Nintendo Revolution’s global launch plans clarified
Jim Merrick, Nintendo of Europe’s senior director of marketing, has provided further details on Nintendo’s plans for a simultaneous global launch of its Revolution console.
Jim Merrick
Speaking to Spanish gaming website MeriStation, Merrick revealed that Nintendo has no plans to pull off a three-week worldwide launch à la Microsoft. Instead, the Revolution will be rolled out to all key territories within a launch window of 14 weeks.
Merrick also defended the Revolution’s graphical abilities, saying that a “difference will not exist” between the Revolution’s graphics and those produced by rival next-gen consoles Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.
Disappointingly, Nintendo will not be demonstrating or displaying any upcoming Revolution titles before 2006. Evidently, Nintendo wants to wait until games are in their near-final forms before showing them off to the public.
“We want to wait until everything is ready, and when we show the Revolution’s titles for the first time, they will be playable with the final system. [Shigeru] Miyamoto doesn’t like to show incomplete games,”
said Merrick.
Good news for fans of retro Nintendo games, however: old titles will be available over Nintendo’s download service, and gamers from different regions will all be able to download and play these titles without needing to worry about region incompatibilities.
Merrick also revealed that Nintendo 64 games played on the Revolution console will have an improved framerate.
Source: Meristation
November 1, 2005 @ 11:26 am
Ninty Kid Said,
I never thought the Nintendo Revolution would have graphics like the Xbox 360’s and PS3’s. I heard that the graphics wouldn’t be as good, but luckly N […] more
November 1, 2005 @ 1:38 pm
Brent Said,
The Playstation 3 is way better than any of the other new systems. It has a 20 gig hard drive and is faster then any computer out today. It will als […] more
November 2, 2005 @ 8:14 pm
jordankearley Said,
hi i am a nintendo fan, ever since i heard that nintendo was coming out with a new system i just had to know when is the system going to come out. i w […] more
December 14, 2005 @ 8:26 pm
matt Said,
simplely the best. the graphics are way better then the xbox 360&the PS3. the controler look’s so much better than the others.
December 31, 2005 @ 7:31 pm
nintendo revo kicks ass Said,
the controller of the ps3 is a f**king boomerang u duma$$ the xbox 360 controller is a slimmer piece of shit than the xbox controller and i think nint […] more
December 31, 2005 @ 11:10 pm
joshua Said,
i think that the nitendo revolution is going to be a great system from what i have seen and read on this website it sounds really cool and what i real […] more
May 1, 2006 @ 9:05 pm
luis vital Said,
I would like to know when the Nitendo Revolution will be launched. My two daughters keep asking me for it. Thanks, Luis.
November 23, 2006 @ 10:11 pm
Jonah Chung Said,
nah ps3 is pretty much the same to me. i dont care its had upgrade and besides 600 dollar! wii is only 250 plus its the new evolution of gaming.