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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Nintendo Revolution Technical Specs

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Revolution Technical Specs
"The ins and outs of Nintendo's next-generation hardware.

Nintendo's next-generation console, codenamed Revolution, is still more than a year off from its mid-2006 release date in North America and in traditional form, the Big N is keeping largely quiet about what the machine can and can't do. Still, based on official announcements from the company, we've been able to piece together a preliminary list of Revolution technical specs. Here's everything we know at a glance:

Revolution Technical Specs

Stylized shell about the thickness of three DVD cases stacked flatly on top of each other
May come in five different colors including a sleek, glossy black and an Apple-esque white
Backward compatible. Plays both GameCube optical discs and proprietary 12cm discs, the latter of which may be dual-layered for upward of 8GBs storage capacity
Slot-loading drive with stylized blue light
One proprietary component/digital out located on the rear of the system
Two USB 2.0 ports located on the rear of the system
No Ethernet jack; Revolution connects to the Internet using 802.11b and 802.11g Wi-Fi wireless
GameCube docking station features inputs for four GCN controllers and two Memory Paks
Two front slots for 512MB flash memory, likely SD Card compatible
Utilizes wireless controllers
Custom-built IBM CPU, codenamed Broadway; speed and architecture undetermined at this time
Custom-built ATI-GPU, codenamed Hollywood; speed and architecture undetermined at this time
MoSys-developed 1T-SRAM solution; unknown amount of memory at this time
Nintendo download service: connect online and download classic NES, S-NES and N64 games"

Links:
IGN Nintendo Revolution FAQ.

¶ D.Vader // 5/26/2005 08:41:00 PM // PermaLink