Here's Something Interresting

[Biske]

June 14, 2005 - Earlier this week, Nintendo made it official: the company's next-generation console, codenamed Revolution, will not support high-definition resolutions, according to company executives.


Nintendo says that games on Revolution will still look great. It cites overall high costs, both for developers and consumers, as the major factor in not supporting high-definition games.
Naturally, despite Nintendo's best intentions, the omission of HD support on Revolution has thousands of videogame fans up in arms.

If you happen to be one of them, now's your chance to make a difference. E-mail Nintendo's customer service department today and tell it why you are upset about the company's recent decision. Will lack of HD cause you to seriously reconsider purchasing Revolution? Tell Nintendo why.

With more than a year to go before the console's release, there's still time to have an impact, but only if enough people fall in line with the cause.

E-mail Nintendo Now - nintendo@noa.nintendo.com
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Gunna do it?

 

[Pains Requiem]

I hate messages like that-

They want people to comment on something that they have no clue about. What if this idea will make the revolution the best console anywhere to date? Then some clueless ignorant opinions will just totally screw it up.

People should wait until they actually know something about it, instead of being given one fact and told to voice their opinion. Before i even consider buying one, im going to wait until stats of the final product is finished and posted publicly.

SO, no. :-/

 

[Emperor Pan I]

Yeah, i'm sure we all even hav HD for Revolution to support.

 

[bamthedoc]

HD is pointless. I know I never calculated in HD outputs into the total, expected cost of the Revolution. It'll add about $50 - 100 to the final pricetag. I'm fine with either Y/RW or RGB/RW or RGB/DC.

 

[Revelade]

If NOT having HD can save me a couple bucks, then I'm fine without it.

 

[bamthedoc]

I also have something else for you to consider. The minimum requirement for US companies to have HD programming transmitable (in combination with standard-definition) is 2006. There are, I believe, two or three companies still doing upgrades to the dual-transmittion "standard" requirement. We aren't even going "all HD" until somewhere in the 2020s.

HDTVs are just too expensive right now. I want a DLP projector that costs around $1300, and that's considered a "low-range" price for HD at the moment. There aren't nearly enough TVs on the market for HD. Nintendo hasn't said it won't be near HD with the use of Component Cables (Red-Blue-Green). It's unlikely they won't include this digital medium for one, very good reason. Want to know the reason? The video card cannot be fully utilized through standard Composite Cable (Yellow).

 

[Hitsua]

I will like this much more. Nintendo's never been about big graphics, it's always been about graphics that are more, I don't know how to say it. But much more lovable, every Nintendo game, good or bad, has some quality to it that other consoles render out.

 

[Biske]

Actually Bam, the Supreme Court had ruled 10 years ago that companies had until 2006 to go all digital. But since that fell flat on their asses, it's up in the air. Yeah, HD isn't all it's cracked up to be, and it is expensive still. Nintendo will still be pretty, and cheap to boot.

EDIT: Oops, read it a second time, you already talked about that - my bad.

 

[Revelade]

I'd like these "sources".

 

[bamthedoc]

Heh. My only source for official Nintendo information is the company itself

 

[Biske]

Well there's the problem. Nintendo has been tighter then a virgin cherry pie as goes information. All that has been released officially was at E3. Everything else comes from interviews of off-shore magazines in other countries.