Updated Revolution specs on IGN

Capcom vs. SNK 2 is alive and kicking.

I'm saying if there were a fighting game on the Revolution, a person should not be forced to buy some gadget in order to play it. And if they don't, they end up with a crappy experience like DDR without a dance mat. (DDR is a crappy experience in all forms, but you get the idea.)

Fighting games are still very much alive over some other genres I can think of(horizontal and vertical shooting titles, light gun games, music games) and serious fighters focus on titles such as Guilty Gear, Tekken 5, 3rd Strike, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, and so on. Of course there's going to be little if any fighting games, but it applies for any genre - you should not need to purchase accessories for a full experience.

It's bad enough Revolution owners-to-be will now need an external hard drive to play roms. And there's loads of genres which can't be executed properly on the Revolution unless they change their controllers, just look at your local arcade to see what titles would be difficult to play with a controller like that.

Where did Nintendo mention SNES games being on the Revolution?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I dunno what Berto just said, but it sounds a lot more convincing than what everyone else has been saying.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Who cares what the Revo specs are. This is all just hearsay anyways.

If you wanna debate numbers regarding power look at the DS and the PSP going at it right now. The PSP has way more "horsepower" than the DS, but the DS is killing it in sales... why? Cause it's more fun. I'm guessing that the Revo will be fun like the DS.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Elixir

Capcom vs. SNK 2 is alive and kicking.

I'm saying if there were a fighting game on the Revolution, a person should not be forced to buy some gadget in order to play it. And if they don't, they end up with a crappy experience like DDR without a dance mat. (DDR is a crappy experience in all forms, but you get the idea.)

Fighting games are still very much alive over some other genres I can think of(horizontal and vertical shooting titles, light gun games, music games) and serious fighters focus on titles such as Guilty Gear, Tekken 5, 3rd Strike, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, and so on. Of course there's going to be little if any fighting games, but it applies for any genre - you should not need to purchase accessories for a full experience.

It's bad enough Revolution owners-to-be will now need an external hard drive to play roms. And there's loads of genres which can't be executed properly on the Revolution unless they change their controllers, just look at your local arcade to see what titles would be difficult to play with a controller like that.

Where did Nintendo mention SNES games being on the Revolution?

Wow so the only genres less dead than fighters are ones that were barely even alive to begin with.

It has half a gig of onboard memory! What are you saying? And seriously who doens't have some kind of external harddrive/falsh device these days anyway? Hint: They're called mp3 players.

Where did they mention SNES games on Revolution? Oh i dunno E fucking 3 perhaps? This news is nearly a year old now!

And going down to my localarcade I see tons of games that could not only be played on Revolution, but enhanced. Racing games would be great with a metaphysical motion sensative steering wheel. Light gun games will be infinitly better. This is pretty muche verything arcades are made of.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Uhhhh… I could have sworn I said no more Rev threads until some sort of big announcement. Leaked specs whether they are true or not just brings up pointless discussion in my opinion. So before I get carried away with a few quick mouse clicks to set this thread in its proper state let me just entertain this thread with my thoughts on such an AMAZING subject IGN’s story has given us. Ahem.

Power PC technology has improved over the years since Gamecube and Xbox were released onto the market and so has memory. Also, the Xbox used a Pentium 3 processor so comparing Rev's supposed current PPC chip to Xbox's dated P3 is ridiculous. Most say that the Gamecube was at least 80% as powerful as the Xbox, so if that's true a Rev being at least two times as powerful as a Gamecube as speculated is easily to be much more powerful than an Xbox. Sure, it's not going to be as powerful as 360 or PS3 but this is nothing new.

Nintendo has said from the get go that they want to create a small, quiet, affordable system so the idea that fitting an incredibly souped-up Gamecube inside a smaller compact form isn’t a new idea either. Even before that Nintendo has stated that they planned to keep the Gamecube alive through peripherals. Yes we got the bongos, the microphone, and the DDR pad but I think a big push for the creation of Revolution was in a flaw in this very plan. It’s possible that the Gamecube just couldn’t keep up with the new planned peripherals namely the revmote that Nintendo wanted to use to expand the life of its console. In addition with the Gamecube’s global appeal diminishing a repackaging wouldn’t really look like a bad idea, but of course they might as well go all out to not look like they totally half-assed it as some around here would probably put it so they would add any new developments which would include the Nintendo Wifi Connection, Virtual Console, and anything else Nintendo has yet to reveal.

Also, please remember that Nintendo's systems are very efficient and those who actually sit down and work with the platform are going to find plenty of power at their disposal. It's all up to the developer what they do with it. In addition to that there is that supposed big secret that might relate to hardware that all you hopefuls can look forward to. These might not be Revolution’s complete specs after all even if what IGN is reporting is in fact legit. So yeah even with all that said I still don't see what the fuss and drama is for as usual and so I'll be closing yet another Revolution thread.



What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?