Firstly, the hard drive in the revolution is an excellent idea. Disks are read-only media, therefore you need a write-able media to save game data. (Which is why we have memory cards) but think, instead of buying a dozen memory cards for basic saving through-out your game system’s life, why not include a hard drive that has virtually infinite saves on it? 1 grey memory card is 2 megabits of data. The hard drive they are planning will be 15 gigabytes, meaning it’s 120 gigabits, or 120,000 megabits. You will be able to keep every single game save you put on it, and never lose your memory card, or have to delete files to make space, or corrupt your data, since hard drives are so robust.

Secondly, a hard drive can be used for virtual ram. Virtual ram is very, very useful for graphic-heavy games (like Metroid Prime). It simply loads the whole game to the hard drive, so you never have loading times mid-game (this technology was used on the gamecube, only it loaded the whole game to memory, not to a hard drive, and it only did it on select games which were usually n64 ports like animal crossing or Ocarina of Time. In fact, once the game loads up, you can even take the disk out on either of these games, and it will still run fine.)

Anyway, as for the gameboy, those rumors are fake. Nintendo is sharply against the use of disks, especially for handhelds, and since they came up with this awesome new semiconductor memory for the DS, (which holds 1 gigabit, and will only develop more by the time the next GB comes out) there is no way they would switch to disks. (Disks are actually horrible technology, the only reason Sony uses them is because they are a very cheap medium, and Sony only cares about money in their pockets, not how long something will last, or how well it will work.)

Anyway, to finish up. I am looking forward to a new gameboy, but not for a good 2-3 years.

And Nintendo understands that, just see Wind Waker if you know what I mean. Not realistic, but oh-so good when you play it.

I do not think Sony and/or Nintendo will announce PS3 and/or GC Next. Maybe later this year (TGS/Spaceworld anyone??). First of all I expect a handheld show and nothing is more impressing than 128-bitlike graphics on handhelds. I think the companies will focus on handhelds. Next to that, wouldn’t be a system with the specs mentioned above be to expensive? Next to that do we need a new gamesystem already?? (Due there’s pretty much only photorealism left like Siren and Shenmue try…)

Game Boy Evolution sounds pretty much the same. And this GCNext also sounds like a speculative guess.

If you ask me this is sounding pretty fake …