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smerlus:
Nintendo postpones next-gen console?
 

[UPDATE] Japanese reports say the game giant has bowed out of the next-gen console race. However, Nintendo of America officials say such reports are "speculation."

This morning shock waves were sent through the game industry after an article in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun quoted Nintendo officials as saying that they had put plans to release a next-generation console on hold. The article quoted Nintendo president Satoru Iwata as deeming Nintendo's current GameCube as not having yet reached its full potential. "Customers are fully satisfied with the performance of the current model," said Iwata.








According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Nintendo management had decided to forgo development on the GameCube's successor to focus on peripherals that will enhance gameplay, including further interactivity with the Game Boy Advance and (presumably) the upcoming Nintendo DS. The article says that Nintendo would release the first of these peripherals in 2005, when Microsoft is expected to release its next Xbox. The next Sony console is not expected until 2006.

The article said Nintendo would still continue development of "a new home-use game machine for release in the future," but the earliest that machine would be released would be 2007.

However, according to Beth Llewellyn, Nintendo of America's director of corporate communications, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun article is erroneous and based on "a lot of speculation." She also said that the Iwata quote was from another article and was taken out of context.

Regarding the status of Nintendo's next console, Llewellyn told GameSpot, "We will launch at the same time as our competitors. Our status hasn't changed." However, Llewellyn did shed some light on its functionality. "While our competitors are focusing on being everything in the living room, we're focusing strictly on gameplay," she said, thus indicating that Nintendo's next console would not aspire to be a home entertainment center, like Sony's PSX. Llewellyn did say that Nintendo may be readying a new crop of peripherals for the GameCube. "We're always looking at accessories that enhance the GameCube."

If Nintendo does put its next-gen plans on hold, analysts say such a strategy shift would not be the desperate move some console-war partisans have (already) made it out to be. "Concentrating on the Game Boy Advance and new handheld systems to defend against serious competition from the Sony PSP is a sound strategy," said the Zelos Group's Billy Pidgeon.

However, Pidgeon also admitted that the gambit was not without risk. "It will be difficult to sustain third-party participation as the GameCube ages and newer home consoles are released," he said. Pidgeon also pegged the main beneficiary if Nintendo were to beat a temporary retreat. "Nintendo's decision to effectively abstain from the next generation of home consoles is better for Microsoft than Sony, as Nintendo's regrouping will help defend Nintendo handhelds against the PSP."

source: http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6089101.html

Trauma-san:

--- Quote from: smerlus on February 09, 2004, 06:34:57 PM ---However, according to Beth Llewellyn, Nintendo of America's director of corporate communications, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun article is erroneous and based on "a lot of speculation." She also said that the Iwata quote was from another article and was taken out of context.

Regarding the status of Nintendo's next console, Llewellyn told GameSpot, "We will launch at the same time as our competitors. Our status hasn't changed."
--- End quote ---

The only part you need to read is right there, since it's the only part from an official at Nintendo.  Why even speculate if she's straight up telling you it's not true?

The Big Bad Ass:
I personally am glad they are going to concentrate on the cube a while longer. Shows they are more interested in pleasing thier customer than knocking off the next competitor. Props to Nintendo.

smerlus:
i remember a runor came out saying SEGA was going third party and sega of america said that wasn't true because the owner or sega is a bigtime multimillionaire and he had enough money to back sega through anything and look what happened to them

nintendo of america has hardly any say when it comes to it's japanese counterpart

Trauma-san:
^ Here we go with that game again.  "Nintendo's JUST LIKE Sega!!!!" We'll just see what happens.  

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