Nintendo's public relations chief, Ken Toyota, talked a little about Nintendo's next-gen console, currently codenamed Revolution. He said, "E3 will be the starting point for the Revolution. [We haven't decided] whether we will show the real machine, videos, or unveil the concept. ... We want to receive some level of evaluation, but releasing too much information is also another issue. We don't have the slightest intention of making a machine that follows the same path as conventional game hardware. Right now, we are thinking of how we can accurately convey to people at E3 the different path that the Revolution will take and how it will change the way that games will be enjoyed."
He also made a few comments about the Nintendo DS in Japan, saying 22 percent of its users are female and 59% of DS owners are over the age of 19. Software sales haven't been as brisk as they hoped, claiming the inclusion of PictoChat is to blame since it didn't force any of the early adopters to buy a piece of software to use the device. Also, the Famicom Mini series, known in the US as the Classic NES Series, has sold 7.21 million units in Japan.
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