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GameCube Successor For E3 2005?

Posted by simoniker on from the we-were-always-coming-back dept.

Yorrike writes "An article over at GamesIndustry.biz states that, contrary to previously debunked rumors, Nintendo is preparing its next-generation console for public view at E3 2005, which is only 15 months away. From the article: 'Minagawa went further than that, however, giving a bit of insight into the company's thinking on the next-generation N5 platform: 'Like our Nintendo DS portable game machine, our home game machine must offer an experience that can be enjoyed by adults, children, or women,' he commented, and then revealed that 'we would like to show this at E3 next spring.''."

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  1. Damn Japanese Culture by superpulpsicle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nintendo is what you call a typical japanese company. They will go down kamakazi style in console land before doing what Sega did.... becoming a direct console game publisher for PS2 and xbox. And wasting time and money making their own systems and programming libraries.

    Nintendo should just split the company up and have a separate entity dedicated to console games, and leave the other handheld division alone.

    By the end of this 64-bit battle, most players would have never tried metroid prime and other really good GC games. It's a real shame.

  2. What?!? by banjobear · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm still waiting for a reasonable catalog of games for the GC, and now it's going to be obsolete. I can't even find what GC games there are on the shelves of my game shop. If backward compatibility isn't a feature of the new console, I won't be buying it.