No HD-TV for Nintendo Revolution Console

Nintendo’s next generation video game machine won’t be out until 2006, but Reggie Fils-Aime, executive vice president of sales and marketing for Nintendo of America hinted this week the company might have a surprise up its sleeve.

The Revolution remains the most mysterious of the three next-generation consoles. With only the barest of system specs, and no tech demos, little is known about the device–or what is so “revolutionary” about it. So far, its most innovative features are a unique controller and repeated statements by its maker, Nintendo, that it will appeal to a vast untapped market of nongamers.

Reggie Fils-Aime, executive vice president of sales and marketing, predicted that the Revolution would be cheaper than both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.

In his interview with Morris, Fils-Aime also reiterated that the Revolution will not support high-definition televisions. “What we’ll offer in terms of gameplay and approachability will more than make up for the lack of HD,” he said. Both Microsoft and Sony are making much of the 360 and PS3’s HD capabilities.

Fils-Aime also implied that the DS will see redesigns, just as the Game Boy Advance has. “As soon as [the DS] was launched, we started looking at ways to tweak it visually,” he told Morris.

Read the full Chris Morris interview on CNN/Money’s gameover column.

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