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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Thursday, June 10, 2004Nintendo's next-gen console plansA couple of interesting articles about Nintendo's plans for a next-generation video game console to rival the PS3 and Xbox Next:Wired: "Nintendo's president said Wednesday that the Japanese video-game company will debut a new console next year that will take a different tack than its competitors, hinting that the company will try to attract more-casual gamers. The new console, code-named Revolution, will be shown as a prototype next year and in final form at the annual E3 game conference in 2006, said Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's president ... Iwata said the current model of the video-game business -- trying to attract gamers with hardware that features ever-more-dazzling graphics -- is dying. With game sales steadily declining in Japan and growth slowing in the American market, he said it's going to take more than dazzle to sell new machines ... He wouldn't give the specifications of the new machines for fear of competition." CNN.com: "Iwata reiterated his view that Nintendo should not follow the strategy of Sony, which is working on a more powerful chip to drive its next-generation home game machine ... 'What we need is not a next-generation machine but a next-generation way of playing games,' Iwata told reporters at a Tokyo hotel. 'We need to propose a new idea so that the game industry can overcome its current crisis.' Global sales of the Nintendo Game Cube at 15 million lag Sony's PlayStation 2, which dominates the home console market with more than 71 million sold worldwide. U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. had sold nearly 14 million of its Xbox worldwide as of the end of last year." [ Posted at 11:33 AM | Permalink ]
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