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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."
Please recheck your facts. Nintendo is as bad as $M and $ony. $hin-tendo is as money hungry as any other corporation, and as I recall they made deals with stores such as Toy R U$ to perpetuate a monopoly that pushed competitive groups out of their market. It wasn't till many lawsuits and regulations that Nintendo finally lost its stranglehold on the market.
I also don't find satisfaction in deny microsoft or sony money. If they sell a good product, I'm just as happy buying it from a large corporation as I would be if I bought it from a small business. Your partisan ideals really don't have a place in the console area mainly because what we are seeing is an era of awesome game choice, good prices, and good consoles.
Now mind you that I find the humor in your statements, but really the gamecube is a great console, that is NOT underpowered, but hey what do I know. I mean, according to microsoft a 733 celeron is faster than a 500mhz 128-bit processor. So obviously a 485Mhz proc of a different spec is guaranteed to be slower than the PS2 or xbox's proc. Also, the GC has a very nice graphics card, and fast ram. The only real drawback is that it lacks a hard drive. That's hardly a reason to be up in arms. Most games don't take advantage of the hard drive feature.
If your interepretation of "underpowered" is different from mine, please let me know.