Nintendo Spokesman Talks Next-Gen and MS

Thanks to GamesIndustry.biz for an article outlining comments made by Nintendo VP of sales and marketing Reggie Fils-Aime. His comments confirm that Nintendo's next console will release around the same time as the PS3, and bashed MS for rushing to the next console generation. "Our focus is this: we will bring Revolution to the marketplace roughly at the same time as the competition," Fils-Aime told US website IGN. "We are driving our timetables based on what we believe Sony will do."

Comments

Ouch.

[marktaw.com]

Our focus is this: we will bring Revolution to the marketplace roughly at the same time as the competition

OUCH! Now that is a slap in the face to Microsoft.

Hmmm...

[ivan256]

What is Microsoft's motivation here anyway. I mean... Right now all they can really boast about over the PS2 is that they have a years worth of hardware advancement better graphics, and even that isn't helping the bottom line. If they come out way ahead with the next generation machines and Sony maintains it's development lineup strength, they won't even have better graphics to boast about in the next generation. All you have to do to see that being first isn't what makes you successful is to look at the Dreamcast.

The only think I can think of is that perhaps they're still losing money on each Xbox they sell, so the pressure is on to get something with lower manufacturing costs out the door...

This has always been Nintendo's Pattern of Attack

[rubberbando]

Think about it. In the 8-Bit days, the NES came out after the Sega Master System and Atari systems.

The 16-bit days, the SNES waited until after both the Sega Genesis and NEC's Turbografix-16 came out.

The 32/64-bit days, they waited to bring out the N64 long after the PSX and Sega Saturn. The same thing occurred with the Gamecube arriving just after the PS2 and XBox.

Nintendo likes to sit back and see what the competion comes out with and then trumps it shortly after.

Later to market isn't always a bad thing.