Nintendo Revolution

[Lee-yoshi]

Rumours have been going up on websites all over the net today, from the person who aparently also had the inside scoop on a dual screen handheld console. Seemed ridiculous at the time, but now who's having the last laugh!

From Nintendo Magazine.co.uk
According to hazy and totally unofficial reports, Nintendo's next-gen console will come broadband-enabled with an online service in the works, feature a hard drive, use controllers fitted with tilt-sensing gyroscopes, allow connectivity with the next-gen GameBoy, and play host to new Mario, Zelda and Super Smash Bros. games. The 'revolutionary' aspect of Revolution is also hinted at - "if you think too hard you'll never guess what it is."

The sketchy information - which we were sent direct last week and have been investigating - originally surfaced on a gaming forum, with the poster quoting an inside source. To be fair to the bloke who broke these rumours, he did preface his speculation with the assertion that his source had been wrong as well as correct in the past, and estimated there was a "65% chance" of the accuracy of these claims.

Here's the rundown of the alleged Revolution information:

• Motion and tilt-sensing gyroscopes will be used in the controllers. They will not come wireless as standard but the Revolution will have four pad ports like GameCube.
  
  
• The console will be powered by twin processors and will feature an internal hard drive. Games will come on HD-DVD format discs rather than Sony's Blu-Ray format.
  
  
• Broadband online gaming will be available out of the box via Nintendo's own service, which is currently "in development" and will be rolled out first on DS.
  
  
• The Revolution will not feature connectivity with the DS but will link up to Nintendo's next-gen GameBoy.
  
  
• Work has already begun on new Mario, Zelda and Super Smash Bros. titles, all of which are to be available at launch.

And what's revolutionary about Revolution? The inside source claims that talking about that "would get him into too much trouble" (whereas the rest of this stuff will presumably get him a pat on the back). He is quoted as saying: "if you think too hard you'll never guess what it is. It's nothing 'new', technically speaking. It's just something that hasn't really been applied to videogames yet."

He then signed off in deliciously enigmatic fashion with, "Touching is good but feeling is better."

Amazing if true! Nintendo have already said that they're moving into the Online biz, but a console featuring a Hard Disk, Gamecube game compatability, Broadband Modem, and controllers with gyroscopes (?!), alongside a new Mario, Zelda, and Super Smash Brothers game already in development... i cant help but feel this is a rumour, a bit far stretched!

I was wondering what you think of all this rumour/news?