With the Nintendo Revolution launch “Anything’s possible”

We’re seeing some more Revolution tidbits coming out of the woodwork, thanks to an interview with an evasive but helpful Jim Merrick from Nintendo. He stated that Japan won’t necessarily see the Revolution first, and that the launch might “not follow the stereotypical formula of Japan first, then the US, then Europe some time later… Anything’s possible.” Which wouldn’t be unprecedented — the DS launched in the US before Japan — but would still be quite the move, and falls in line with other things we’ve heard about a possible attempt to match Microsoft’s rather ambitious world-wide “simultaneous” launch. Merrick also stated in a round about way that retro game downloads may only cost “a couple of pounds,” and that the 512MB of storage for such things would be expandable.