Live Revolution sighting!

by Blake Snow { Feb 20th 2006 at 8:00AM }

Yet another (cough, cough) live Revolution pic with interface screen has surfaced deep from the bowels of the Information Super Highway. This time, the individual actually set up a decent shot, err, I mean "Photoshop."

[Thanks, Kenneth]

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

gizmondo_hater @ Feb 20th 2006 8:05AM

damn, i thought that was real for a sec...

Michael @ Feb 20th 2006 8:10AM

Lol i got a pic of the rev standing like that as my desktop... i'm sure its just nothing tho..

Ron Gregg @ Feb 20th 2006 8:13AM

Its really hard to play without the "wand" pickups on the sides of the TV...

RS @ Feb 20th 2006 8:13AM

THIS CANT BE REAL, WHERE ARE THE SENSORS ON THE TV ?!!!11??

Nuno Sousa @ Feb 20th 2006 8:14AM

That revolution is SOOO a cardboard cut-out. Just follow one of the sides... they are not even.

Scott @ Feb 20th 2006 8:14AM

Are we sure this is a Photoshop. Everything from the reflections of the revo on the table and the shadows from the controller looks legit to me. He even has it plugged into the TV. Someone is either a legend with photoshop, or finally someone chucked out a decent pic for real. It wouldn't surprise me if it was real, since the revo went gold in december and there is official announcements being made on the 9th of March, there must be live working units out there somewhere.

Richard @ Feb 20th 2006 8:32AM

Obviously a cardboard cutout, and that has to be the most hideous TV I have ever seen.

Sense @ Feb 20th 2006 9:00AM

Nope. Not real. There is no way the Revo start-up screen is that lame. It completely eschews Nintendo's current affinity for simplicity and black on white. It has no continuity with the DS or Gameboy Micro.

And using a CD for the "O"? What is this, 1994?

MaHe @ Feb 20th 2006 9:01AM

An obvious fake. Revolution is supposed to be WAY smaller.

Captain Obvious @ Feb 20th 2006 9:16AM

The stand is all wrong. Fake.

Anticrawl @ Feb 20th 2006 9:20AM

Haha you people, always so quick to call everything photoshopped. Sure it's not the real deal, but my reasons aren't because I think it's photoshopped. Isn't the revo suppost to have a corner cut right under the self loading drive, not just 4 corners, but with the extra small side it'd be five. Anyway if it was photoshopped I commend his/her attention to detail, right down to the reflection on the table and the ceiling fan lights on the tv screen. But it's most likely handmade model considering the stand is a part of the console in that picture and not just a resting place for it. There are no seems on the fron of it and the sides look just as if a line was drawn on it or an extra strip of card stock layed over. Plus you'd imagine the stand would be a noticeably different color and texture than the console it's self. Also don't forget Nintendo did give away an actual Rev controller, minus the rev functionality.

Nice effort,
Anticrawl

Artimus @ Feb 20th 2006 9:29AM

It's clearly fake, but I'll just point out, #8, that that is the real logo used at last year's press conference. In no way would it ever be the real logo used when the system comes out, but it isn't fake.

Ian Gibson @ Feb 20th 2006 9:49AM

FAKE - the analog portion of the nunchuck is laying completely flat, but it should be curved to better fit the hand as seen in numerous pics. Nice try tho....

Morder @ Feb 20th 2006 9:50AM

If anything it's a fake because the blue light from the drive isn't reflecting from the table like the rest of the console. Although there is a slight black line where it should be, it should be much brighter if it's reflecting light.

someone @ Feb 20th 2006 9:51AM

I think #6 has a point, it is very well done and does have a sense of realism to it, however, the rev is at the exact same angle as in the teaser vid (watch at the end when it zooms in on the rev and they are both on a white table and are both refelected) Infact, you could just take a screenshot at the right place in the vid (found here: http://media.revolution.ign.com/articles/670/670515/vids_1.html
recolor it,resize it, change contrast, and you would produce the exact same photo.

Also, the controller is viewed more head on and is not ripped from the vid, however, look at the attachment
http://media.revolution.ign.com/articles/670/670520/img_3233287.html
isn't it supposed to be curved? Isn't it supposed to have more depth?

Then again, if the controller was leaked before TGS (and it actually was, I just can't find the place) none of us would have believed it.

JusJus @ Feb 20th 2006 9:51AM

This is probably old news by now,,, but does anyone know if the Rev controller will work with LCD televisions?? muchas gracias amigos

Ryan Williams @ Feb 20th 2006 10:02AM

It's pretty well done but you only have to look at the top of the Revolution itself to see that it's fake - the perspective is completely inconsistent with what is presumably real in the photograph.

