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Great Revolution and Wi-Fi News - DS, Wii

An online magazine - Meristation.com - recently conducted an interview with Jim Merrick, from Nintendo-Europe. He suggests that there may be a chat feature included in the game, though we should take it all with a grain of salt (this was translated from Spanish).

"If you don't know the people you are playing with, you won't be able to chat with them, to protect the privacy of the young users. On the other hand, if you play against a friend you'll be able to chat. Every DS has a MAC code, and you'll have to give this code to your friends to be able to play and chat with them."

Other information "revealed" (like we said...could be a dodgy translation):


- Nintendo of Europe will set up over 25,000 hotspots across Europe (with 7500 announced in the UK we could be on the right track).

- The USB Wi-fi adapter will available on Nov 25th at €39.95. The adapter will also be compatible with Revolution. (Revealed as cheaper, actually)

- Revolution will launch worldwide within 14 weeks maximum.

- Multiplayer mode in Revolution will have multiple players with only one copy of the game, similar to the Nintendo DS Download play.

- You'll be able to download retro games from different regions (for instance, an European user could download Super Mario RPG for the SNES from the US server).

- When played on Revolution, N64 games will have better frame rate but there won't be significant graphical improvements (such as textures etc).

- No Revolution games will be shown in 2005.

- The Revolution will be graphically on par with the Xbox 360 and PS3


Some of that is confirmed as true, which makes the other stuff sound more plausible, doesn't it?

SOURCES: Meristation, GAF Member Gessle (both in Spanish), Vooks.

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