Revolution News | Nintendo Tidbits & Sega Updates

There are several little bits of information floating around the Internet at the moment regarding Nintendo and its forthcoming Revolution next generation system. First of all there is the fact that it was announced at the Leipzig Games Conference that Sega would be unveiling 'Sonic Next' at September's Tokyo Games Show, which is definitely cause for Nintendo fan elation due to the fact that recent interviews have highlighted how Sega believes Nintendo is Sonic's spiritual home now that the company has backed out of the home console market with the death of the DreamCast. If nothing is mentioned of Sonic Next for the Revolution, then there will be many gasps around the Industry (as there were when Resident Evil 5 was initially announced as for PS3 and XBOX360, without even a second thought to the heavy NDAs developers will have slapped on them by Nintendo at the moment...).



On the back of this, at the same event, one lucky fellow grabbed a brief chat with Sonic-creator Yuji Naka. To fieldset from the interview, Naka-san showed some enthusiasm toward the Revolution,



"I am under a strict NDA, so I can't really say much. But I have seen the Revolution and I think everyone will be very pleasantly surprised, when Nintendo reveal everything."



I am sure 'pleasantly surprised' is an understatement as Nintendo would be slaughtered if its Revolution only made people go 'Hmm, that's okay...'. Then, finally, IGN's Matt Casamassina is adamant in the latest mailbag that specific details will be shown to the world withing a matter of weeks, most likely to put a dampener on the massive hype machine that is Microsoft and its increasingly attractive XBOX360.



Keep it locked to C3, as ever, to keep up-to-date with the latest news and gossip around the Industry...