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Sega, Nintendo Team Up To Create New Graphics Board

Posted by Hemos on from the making-things-look-pretty dept.

TimWeigel writes "The Daily Yomiuri is reporting that Sega, Nintendo and Namco are teaming up to create a new commercial graphics board. This new board, the Triforce (tip o' the hat to all the Zelda fans), will reportedly be based on the hardware in the GameCube. The article indicates it will be targeted towards new game consoles, as well as "similar products". A prototype is scheduled to be demonstrated at the 2002 AOU Amusement Expo on 22 Feb."

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  1. Re:Intresting, but is it really useful? by doctor_oktagon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sega has a horrible track record with Hardware?

    You've either been smokin crack or have obviously never played either a Sega arcade game or a Dreamcast. The Dreamcast graphics are still almost a match for a PS2 and developers used to enjoy coding for it, as it was so easy and geared towards them.

    Sega don't have a good record in MARKETING. But that's different.

    Sony are the MS of the console world: they killed the Dreamcast through FUD.

    Arcade games usually have extreme controllers, but many of them were sucessfully ported to many different home consoles, so that's another fallacy.

  2. Triforce has probably been around longer by SonicBurst · · Score: 5, Informative
    Triforce has been around since the first zelda, circa 1987, IIRC. Anyone know when nvidia came on to the scene? I don't think it was pre-1987.

    If that's the case, nvidia probably wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

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  3. Dogs and cats! by abischof · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think Dr Peter Venkman said it best: "... dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!"

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  4. WARNING: acronym allowance exceeded by perky · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear poster,

    Please be warned that you have exceeded your legally mandated acronym allowance for the month of February. Any further acronym usage in the remainder of this month will result in fines accruing.

    Additionally in the above post you have exceeded the Maximum Acronym Density (MAD) permissable for a single posting. If you persist in using excessive numbers of Acronyms Capital letters will be forcably removed from your vocabulary.

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  5. Re:Well at least they are not calling it... by CaseyB · · Score: 5, Funny
    Smeargle is the painter Pokemon

    Until he was corrupted by the One Pokeball. Twisted and evil, he is now known as Gorrum.