Viewing Thread:
"New Ninty Console at E3 next year"

Will it be the N5 or a new Gameboy ?

Full details:

http://spong.com/index.asp?art=5798

Did the XBOX or M$ make a profit?

Just out of interest..

Yes. Alternatively they could just sack the senoir management and let us run the company, and watch as it smashes PS2 SMOKIN COMMIES!!!123

Perhaps. But still, I think the management are pathetic. Nintendo Of America seem the most on the ball, put them in charge.

Microsoft can aford to write off millions to the Xbox and no one will bat an eyelid - Nintendo don't have that luxury. Mighty soon a major Ninty investor is going to put 2 and 2 together and realise the future isn't in home consoles for their buiness. I just hope this happens before they have totally depleted any worth that's left in the buisness and can go on as a software only company more successfully than Sega.

And this is the quarter in which the Xbox turned a profit...

Just read further down the Reuters article and noticed this:

"An analyst at a U.S. brokerage, who asked not to be identified, said Nintendo would launch a toy-like game priced around $100 that would not directly compete with next-generation machines being developed by Sony Corp and Microsoft Corp"

That sound mighty like the Gamecube... ;)

It appears (because this is now the third revision of the Reuters piece) that the losses are just for the Japanese division... the most successful territory for the Gamecube and one that has traditionally stood by Nintendo through thick and thin. Which is worrying.

S-Scopeh wrote:
> there's no point rushing it
> the 'cube has a good year or so left in it.

Said on the same day Nintendo posted their first ever losses - Gamecube hasn't managed a good year in it's life, let alone having one left in it. Games-wsie, yeah, that's been good, but Ninty has to make some pennies sooner or later.

> ßulle††™ wrote:
> "Will not be a successor to current hardware"

Yay. I don't want to be buying new stuff quite that soon.

Cyclone wrote:
> I doubt it - The Q has been around for ages and ain't coming (damn
> them!)

*Rubs Q* Another reason to delay new consoles - it'd be crap if the Q was outdated. It's the best console in the universe :^)

ßulle††™ wrote:
> "Will not be a successor to current hardware"
>
> Could it be a PSX-a-like?

Like a Q?

I doubt it - The Q has been around for ages and ain't coming (damn them!)

But you never know.

It won't be out next year unless it's a new GBA to rival Sony's handheld

I doubt a new console will be out next year... they should take their time i and release it to rival the PS3 .. there's no point rushing it the 'cube has a good year or so left in it.