The dirt on Nintendo's next-gen Revolution console?

By Peter Rojas

There's already been at least one dodgy "leak" before about the
Revolution, but supposedly the same tipster who dished some reliable early dirt on the DS has also given up some details about Nintendo's next-generation game console. Here's what this guy is claiming:

  • That Nintendo is building gyroscopes into the controllers, presumably to add some sort of motion-control aspect
    to games.

  • The console will have dual processors and built-in broadband (we're assuming Ethernet, but maybe also
    WiFi?).

  • There are no plans to connect the DS to the Revolution, but there could be some integration with the
    Game Boy Evolution.

  • The Revolution will have four controller ports, a hard drive, and support for high-resolution displays and Dolby
    Digital 5.1 channel surround sound.

  • The console will be backwards-compatibility with GameCube games, and in what would only be a swipe at Sony, its
    drive will use HD-DVD, rather than
    Blu-ray, discs.

  • The console will launch with a new Mario game (of course), and there is a new Zelda game in the works.

  • There's some teaser stuff at the end about how the truly "revolutionary" part of the new console is going to be
    something that "is nothing new technically speaking. It's just something that hasn't really been applied to video
    games before." The tipster also claims that his source would only tell him that "touching is good but feeling is
    better."

We're not even going to front that this stuff is all for real or not—we simply won't know for sure until Nintendo unveils this thing at E3.

[Thanks, Striegs]

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