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Developers have seen Revolution controller, says Fils-Aime
 Rob Fahey 14:06 30/06/2005
And Revolution is definitely set to be much cheaper than Xbox 360 and PS3

The secrecy-shrouded controller for the Nintendo Revolution console has been 
seen by a number of developers already, according to comments made 
byNintendo of America VP of sales and marketing Reggie Fils-Aime.

Speaking with US magazine EGM, the bombastic Fils-Aime revealed a little 
additional information about the console and its much talked about joypad - 
including the fact that just because "you and your fans haven't seen the 
controller doesn't mean that no one else has."

"The thing that I always find surprising, and certainly in the last year 
I've had wonderful opportunities to spend quality time with a number of our 
key third-party publishers, is when you sit down and share the innovation 
with them, just how excited they get," he said.

"I saw it firsthand with DS, we're seeing it now with Revolution," he 
continued.

Regarding the controller itself, Fils-Aime expanded on some of Nintendo 
president Satoru Iwata's hints about the design from his E3 presentation. 
"If you just think about it, we're going to have the ability through 
wireless internet to download all your great games from NES, SNES, N64," he 
said.

"Think about it - each of those controllers are different. How are you gonna 
play? That captured some of the imagination of what our controller needs to 
be able to do, and certainly as you get into the meat of that type of 
innovation with the developers, their eyes truly light up because they start 
to imagine what's possible with that kind of configuration, which is vastly 
different than a sheer horsepower kind of game."

Speaking more generally about the Revolution console, Fils-Aime also 
confirmed widespread speculation that the console will be launched at a 
significantly lower price point than its next-generation competitors, the 
Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

"We have to assume that from a pricing standpoint, we will be substantially 
lower than the competition," he said, going on to say that this would be 
because the Revolution won't have "all of that added fluff that a gamer, 
frankly, doesn't [want] - it's not core to gaming."

Many commentators expect Nintendo to announce further details of the 
Revolution this August, a month when the company has traditionally made at 
least one major announcement over the last few years