Late Night Consoling

Speaking to CNN/Money's Chris Morris, Nintendo and gaming legend Shigeru Miyamoto explained the driving factor behind the Revolution. "The Revolution will use cutting edge technology, but it's ultimately about how that technology is used," he said. "We asked ourselves 'why would a family need or want to have a gaming console?' The answer is what's driving development of the Revolution." He confessed that there aren't many games these days he'd like to play. He's hoping with Revolution, developers will create genres instead of rehashing gameplay styles.

Sony announced that it has shipped 90 million units of its PlayStation 2 console across the globe. North America is the leader with 36.48 million units followed by Europe at 32.48. Asia takes third with 21.04 million. 16.17 million of those are the new slim PS2s. Another number thrown out was 800 million copies of games shipped with over a quarter of those in the just last business year.

When Nintendogs was recently released in Japan, it spurred on a buying-frenzy of the Nintendo DS hardware. From GameSpot: "The Nintendo DS was trailing the PSP and PS2 the week before the release of Nintendogs, selling 21,698 units against 28,950 PSP units and 30,572 PS2 units. But when Nintendogs arrived, DS sales exploded to 96,191 units, outselling both the PSP (33,004) and the PS2 (33,080) combined. Sales of the DS are starting to settle down now, but as of the week of May 16, the DS continued to outsell both the PS2 and the PSP, selling 29,808 units, compared to 27,370 PSP units and 24,122 PS2 units."

If you thought the GameCube chainsaw controller was weird, just wait until you see this. It appears peripheral maker Hori plans to release in the states the PS2 slime controller. This was released alongside Dragon Quest 8 in Japan. Click the link for pictures. EBgames has the controller listed on their site for $39.99.

Just in case you guys were worried that Conker would experience yet another delay, Microsoft announced that Conker: Live and Reloaded has gone gold and will be in stores on June 21. If you need a new multiplayer game, this supports both Xbox Live and system link.

The UK website for the Xbox 360 is asking gamers to pick their favorite faceplate out of nine available designs. Click here to see the faceplates. As you can see, the designs are rather modern in style. (I voted for organism) Also out there is this side-by-side comparison of the Xbox 360 and the original Xbox.