Thursday, December 08, 2005

Sorry I Had To Resort To This But...

I unfortunately have decided to put ads on my blog... They aren't too bad, just ignore them if you really want to. I'm still working on them, so they may change in appearance eventually. But could you all help me out and maybe click on them? They aren't anything bad, just google stuff, and we all use google. Perhaps the profit gained can be put torward a microphone for better podcasting, haha.

Revolution Will NOT Be Difficult To Port 3rd Party Games To

Evidentally, Nintendo is now saying that it will not be difficult to port games to it's next-generation system, the Revolution. This contradicts thoughts of problems such as too low graphics performance, or a crazy controller. Now packed with online, this should extremely help out the 3rd party support of Nintendo. Now developers should have no reason not to release a game on PS3 and Xbox 360, and not Revolution. Perhaps we will soon hear Resident Evil 5 and Sonic The Hedgehog being released on the Revolution soon. Perhaps we can also see big-name franchises return to Nintendo, such as the Burnout series, which left the GameCube after the second installment, because Criterion wanted to focus on online play, which the GameCube doesn't offer well.

With So Much New Information, Let's Do A Summary


IGN has definately spread some news around about the Revolution confirmed from Devkits sent out to developers. Let's review what we have so far.
* Revolution has 104MB of RAM, 88MB of 1T-SRAM and 16MB DRAM
* Revolution could launch for as low as $99, but probably $150
* Ubisoft is working on a first-person shooter for the Revolution
* Revolution discs can either be single or dual layer. Single layer will be 4.7GB and duals will be 8.5GB, so it's just as good as Xbox 360
* Its possible that the new processor and graphics chip could be the same as the GameCube, but just with double or more the clock speed. This would definately improve over the GameCube's power, but means the Xbox 360 and definately PS3 are stronger stats wise. This on the other hand can save massive money. New hardware features are to be expected on the graphics processor, perhaps a form of cube mapping? If so, and cube mapping is what it seems, we could see Xbox 360 and PS3 quality graphics on the Revolution.
* Revolution will be completely unveiled at E3 2006, on May 9th
* There is another secret to the Revolution as hinted by Miyamoto
* Animal Crossing is coming to Revolution
* The launch of Revolution will probably be around Thanksgiving weekend of 2006, so like Xbox 360, but a year later.
* Revolution will be the best next-gen system. Haha, not officially said by IGN, but I'm betting on it.
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