Late Night Consoling

The "announcement" of the Revolution at E3 was as weak as they come, but Nintendo promised that gamers will know all by the end of 2005. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata told Reuters, "We plan to give details on when we will launch it, what the price will be, what the controller will look like and how games can be played on it by the end of the year." It's rumored that this will take place at a Spaceworld around the end of summer, a Nintendo-coordinated event that's been shelved since 2001.

SEGA has been on a quest to create positive relationships with Western-based companies and they announced their latest partnership with developer Silicon Knights. SEGA will publish their next-gen title based on an original franchise. Recent works of Silicon Knights are Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes and Eternal Darkness.

It was rumored that at least a handful of companies have switched their Xbox 360 development efforts over to Sony's PS3 after seeing the console in action. One of them went on record as Factor 5's president, Julian Eggebrecht, told C|Net that the PS3's Cell processor offered more power to work with. "The choice boiled down to performance. The additional performance allows the gang at Factor 5 to more easily simulate the real world for a better game experience."

Silicon Knights and Microsoft are teaming up to bring the oft-delayed Too Human to the Xbox 360. Originally a PlayStation title and then shifted to GameCube, Too Human was likened to Blade Runner in its style and story. The game is being planned as the first part of a trilogy on the console.

TeamXbox has a few choice quotes from the Microsoft engineer working on backwards compatibility for the Xbox 360. GameSpot talks with SCEA's executive vice president, Jack Tretton.