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Japanese Console Rumors Debunked

Posted by simoniker on from the ps4-not-coming-out-in-time-for-halloween dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Video-Fenky blog post translating the 'Truth behind the rumors' feature that ran in Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu recently. Intriguing questions answered by major Japanese gaming companies include the use of the Cell processor in Sony's Playstation 3 ("..we will be investing 200 billion yen [$1.7 billion] over the next three years into Cell manufacturing facilities."), why Nintendo aren't so hot about online support ("As long as the rate of broadband installation isn't up there with TV sets, then online play can't be the core of business development"), and why Nokia's N-Gage won't be coming out in Japan ("..protocols are incompatible, [the N-Gage] cannot be used as a communications device in Japan.")

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  1. Re:Poor Nokia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    "Wasn't planning on buying one, but geez, we need some competition for the GBA."

    PSP will be the first "real" competition for the GBA in the US since the Game Gear.

    Anyway...after playing with the N-Gage at E3, I HOPE it fails, at least in its current state. As a gaming machine, its pretty crappy. Hell, I'd probably take the Tetris or Breakout clones on my crappy cell phone than trying to nagivigate an actual game with controls like that.

    I can't see the NGage working as a phone OR a gaming machine...