Topic: Revolution Web browsing confirmed

[Ian Sane]

This is cool.  I like it when a console maker provides extra functionality.  And best of all you can choose to buy it or not.  You don't have to pay extra for the whole console because of a feature you don't want.  I'm actually pretty surprised by this.  Nintendo traditionaly doesn't do stuff they themselves aren't interested in.  Functions completely unrelated to gaming falls into this.  So this and the DVD player are all very pleasantly surprising.

Though it is kind of silly to be supporting a feature that really needs an HDTV to work well while not supporting HD.  I kind of question who would use this feature because not many would bother to surf the net with their TV unless their TV was better than a monitor and the Rev doesn't allow those improvements to be used.

I also find it funny that someone could potentially use the Rev to play online Flash games, thus allowing a non-gamer to get their fix on the Rev without buying any Rev games.

[UncleBob]

Question: Why does one "need" an HDTV?  Didn't Microsoft have a WebTV thing that worked somewhat well at one time?

[Ian Sane]

"Question: Why does one 'need' an HDTV?"

Computer monitors opperate at a much higher resolution than standard TV sets.  I'm able to connect my videocard to my TV so I tried it when I first got my computer and it looked like crap.  Everything was blurry and it was damn near impossible to read any text.  To have that same clarity on a TV you either need an HDTV or you need to use a lower resolution which will make everything big and will probably break the H-scroll on virtually every web page in existence.

[ShyGuy]

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This is cool.  I like it when a console maker provides extra functionality.  And best of all you can choose to buy it or not.  

This is awful, this is a non-game. It alienates hardcore gamers. Nintendo is wasting its resources on this when it could be making traditional games.

[Nosferat2]

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Cuz unless your TV is HDTV, the text will be all blurry and crappy.

Fair enough. But why limit those who do have an HDTV? Its kinda the same faggotass excuse/rationale Nintendo gave for not including HDTV output on the REV. Nintendo should include as many features to make the Rev as marketable as it can be. The cost would essentially minimal.  

[Ian Sane]

"Fair enough. But why limit those who do have an HDTV? Its kinda the same faggotass excuse/rationale Nintendo gave for not including HDTV output on the REV. Nintendo should include as many features to make the Rev as marketable as it can be. The cost would essentially minimal."

I assume you mean those who do NOT have an HDTV, correct?  No problem.  I think it's great to have the option.  But without HD support I can't imagine many people using this.  The target market for it would be people who don't have HDTVs who want to surf the net on their TV and don't mind that it looks like crap.  That's a pretty limited target market.  The feature itself just plain isn't going to be done that well because of the lack of HD support.

I say overall it's good Nintendo is including this.