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AM2forever
The reports of Nintendo exiting the console industry are false.
Nintendo will show its next console, codenamed N5, the sucessor to
Gamecube, next year at E3 2005.
[for the ATI newsgroup]:
As expected, Nintendo's N5 console will be powered by an ATI-designed
graphics processor. Gamecube's GPU was designed by ARTX, not ATI. But
when ATI bought ARTX in 2000, they acquired the Gamecube graphics
technology.
now, the links:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?section_name=pub&aid=2958
http://cube.ign.com/articles/491/491248p1.html
http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6089148.html
http://www.nintendojo.com/infocus/view_item.php?1076440437
http://www.planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=item&id=4935
http://www.1up.com/article2/0,4364,1523618,00.asp
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040210/tc_nm/tech_japan_nintendo_dc_1
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040210/tc_nm/tech_japan_nintendo_dc_2
(gameindustry.biz) quote:
"Nintendo N5 set to make E3 2005 appearance
Rob Fahey 14:05 11/02/2004
Next-gen console to debut in 2005, with 2006 date likely for launch
The next home console from Nintendo will be shown off in public at E3
2005, according to comments from senior company executives quoted in a
report in Japanese daily newspaper Mainichi Shimbun.
The news follows intense speculation earlier this week concerning
Nintendo's future intentions in the home console market, after another
Japanese newspaper - Nihon Keizai Shimbun - and ****several western
media sources misinterpreted statements**** from company president
Satoru Iwata as implying that the company had postponed plans to
launch a new hardware platform.
Nintendo's hand has undoubtedly been forced by that speculation, with
NCL PR boss Yasuhiro Minagawa explaining that "it [Iwata's comment]
was supposed to mean that Sony and Microsoft are expected to release
their next-generation consoles from 2005 to 2006, and we also won't be
releasing one until that period."
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."
This timescale won't come as a surprise to many people. It's widely
expected that all three next-generation consoles will arrive in 2006 -
although recent reports have suggested that Microsoft may attempt to
steal a march by launching in late 2005 - and that would tie in with a
public unveiling of N5 at E3 in mid-2005.
It's known that the N5 will be based on a PowerPC type chip from IBM,
quite possibly very similar to the processors being used in the Xbox
2, while the graphics chipset will be provided by ATI - again, the
same supplier being used by Microsoft for Xbox 2. However, despite the
similar architecture, there's nothing to suggest that Nintendo and
Microsoft are building compatible hardware, or that Nintendo plans to
use a rebranded Xbox 2 as the base platform for N5.
Microsoft is expected to announce the existence of Xbox 2, along with
a limited set of outline specifications, (allegedly codenamed Xenon)
at the Game Developers Conference next March, but it seems unlikely
that a full public unveiling of the console will happen until late
this year. Many commentators seem convinced that Sony will reveal PS3
at E3 in May, but with the company's focus firmly on exploiting the
PS2 platform and launching PSP, it seems unlikely that PS3 will debut
this year."
Nintendo will show its next console, codenamed N5, the sucessor to
Gamecube, next year at E3 2005.
[for the ATI newsgroup]:
As expected, Nintendo's N5 console will be powered by an ATI-designed
graphics processor. Gamecube's GPU was designed by ARTX, not ATI. But
when ATI bought ARTX in 2000, they acquired the Gamecube graphics
technology.
now, the links:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?section_name=pub&aid=2958
http://cube.ign.com/articles/491/491248p1.html
http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6089148.html
http://www.nintendojo.com/infocus/view_item.php?1076440437
http://www.planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=item&id=4935
http://www.1up.com/article2/0,4364,1523618,00.asp
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040210/tc_nm/tech_japan_nintendo_dc_1
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040210/tc_nm/tech_japan_nintendo_dc_2
(gameindustry.biz) quote:
"Nintendo N5 set to make E3 2005 appearance
Rob Fahey 14:05 11/02/2004
Next-gen console to debut in 2005, with 2006 date likely for launch
The next home console from Nintendo will be shown off in public at E3
2005, according to comments from senior company executives quoted in a
report in Japanese daily newspaper Mainichi Shimbun.
The news follows intense speculation earlier this week concerning
Nintendo's future intentions in the home console market, after another
Japanese newspaper - Nihon Keizai Shimbun - and ****several western
media sources misinterpreted statements**** from company president
Satoru Iwata as implying that the company had postponed plans to
launch a new hardware platform.
Nintendo's hand has undoubtedly been forced by that speculation, with
NCL PR boss Yasuhiro Minagawa explaining that "it [Iwata's comment]
was supposed to mean that Sony and Microsoft are expected to release
their next-generation consoles from 2005 to 2006, and we also won't be
releasing one until that period."
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."
This timescale won't come as a surprise to many people. It's widely
expected that all three next-generation consoles will arrive in 2006 -
although recent reports have suggested that Microsoft may attempt to
steal a march by launching in late 2005 - and that would tie in with a
public unveiling of N5 at E3 in mid-2005.
It's known that the N5 will be based on a PowerPC type chip from IBM,
quite possibly very similar to the processors being used in the Xbox
2, while the graphics chipset will be provided by ATI - again, the
same supplier being used by Microsoft for Xbox 2. However, despite the
similar architecture, there's nothing to suggest that Nintendo and
Microsoft are building compatible hardware, or that Nintendo plans to
use a rebranded Xbox 2 as the base platform for N5.
Microsoft is expected to announce the existence of Xbox 2, along with
a limited set of outline specifications, (allegedly codenamed Xenon)
at the Game Developers Conference next March, but it seems unlikely
that a full public unveiling of the console will happen until late
this year. Many commentators seem convinced that Sony will reveal PS3
at E3 in May, but with the company's focus firmly on exploiting the
PS2 platform and launching PSP, it seems unlikely that PS3 will debut
this year."