New Reggie interview

[A Black Falcon]

IGNcube: Rumor has it that DS will be going online soon. Why does Nintendo believe in an online model for DS, but not for GameCube?

Reggie: As I said during the E3 briefing last year, for DS it's not about online, but "no line," it's about wireless interactive play. And we're committed to wireless interactive play for DS. Mr. Iwata will have some information about that in his keynote speech. In terms of GameCube, I think in fairness we at Nintendo haven't done a great job of providing the Internet capability tools to our developers to create games for GameCube. We need to address that for all of our future systems and we're doing that. In terms of Revolution and its wireless capability, stay tuned -- more to come. We are absolutely committed to the sense of community and the worldwide sense of playing games against each other. We're going to be delivering that on every future system to the best of our ability.

NOA realizes it, but can they convince NCL of this fact? (Remember, OB1, this is NOA here... as Americans they're probably more aware of the importance of online gaming tthan NCL is and historically they've had major problems convincing NCL of much of anything.)

IGNcube: Microsoft and Sony have development kits out there for their next-gen systems. Are Revolution dev kits coming?

Reggie: Yes, they're on their way. We're hard at work providing pre-development tools to key licensees. And again, Mr. Iwata will be talking at length tomorrow at his keynote about our vision for Revolution. Are dev kits going to be on the way? Absolutely. Are dev kits going to be out on the marketplace with enough time to impact great development of software for Revolution? Absolutely. We are right on track for development of Revolution and that's a key message out there. We're not going to be late to the marketplace. We're going to be on time with our competition, which we've pegged as Sony. And certainly getting development kits out there in a reasonable fashion is a big part of making that happen.

More confirmation of this, good... so when do the 'Revolution in '05' rumors stop?

Same with the next one and the next GBA... 'some time to go', sounds about right. They should be focusing on the DS.