Hinting at Revolution extras for Twilight Princess, and also mentioning a DS web-browser, Reggie is being as cryptic as ever...

Interviewed in the latest edition of EGM, the legendary executive VP for marketing at Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime had the following to say when asked some direct questions on Twilight Princess:

EGM: Speaking of Zelda, best-case scenario, it's a few months away from the Revolution launch, worst case scenario is it's coming out at the same time. Is there ever a point where you believe that it would be better to switch it over to Revolution? Or does it not matter, since the Revolution will be backward compatible with Cube games?

Reggie: Exactly. I think that our senior management has made it very clear that bringing Zelda: Twilight Princess out on GameCube is important, that we want to satisfy the GameCube fan base and have it be on that system. You've said the obvious, which is that [because] Revolution's backward compatible, it will almost effectively be a launch title for Revolution. The trick will be what makes it special to play on Revolution, and to the extent that we could create something like that, boy, wouldn't that be fantastic? Certainly one of the things that I would love to see is something that makes Zelda, when it's played on Revolution, do something magical. And I think that any Nintendo fan would love to see that.

He almost seems to be confirmed the sort-of denied NGC article, which claimed that the game would launch with Revolution controls built in when booted up on Nintendo's next console. Additionally, him saying "it will almost effectively be a launch title for Revolution" is our strongest hint yet that it could launch around the same time as the Revolution. He said stated nothing explicitly, but gave a firmer answer there than when he was asked if there was any unrevealed Revolution features:

"As much as I think Iwata likes me, if I shared that with you I probably wouldn't be here. [Laughs] You know, here are the facts: Come [this May], we'll disclose a lot more. After [that], we'll disclose even more, and right about the time of the launch, we'll disclose even more. There are certainly elements to everything we're doing about Revolution I'm talking beyond the controller, the virtual console, all the different elements we'll be sharing all the way up to launch. And I believe as consumers understand the full range of benefits and the full functionality, the more and more they're going to get excited. I really do."

Interestingly, it sounds like not everything will be revealed at E3 - with some features still not completely revealed until afterwards. Another intriguing tidbit - about the DS, this time - he did divulge is that a third-party is or may have been in the past developing a web-browser for the handheld. And that if it never emerges, we could see somthing similar from Nintendo themselves:

"My belief is that we thought a licensee was getting into that area, and once we heard that we backed off," Reggie explained. "If we end up seeing that nobody's really going to enter that space, it may be something that we'll go back and look at. I know that Mr. Iwata has talked about it."

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