Nintendo Confirms New Console In 2005

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Nintendo Confirms New Console In 2005

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 23, 2003 @08:03AM from the long-range-thinking dept.

GweeDo writes "It is official. Nintendo will be releasing their next console right along side Sony's PS3 in 2005. The news was released here by cube.ign.com. They also went on to say that Retro Studies is working on a Prequel to Metroid Prime. The best quote to all you people that said Nintendo was leaving the console market is this: 'Iwata emphasized Nintendo's plans to stick in the console industry by saying, "When we withdraw from the home game console, that's when we withdraw from the video game business."'"

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not even close by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 08:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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I wanna fuck a penguin! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 08:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic
Linux Use Continues to Blossom for Businesses... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 08:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"An article recently posted by the CNN/Money magazine journalists details Linux's continuing rise in the business market.

One of the more notable statistics was that its use is expected to nearly double in 2003 compared to 2002 numbers. "According to a study conducted by research firm First Albany, 9.3 percent of 338 businesses surveyed expected to dedicate portions of their IT budgets to Linux-based systems, up from 5.4 percent in 2002.""

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Exciting news! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 08:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'm posting this anonymously for reasons which will soon become obvious.

I work for OSDN, in an undisclosed position. Yesterday, I recieved the following memo in my Inbox in Outlook Express:

From: "Larry Augustin"
To: "Company - all"
Subject: Acquisition of latest OSDN holding

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From: "Larry Augustin"
To: contrib@goatse.cx
Subject: Open source business opportunity

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Love,
Larry
First Growing Pains Theme Song Post! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 08:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

As Long as We Got Each Other

Sung by: B.J. Thomas and Jennifer Warnes
(Dusty Springfield)

Lyrics by: John Bettis

Music by: Steve Dorff

Show me that smile again (Ooh show me that smile)
Don't waste another minute on your cryin'
We're nowhere near the end (We're nowhere near...)
The best is ready to begin

Ooh...
As long as we got each other
We got the world spinnin' right in our hands
Baby you and me...
We got to be...
The luckiest dreamers who never quit dreamin'

As long as we keep on givin'
We can take anything that comes our way
Baby rain or shine...
All the time...
We got each other
Sharin' the laughter and love
Sad news by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 08:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
President Bush Confirms by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 08:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

World DEAD by 2005.

There won't be any damned cube release.

So there!
This Is Really Cool! by xanadu-xtroot.com · 2003-01-23 08:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I wata all your base to belong to a beowulf cluster of me!

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I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
Pink Floyd is dying by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 08:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Pink Floyd is collapsing in complete disarray. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Pink Floyd's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Pink Floyd faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Pink Floyd because Pink Floyd is dying. Things are looking very bad for Pink Floyd. As many of us are already aware, Pink Floyd continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Pink Floyd leader Gilmour states that there are 7,000,000 listeners of Pink Floyd. How many listeners of Waters-era Floyd are there? Let's see. The number of Pink Floyd versus Waters-era Pink Floyd posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7,000,000/5 = 1,400,000 Waters-era listeners. Pink Floyd music posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of total Pink Floyd posts. Therefore there are about 700,000 listeners of Pink Floyd. A recent article put Gilmour-era PF at about 80 percent of the Pink Floyd market. Therefore there are (7,000,000+1,400,000+700,000)*4 = 36,400,000 Pink Floyd listeners. This is consistent with the number of Pink Floyd Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles between lyricist and vocalist, abysmal sales and so on, Roger Waters went out of the band and was taken over by another label who sell other troubled artists out. Now this label is also dead, its corpse turned over to another label.

All major surveys show that PF has steadily declined in market share. Pink Floyd is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If PF is to survive at all it will be among progrock fanboy dabblers. Pink Floyd continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Pink Floyd is dead.
In Soviet Russia . . . by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 08:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

. . . the gamecube plays YOU!!!!!
1. Re:In Soviet Russia . . . by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 10:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Cool, I love when someone plays with my "joystick"!
Re:On the other hand... by YourMissionForToday · 2003-01-23 09:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hi, I'm Guy Gardner. Fuck you!

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Re:On the other hand... by Sdrawcab · 2003-01-23 18:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I would reccomend some antibiotics for that burning thing.
Re:Nintendo is GAY by FunkSoulBrother · 2003-01-23 19:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'm confused... how can an corporation be homosexual? Are any megacorps bisexual?