After a spat of recent rumours regarding the next generation Nintendo console its always nice to hear Nintendo speak about it instead.

Ken Toyota, Nintendo chief of public relations, recently spoke to ITmedia about many topics. While he spoke about the GBA Famicom Mini titles and the sales of the DS, it is his talk of Nintendo's next console that will generate most discussion amongst fans.

"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."

It seems that Nintendo regularly survey DS users to build up a demographic database, and it seems that girl gamers are up seven percent. This means that now twenty-two percent of DS owners are female. The amount of "mature" (over-nineteen years old) gamers has also rise, from forty-nine to fifty-nine percent.

Nintendo has recently dropped expectations of games sales from 15 million to 10 million. Initially they based the estimate on the ratio of games to unit sales of the GBA but Toyota speculates that because PictoChat and a demo of Metroid Prime: Hunters were included gamers did not need to purchase software immediately.

Toyoto commented that some of the highest-grossing titles of last year were the Famicom Mini (or Classic NES) games. In total they have so far grossed approximately 7.21 million copies to date.