How stuff works has a killer feature on Revolution.

Stuffo “The Nintendo Revolution”: “In a Business Week interview at the 2005 Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata said, ‘Games already pretty much have reached the point of photo-realism. Working on more intense graphics is not the only path we can take anymore. Simply relying on the sheer horsepower of the machine will not bring the industry a bright future.’
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