Will the Nintendo Revolution be the GameCube successor after all, or not?

Earlier this week, Satoru Iwata told the Japanese press that, even when the Nintendo Revolution would be launched, Nintendo would still support the GameCube. He also hinted that the Nintendo Revolution would be released in Japan somewhere near the end of next year already.

Today, the newest edition of the popular magazine Nintendo Dream showed something odd. Nintendo more or less confirmed to the magazine that the Nintendo Revolution and the GameCube will co-exist.

Nintendo probably meant that the GameCube and the revolution will co-exist for a limited time, and that they will support both consoles at that time. If this is not the case, the gaming public (that's you) is facing four products from Nintendo: the GameCube, the Nintendo DS, the Game Boy Advance 2 and the Nintendo Revolution.