THQ ON DOLPHIN
March 24, 2000

Brian Farrell, President & CEO of THQ, has confirmed that they have "Dolphin systems in house."

Farrel told ON24: "Well those platforms are buffer platforms... and I would actually add GBC to that as well... we're the largest publisher of Game Boy Color software... Dreamcast is pretty much the same way... We have announced four titles for Dreamcast this year, it's tough especially after seeing the X-Box and now that we have Dolphin systems in house for the next-generation Nintendo system, it's hard for us currently to see a long term strategy for Dreamcast to make sense. We see it as a transitional platform..."

Farrell also added that Nintendo's royalty fees will likely be the same as PlayStation2 and Dreamcast.

"Honestly, we don't know yet. We just have not been given that information from Nintendo. We suspect that since, as you suggested, they are going to use an optical based system, the model will be similar to what Sony and Sega have established [for their consoles]."

Source: N2HQ