Nintendo Revolution announcement

Since Microsoft decided to be first in the race to launch the next next-generation of games consoles, both Sony and Nintendo have been forced into publicising their plans for the future in their own inimitable ways. Sony stayed true to form by concentrating on the raw processing power of PlayStation 3, while Nintendo have said virtually nothing except that their new Revolution console will have a totally different kind of joypad. What that might be has been causing feverish and often comically far-fetched internet speculation, which is due to end on September 16 when Nintendo make their official announcement. In the run-up to that, persistent rumours about controllers with built-in gyroscopes are actually starting to sound like a possibility.