A few months ago, Nintendo revealed the Revolution would be priced "substantially lower" than the rival Xbox 360 and PS3, and now president Satoru Iwata has announced it will cost less than 39,975 yen (~339 USD) in a very brief article on Yahoo! News Japan.The low price was explained by Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime in an interview back in July, when he said the console would be chiefly a gaming system, and as such the price wouldn't be driven up by including extra features that aren't necessary for gaming:
We are center of the plate gaming. I have to assume that from a pricing standpoint, we will be substantially lower than the competition, because we don't have all of that added fluff that a gamer, frankly, doesn't—it's not core to gaming.
The main selling point of the Revolution is it's new user-friendly controller, which appears more like a TV remote than any games controller yet seen. In addition, the Revolution will act as a "virtual console", allowing gamers to download and play games from previous Nintendo consoles, from the NES right up to the GameCube. The Revolution is slated for release sometime during 2006.Translated Yahoo! Japan news article via Engadget
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