Topic: Revolution booklet tidbits

[ThePerm]

their shirts are just placeholder pictures

[thejeek]

My brain hurts now - I thought it was just a pretty picture :-)

[couchmonkey]

This thread made my day yesterday.  I couldn't think of anything worthwhile to post at the time, but it those pictures are so cool.  The Mario lineup and those beautiful red and green Revs are the best things I've seen in a long time.

[JonLeung]

Any chance that these books will ever be made available to the public?  eBay maybe?

Nintendo should put out a book for public consumption, of official artwork and designs, which could be very similar to this one.  Nintendo fans would totally buy that.  I bought Street Fighter: Eternal Challenge for my brother last Christmas.  It's an artbook of all things Street Fighter.  A Nintendo one would be so awesome.

[ruby_onix]

Nintendo puts out catalogs like these all the time. In English even. There's like four different ones every year (one for each season). They talk about all the latest games and products that Nintendo wants to push and have screenshots and release dates. They're pretty awesome, and back in the pre-internet days of Nintendo Power and GamePro, they'd have been considered to be 100% pure liquid megaton.

They're free, and available to the public. If you can find them. Usually around larger events. Like most promo material, it's collectable in certain circles, so it probably gets on eBay every now and then, but they tend to evaporate quickly, and anything more than a month or two old is half-impossible to find.

[IceCold]

I don't know if this is the same thing that you're talking about, but I found a Nintendo booklet that did have everything you're talking about. It was quite long too; could have been 100 pages. All I know is that it was awesome - I spent so long just looking at it and reading all it had to say. I haven't seen another one like it lately, but the one I have was brilliant.

[Ceric]

I like to point out that the sound is rumored to be wireless as well as the standard video.  So it would make sense for it to only have the digital cord's port.

[Pale]

Wireless sound and video?  Huh? >.>

[BranDonk Kong]

It's possible. It would require batteries or AC adapters for the wireless components though...probably isn't gonna happen. I would kill for wireless HD quality signals for all the components in my living room, behind my TV and audio/video towers is the biggest mess of cables you can imagine. BTW these books you speak of are usually available at EB games, even though they hate Nintendo.

[Pale]

Man, wireless bandwidth is not there yet...  Of course its possible in theory, but you'd have to have expensive receiving units with cluttered wires anyway. It's a silly idea and a waste of money.

[Caliban]

Pale, I can't seem to remember where I read (The Toronto Star) or watched (CNBC) info about some company that found a cheap way to have at home a wireless HD signal, from what I also remember is that the signals could not pass through walls so I'm guessing there would be no interference from outside or towards outside the room, also I think they mentioned it using a 9 GHz signal. I haven't found anything on google but I haven't given much time to research it 'cause it was only today that I fixed some problem with my computer.  

[BigJim]

I know not of its legitimacy, but I thought it was interesting anyway:

Revolution Drawings

[Ceric]

You know, if those drawings are real, it looks to have an optical jack in the back.  That would be an interesting revelation considering Nintendo's always just used Prologic to do that sort of thing.

[BigJim]

Yeah, that's a pretty curious jack on the back. At first I thought it was firewire, but it's not quite the exact shape.