Revolution's Release Date

At a recent interview with Nikkei Business, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has hinted a release date for the Nintendo Revolution. Though he wasn't very specific, he does make the claim of a post April 2006 release date for the console.

“I want to put it on the market to as many countries as possible at the same time"
- Satoru Iwata

This is certainly good news. A worldwide launch of a console is the same approach Nintendo made in the past with the DS, and currently with the GB Micro. A worldwide launch, and in distributing the console to every country in the short timespan of only a few months, very unlike the Gamecube, which took a whole year for it to reach Australia from Japan. Worldwide launches has been proven successful with the DS, and the Micro sold faster than even the GBA SP during its launch period, permanently removing its image of a "side console".

What is really interesting, is why Nintendo chose to claim April instead of a later date. Could this possibly mean that Revolution will be available in all countries by May next year? That would seriously beat PS3 to the market for most areas. Remember, we are talking about the console's RELEASE DATE here, Nintendo still haven't rejected their E3 announcement of unveiling all the Revolution's secrets before the end of this year.

The next possible chance we will learn more about the console is the outcoming editional of Edge magazine. The edition will be released on the 27th of this month, in just 3 days time.