http://www.nintendo.com/newsarticle?...139&page=other
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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.
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Revolutionary!! Just like the PS2 and now the XBOX!
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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.
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Again, nothing revolutionary here...
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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
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A great system? First off, does anyone really care about console size? Obviously, if it was too big to carry to a friends house, that wouldn't be okay... but c'mon anything around the size of a toaster is good enough for me. Internet connectivity should be assumed to be in any console these days, if it's not there, you've missed the boat entirely. Wireless is a nice touch, but even that is becoming fairly standard. Backward compatibility has always been one of Nintendo's strategies, I wouldn't expect anything else. Low-power operation? WTF? Does anyone really care about this? Maybe if electricity was as expensive as gasoline I would care, but it's not, so why market it as a selling point?
Perhaps "start of any typical next generation console", sure.... but of a "great system"? That has yet to be proven.
By the way, that video was fake as shit. From the looks of it, Revolution is going to be about as revolutionary as the Gamecube.