Nintendo To Debut Next-Gen Console At E3 2005

Posted by simoniker on Thursday May 27, 2004 @07:41AM from the cube-squared dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to Reuters, Nintendo has indicated it will debut its next-generation console at next May's E3, as part of financial results in which the company showed net profit of 70 billion yen ($625 million) - this figure still 'fell by half in the past business year, hurt by disappointing sales of its GameCube console and currency losses, but [Nintendo] predicted earnings would bounce back this year.' The company also indicated 'target shipments of 3.5 million 'DS' machines', with Nintendo's Yoshihiro Mori saying: 'In order to have the DS out by Christmas, we plan to start production late summer or early fall and boost production every month.'"

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Re:Backwards Compatibility? by galaxy300 · 2004-05-27 08:39 · Score: 2, Informative

I thought that the word on the street regarding Xbox Next was that it *wouldn't* be backwards compatible. New processor architecture, new graphics chipset (NVidia owning the IP to the original graphics chisp) would make including backwards comp. in the hwardware or software pretty difficult.

Did some news come out that I missed?

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