Nintendo disinterested by Hi-Def

News - ...as rumoured specs tease.

Whilst rivals Sony and Microsoft will enter the world of high-definition with some enthusiasm via their next consoles, the Xbox 360 and the PS3, Nintendo have said their new Revolution console will not support high-definition output after all. Perrin Kaplan of Nintendo America affirmed that "it is accurate that at this time we will not support high-definition," despite previous claims that the Revolution will utilise PC monitors as an option.

"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," the corporate vice-president explained. "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."

All this said, it is believed that the specifications of the Revolution still remain very much up in the air, with Shigeru Miyamoto confirming only the last week that they have still to design the controller. In a further report which seems to fall-flat technically in the wake of this one, blog site Nintendo Centrium are reporting specs of the system allegedly garnered from a DS programmer inside Ninty.

Two 1.8Ghz IBM PowerPC G5 will power the system apparently, alongside a 600mhz graphics card provided by ATI (along with 12mb of video memory), 128mb of high-speed RAM, 256mb of slower RAM, and a propriety 6gb DVD media format designed by Panasonic. However, such a setup seems aimed at Hi-Def output, something Ninty have openly denied. Take all this with a pinch of salt, then. More soon.