Nintendo Discusses Next System

Metal Mario · 01-24-2003, 04:36 PM

*Source: Planet Gamecube

In an interview with Reuters Thursday, Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata made it crystal clear that they intend to return to a leadership position in the next generation race. and will have a successor to the GameCube ready for 2005.

Nintendo is far behind Sony in the current console race, with Sony having a year and a half head start with it's PlayStation 2 console. Iwata feels that if GameCube had launched at the same time, "the result would have been very different."

While the new machine is planned for 2005, it will likely depends on when developers can have software ready, which may push the machine into 2006.

Nintendo has firmly denied rumors that they would follow the lead of Sega, which pulled out of the console hardware market to develop only software. "When we withdraw from the home game console, that's when we withdraw from the video game business," Iwata said.

In an effort to shore up hardware and software sales in the current generation, Nintendo will be releasing more software that will take advantage of the Game Boy Advance's ability to link up with the GameCube, including new Pokemon games for each system. "Our focus for 2003 is to offer new types of games which allow consumers to play both on the GameCube and Game Boy Advance," Iwata said. Nintendo is also considering another price cut, although the plans are not immediate.

01-24-2003, 04:57 PM

This is madness! This means the gamecube will have been out for about 3-4 years! 2 for Americans

Metal Mario · 01-24-2003, 05:11 PM

Um...what? By late 2005, the Gamecube will have been released for 4 full years.

01-24-2003, 05:49 PM

Don't worry. There will be "delays."

01-24-2003, 05:50 PM

And Shane giving his completely 'unbiased' opinion all the way through it.

Metal Mario · 01-24-2003, 06:46 PM

I wouldn't be surprised if the Gamecube's successor didn't launch until 2006. There was something on IGN about competing systems not launching until then either. But that's fine with me. At the moment, I'm ready to let the Gamecube live forever.

01-24-2003, 08:21 PM

My unbiased opinion is that this report contains very few shreds of actual truth and fewer that the entire world doesn't know already that it's rendered close to worthless.

He did say "when," not "if," though.

I couldn't imagine a 6 year gap to PS3, though I wouldn't put it past Sony/Microsoft.

01-24-2003, 09:11 PM

Quote:

He did say "when," not "if," though.

You're right, that kinda troubles me. Not that they are withdrawing from the console market (which I know will happen eventually) but that they get out of the video game business altogether.

01-24-2003, 09:12 PM

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Originally posted by SSacobie Advance SP Professional:
Don't worry. There will be "delays."

I agree. Either way, I think all this is saying, is that Nintendo realizes that they have to launch their next console alongside Sony and Microsoft, or they will have no way to compete. Also showing that they realize that the predictions of an 7yr(or whatever it was) is unrealistic, and they realize it.

01-25-2003, 07:02 AM

I don't care WHEN it's released as long as they do what they promised to do with the GCN but never went through with; releasing it at the same time all around the world.

01-25-2003, 07:50 AM

^ they'd better do that.

Metal Mario · 01-25-2003, 09:05 AM

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Originally posted by SSacobie Advance SP Professional:
He did say "when," not "if," though.

He didn't say "when" as in the context that it's going to happen eventually. He said "when" as in the context of "You'll get my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hands."

**Wyborn** · 01-25-2003, 09:44 AM

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Originally posted by Metal Mario:
"When we withdraw from the home game console, that's when we withdraw from the video game business," Iwata said.

Aw, FUDGE-PUPPETS! My biggest hope for when/if they leave the console market is that I would be able to buy other systems and still play those wondrous games....but those hopes are shattered! WAAAA

01-25-2003, 10:05 AM

Dang, so if Nintendo kicks the bucket, does that mean we'll go back to playing Nintendo card games?

Or is he implying that we should sabotage Sony and Microsoft so we can still have Nintendo games in the future? So many subliminal messages in that statement, we dare not take it at face value...

Metal Mario · 01-25-2003, 10:16 AM

Okay, everybody take a deep breath. Relax. Picture yourself in a sunny meadow. Now repeat after me.

Nintendo is not leaving the hardware business.

Even if they were, they would not quit the software business.

But Nintendo is not leaving the hardware business.

01-25-2003, 10:33 AM

*is blinded by the outside light and promptly dies*

I don't think A sunny meadow is good for gamers, how about something like a multicolor lighted basement full of video games and refreshments?

01-25-2003, 10:48 AM

It's more of an idle threat than anything else. Nintendo will go third party one day. Just not very willingly. That's the thing that will turn them from the steady growth company that they were through 2001 into one that's unreliable. They have nothing but video games. We all know it. Unless they try to release an OS.

01-25-2003, 11:08 PM

^ lol, a ninty OS, funny, funny. Nintendo is just saying they are as commited to hardware as they are to software.

01-26-2003, 12:59 PM

If Nintendo dropped from the console business, they'd just make GB systems and games. And if even that failed, they would copyright all their liscences for the next 500 years and sit on them forever. They're just that spiteful!

Super Star 9 · 01-28-2003, 10:38 PM

I don't really care how long it takes for a new system.I just wish they would make some more Mario games for Gamecube till them.
It's-a-me-a-Mario and i'm-a- number one!

