No High Definition On Revolution!

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:21 pm

Nintendo says its next-generation home console won’t support high-definition games.

Today, IGN.com published a story on high-definition and how it will affect the future of videogames, movies and even regular cable or satellite-viewing. In the story, several well-known figures spoke about the subject, including Factor 5’s Julian Eggebrecht and, more significantly for Nintendo fans, Nintendo’s own Perrin Kaplan.

According to Mrs. Kaplan, Nintendo of America’s vice president of corporate affairs, Nintendo Revolution – Nintendo’s next-generation home console – will not support any high-definition formats.

“It is accurate that at this time we will not support high-definition [on Revolution], Kaplan told IGN.com.

Nintendo's Revolution is being built with a variety of gamers' needs in mind, such as quick start-up time, high power, and ease of use for development and play. It’s also compact and sleek, and has beautiful graphics in which to enjoy innovative games, Kaplan says. Nintendo doesn't plan for the system to be HD compatible as with that comes a higher price for both the consumer and also the developer creating the game. Will it make the game better to play? With the technology being built into the Revolution, we believe the games will look brilliant and play brilliantly. This can all be done without HD.

Companies focused on outdoing each other for technology's sake are using the power of public relations to confuse the media into thinking high-definition is a live-or-die part of the games of the future, says Kaplan. It is a technological fact that games will still look incredibly beautiful and play incredibly well without the high cost of making them HD compatible. HD may be one of the technologies of the future. Is it the gaming industry's

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looks like Nintendo is sticking 2 their tried nd true method's, if they don't make any innovations they might go under. Confused

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:36 pm

"at this time" is what I noticed.

I'm hoping Nintendo will include the output and let developers decide whether to support it or not. At least developers like Factor 5 will put pressure on them.

Hopefully they'll allow 3rd parties to support HD.

Nintendo Specialist Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 1889

Having HD support meats that the games will have to be HD disks which also means that nintendo will have to buy a HD dvd drive for the revolution. They want to make the revolution at a competitive price while also trying to sell units. I think that that should use HD but apparently they are relying on the density of their 12 cm disks. The dev kits are so similar to the gamecube it will be easy to make games for rev. For instance they could make a game as long as the longest gamecube game and make awsome graphics or make a really long game with decent graphics. I still think they should go with HD.

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 7:23 pm

Lowbrassman04 @ Sun Jun 12, 2005 5:47 pm wrote:

Having HD support meats that the games will have to be HD disks which also means that nintendo will have to buy a HD dvd drive for the revolution. They want to make the revolution at a competitive price while also trying to sell units. I think that that should use HD but apparently they are relying on the density of their 12 cm disks. The dev kits are so similar to the gamecube it will be easy to make games for rev. For instance they could make a game as long as the longest gamecube game and make awsome graphics or make a really long game with decent graphics. I still think they should go with HD.

No, it doesn't. XBox 360 is using standard DVD disks, and many PC games support high definition.

HD-DVD and Blu-ray are just disks that fit a lot more data, enough to fit high definition movies, that's all.

HD disks are useful even if you don't have HD output as you can fit much more detailed models and much more data on the disks.

If you do have HD output you probably want HD disks just because you'll want more detail on textures and stuff.

Kai Regular Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 94 Location: Sweden

Praxis @ Sat Jun 11, 2005 23:36 wrote:

"at this time" is what I noticed.

I'm hoping Nintendo will include the output and let developers decide whether to support it or not. At least developers like Factor 5 will put pressure on them.

Hopefully they'll allow 3rd parties to support HD.

Actually, didn't Julian @ Factor 5 defend the no HD on Revolution, saying that it will let them do 60fps no framedrop and using more effects and polygons then it whould be possible to do in HD resolutions?

Edit
Actually, he bent both ways: HD is exciting, "but"......