UPDATE: More exciting Nintendo possibilities outlined by the BoingBoing weblog:

"Nintendo promises a console that will run anyone's code?
Hidden in a fluffy press release for Nintendo's new Revolution console device is this notice:

'Freedom of design: A dynamic development architecture equally accommodates both big-budget, high-profile game "masterpieces" as well as indie games conceived by individual developers equipped with only a big idea.'

Not much detail, but if Nintendo makes good on that promise, they're poised to kick the competition's ass: a world of consoles that only ran signed code was a nice racket while it lasted, but at the end of the day, needing to get permission to run software on your own device sucks and devices that let anyone write software for them get more valuable as more people write more code for them."

Here's a link to the full press release...

Could it be that Nintendo are playing one of the cleverest marketing campaigns ever? I wouldn't put it past them. Sit on the sidelines as PS3 and Xbox fight like school children ("my daddy's bigger than yours") and then, when the hype has died down slide your new, literally Revolutionary console right in front of the camera's gaze.
If this release, the response (and this weird video that was doing the rounds this week) are anything to go by, I'd say that Nintendo are sitting on something truly huge. An open source games console would literally explode the internet into tiny, shimmering pieces as game geeks everywhere rub themselves against the endless possibilities. So, to pin down the marketing strategies of each next gen contender:


I know which makes me sweatiest with anticipation. Nintendo hope to bring gaming to a wider audience, and guess what? Many people in the industry agree with them - Link

For more check out some interesting banter on the subject over at Joystiq... and more conspiracy jibber jabber here. Double extra more stuff to come as I hear it...

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