For example, look at the cabinet thingy that the TV is on. You can see the top of it slightly, indicating that the camera is in fact on a higher level than the cabinet. As such, anything below that point on the photograph should also have its top exposed, to a more extreme level as you go further down.

Instead, the top of the Revolution goes downwards as if the camera were situated beneath it. Unless the Revolution does in fact get smaller to its back end, that is downright impossible.

Nice try, but a surprisingly amateur mistake throws the whole thing off.

someone @ Feb 20th 2006 10:06AM

OK, I found where the controller was leaked before TGS
http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/board/message?board.id=revolution&message.id=426259#M426259
As you can clearly see, nobody believed it.

dsub @ Feb 20th 2006 10:27AM

is it just me or does the revolution in this picture look like a card board box with paint/lines drawn on it? The lighted disc drive looks like a total photoshop job. Most likely copied/pasted the blue light strip from the front of the TV to the front of that cardboard box or...i mean "revolution". The remote would be easy, just take an old remote, paint it white, and the cord could be from anything...maybe the conroller to a back massager or something. From this angle/quality of image it makes it look near-realistic.

Why is the table pushed all the way up to the front of that cabinet? There is totally a PC or something hiding under there. Look at the cable, it just happens to "drape" off the end of the table, and then re-appear coming back up to the TV. It's totally coming from another source of somekind...either a PC or a DVD player to play the content displayed on the TV.

Sockatume @ Feb 20th 2006 10:37AM

16: That image was clearly changed after the Revolution was unveiled. Google for its URL, and you'll find people describing it as:

"That looks like an edited Wavebird. I wouldn't doubt it if it is."

and

"Not real. The Rev has sockets already built in for GC controllers so why design a GC look alike when the GC controllers would do the same job?

This one is insulting to me because they didn't even try to do something unique with it.

Besides, Nintendo reported that after showing many devs the contoller, they were completely excited by its design. Had it simply been a remake of the GC controller, I doubt excitement would have been their reaction."

"Another fake. Nothing innovative about it, but I could see a controller like this handling the classic games well.

The d-pad returns to it's original top-left position (where it was on NES/SNES/N64 controllers).

The four action buttons return to a SNES style diamond shape configuration, and all are of equal size.

The sticks have shifted to a PS Dual Shock positon, and an extra set of triggers have been added for some reason."

etc.

Nintendo Revolution @ Feb 20th 2006 11:25AM

nice find 18.

Didn't even think about looking up the URl

mike @ Feb 20th 2006 11:48AM

#6 you don't really have to be that great at photoshop to make this pic. It is an obvious fake just because some of the proportions are a little off. But kudos for the detail of the reflection.

duerra @ Feb 20th 2006 12:07PM

Well, at first glance without looking, I can count 6 things that prove to me that this image is a fake.

1. Simply, the perspective of the console. It just doesn't fit with the rest of the image. Look how it appears to "fade" into the horizon so much quicker than the rest of the image.

2. The shadow of the console doesn't match the angle of the shadow of the controller.

3. There is a shadow just below where the power cord plugs into the revolution that doesn't appear to be coming from anything (unless it is the cord, in which case that would be out of line with the rest of the image as well).

4. The cord doesn't appear as "crisp" as the rest of the image. Look at the fuzziness near where it connects to the console.

5. Look at where the cords "connect" to the TV. 'Nuff said.

6. There is no power cord to the console... yet the console is mysteriously still displaying input to the TV.

There's a whole bunch more, I'm sure, including what "someone" pointed out.

Very clearly a fake.

Sense @ Feb 20th 2006 1:23PM

Artimus,

Wow. That was the real logo that Nintendo used to unveil the Revolution? Unbelievable. It looks like something from the Sega CD/Jaguar days when CDs were just being used for games. I guess discs are pretty new to Nintendo, what with their insistence on staying with cartridges for so long. So shiny and round.

Sean DL @ Feb 20th 2006 2:26PM

The CDs were to nail the point in that it played both Regular DVDs and Gamecube cds...That's why one is smaller then the other.

metaly @ Feb 20th 2006 8:56PM

I think of a combination of playing this game a lot lately and some of the earlier comments led me to come up with this: http://tinyurl.com/lsl3n

Maybe someone can make a career being a professional leaked photo debunker?

Greg2k @ Feb 21st 2006 5:56AM

Am I the only one here to notice the perspective is spot-on on the console? The Revo never stands vertically; it's always at an angle, thanks to the dock being angled on the inside. There are tons of pictures of the Revolution out there. Never have we seen a completely vertical standing picture of the Revolution. That's why it appears to "fade" into the horizon quicker, because it's at an angle.

Here's a graphical explanation:

http://trash.greg2k.com/revoangle.jpg