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The Revolution will feature a Wi-Fi card to hook up to the Internet in a feature akin to today’s Xbox Live.  Once connected, gamers will be have access to a free online game-matching service; a launch title in the Super Smash Brothers series has already been revealed to have this capability.  Also available over this Wi-Fi connection will be popular games from all systems past, according to Nintendo.  Specific examples cited were Super Mario Sunshine and Donkey Kong, although it’s highly probable that many other fan favorites as well as new games will be downloadable.
The Revolution will feature a Wi-Fi card to hook up to the Internet in a feature akin to today’s Xbox Live.  Once connected, gamers will be have access to a free online game-matching service; a launch title in the Super Smash Brothers series has already been revealed to have this capability.  Also available over this Wi-Fi connection will be popular games from all systems past, according to Nintendo.  Specific examples cited were Super Mario Sunshine and Donkey Kong, although it’s highly probable that many other fan favorites as well as new games will be downloadable.


Increasing the speculation regarding the controller, [http://cube.ign.com/articles/617/617195p1.html IGN recently revealed] that the Revolution sported 4 Gamecube controller ports, along with 2 Gamecube memory card ports, with these apparently being required for the backwards compatibility functionality Nintendo has touted since the beginning of the E3 expo. 


== External Links ==
== External Links ==
[http://media.cube.ign.com/articles/615/615030/imgs_1.html Further images on IGN]
[http://media.cube.ign.com/articles/615/615030/imgs_1.html Further images on IGN]