01-24-2003, 04:36 PM	#1
Metal Mario Game Brain Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 14,262 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 8,105.00 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 8,105.00 Donate	*Source: Planet Gamecube In an interview with Reuters Thursday, Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata made it crystal clear that they intend to return to a leadership position in the next generation race. and will have a successor to the GameCube ready for 2005. Nintendo is far behind Sony in the current console race, with Sony having a year and a half head start with it's PlayStation 2 console. Iwata feels that if GameCube had launched at the same time, "the result would have been very different." While the new machine is planned for 2005, it will likely depends on when developers can have software ready, which may push the machine into 2006. Nintendo has firmly denied rumors that they would follow the lead of Sega, which pulled out of the console hardware market to develop only software. "When we withdraw from the home game console, that's when we withdraw from the video game business," Iwata said. In an effort to shore up hardware and software sales in the current generation, Nintendo will be releasing more software that will take advantage of the Game Boy Advance's ability to link up with the GameCube, including new Pokemon games for each system. "Our focus for 2003 is to offer new types of games which allow consumers to play both on the GameCube and Game Boy Advance," Iwata said. Nintendo is also considering another price cut, although the plans are not immediate.

01-24-2003, 04:57 PM	#2
NintendoNut Guest Posts: n/a Points: 0 Bank: 0 Total Points: 0 Donate	This is madness! This means the gamecube will have been out for about 3-4 years! 2 for Americans

01-24-2003, 05:11 PM	#3
Metal Mario Game Brain Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 14,262 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 8,105.00 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 8,105.00 Donate	Um...what? By late 2005, the Gamecube will have been released for 4 full years.

01-24-2003, 05:49 PM	#4
SSacobie Guest Posts: n/a Points: 0 Bank: 0 Total Points: 0 Donate	Don't worry. There will be "delays."

01-24-2003, 05:50 PM	#5
Masamune Guest Posts: n/a Points: 0 Bank: 0 Total Points: 0 Donate	And Shane giving his completely 'unbiased' opinion all the way through it.

01-24-2003, 06:46 PM	#6
Metal Mario Game Brain Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 14,262 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 8,105.00 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 8,105.00 Donate	I wouldn't be surprised if the Gamecube's successor didn't launch until 2006. There was something on IGN about competing systems not launching until then either. But that's fine with me. At the moment, I'm ready to let the Gamecube live forever.

01-24-2003, 08:21 PM	#7
SSacobie Guest Posts: n/a Points: 0 Bank: 0 Total Points: 0 Donate	My unbiased opinion is that this report contains very few shreds of actual truth and fewer that the entire world doesn't know already that it's rendered close to worthless. He did say "when," not "if," though. I couldn't imagine a 6 year gap to PS3, though I wouldn't put it past Sony/Microsoft.

01-25-2003, 07:02 AM	#10
Bryne Guest Posts: n/a Points: 0 Bank: 0 Total Points: 0 Donate	I don't care WHEN it's released as long as they do what they promised to do with the GCN but never went through with; releasing it at the same time all around the world.

01-25-2003, 07:50 AM	#11
Koga Guest Posts: n/a Points: 0 Bank: 0 Total Points: 0 Donate	^ they'd better do that.

01-25-2003, 10:05 AM	#14
Masamune Guest Posts: n/a Points: 0 Bank: 0 Total Points: 0 Donate	Dang, so if Nintendo kicks the bucket, does that mean we'll go back to playing Nintendo card games? Or is he implying that we should sabotage Sony and Microsoft so we can still have Nintendo games in the future? So many subliminal messages in that statement, we dare not take it at face value...

01-25-2003, 10:16 AM	#15
Metal Mario Game Brain Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 14,262 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 8,105.00 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 8,105.00 Donate	Okay, everybody take a deep breath. Relax. Picture yourself in a sunny meadow. Now repeat after me. Nintendo is not leaving the hardware business. Even if they were, they would not quit the software business. But Nintendo is not leaving the hardware business.

01-25-2003, 10:33 AM	#16
Masamune Guest Posts: n/a Points: 0 Bank: 0 Total Points: 0 Donate	is blinded by the outside light and promptly dies I don't think A sunny meadow is good for gamers, how about something like a multicolor lighted basement full of video games and refreshments?

01-25-2003, 10:48 AM	#17
SSacobie Guest Posts: n/a Points: 0 Bank: 0 Total Points: 0 Donate	It's more of an idle threat than anything else. Nintendo will go third party one day. Just not very willingly. That's the thing that will turn them from the steady growth company that they were through 2001 into one that's unreliable. They have nothing but video games. We all know it. Unless they try to release an OS.

01-25-2003, 11:08 PM	#18
darkintention Guest Posts: n/a Points: 0 Bank: 0 Total Points: 0 Donate	^ lol, a ninty OS, funny, funny. Nintendo is just saying they are as commited to hardware as they are to software.

01-26-2003, 12:59 PM	#19
tikerman Guest Posts: n/a Points: 0 Bank: 0 Total Points: 0 Donate	If Nintendo dropped from the console business, they'd just make GB systems and games. And if even that failed, they would copyright all their liscences for the next 500 years and sit on them forever. They're just that spiteful!

01-28-2003, 10:38 PM	#20
Super Star 9 Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: don,t know Posts: 443 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 1,034.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 1,534.00 Donate	I don't really care how long it takes for a new system.I just wish they would make some more Mario games for Gamecube till them. It's-a-me-a-Mario and i'm-a- number one!