Quote:Next piece of Nintendo hardware to debut in March
» More vague-yet-lofty promises made on upcoming product.
News | Tuesday, December 30, 2003 | Ed McGlothlin [Contributing Editor]
During a Christmas Day interview with Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata confirmed that the company's next major new piece of hardware is now set for debut next March.
If that seems early for a Gamecube replacement, Nintendo agrees. Iwata reiterated that the hardware will function alongside the GC and GBA, replacing neither one. Referred to as Nintendo's third major hardware product, the unnamed item will be later be featured at E3 and released in the second half of 2004. The company previously expressed a plan to release it simultaneously in the US and Japan.
Iwata also stated that Nintendo was looking to cooperate more with both Japanese and foreign companies in hardware and software development. Shimbum quoted the veteran Nintendo executive as saying the product "will be a new type of machine for the 21st century allowing all new types of control and play," following previous quotes declaring the machine "totally different" from anything existing today. Your guess is as good as ours.
If it's been mentioned here before, oh well.
Well... er, strange... they sure are specific.
We'll see. That's about all I can say...
Oh, from Magicbox. Last line is different.
Quote:- The Mainichi newspaper reported that Nintendo president Saturo Iwata intends to launch a new console system by the end of 2004, which is neither the successor of GameCube nor GameBoy Advance, the new system will have a new direction, and it will coexist with the successor of GameCube and GameBoy Advance in future. The new machine is said to have wireless data communication via radio.
