Revolution to have 'extensive' 3rd party support

In a recent interview with Gamer Informer, Nintendo VP of Marketing, George Harrison confirmed stronger third party support for the Revolution. Harrison was quoted as saying that "more than 1,000 developer kits including the controller kits" are available to developers, this being a very different story than the initial support for Nintendo's current-generation console, the GameCube. Harrison continued: "One of the lessons we tried to learn from GameCube was that we kept things too close. And so as we got ready to launch, we had some of our own great games but third parties were kind of behind the eight ball in terms of being able to have games ready."

Do you think the Revolution will have better third party support than the lack luster (in terms of third parties) GameCube, and even the N64?

See also:
Who's really going to support the Revolution?

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