Topic: Revolution Secret 'Leaked' At Brokensaints (SPOILER)

[JonLeung]

Isn't technology cheap enough these days to at least include DVD playback?  Inexpensive enough that Nintendo can afford to throw it on there?  Assuming it'll take full-sized discs, of course.

I won't use any movie-playback function - at least, I don't think I would, but maybe that's 'cause our household already had multiple DVD-playing devices when the current generation was starting.  If the format was similar enough to HD-DVD or Blu-Ray or whatever format they're working on now and it played those types of movies, maybe it would be worth it to include.

Not including it means Nintendo loses the possible purchases of people looking for more than a gaming machine, including it means losing the money in production for a feature some people won't use.  I would say to include it - not for me but for others who would use it...but that's just me wanting Nintendo to have less negative points against it.

Oh, and I recall somewhere about Satoru Iwata saying in the same day about the Broadway/Hollwood thing about making Revolution the central hub of entertainment.  I can't recall whether or not he said "interactive" before the word "entertainment".  But if it were to be a hub of home entertainment, one should think it should be able to play movies.

[BigJim]

Assuming Rev uses a red laser format, yes DVD playback would be negligible. But if they included DVD playback, Sony will still be able to say PS3 plays the new HD format, and they'll still have that advantage.

I think if Nintendo does it, it should be all or nothing. Go for the HD playblack or don't go at all. While there are good anecdotal reasons to do it (as Savior mentions) I still think it's far from a given.


Edit: Heads-up to the technology geeks out there. It looks like it'll be Sony's Blu-ray discs, but Toshiba software and encryption.

[BlackNMild2k1]

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Originally posted by: BigJim

Edit: Heads-up to the technology geeks out there. It looks like it'll be Sony's Blu-ray discs, but Toshiba software and encryption.

Already have a topic about it.

[Savior]

Sly


Well Sly 3 has 3D Glasses.... So either Sony somehow stole the Revolutions idea, or its trully not these 3D glasses junk

[pudu]

Yea it seems a little ironic after all this speculation about how Revolution's unique feature was true 3D that Sony come's out with a 3d Sly game huh?  But looking at those chinsy old-school blue and red glasses that come with the game (I'm assuming) it makes me think if Nintendo is to go this 3D route they will have a far better system then this.  I'm guessing they'd utilize sturdy and durrable shutter glasses that come in different colors or something or maybe something entirely new they've invented...