The official website has stepped to the rescue of confused gamers and journalists, clarifying a number of rumours about the new Nintendo console expected to be further revealed at the LA E3 expo this week. Confirming Perrin Kaplan's chatter in a New York Times piece last week, the site confirms that the Revolution console will be only slightly bigger than three DVD boxes, be backwards compatible, contain wireless connectivity "out-of-the-box" and that it is out in 2006. Phew. Well, aren't we going all 'next-gen' lately..?

Here's the full release:

"In its final form, Revolution will be about the thickness of three standard DVD cases and only slightly longer. The versatile Revolution will play either horizontally or vertically, allowing the user total flexibility in setting up a gaming session wherever they have a television," confirmed the website.

"Thanks to Nintendo's partners IBM and ATI, the small system will be packed with power that will enable it to wow players with its graphics. Nintendo's legions of loyal fans will be happy to learn that Revolution will be backward compatible, playing both Nintendo GameCube 8cm disks along with its own 12cm optical disks in the same self-loading media drive.

"In the next generation, the addition of the Internet will be important to all consoles and particularly important to Nintendo. Revolution will be wireless Internet ready out of the box.

"There's much more to Revolution that will be revealed over the coming months, but the combination of its compact size, wireless Internet, backward compatibility, quick start-up time and quiet, low-power operation add up to the start of a great game system. Get ready for the Nintendo Revolution in 2006!"

It certainly sounds an intriguing prospect, though we'd love to learn more about the 'innovative' control methods heavily rumoured for so long. More on this later today, after a Nintendo press conference in which the Revolution may be detailed further.

By Luke Guttridge

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  1. truthteller Unregistered 4 years ago

    im sure nintendo are just protecting there secrets and the whole point of avouding specs is to show the revolution as a great games machine not a bunch of numbers im sure ill be blown away by the controller specs and fast loadtimes of revolution along with all its cool online ideas graphics wise all 3 will be closer than ever its revolution that offers more than just better lookers the 360 and ps3 controllers stank

  2. Revolutionman Unregistered 4 years ago

    The revolution sounds cool,but the thing I really want to know about is it,s controller if anyone has any pictures of it please post them.