A few days ago, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata was quoted as saying it wasn't "necessary to do the simultaneous worldwide launch simply because others are doing this." It's a statement that can be taken a couple ways, and unfortunately most news sites took it the wrong way. (I like to think I remained appropriately neutral on the matter.) Many game sites reported the news with the headline "No Global Launch for Revolution", interpreting his statement to mean that Nintendo would not launch the system globally just because others were doing so with their consoles.

Turns out, what he meant was that the system would be launched worldwide, but that they would have done so anyway, regardless of what Sony and Microsoft did. In other words, it was yet another "pfft, I don't even pay attention to those guys" from Nintendo. Whether you want to believe that or not is up to you, but the bottom line is that a worldwide launch is still on for the Revolution.

Source: MCV