Nintendo Revolution Gossip Round-up Rationalised

This could genuinely revolutionise the gamepad. The movements made by the user could be vastly more subtle and intuitive than with the analogue stick.

But could they manufacture them at a reasonable cost?

I like the idea that the controls will touch you and react to you.

I think that there's a lot Ninty could do, but first they should make sure they sign up at least a couple of developers to make exclusives and multiplatform titles for the console, otherwise it'll flop badly.

That really depends on the sensing mechanism used. In the same way that an analogue stick might only be able to detect, say, 8 distinct levels of movement in a given direction, a gyroscopic sensor with the same level of quantisation would be similarly crap.

As you say, it's a question of cost.

Best bet is to just wait til E3, whatever happens this summer is gonna be one of the best yet for gamers. So much stuff going on, it's all good.

The problem with these rumors is that you need a game to put them into context. If you can use the gyroscopes to say swing Link's sword. That would kick ass. But if you only use them to navigate à la SuperMonkeyBall that would suck. Also why would they use gyroscopes here and not in the DS. Why is the DS not able to communicate with GBA, GC or Revolution. Seems like a waste.

I think backwards compatibility might be hard if there are no AB or D-pad - as rumored.

I'm still hoping for some kick ass 3D/VR technology because as it stands it looks like this system will not be able to hold up with Sony and MS in terms of CPU and GPU, leaving first party and 3rd party exclusives that can't be ported if they have unique gyroscope and feedback.

Yup. This is E3 should be very interesting indeed. Will all three next gen machines make an appearance?

For what it's worth, my predictions:

M$ are making the most noise, and we should get a first look at the final hardware, as well as some tech demo's of release games.

Hardware demo's from Sony and Ninty would be surprising, maybe some PC/Mac prototype running some pretty replays/intros, and announcements of 3rd-party support and 1st-party teasers.

Of course, I have no insider info whatsoever. But, by God, I like to speculate!

Well that wouldn't be a big revolution. Actualy it wouldn't be a revolution at all. Never heard of a Microsoft joypad (for PC) with the same feature? I bought it loooong time ago and it sure was lame. It came bundled with Motocross madness and was one of my worst buy ever!

The idea could be cool but reality... well it sucked. Hope Ninty can do something better...

Hope Ninty can do something better thasn Micro$oft. That's a fairly safe bet.

Here's how the decision making process works.

Nintendo
Is this as good as we can possibly make it? No, then refine and improve it some more before putting it out to the market and hoping people will buy it.

Microsoft
Is this any good at all? No, then reduce the production costs, and market it so hard that people buy it just to make us shut up. If they still don't buy it build it into Windows and take people to court for not wanting it.

I like the idea, i think the gossip has a lack of the most important fact, the main caracteristic isnt discovered yet.
At least Nintendo has difernt and good things instead the other consoles, which only look for better graphics.