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What did i miss Revolution wise?

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ThongyDonk

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Did i miss this or something?

UK Nintendo Magazine CUBE "STATES" that the bay underneath the Rev's disc loading slot
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yeah that bit thats got what looks like a slot cover, is infact a replaceable drive?

The unit will come with a standard game/DVD reading lens unit, BUT you'll be able to buy seperate units to replace this one, to enable you to watch HD DVD/Blue Ray discs further down the line when you want to pay to do so. and make the console future proof as such and not get left behind.
Is this true or just complete crap?

Would give people the choice as to what they want. Is this even possible?
 
Doesn't that flip open to show the memory card slots? I also saw a pic where they had 4 gamecube controller ports and mem. card slots for them.
 
Ponn01 said:
Doesn't that flip open to show the memory card slots? I also saw a pic where they had 4 gamecube controller ports and mem. card slots for them.
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nops .. thats on the side, and on the top if its standing vertically
 
I wonder what they mean by "attachment", maybe it's just firmware that enables DVD/Mpeg playback.

That way they wouldn't have to pay licensing fees for every console sold.

EDIT: I also think that slot is for expandable media storage.
 
Iwata (Or was it Miyamoto?) specifically said that the slot under the disc drive was part of the "revolutionary" aspect of the system, and a clue.
 
John Harker said:
Iwata (Or was it Miyamoto?) specifically said that the slot under the disc drive was part of the "revolutionary" aspect of the system, and a clue.
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It toasts your ham and cheese sandwich
 
so wait if the little compartment is revolutionary wtf could it be.

maybe its a place for media storage
 
John Harker said:
Iwata (Or was it Miyamoto?) specifically said that the slot under the disc drive was part of the "revolutionary" aspect of the system, and a clue.
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can we get a source on that?
 
the memory cards etc are on the side.
the slot at the front wouldn't open and when asked the peeps guarding the Rev at E3 said thats part of the revolution?

All i can think of is it would slide out and you'd slide in a new laser, it is in the right place for this to happen if you look at the disc slot and its position.!
the USB's are at the back i believe?

would be quite revolutionary aspect in that you can have your choice of console. $300 blue ray or $200 DVD....?
 
Hmmm very interesting. An upgradable console... something that's been done (PCs) but not in the console market?.... I dunnooooooooooooo
 
IGN said:
The Revolution's slot-loading drive is unbelievably gorgeous when viewed up close. It really is striking. The drive is not just illuminated, but surrounded by a sleek blue light, and it accepts both GameCube Optical Discs and new 12cm discs designed specifically for Revolution. The interesting bit is that the drive easily takes both sizes without any fuss. Gamers just drop any GCN or Revolution title in and it automatically works. Nintendo indicated that the drive is one of the first to intuitively do that. Power, reset and eject buttons are located on the front panel of the unit. Meanwhile, a flap on the front of the machine hides the slots for the 512MB memory cards that Revolution utilizes for downloads and game saves.
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http://cube.ign.com/articles/617/617195p1.html
 
Yea, actually, the more I think about that... the more it makes sense.

It would be pretty damn revolutionary. It'll def. extend the life of the system. It makes sense thats why the system is launching cheap, and just supporting DVDs up front. And when someone recently posted the financial statements from Nintendo, didn't some part of it say that the system may be delayed because the technology isn't there/finished yet?
Could be talking about a laser/drive that reads Blu-Ray and/or HD-DVD because that stuff isn't finalized yet. Who knows. Cool if true, though I don't know how it would be possible.
 
John Harker said:
Yea, actually, the more I think about that... the more it makes sense.

It would be pretty damn revolutionary. It'll def. extend the life of the system. It makes sense thats why the system is launching cheap, and just supporting DVDs up front. And when someone recently posted the financial statements from Nintendo, didn't some part of it say that the system may be delayed because the technology isn't there/finished yet?
Could be talking about a laser/drive that reads Blu-Ray and/or HD-DVD because that stuff isn't finalized yet. Who knows. Cool if true, though I don't know how it would be possible.
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maybe thats where the holographic projector is :lol
 
blahness said:
can we get a source on that?
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I'm looking for it, but I tell you, every damn exec at Nintendo has done so many damn interviews latetly, I'm having trouble finding it. It was a passing comment in one of the interviews though, someone did say that that slot was tied into something unique about the system.

