Quarter 3 or 4 in 2006

The Nintendo Power line, an automatied information phone service only available in America, has the following information regarding the Revolutiojn's release date:

"As the company with the strongest heritage of innovation, Nintendo moves the bar for all next gen systems by employing a wide-ranging strategy that will attract more kinds of gamers to more kinds of games. When Nintendo's new console, codenamed Revolution, arrives in the latter half of 2006, everyone will discover the meaning of all-access gaming."

If this statement is correct, the Nintendo next gen console may very well be the last to hit the home gaming market, again. Hopefully, the 2nd half of 2006 release date is aimed at the U.S, and Japanese gamers are able to get their hands on a Revolution before then. Or, could it possibly be for the world release?

Either way, Australia is always one of the last countries to receive their consoles, and nothing seems to have change. As long as I can play a Revolution console before the end of 2006 I am satisfied :P. But this time of release puts Nintendo's launch date dangerously close to the PS3's, even though PS3's hasn't been announced either, we can conclude it will be around that time period. I sure hope Nintendo know what they are doing.

One more thing, remember that this is NOT confirmation of a release date, it could still be changed. Nintendo have done it before, when they first discussed a release date it was "before compeition, not after", and now "2006".