Nintendo GameCube Clone Out In Japan

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 1, 2001 @11:14AM from the please-something-for-the-american-cousins dept.

Jon F writes: "I saw this picture on Yahoo! today, it looks like Nintendo decided to license out the GameCube to Panasonic to make a clone. It's a hybrid DVD player/GameCube that came out in Toyko today. The only other article I came across about this was on IGN a few months ago. It has a mirrored surface and trippy purple lights on the controller port." Gaming guts (and purple bits) aside, this is one of the nicest-looking DVD players I've seen. Update: 11/01 23:50 GMT by T : As several readers have pointed out, this looks like just a tease for now, but will be out (in Japan) next month.

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Re:Spread the success... or failure! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-11-01 11:30 · Score: 1, Funny

They might have been able to meat christmas production demands

Ahoy there, Spam-I-Am, what's your beef?
Only 5.5 months late... by Namarrgon · 2001-11-01 11:47 · Score: 5, Funny

Nice one, Slashdot. Is this a new record?
For those interested, the Japanese release date is Dec 14th.

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Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
Qool! by blair1q · 2001-11-01 12:07 · Score: 2, Funny

Can I get the nifty "Desk and Elbow" skin they're using on the demo model?

That looks like it rocks.

--Blair