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CNN Goes Hands-on

Best Web Hosting Chris Morris, author of the weekly Game Over column for CNN Money has just gone hands-on with the controller of the Nintendo Revolution. While the controller he used was still a prototype, lacking a button to power the Revolution on/off and with a smaller size than the final release version of the Revolution controller, Morris says the hands-on time gave him a "good chance to see what to expect when the system launches next year."

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Top Web Hosting Here's an excerpt from the column:

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Web Site Design And Hosting For the column, Morris spoke to Nintendo's President, Satoru Iwata. Iwata told him, "I was a developer for many years before my current role, but I've never been a very good gamer. I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control the game. So, I think that's a genre that's particularly well suited for the controller."

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Email Web Hosting Morris also spoke to Nintendo of America's Executive VP of Sales and Marketing, Reggie Fils-Aime, who told him, "I hope [massively multiplayer online games] are really explored on this system. That's a genre, from the home console standpoint, that really hasn't been explored very well." Fils-Aime also told Morris that Nintendo has more up its sleeve for next year. "It's fair to say that we have a number of things that we will begin unveiling all next year, leading up to E3," said Fils-Aime.

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