A Day of Two Major Speaches: Bush and Iwata

First, I'll explore what Bush said last night to the country. The thing is, many people, even major critics of Bush, have actually gave the speach a positive evaluation. This was one speach in which wasn't filled with political spin and was more about what needs to be done. The only thing that anyone can call Bush on is if and how he will follow through with this.
One thing that some people won't like is that Bush proposed that the military get more involved with disasters. I am not one of those people. I don't like armed officers, per say, going into disasters unless nessisary. But having the military part of major disasters will give the military a real purpose in times of peace. Heck, the military was ready to give aid this time around (funny story, they just lacked the orders to do so for a while).
There was one thing I don't think was addressed, and that was the money issue. It is very doubtful that taxes will be raised, so the money to restore the Gulf Coast has to come from somewhere. Polls have said a most people support cutting back the Iraq operations to do so, with rolling back tax cuts for the wealthy and not repealing the estate tax comming second and third respectivly. My over-optimistic opinion, cutting pork. But that isn't going to happen.

Now onto the videogames side.
Going off the list in the last post, only the last prediction has come true (I'm still waiting to see Perfect Dark). Sony now seems a little behind.
But the big event was Iwata's keynote that revealed the Revolution's controller. If you haven't seen it yet:
First, why am I your primary source? Two, go to IGN and check out the five or six articles about it.
This was something I thought of since around the time of the "perfect with Pikmin" comment and the split controller rumor spread. I never thought it would be in such a form though, but now I'm interested.
The "mouse-stick" as I'll call it, appears to be more versitile then the DS' touch screen. With the DS, you are directly interacting with the screen. The Revolution can be applied to many things. One obvious thing is being able to swing Link's sword manually.
My major hope is that the joystick attachment is included standard. I'm also not entirely sure how the controller works, but I'm hoping I can use it through walls (and thus, in the bathroom).
As is, I can only imagine the rediculousness that some games will bring along. Warioware will be calm and relaxing in comparison to what other games have in store.
Unfortunatly, Nintendo didn't show one real game demo (they did show a few tech demos, mostly behind closed doors), so it still is hard to tell how well the Revolution will go. I imagine that third party developers have many ideas going through their head, but publishers will be hesitant since this is a system the will force them to take a chance with at least the initial set of games. Nintendo still has to prove that the idea works in the real world.
But as is, it certainly doesn't look like much of a flop. First person shooters will flock to the system, as well as real time stratagy games. So while I can't be confident enough to say they will get the top spot next generation, I do think they are garenteed second place now. With Sony and Microsoft going the technology route, unless Nintendo sells this at a more expensive price point, one of those will fail while Nintendo will take a different place in the living room.