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Panasonic Stops Production Of GameCube-Based Q

Posted by simoniker on from the cube-oddity dept.

cdneng2 writes "Gamesindustry.biz has the scoop that Matsushita (Panasonic) has stopped production of the Nintendo Q system. For those of you who weren't aware, the Q system was an integrated Gamecube and DVD player. Too bad it wasn't offered in the United States at all." IGN Gear had a review of the Panasonic Q when it first launched in early 2002, and now that "Matsushita intends to cease manufacture of the device immediately", the device's collectible status seems assured.

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  1. Get 'em while they last... by Kris_J · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nintendo's favourite company, Lik-Sang, has modified versions of the Q with multi-region support. Unfortunately it's just too big, heavy and expensive for me to risk importing.

  2. Re:How? by unclethursday · · Score: 2, Informative
    Panasonic's parent company, Matsushita, worked with Nintendo to design the GC disk drives and the mini-DVD disks that the GC uses.

    They are a partner with Nintendo on the GameCube, bust like IBM, ATi, and MoSys are.

    Really, all they did was take the GC drive, make it bigger and able to read both GC disks and DVDs (and CDs) and market it. This was done with Nintendo's blessing, as Nintendo only wanted to market the game-machine-only GC, while Panasonic could market the multi-function Q.