Apparently thin (and vertical orientation) are in this year. Nintendo is set to release its next-generation console today, named Revolution.
USAToday has released what is possibly the first image of the new gaming system, showing a sleek console with a slot-loading drive in the front. It will also apparently offer support for current titles available for the GameCube.
Nintendo, whose GameCube sales have lagged, hopes to gain ground, particularly among the fast-growing older-gaming market. Revolution is about the size of a stack of three DVD cases and has no visible knobs, buttons or ports for joysticks. The system will use only wireless controllers, and it sits flat or stands vertically.
With its front-loading slot for discs, it will play games on full-size DVDs as well as older GameCube games on mini-DVDs. Like Xbox and PlayStation 2, it will play DVD movies.
With Nintendo announcing backward compatibility for GameCube games, as well as Sony announcing that PS1 and PS2 games will be playable on the PS3, I believe the pressure is on for Microsoft to offer the same sort of backwards compatibility for its XBox 360 console.
Microsoft announced that the XBox 360 will be mostly backwards compatible.
mostly? Oh gosh how pathetic. Only “top selling games?” How big is that list exactly?
Crap. I wanted the virtual reality unit!
I’m having a very hard time deciding which system I’m going to stick with this time around. Guess I’ll have to do what I always do: buy them all!
Well, from that picture, IMO, I think that looks the nicest, followed by the PS3 then the 360.
Well, i dont really mind the design, or the look, and i like the idea of it using only wireless controllers, but they better be cheap(the controllers)! but what i dont like(both Xbox and Revolution) is that they are copying the Original Playstations Backwards compatible thing and using it to their extent. but thats all im complaining about…
once again the same person had some spare time and the latest edition of adobe photoshop. and som good skils.
jeremy where do you get your info.
if it is real it looks good.
I think consoles nowadays MUST be backwards compatibile. I wouldn’t say they’re copying (on that aspect), it’s just the smart thing to do! However, the horizontal/vertical issue, I think they’ve copied the PS2 on that one.
Blits – the photo was in USAToday this morning. Or at least on their site.
“they are copying the Original Playstations Backwards compatible thing”
Yeah, Sony invented backwards compatibility. That’s why when I buy a new computer, cd player, or any kind of electronics, I buy sony so I can play older CDs and programs. If any other brand can do that, they’re just copying Sony.
Back to the point, the image is obviously a rendering: Not enough resolution for me to tell if it’s just been heavily photoshopped or drawn from scratch, but I don’t buy it.
Holy shit! They are offering backwards compatibility for all Nintendo consoles dating back 20 years! It’s going to be an emulation/next-gen console. Rock!
hey Scrivs, aer you serious? that they are doing the backwards compatible thing to use games dating 20 years ago? dang thats crazy if they are…
Endgadget is reporting that feature as well. I think that you will be able to download emulations of older games from some sort of online service.
oh i see, well that will be awesome for the nintendo, since they are faling a bit behind in the next generation run.
Using thier new Network feature, you can download old games from Nintendo. Pretty neat
I’m getting excited here. “Super Smash Bros.” at launch? Yes. Oh yes.
go Link
wow. i think i just wet my self…
20 years.
hot damn. :)
now why sega… why did you drop out?!?! WHY!!
backwards compatibility has been done by nintendo before, just not on consoles, lo9ok at the gba and the game boy series, backwards compatibility from colour to ye olde gameboy :-)
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