what do you mean with "contentless post"? ;) )
 
Aika'svyse said:
Well but like someone else said Nintendo knows their fans will buy. They don't seem to care about the market anymore imo, they are just going after nintendo fans.
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I don't think that's true at all. I take them at their word that they want an increased audience, the sort of people who would buy a cheaper but unique entertainment device. I think they would keep parents, get more new audience and dump the hardcore in a perfect world. They'd probably rather everyone who owned a NES bought one for their kids out of nostalgia rather than care about a forums expectations.
 
Eric_S said:
For once I actually went to the last page of a thread instead of reading through it.

After seeing how much has been revealed so far, I've got to say I'm quite pleased with my decition. ;)

( What, what do you mean with "contentless post"? ;) )
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Hahhahaha. So far in this thread there has been No content filled posts, so who cares? Maybe some of Matlock's pictures though
 
N64 was $199.99 US.

If you paid $249.99 US (w/o Mario) you got ripped off.

The N64 dropping to $199.99 is what caused the Playstation to drop in price as well.
 
I think price might be the most important piece of information coming out of this interview.

Reason why? The only way to sell a niche product is to make it cheap. If Nintendo is looking to be mainstream, they can't sell their niche product at a $400 price tag.

I'd say $200 at launch, possibly even lower, to hit their targeted consumers.

Then with the rest of our money, we'll all buy PS3's to play Madden.
 
http://ign64.ign.com/articles/060/060433p1.html

Hardware ranges from $199, and up, generally speaking. All stores are still receiving hardware, but at a slow trickle, and we've found that the best way to get one is to call the stores closest to you, find out when they believe they'll get one in, and then show up that morning -- and show up early, as in, before the store opens. FAO Schwarz usually has the unit, but at $30 more than the MSRP, for $229.
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soundwave05 said:
N64 was $199.99 US.

If you paid $249.99 US (w/o Mario) you got ripped off.

The N64 dropping to $199.99 is what caused the Playstation to drop in price as well.
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No it wasn't. I'll take a picture of the sticker tonight. I'm sorry folks, but Walmart was not ripping people off.
 
$149.99 US is definitely possible I think.

Although Miyamoto has said there's something else to the Revolution hardware. If it's say the Manebito/Ningen camera system they patented that could fill out the price point to $199.99 US.
 
Haleon said:
No they didn't. I still have my N64 box with a $249.99 sticker on it from Walmart. Somehow I doubt Walmart was price gouging.
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Then you got screwed. No Nintendo system ever launched at over $200.



Anyway, what kind of RAM is in the 360, and how does it compare to the 1T-SRAM Nintendo seems to love?
 
Haleon said:
No it wasn't. I'll take a picture of the sticker tonight. I'm sorry folks, but Walmart was not ripping people off.
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Jesus Christ, this isn't gamefaqs, we're not just making shit up like we know what we're talking about.

You got screwed. Plain and simple.
 
Sre the controllers going to be expensive? That could keep the price around the $200 mark if so. It'd be great if they included two, as it seems lots of games would benefit from it, even in single player.
 
hasnt nintendo publicly stated that one mistake with gamecube was selling it for less than the competion? They cited that and the headstart of PS2 as the primary mistakes...
 
Well, we're arguing about specs, pricing and such.
Let's throw launch games, Smash Bros. new characters and ... DS integration into the mix.
 
The N64 was initially supposed to be $249.99 US ... that was the announced price when Nintendo announced the machine in August 1993 in a partnership with Silicon Graphics.

The system was initially supposed to ship in late 1995.

Of course it was delayed. At some point during spring/summer 1996, Nintendo decided to drop the price to $199.99 and launch at that price. This caused Sony to drop the price of their Playstation in advance of the N64 launch.

Believe me. I know my N64 history :)
 
Drinky Crow said:
believe :(
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somehow i think these threads come full circle. i think within a few more megaton explosion pictures we'll have or thursdaytons and such coming out. i say once the "millhouse getting hit by thursdayton truck" pic hits next to the "owl in plane" pic, i'll be convinced the universe is circular.
 
with specs seemingly so underwhelming, if nothing else, we know that a rev alone just won't cut it for next gen gaming. only decision is rev + ps3||360

hopefully ign declaring so early will force nintendos hand to give us more info and sharpish.

(personally rev+ps3)
 
Ark-AMN said:
Again I'll ask, does REV need as much power as 360 and PS3 if its not going to do any big HD stuff?
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Well cutting HD support buys Nintendo some breathing room, but the CPU/GPU would still have to be very powerful to match 360/PS3 ... that doesn't sound like its the case.
 
I see, well, I guess we'll have to wait until Nintendo finally unveils "Broadway" and "Hollywood" before that question can be answered completely.
 
Doube D said:
damage control in full effect! Nbots unite!
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Yeah, that was total damage control. I really don't care what the specs of the Revolution are. I'm just saying that this "news" is nothing to be excited about. The Revolution might be similar to the Xbox in specs, but guess what, I couldn't care less. And I'm pretty sure the Revolution is going to be less powerful than the Xbox 360, so how was my post damage control?
 
Ah, all the N64 talk makes me think about

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The good ol' days :)
 
BigGreenMat said:
You have to realize that this is a system that still won't release for ~9 months and people are guessing it will be about the same as an Xbox in specs and cost about the same which is ridiculous. First off given that it is a new piece of hardware that was created around the tech and pricing available in a little less than a year it should be able to be FAR more powerful than an Xbox and still cost a similar amount of money. I mean they could easily toss 256MB of non-exotic RAM into the machine with small process/power efficient chips that are MUCH faster than Xbox's chips for about the same price because they are not locked into any contracts and pricing structures that are 4 years old. In fact it would probably cost them MORE to produce memory chips with a lower amount as opposed a greater amount. Seriously there are almost no products that have memory amounts less than 256MB nowadays so it makes no sense that the system would have any less than that unless it is using some weird cutting edge tech RAM that is expensive to produce, but I don't see Rev using anything as relatively new as RDRAM or 1TSRAM this time around.

Oh and lets just do some comparisons on RAM right. N64 to GC was an increase of 10X for RAM. PSX to PS2 was ~12x increase. Xbox to X360 in a very short generation time was an 8X increase. So lets say that the Revolution ends up costing the same at launch as N64 and GC ($200). Given the trends it would point to Revolution having at least 384MB (a good round multiple #) of RAM. Now lets say that the system is less. Well it would still be completely reasonable given that it is coming out almost a year after x360 and won't have such a speed premium that at least 192MB if not 256MB of RAM is attainable at a $99 pricepoint. The low amounts of RAM talked about here are mindboggling.
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I realize that, but I also realize that Matt knows more than we do. Judging from what he said yesterday on IGN, what devs have said and what people have said, I am sticking with my minimalistic specs.

My predictions:
- ~950Mhz CPU
- ~88MB ram (possibly slightly more allocated specifically for other functions)
- $99 -$149 price range
- Video card about twice as fast as the current GCN one and probably will have the latest special effects.
 
Haleon said:
Here's another guy that paid 249.99 for it

http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000407062281/

Search for Nintendo 64.

And no, you don't know what you're talking about. I'll post a picture tonight.
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Helloooooo? Drensch's post?

And what's taking a picture going to prove? No one thinks you're lying about buying it for $250. That's why we're saying you got screwed, we believe you paid it, just that you shouldn't have.
 
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