EGM, Gameinformer, and the rest of the media are waging a conspiracy against Nintendo. Nintendo has pulled seven billion dollars in profits since 98 while Sony has only pulled four billion in profits. Sony sacrifices profits for market share because they are not in gaming for gaming. They and MS are in gaming for public image. MS has done nothing but create debt and can't give an Xbox away in Japan.
Yet MS and Sony soak up all the attention leading to third parties abandoning Nintendo's GameCube (which I will state again has helped them generate three billion dollars more in profits than Sony). That is not only a higher percentage of profits pocketed that is almost twice what Sony has made. Sony may be great with PR but Nintendo is still king of yen. Now Immersion (MS has invested a good chunk of change into that company) has a 90 million dollar lawsuit against Sony who is 61 billion dollars in debt.
The lead up to E3 has truly shown where big media stands. If you watch FOX news then you would be more likely to believe that PS3 will have photorealistc graphics, no programmer is going to waste their time and money trying for photorealism even if the system can do it so the CELL is a waste of consumer money.
X360 does have some leaked pics that I have no doubt were released on purpose. The launch games and the rest of the software on X360 for at least a year or two are going to do nothing but disappoint early adopter expecting supreme graphics. Zelda WW, Zelda 05, RE4, and MP2 are the best looking games this generation and almost look as good as X360 launch games. The difference between X360 graphics and GameCube graphics will be like the difference between SNES and GBA. Nintendo will at least match the X360 which mimics the G5. The chip sets for both X360 and REV are made by the same companies and will likely be so similar that games will take very little work to port between the two unlike the PS3. Nintendo has never shorted on the graphics on a home console and they will not with the REV. They are simply telling you the truth unlike MS and Sony that graphics are not going to be a big jump next generation. In fact the mainstreme will need an extra incentive to buy the new systems because they won't be able to tell the difference between the graphics. The way you get great graphics is through hard work, money, and time. I wish it was the hardware, but it is not. If it were about the hardware then Halo 2 would have been the best looking game of the generation, but that game is just about hideous. MS makes their games look like PC games with lower polygon characters covered in shimer effects and bump mapping, but they can't hide their tricks from my eyes.
There is plenty of info that is official that the big media is not covering about next gen. How about how you will have to buy a harddrive seperate from X360 to go online or that MS still does not know if they will be able to package in backwards compatibility with Xbox with at least one of their three versions of X360. How about how LIVE will be packed with microcharges for items and levels next gen? In other words you pay for games in parts because they make games in parts rather than as a whole.
What about how developers are complaining about PS3 being a nightmare to develop for because you have to write nine layers of code? Or that the launch of the PSP shows that gamers are tired of buying systems with just better graphics? They have not covered gyration, haptics, or trackballs for next generation systems, and readers are going to wonder where all these technologies came from when E3 arrives and they are shown these things for the first time. E3 is going to blow people away. If MS (they have already purchased the rights to the tech) and/or Nintendo use haptic controllers then readers are going to be screaming about why the mags did not cover this stuff leading up to E3. Readers are going to wonder why there was so much hype and letdown with certain companies and how other companies kept all these "secrets" for so long.
I think people are going to wonder why they did not know Nintendo had already announced online for free for both DS and REV. People are going to wonder why they did not know Nintendo was the only one who had made an official announcement concerning backwards compatibility on their next gen system. People are going to wonder why big media was putting REV down for so long based on graphical hype from the other companies when the REV will release a year after X360 (god I am already tired of the name 360, it takes too long to type). It only takes common sense to know that the first system released is going to be the weakest system released. X360 = Sega Saturn.
i posted that at nintendo.com and also found the following thread concerning the subject
http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/board/message?board.id=np_gw&message.id=631256