Nintendo is working on "replacement" for Mario and Pokemon for the next-gen systems

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Originally posted by Great Rumbler
[B]That's because they are more interested in actually MAKING GAMES instead putting a bunch of useless features into their console. Game consoles should play games not record your favorite tv shows, store your music collection, and wash your clothes.

That's not really true. Nintendo would certainly join Sony and MS if they really had a mind to, the reason they don't is both because it would cost Nintendo far more to produce such a console, as MS and Sony can much more easily and less expensively implement such features, and also because Nintendo has already tried the set-top box idea, with the Famicom (Ergo, family computer). The Famicom was originally intended to be the all-in-one entertainment device that allowed for such things as playing games, balancing your checkbook, and there were even attempts at creating a primitive network. Needless to say, the technology of the day did not quite match the vision, and it failed. After that, Nintendo's been totally against the idea. But don't think for a minute that they are games-only because they think people only want their machines to play games, that the Xbox and PS2 both outsell it disprove that idea. Nintendo won't go along with it because they simply cannot.