I mean, the IGN article, maybe it is the slot for the SD cards and the guy being interviewed meant the download service is part of the revoltionary aspect of the system.
But who knows.
 
"Joystiq and Engadget got our grubby fingers on the Nintendo Revolution box (yes, the one behind the locked door in the secret room guarded by a beefy muscleman). We picked it up, we played with the buttons, we poked, we prodded, and we slipped a CD into it. Oops! We werenÂ’t supposed to do that. Guess what happened?

The CD just fell into the box. No mechanism grabbed the edge of the CD and pulled it in slowly, even though the box was plugged in. The CD just slid in cleanly and quickly except for brief resistance at the entrance. There wasnÂ’t any scraping or messy sound to it, so the CD didnÂ’t collide with any internal mechanism that one might expect it to collide with were such mechanisms present. To get the CD out, we just tipped the box over and it slid right back out. Really, it was as if the CD had been dropped into a small, rectangular box with smooth sides.

When we picked up the Revolution and turned it over in our hands, we noticed that was hefty and had a good, solid feel to it. All of the cables and plugs looked like they were functional as well. There was nothing obviously fake about this prototype except for the funny CD mechanism, but this is certainly curious. We also shook the box vigorously to see if there were any loose or moving parts inside of it but there were no sounds; everything appeared to be fixed inside the box."
source

I'm not saying this really means anything, but it could give a little weight to the above article.
I mean, what if it is a change drive, and they just didn't put one in for this prototype?
Maybe thats why the cd just "fell into a rectganular box" - the compartment under the disc drive, where that slot is? Just - without the drive. Beacuse its removeable. And upgradable. Just wasn't included in the prototype. Anyway, food for thought.
 
Iwata (Or was it Miyamoto?) specifically said that the slot under the disc drive was part of the "revolutionary" aspect of the system, and a clue.
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The revolution is that it looks like a bay like other Nintendo systems have, but there is nothing behind it at all, and its sealed tight. Guaranteed to keep Nintendo fans guessing and using it as proof of their resurrection right through the next generation.


Blimey, I want Nintendo to succeed too, but they make a shitload of money out of me and I get to play their games. Thats a good enough deal right now, and they don't really have to change much.
 
The revolution is the downloadable games, thats it. People that are looking for something more are going to be dissappointed. The controller is going to be some changeable thing to take advantage of the different controllers for the downloadable games from different systems.
 
mrklaw said:
Sorry? Its revolutionary that you can buy a console and later on buy something else that lets you watch movies? Are you all so brain addled from lack of information from nintendo that you'll jump onto anything?

How is that even slightly revolutionary? How does it have any bearing at all on its ability to play games better?

Blimey!
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Umm...the revolutionary part of course is the controller, not a removable disk drive, which has nothing to do with games.

But I'm sure you knew that...
 
John Harker said:
"Joystiq and Engadget got our grubby fingers on the Nintendo Revolution box (yes, the one behind the locked door in the secret room guarded by a beefy muscleman). We picked it up, we played with the buttons, we poked, we prodded, and we slipped a CD into it. Oops! We werenÂ’t supposed to do that. Guess what happened?

The CD just fell into the box. No mechanism grabbed the edge of the CD and pulled it in slowly, even though the box was plugged in. The CD just slid in cleanly and quickly except for brief resistance at the entrance. There wasnÂ’t any scraping or messy sound to it, so the CD didnÂ’t collide with any internal mechanism that one might expect it to collide with were such mechanisms present. To get the CD out, we just tipped the box over and it slid right back out. Really, it was as if the CD had been dropped into a small, rectangular box with smooth sides.[/B]
source
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I thought that article was proven or highly suggested to be false. Or at the very least, the hardware isn't done yet, so a prototype with any kind of stuff inside wouldn't really serve a purpose at E3. I always figured it was the shell of the system, and it's not even the final shell since it will be smaller.
 
