According to Famitsu's website, Nintendo Co. Ltd. President Satoru Iwata will be giving a nearly one hour address to the Tokyo Game Show on September 17 at 11:00 AM. Iwata may be using this high-profile event to announce more details on the Revolution system, even though Nintendo is not exhibiting at TGS this year (as usual). Incidentally, Microsoft exec Robbie Bach is speaking just one hour earlier than Iwata.
Iwata last spoke at TGS in 2003; his new keynote will address the current state of the industry and the future of gaming, twenty years after the Famicom. He is expected to discuss the perils of modern game complexity and Nintendo's strategy to save the Japanese game industry. The Tokyo Game Show is held September 16-18 at the Makuhari Messe convention center, near Tokyo. The second and third days are open to the public.
QuoteIt depends on how much has been finalized. Since I don't know, I can't give an exact date. However, I'll speculate if it makes you happy.
When do you guys think Nintendo should reveal the Rev? Do you honestly think they can delay it for much longer?
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He sees the rumors of technical inadequacy, a complete absense of specs, and not a single announced third party game.
QuoteThey've already listed pretty much all the first party games. And would it really be a good idea to list the third party ones? If you tell your competition exactly what games third parties are making for your system, all it does it give them a chance to go over to said third party and throw around a bunch of money hats to get the game on their system too.
With that in mind, they really should show pretty much everything else (except price and such) and a list of games at least is sorely lacking.
QuoteI agree that they need to discuss third party games, but there's not much point in going into details this early in the game. If it's not going to come out for over a year, talking about it now only gives the competition time to change things. It's better to wait until development is further along, thus making porting a pain in the neck.
That's being pretty paranoid. If Nintendo's going to be THAT scared of having stuff stolen they might as well never release anything. Even if Sony or MS did that I think it would be worth it for Nintendo to establish that the Rev has some decent third party support. That's been Nintendo's big problem for several years. It's worthwhile for them to look like the third party situation is improving and the only way to do that is to reveal third party games.
QuoteI seem to remember them saying new Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong games were in the works.
Plus I doubt they've listed pretty much all the first party games. They've announced SSB and Metroid.