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"GAMECUBE IS NINTENDOS LAST MACHINE!!!!!"

Its sad news! But my friend just told me about it now! HE read in on teletext news under a gaming section, stating that Nintendo will not make any more console because they are happy with what they have done and feel that they will not carry on.

I must confess I have heard rumorus about this aswell...

I dont post on this forum much so this post may be old news, but Im just quoting what my friend said and what I haev heard, it may not be true.... but please can anyone comfirm this??????????

IF it is true, then it will be very sad!

SEGA and Nintendo who where the ORIGINAL and I feel best console developers and game developers will no longer make consoles.. its a sad thing and the old rivalry between those two console was just gaming history and something none of us will forget....

Please say its not true! Has anyone else heard about this? Or am I just very slow? lol

Thanx.

i like doing turnovers on ropes!

mmmmmmmmmmm apple turnover

I quite like buying a new console, its exciting, makes me feel all funny, like climbing the rope in gym class.

i agree!

Yeah, but overall bringing out another console so soon means the games player has to fork out more money for another console. I'dbe extremely happy if in 7 years there were still good new GameCube games coming out while PS2 and Xbox fans were having to fork out for new consoles... I could spend more money o new games, new experiences, rather than the hardware required to give me these experiences...

The way i saw it though was that the Cube would last about 7 years so there would be no point in making another till at least 5 years giving them time to develope soley on games giving us the quailty they have always done and maybe some again too

Thank the heavens. I don't own a GameCube just yet (fingers cross for the future that I do), but I'd hate to see Nintendo pull out. I love their games and consoles since it seems to be the "Friendliest" Machine out there.

Edgy wrote:
> GameCube isn't Nintendo's last machine!
>
> I'm sure it was just an interpretation of what the current Nintendo
> president said.
>
Yes, read my post below this one...

> Anyway, Nintendo aren't making any more consoles til after the
> GameCube. What's the point in making a new console now when in four or
> five years there will be new technology out?

I'm afraid this is incorrect. Sony started PS3 development one month after the PS2 was released in Japan, Sega started DC2 development one month BEFORE the DC was released in Japan, and MS has hinted in an interview that they've started Xbox2 development.

The work that the hardware developers do now has NO bearing on the final console, however it:

1) Keeps investors confident that their money is going to good future use.
2) Means that the hardware development team don't have to be laid off! Instead they're given a new job.

Sonic

The almighty "They" said no such thing. Instead "They" had a press conference over a month ago in which the President said something like "we wish to focus more on games in the future". Due to an error in translation and a few Internet rumours (that Teletext, the poorest game journo site around has only just heard of!), the rumours of Ninty pulling out of the console scene spread like wildfire.

Shear non-sense. All "They" actually said was that, unlike Sony and Microsoft who seem to be pumping a lot into hardware (like modems, HDDs, web servers and web dev kits), Nintendo is instead just going to put most of their resources into games creation- their "one game a month" policy will hold.

Sonic

GameCube isn't Nintendo's last machine!

I'm sure it was just an interpretation of what the current Nintendo president said.

Anyway, Nintendo aren't making any more consoles til after the GameCube. What's the point in making a new console now when in four or five years there will be new technology out?

they said they wont make another console instead they willl concentrait on making games. The point they made is that they think the GC will least around 7 years so they see no point in making another one, just make quailty games instead.