Megadrive1988
Veteran
there will be no "XCube" or "Cubebox" console. Nintendo will have their own console. MS will have theirs.
Perhaps Nintendo and MS have had some discussions on how they would both like to attack Sony's marketshare with their next consoles, but there is no way in hell they would do a single console together.
Nintendo is as independant as ever. what is more likely though, is Nintendo's next console will be in the form a new entertainment machine from Hitachi, NEC and other Japanese partners. Nintendo would make the games for this new machine. this was mentioned as rumor / report last year. here is the usenet posting of that rumor: http://tinyurl.com/lnyd
More exciting is the statement by Hitachi's Morishita Koichiro, head
of Consumer Electronics that a future "digital-hub" (his words are
"home gateway" but perhaps digital-hub is known by more consumers)
based on the PPC is planned. This digital-hub will be a joint
partnership between Hitachi, Nintendo, NEC and Access. Industry buzz
in Japan is that the Kyoto-based Nintendo, is planning to phase out
hardware production of home consoles (but not mobile models) as SEGA
did recently. In related news, the Japanese video game magazine,
"DenkiKidsGen" (translation) also interviewed Nintendo's Hardware
Solutions manager and he confirmed that the future product betwen
Hitachi and Nintendo would be supported by the team behind the
GameCube (which if I recall uses IBM's PPC) and that the two companies plan to make a good challenge (translation --> we plan to take their market share) to Microsoft and Sony products.
He also confirmed that remaining hardware from the company would be
targetted at the mobile market (GameBoy line) once the phase-out of
the home unit (GameCube) is completed, projected Q2 2004. NEC (Nippon Electronics Company) will hold a 15% stake in the new project and will be providing the graphics hardware for the system. Interesting to note that NEC marketed their own game system not too long ago called the TurboGraphics and ALMOST provided the graphic chipset to power a console from Nintendo three years back.
at least this has some possibility of happening
Perhaps Nintendo and MS have had some discussions on how they would both like to attack Sony's marketshare with their next consoles, but there is no way in hell they would do a single console together.
Nintendo is as independant as ever. what is more likely though, is Nintendo's next console will be in the form a new entertainment machine from Hitachi, NEC and other Japanese partners. Nintendo would make the games for this new machine. this was mentioned as rumor / report last year. here is the usenet posting of that rumor: http://tinyurl.com/lnyd
More exciting is the statement by Hitachi's Morishita Koichiro, head
of Consumer Electronics that a future "digital-hub" (his words are
"home gateway" but perhaps digital-hub is known by more consumers)
based on the PPC is planned. This digital-hub will be a joint
partnership between Hitachi, Nintendo, NEC and Access. Industry buzz
in Japan is that the Kyoto-based Nintendo, is planning to phase out
hardware production of home consoles (but not mobile models) as SEGA
did recently. In related news, the Japanese video game magazine,
"DenkiKidsGen" (translation) also interviewed Nintendo's Hardware
Solutions manager and he confirmed that the future product betwen
Hitachi and Nintendo would be supported by the team behind the
GameCube (which if I recall uses IBM's PPC) and that the two companies plan to make a good challenge (translation --> we plan to take their market share) to Microsoft and Sony products.
He also confirmed that remaining hardware from the company would be
targetted at the mobile market (GameBoy line) once the phase-out of
the home unit (GameCube) is completed, projected Q2 2004. NEC (Nippon Electronics Company) will hold a 15% stake in the new project and will be providing the graphics hardware for the system. Interesting to note that NEC marketed their own game system not too long ago called the TurboGraphics and ALMOST provided the graphic chipset to power a console from Nintendo three years back.
at least this has some possibility of happening
