Nintendo officially unveiled its Revolution console for the first time to the Japanese press yesterday. Despite the move though, not a lot came out that was not already known. Still no release date, no price on the console or games. They did reiterate however that the downloading of classic Nintendo titles will not be free, as was previously rumoured.Iwata did confirm what was already expected, that all GameCube peripherals will be compatible with the Revolution. A little disappointing not to hear more but Nintendo say they will be bringing the curtains down before the year's end, so watch this space.
According to Cube IGN, the Revolution will sport about 512MB of free internal flash memory that gamers can use to store data like game saves, console firmware, and downloadable games and demos (those sound like some small demos). Should the 512MB prove insufficient, additional storage is made possible thanks to Secure Digital memory card media support. Data stored on the removable SD cards can also be transferred onto your computer for... something useful, we assume. Perhaps the converse functionality is true as well. Anti-piracy measures will be put into effect to prevent unauthorized distribution of Revolution files through the PC and internet, but no concrete details were released regarding this.
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