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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Fri Jan 23, 2004 @ 1:18pm |
 Coolness: 69690 | [ money.cnn.com ]
Nintendo unveils dual-screen device Firm unwraps a portable video game system that it hopes will compete with Sony's upcoming PSP. January 21, 2004: 7:35 AM EST TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co. Ltd, after months of hinting it would roll out a new game product in 2004, took the wraps off Nintendo DS on Wednesday, a portable video game system with two screens, one above the other. Nintendo had been expected by industry players to offer some sort of new handheld product this year to compete with Sony Corp.'s PSP, an advanced handheld gaming device set for launch by the end of the year. Sony already dominates the console games market with its PlayStation 2. "We're not trying to take on PSP, because this machine will be completely different than anything that exists right now," said Nintendo spokesman Yasuhiro Minagawa. The company said it would hold back most details on the new product until the games industry's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles this May, but said it has already begun talks with game publishers around the world about developing software for the new device. Industry watchers also expect Sony to show off the PSP at the Los Angeles E3 games show. Sony's PlayStation guru Ken Kutaragi has said the PSP will be the "Walkman for the 21st century" and it will play not only games, but music and movies as well. He has said it will not feature a phone function like Nokia's N-Gage. The new Nintendo unit will feature two three-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) screens, dual processors and up to one gigabit of semiconductor memory. It is scheduled for launch by the end of this year and will be marketed alongside the company's GameCube home gaming console and Game Boy Advance handheld device, Nintendo said. Nintendo, the developers of legendary games such as Super Mario Brothers and Donkey Kong, controls almost the entire portable game device market with its Gameboy series. It forecasts global sales of 20 million Gameboy Advance units this year. "Chances are, knowing Nintendo, the new unit will be very price competitive and it will be marketed for universal use, so the kids will love it as well," said Hiroshi Kamide, analyst at KBC Securities. Nintendo said the dual screens on the new game machine would let players see the same game from two different perspectives, or see game action on one screen while looking at a map of the game environment on the other. The game system's dual processors will be based on chip designs from British semiconductor firm ARM, a leading designer of microchips for mobile phones and handheld computers. The new game system comes after a series of price cuts stimulated a more than 70 percent year-on-year rise in holiday sales for the GameCube. The Kyoto-based game maker said it would easily achieve a global sales target of six million GameCubes for the full business year, easing some market concerns about the feasibility of that goal after it sold only 890,000 units in the six months to Sept. 30. Nintendo plans to unveil nine-month sales figures for the GameCube and Gameboy Advance when it unveils quarterly results Jan. 29. After the announcement, shares of Nintendo hit an intraday high of ¥10,180. The stock closed up 0.4 percent at ¥10,100, versus a 0.91 percent fall in the Nikkei 225 average. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2004 All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Fri Jan 23, 2004 @ 1:38pm |
 Coolness: 686305 | That sounds pretty cool! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Fri Jan 23, 2004 @ 2:02pm |
 Coolness: 340380 | two displays?
i'm not getting why, why not have just a bigger screen instead? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Fri Jan 23, 2004 @ 3:00pm |
| Coolness: 69690 | i want one
nintendo should rightfully OWN the videogame console market |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Toltech replied on Fri Jan 23, 2004 @ 3:08pm |
 Coolness: 146135 | Originally posted by DJNFRM...
two displays? i'm not getting why, why not have just a bigger screen instead? yeah I don't get that either? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Fri Jan 23, 2004 @ 4:31pm |
| Coolness: 340380 | nintendo fucked up a while ago when they fucked with Sony.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» little_sarah replied on Fri Jan 23, 2004 @ 11:55pm |
 Coolness: 122155 | Originally posted by MOI...
i want one nintendo should rightfully OWN the videogame console market that breaks my heart.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Sat Jan 24, 2004 @ 1:23am |
| Coolness: 69690 | how so? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Sat Jan 24, 2004 @ 2:29am |
 Coolness: 201940 | competition is good |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» little_sarah replied on Sat Jan 24, 2004 @ 1:08pm |
| Coolness: 122155 | scott don't say that. and dino, i'm reading a book and every page is hurting my feelings. :( those japanese :(. i can't get into it- i won't be able to shut-up and it just gets me so mad. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Sat Jan 24, 2004 @ 5:17pm |
| Coolness: 69690 | i dont understand...
nintendo hurts your feelings because of the book youre reading? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Sat Jan 24, 2004 @ 10:20pm |
 Coolness: 72150 | do tell |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Sun Jan 25, 2004 @ 8:49pm |
| Coolness: 72150 | at least the title of the book |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Zz.ee.vV replied on Mon Jan 26, 2004 @ 3:10am |
 Coolness: 194740 | oh cmon its so obvious why two displays.
can anyone say MULTIPLAYER??? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon Jan 26, 2004 @ 6:50am |
| Coolness: 686305 | I'd think more stuff like RPGs, instead of going into a menu that takes the screen over, you can switch back and forth between screens. Or have a map displayed on the 2nd one while you walk around on the first. Side/rear-view mirrors in driving games. Text/hints/etc apearing on the 2nd screen. It's like having a second computer monitor. It's to expand the amount of things you can display at once, without it interfering with your main screen.
And sure, people are gonna say "Why not just make the screen wider" but then, people would want the whole screen to be the "main" and you'd still need to open up secondary functions and have them overlap. Plus, there's the burden on the VPU of running 2 seperate parts on one screen and keeping the colors proper and keeping everything moving smoothly. 2 displays = 2 VPUs, each concentrated to their own task. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Mon Jan 26, 2004 @ 12:53pm |
| Coolness: 69690 | ed zachary!! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Mon Jan 26, 2004 @ 2:06pm |
| Coolness: 340380 | ehh, do you really need to see stats and menus all the time? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Mon Jan 26, 2004 @ 2:38pm |
| Coolness: 69690 | idiot |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Mon Jan 26, 2004 @ 5:01pm |
| Coolness: 72150 | who is more evil...
nintendo or disney? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Mon Jan 26, 2004 @ 5:09pm |
| Coolness: 69690 | disney |
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