Ponn01 said:
The revolution is the downloadable games, thats it.
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um.. no its not. why not reveal the rest of the system then? its obvious that they are hiding something. will it be revolutionary? who knows.. but they definitely have some hidden features to reveal.
 
Well, what we know for a fact...

-2006 release
-GC/DVD compatible
-WiFi online out of the box
-free Nintendo online gaming
-vertical or horizontal placement
-slot loading drive
-512MB flash drive, expandable through SD cards
-game download service (NES/SNES/N64)
-IBM CPU (Broadway) and ATi GPU (Hollywood)

....and games/support...

-Nintendo (Mario, Zelda, new IP)
-HAL Laboratory (Smash Bros)
-Retro Studios (Metroid Prime)
-Square Enix (Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles)
-Bandai (tba)
 
Nintendo loves to jampack their consoles with "expansion ports" to stay "future proof", but most often than not they go awfully underutilized (or not used at all) for the entire life of the console.
 
GBPlayer = best Nintendo addon EVER..

I hardly touch it now though, the DS is more than enough to play GBA games for me now :).. the screen is just so crisp
 
Naked Snake said:
Nintendo loves to jampack their consoles with "expansion ports" to stay "future proof", but most often than not they go awfully underutilized (or not used at all) for the entire life of the console.
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This gen they were used though. BB adapter and GBPlayer for me.
 
The lid on the front hides the SD card ports. I'm not sure why IGN refers to them as 512 MB memory cards. 512 MB is the amount of built-in storage. SD cards come in many different sizes.
 
akascream said:
This gen they were used though. BB adapter and GBPlayer for me.
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Isn't there one more slot? The one they put in just to ensure that they'll not use all slots this time either?
 
cybamerc said:
The lid on the front hides the SD card ports. I'm not sure why IGN refers to them as 512 MB memory cards. 512 MB is the amount of built-in storage. SD cards come in many different sizes.
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Yep, it also has the USB slots I think.
 
I'm a little surprised that some people think Nintendo, the company about simplicity and selling to all all ages, young and old, would sell units where the user might need to swap out the DVD drive assembly. And wouldn't that splinter the Rev market? Game makers couldn't rely on that extra space without limiting their sales. So all it'd be able to do is play movies.

If something's not in the box at launch, it won't do well. Expansions, accessories, if you don't get them when you first buy the console as part of the package deal, then no developer can really rely on it being there.

So the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD thing is something they should figure out ahead of time. My say is this: We KNOW Sony's going to side with Blu-Ray if it and the HD-DVD camp don't settle; Blu-Ray's their baby of sorts. Instead of that being the only choice, Nintendo could offer HD-DVD playback (for both games and movies) out of the box. That would mean it'd serve a seperate function, and have access to a larger format that can be produced cheaper than Blu-Ray currently (one of the reasons some manufacturers prefer HD-DVD is because a lot of existing DVD equipment can be harnessed to create them; Blu-Ray requires a lot of new equipment in comparison, and those costs aren't easy to swallow). So even if one format dies, there's still a unit that can play existing discs of it. If HD-DVD doesn't even come out, Nintendo's still got a much higher-capacity storage medium that, surprise, won't be as easily pirateable because not much equipment will be out for users to mess with reading and creating HD-DVDs then. But if HD-DVD does OK (and it's got the better name for consumers to latch on to and understand, I'd say), then only Nintendo's console would be the one to offer playback. Unless MS panics and announces Xbox 360 HD or something along those lines after launch (which would upset early adopters if games tried to take advantage of it).
 
This drive/swap fantasy is just that. Not going to happen, it's DVD only.

I remember people making up the same shit about Dreamcast...
 
Actually, Nintendo's probable partner for the optical drive is Panasonic and they are in the BlueRay camp. So if Nintendo does go with a next-gen media, it's prolly gonna be BlueRay over HD-DVD...
 
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