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Nintendo To Launch New Machine Next Year?

Posted by Hemos on from the trying-to-regain-the-market dept.

EvilDonut writes "According to Bloomberg.com, Nintendo intends to launch a new machine in Japan next year, in order "to boost sales". There are no details as to wether the machine will be hand-held or not, but Bloomberg does describe it as a next-generation console. This is pretty odd, as Nintendo has previously stated that the GameCube successor wouldn't be out until 2005, and the GBA is doing so well that I can't imagine they'll replace it as early as next year. The article also mentions the Nintendo iQue, so it's pretty clear this is not just a mix-up regarding the new, China-only system." Update: 11/13 23:44 GMT by S : GameSpot has a very cryptic clarification from Nintendo, that "the new product will be a unique item that is different from any traditional machine", and will be "be [neither] a home console nor a portable machine."

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  2. Re:Offtopic, I know, but... (Socre:-1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. creators' launch newclear power plan this year? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Re:next year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The State Of KDE

    We've seen a lot of important news regarding the KDE project over recent week, so it's worth pausing to consider the ramifications.

    Let's start with the recent acquisition of SUSE by Novell. SUSE was the biggest Linux distributor (though still dwarfed by Red Hat) to use KDE as its default desktop. SUSE has, for many years, neglected to package the GNOME desktop properly or even do basic Q&A... much to the delight of KDE fanatics. Now, however, Novell has purchased the SUSE linux distribution and Ximian a company best known for the producing the most polished and professional version of the GNOME desktop. The obvious conclusion to be drawn from this is that KDE is about to lose its main commercial support.

    Let's take a look at some of the reasons why this is so:

    • GNOME has always been the commerical desktop of choice. It has long been focussed on getting the basics right... as opposed to KDE, which is almost entirely aimed at pleasing the slashdot peanut gallery with pointless eye-candy. KDE features are thrown into the mix with little or no regard for usability, or good taste for that matter. The end result, as I will show later, is disasterous.
    • KDE is extremely expensive to develop for, unless you intend to produce GPL software alone. TrollTech, the owners of KDE and Qt, license the X11 version of their Qt toolkit under the GPL. This forces anyone wanting to develop software built on top of it (including KDE), to be (L)GPL licensed -- or pay TrollTech $3000 for every developer you have working on the application.
    • TrollTech is also vulnerable to takeover by companies hostile to Free software and good corporate lawyers who can blow holes in the laughable FreeQt agreements.
    • Qt's/KDE lack of accessiblity. GNOME has spent the last 18 months (at least) developing and polishing the accessiblity of the GNOME desktop (thanks to the fine work of Sun engineers). KDE has spent the time making *fake* translucent menus. A10y is vital, a desktop cannot be sold to the U.S. government unless it supports features necessary for disable users to make full use of it. Expect increasing numbers of paniced announcements of weak a10y support from the KDE project, as the full extent of their folly and true gap to GNOME finally becomes obvious to them.
    • Novell is already engaged in training its engineers in development using GTK/GNOME -- not Qt/KDE.
    • Nat Friedman (co-founder of Ximian), recently made a post to slashdot explaining the take-over and future directions. Much has been made of Novell's claims that it will continue to "support" KDE, but this is merely as legacy software. As Nat's post makes clear, the future of Novell is GNOME and the push for a single dominant desktop.
    • Many desperate and ignorant (ie, most of them) KDE advocates are clinging to the idea that Novell will run KDE with Ximian/GNOME's superior software like Evolution. Little do they realise that running Evolution is running GNOME. Evolution is deeply integrated into GNOME... running a KDE desktop with Evolution is the height of stupidity and only added to the extraordinary bloat and sloth assocated with KDE. Why would a company maintain, develop and test two different code bases? They wouldn't... hence the reason why KDE dead at SUSE.

    The writing is on the wall. SUSE was purchased as a solid Linux server base (but only because Novell could not afford Red Hat), and Ximian was purchased to provide the desktop expertise and its impressive catalogue of GNOME applications (not to mention Mono). Much has been made about SUSE's "configuration" tools being KDE-integrated. Not only is this not true (they are QT, all it needs is the Qt library not the mega-bloat of KDE), but we are talking about simple GUI front-ends talking to the grunt-work backends which are not associated with the KDE desktop. Rewriting th

  5. TEH TWIN SNAKES!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mei Ling: Snake, in China they say don't kill mosquito with cannon.
    Snake: What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
    Mei Ling: Tee-hee!