In current news, Nintendo has announced that they are planning on releasing their next console (the Nintendo Revolution) in January 2005! Nintendo has been secretly meeting with third-party companies and has about 50 games in development for the system.
Contrary to popular belief, the Nintendo Revolution WILL have online games. According to Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's president, "the Nintendo Revolution will have about 20 online games shortly after it's release in January 2005. We now know the potential for online games, which is why we also included this feature in the Nintendo DS."
Shigeru Miyamoto, the "genius" game developer, stated that the Nintendo Revolution will have the same controller as the Nintendo GameCube, and it will be able to play classic GameCube games.
"Backwards compatability is nothing new to us, we had it on the older Game Boy systems, and now we are putting that feature on the Nintendo Revolution. Gamers all over the world have been begging us to make a game console that is backwards compatabile with our older consoles, and now we are answering their requests."
The Nintendo Revolution will launch in January 2005 with 20 titles, 5 made by Nintendo, and the rest made by various third-party companies.
The games announced so far are:
Nintendo games:
Super Mario 64 2: The True Sequel
The Legend of Zelda 2: The Cloak of Mystery
Metroid Prime 3: The Final Hour
Mario Kart: Triple Threat!!
Third party games:
Prince of Persia 3
Mortal Kombat: Destruction
EA Sports Collection
Sega Smash Pack: Version 2
Sonic Heroes 2 (only for Revolution)
Phantasy Star Online: Episode 3
The Simpsons Party Extreme