It appears that Gamers who happen to also be HDTV enthusiasts will be able to remove the Nintendo Revolution from their Xmas 2006 wish list.
According to an interview in the Japanese press, Nintendo's top dog seems to take a jab at Microsoft and Sony regarding their intentions to take HDTV's to a whole new level.
Here is a small portion of the interview:
Satoru Iwata: It's questionable what the "horsepower" of the two other companies' consoles will be used for, such as fast calculations and high-definition resolution. Creating game software in high definition will require everything from the [graphic's] models to the background to be redone, and it will bloat up development costs. And yet, it has no use for people that aren't playing with a high-definition TV set. Game consoles are not an essential product in life, so we want to make ours as compact, thin, and as inexpensive as we can so that it won't be viewed with hostility by family members.
Of course, this doesn't mean that the Revolution won't support HDTV resolutions, but it does appear that it's definitely not a very high priority for Nintendo.
Now I know that a bunch of people are going to say stuff like....."Who cares about HDTV support anyways, I don't have a HDTV, nor do I know anybody else that does, and I could care less about HDTV resolutions, so I'm actually glad to hear this, and I'm more interested in the Revolution than I was before!!"
Well, all I can say is whatever.
Personally, I want my games to look and sound as good as they possibly can. And that means that I want HDTV resolutions to be a "standard", I want 16:9 widescreen ratio to be a standard, and I would actually like 7.1 sound to be a standard.
Don't get it wrong, I still totally understand that it's all about gameplay and fun, but still, it might as well look and sound as good as it possibly can!!