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Nintendo drops the Megaton

Out of Tokyo this morning (mid-day in Japan) Nintendo has announced the move that could change gaming forever.

In an announcement early this morning, Nintendo and Sony executives announced that they had come to a legal agreement over the rights to the name 'Playstation'. The name, which was originaly given to a joint-venture CD rom based add-on for the Super Nintendo, was technically, a joint-owned copyright. Sony has agreed to pay Nintendo 10% of all past and future proceeds made off of the name. This ammounts to a whopping 2.3 billion USD in back-payments. Nintendo will allow Sony to pay the money back in installments instead of a lump sum over the next 20 years. However, Nintendo has plans for their new found source of income. They will immidietly finance a new game studio called 'The Artists Group' which will feature members of Sega, Nintendo, Namco, Capcom, Konami, Tecmo, Square-Enix and more to collaborate on projects for Nintendo systems, and exchange copyrighted properties. The first projects announced out of this new studio are a new RPG using various gaming icons as the central charachters, a new Smash Brothers game, featuring mascots from accross the companies, including Pacman, Megaman, Sonic, Mario and more, as well as a new Sega-AM2 developed racing game that will also feature multiple icons from the various companies. The final collaboration is the recently announced Viewtifull Joe from Capcom stuidios. Nintendo has also promised that completely original more collaborations between studios will take place in the future, but for now, they will be focusing on quality content showcasing the newfound bond between the various development houses. Contrary to internet rumors however, Nintendo has not as of yet purchased any software developers, and as such, all members of the Artists Group will be allowed to explore development on other systems of their own accord. More as it develops.

[UPDATED: Wednesday 2:17 18/12/2002]

Bloody hell.. I want a buy out of Sega and Capcom!

sam 41 wrote:
> Ev][L~Dark wrote:
> sam 41 wrote:
> Ev][L~Dark wrote:
> 8|
>
> ...I believe it is too, I an't tursting anything untill Nintendo
> Auctally say it themselves.
> untill EY?
> Auctally EY?
>
> You must learn by that i'm the worst speller in the world :p#
>
> Ok, sorry mate, just feeling a bit spontanious, we all make mistakes,
> well most of us. Well, every one Except >Sam41<
>
> Sma43

I'm glad you said sorry in a way

*Handshake*

Thanks too :)

GnomeKiller wrote:
> Unrelated to 'Megaton', are Nintendo sueing Sony?

if you read the statement they have come to a "legal agreement". this avoids going to court.
it is actually related to megaton, as that is how ninty are funding the new company: TAG or "the artsist's group"

Unrelated to 'Megaton', are Nintendo sueing Sony?

GnomeKiller wrote:
> So, is this a hoax then?

80% sure it's not a hoax.
no one knows, no other sites have picked the story up yet. keep looking at cube-europe for a response, though.

er-no wrote:
> I told you it was seven companies.

good work *gives er-no a lolly and pats him on the back*

So, is this a hoax then?

we already have a cube smash game with ninty characters.
when they said there were going to do a 4th game (2 N64 smash games + smash melee on cube), i was worried, but now i see why it will just be as good as berfore!
i say only this: think of the trophies!

So, is this a hoax or what? If it isn't then it's great news.... except that Super Smash Bros. thing, it should be purely Ninty characters!

lol. i cant see why this is a hoax.
*checks date* ahhh! it's not dec 18th, it's april 1st!