Nintendo Announces New Console! Now Updated!

[Spike]

Nintendo has announced that it is introducing a brand new console in October of this year, designed specifically for China. Despite the rampant piracy of intellectual property in China, Nintendo is confident that its new, as of yet unnamed console will perform well in a market that has kept Sony and Microsoft at bay.

http://www.gaming-age.com/news/2003/9/24-95

It is said that Nintendo throws in the game machine of the popular edition which had an announcement today and which was made from exclusive use for China for the first time in China, and sets about a game enterprise completely as a game maker although that is right. also carrying with Bloomberg's report -- ARE -- it is -- an itemized statement -- you -- it collects into ??

<> "?? machine"
- A selling area will be expanded to sale and a stage target from the middle of October for 498 yuan (about 6700 yen) in three cities, such as Shanghai.
- Game software is structure downloaded and written in semiconductor memory.
- I have download done for 48 yuan (about 650 yen) in a tie-up special agent.
- This semiconductor memory is a mass NAND type flash memory (the original capacity is spread type 64 M bytes) which strengthened security.
- This software that comes out hard uses the existing software for the old model game machines, such as "64" etc. before a "game cube."
- Schedule which puts all into Chinese and supplies about 10 titles, such as the "Mario" series, at the time of an enterprise start
- Type will become compact. There is picture resolution high enough and a minute picture can also be taken out.

<> Business
- In advance of the China advance, Nintendo founds a new company "??" to KEIMAN islands.
- Although the future possibility does not deny, since it is neither that nor this and a home video game machine is developed first of all
- If it can succeed in China, similarly compared with an advanced nation, the deployment to the low country of income will be put in by the view.

<> Mr. Iwata
- Although China is a promising market, environment differs. The problem needed to be solved to carry out enterprise deployment.
- Although huge population is held and potential growth possibility can be expected
Since the illegal pirate edition copy of game software overruns, former advance has been shelved.
- Since the business model which suited the countries, such as new style game machine development and maintenance of a circulation system, this time was built, it opted for advance.
- It is necessary to have neither circulation stock nor a physical distribution infrastructure, and a pirate edition problem and a price recovery problem can also be solved.
- (the advance to the area where sale of an expensive game machine is difficult -- a view)

<> Other camps, others
- Sony is planning to sell PS2 within the limit of the inside of a year in the China market.
- There is no plan with concrete Microsoft in the China market.
- Production of game cube ? is resumed also to this autumn.
- The new style model of a home video game machine or handheld game machine is developed.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news...rCk&refer=topj

[epmode]

quoi?

what an odd bit of news. i suppose this is the hardware they've been hinting at for the past few weeks?

[Captain Vegetable]

Strange.

[Hot Like Wasabi]

Before any one else gets the chance....

MEGAT0N!1!!

[Kidnemo]

Some Snes/Nes type of flavor I'd guess with lots of rereleases.

Could be cool.

[Diff-chan]

Could be cool.

Probably won't be though.

[Jeremy]

It'll be interesting to see where this goes.

[Hot Like Wasabi]

I wonder if it will be just a Gamecube that takes advantage of software media that is even harder to pirate.

[Green]

scroll down a bit for a pic-
http://www.the-magicbox.com/gaming.htm

[raziel]

Big whoop. Black market versions of that thing have been around for a long ime already. Hell, you can go into any chinese supermarket and buy something similar to that, or many electronic stores in chinatown have that too, yeah here in the US!