Revolution indeed The iPod nano has certainly been one of the highest anticipated tech news to come out of Silicon Valley in the last week. However, this, this and this from the Tokyo Game Show certainly is the most exciting announcement made in recent history. Even the announcement of the international launch dates for the Xbox 360 later this year could take the breeze out of Nintendo's sails.

With the unique design of the DS and now this, Nintendo is certainly living up to their design first philosophy. I can see many exciting possibilities of this design. Just imagine the next gen Harry Potter game. Virtua Tennis. Question is, will the developers follow suit? And will the public buy into it?

I think they can. NintenDogs and Warioware has shown that there is a market for unique and original games that take advantage of real innovations in hardware. Problem is that dirty word in development world right now. Original. God forbid that in this new world of million dollars development fees, they should even dare to attempt to try anything new that's not going to earn them tons of money. Its about milking tried and tested franchises for all they are worth. Not to mention the questions of user installed base. In the vicious cycle between games and hardware developers, the question is whether would consumers follow the games or the machine?  ¶ 12:17:00 am