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Die Quelle is aber nich zufällig ma wieder GF?
Kann sein das Gamefront das missinterpretiert hat!
Hier der Originaltext ausm Maniac den ich noch nicht gelesen hab!
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Autor: Bloodflower (bloodflower66@arcor.de)
Datum: 13.11.03 11:51
Antwort auf: Gamecube 2 erscheint Ende 2004 von KOSH
Nintendo to Debut New Game Machine Next Year (Update1)
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Nintendo Co., the world's biggest maker of hand-held game players, plans to introduce a new video- game machine in Japan next year to stem losses and defend its share of an $8 billion market for hardware and software.
The device will be unveiled at the Electronic Entertainment Exposition next May in Los Angeles, Senior Managing Director Yoshihiro Mori told reporters in Osaka.
He didn't say whether it will be a new GameBoy hand-held or a version of the Kyoto-based company's GameCube home-use console.
Nintendo revealed the plan as it posted a 2.89 billion yen ($27 million) first-half net loss, its first since going public in 1962, partly because of competition with Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox. Takashi Okatani and other investors said Nintendo could gain an advantage by being first with a machine outfitted with the latest graphics chips.
``Nintendo has to launch its next-generation console ahead of Sony and Microsoft, and it has to succeed,'' said Okatani, who helps manage the equivalent of $4.2 billion at Shinko Investment Trust Management Co., which holds Nintendo's shares. ``The key is attracting software makers and being the first to launch new hardware is a plus.''
Nintendo signed an agreement in March to develop products with computer graphics chip maker ATI Technologies Inc. NEC Electronics Corp. and Sharp Corp., both of Japan, meanwhile, are developing new semiconductors for the gamemaker. Mori said he hoped the machine could go on sale simultaneously in some markets outside Japan.
Being First
Sony, which is still developing its new ``Cell'' processor chip, will this year start selling the PSX, which marries the PlayStation 2 and a hard-disk drive television program recorder. Microsoft hasn't said anything about a successor to the XBox.
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata acknowledged this year the company erred in not being the first with the current generation of consoles. GameCube was released more than a year after Sony's PlayStation 2 and lagged the debut of Microsoft's Xbox in the U.S., which Iwata partly blamed for the machine's sales results.
The company that once dominated the video-game industry saw its worldwide market share fall to 38 percent in 2002 from 43 percent the previous year, according to the Japan-based Computer Entertainment Suppliers' Association.
The company behind games involving the leaping plumber Mario and the Pokemon world of imaginary monsters has accelerated plans for a new machine since last year.
Earnings
Citing the
yen's gains against the dollar and lower-than- expected GameCube sales, Nintendo said it had a loss of 21.57 yen a share, in the six months ended Sept. 30, compared with net income of 19.0 billion yen, or 133.95 yen, a year earlier. First- half sales rose 1.6 percent to 211.4 billion yen. The figures were in line with estimates released last month.
Nintendo reiterated its full-year profit and sales forecasts, saying it expects net income to fall 10.8 percent to 60 billion yen from 67.3 billion yen a year earlier and sales may rise 9.1 percent to 550 billion yen from 504.1 billion yen.
The company also announced that it will begin selling a game console specially designed for the China market this month.
Nintendo also reiterated its full-year forecast for hardware shipments, predicting it will ship 6 million GameCubes and 20 million GameBoy Advance players.
The stronger yen reduced the value of overseas assets by 40.3 billion yen in the first half, the company said. Operating profit rose 3 percent to 28.7 billion yen in the period.
The average value of the yen against the dollar in the period was 118 yen, compared with 123.08 yen a year earlier. The yen recently traded at 108.17 at 6:39 p.m. Japan time.
Last Updated: November 13, 2003 05:06 EST
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Nintendo :zahnlücke
Naja, ausser das der GC-Stuff NOCH billiger würde.