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According to Bloomberg, NEC Corp. is engaged in discussions with Nintendo Co. Ltd. regarding the co-development of a graphics chip for a next-generation Nintendo game console. The system would be GameCube's successor and compete with Xbox 2 and PlayStation 3. Hideki Wakabayashi, an analyst with Mizuho Securities, told Bloomberg, "It is natural for NEC to go with Nintendo. It would be difficult for NEC to switch and start supplying to Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s game machine." The Nintendo GameCube successor would likely see a release in 2005 or 2006. NEC and ATI recently announced the benchmark shipment of 12 million Flipper chips for Nintendo GameCube. The ATI-designed and NEC-manufactured Flipper is GameCube's core graphics processor.

UPDATE DECEMBER 14, 2002:

According to Jiji Press of Japan, Nintendo has denied that they're engaged in discussions with NEC regarding the co-development of a chip for a next-generation Nintendo game console. Jiji Press writes, "Nintendo Co. on Friday denied a media report that the company has begun joint development of a new game machine with NEC Corp. Nintendo is always working on developing new game machines, the major home-use game machine maker said, but it has not carried out specific talks with a particular firm for this purpose." Because of Bloomberg's trustworthiness, GameCubicle is not going to discount their story unless it's retracted.

December 13, 2002

Rick - Editor in Chief, GameCubicle


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