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George Harrison Speaks

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George Harrison, Nintendo's senior vice president of marketing and communications was recently interviewed. Some of the more important points he made are listed below.

• Nintendo will wait until Microsoft sets the price on their Xbox 2 before contemplating a price for the Revolution.

"Microsoft is going to launch this fall. They'll probably have to tell people where they are by, we think, August. That will give us a good chance to understand what they think they can sell it for and also to estimate how much money they're going to lose on their box."

• As of now, the Revolution's service for downloading NES, SNES and N64 games for play on the Revolution is free of charge. Moreover, Nintendo will even offer some games as bonuses or hidden features in select first-party games.

"We've used some of the older games already as little bonuses, either as bonus gifts or hidden in levels of games. Certainly for the first-party titles we'll be making some of those available. We haven't really talked about whether we would sell them,"

• Harrison also said the Game Boy Micro may come bundled with "Play-Yan," an MP3 and MP4 video file player for the Game Boy. Nintendo is still judging its success in Japan and will wait for an official announcement, Harrison said.

Some very tasty stuff.

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