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Nintendo's Next Seems on Track, Despite Reports
KaiEl writes "The Video Game Ombudsman has a breakdown of the myriad reports stemming from a Nihon Keizai Shimbun story (picked up by GameCube Europe) that says Nintendo 'has decided not to release a new video game console to follow its current GameCube for the time being,' and 'will instead diversify games and sell newly developed peripherals mainly for the GameCube.' Despite the existence of some breathless initial stories from IGN and 1UP, this story may already be dead in the water thanks to firm denials by both Nintendo of America and its Japanese parent, Nintendo Co. Ltd. Still, just the intimation that Nintendo may be planning to sit out the next round of the console race will surely have the Internet rumor mill buzzing."
--Stephen
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
NES debuted in North America in what, 1984? Followed by the SNES in 1993 I think? 9 years or so between the two.
On the contrary, it was 6 years. 1985 for the NES, 1991 for the SNES.
I thought Gamecube already had a component video cable. Sure, its sold seperately but its available.
The GameCube already has component video and ethernet add-ons available. Support for digital audio would have to added internally, so I doubt that's even possible as an add-on (you'd just be converting the audio signal that's already coming out, which would be pointless).
;)
If you want better HDTV support and Dolby Digital, it's going to take a new console to get it. Sorry, you can't have it both ways.
I got many of my Gamecube games at value prices:
Pikmin - $19.99
Eternal Darkness - $14.99
Ikaruga - $19.99
Starfox - $19.99
Resident Evil 0 - $19.99
And many more. I think that even Metroid is close to that price range right now, as are many of the other games that I once paid full price for.