Nintendo's Annoucement with Panasonic (Source-
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On 5/12/99, Nintendo announced
their plans for their New Next-Generation Machine,
which will be developed with Matsushita Corporation
/ Aka Panasonic Co, in aim to work together
on "Network Appliances".
This new game machine will use an IBM
Processor with PowerPC enhancement, and a DVD
drive developed by Panasonic. No Official Name or Price has
been released as of Yet. President of Nintendo Co's Yamauchi, and Panasonic's
Morishita released specific news at the time of their reception.
While in development under the code name Dolphin,
The Machine's Specs goes as follows--
| CPU: |
IBM Custom Processor with PowerPC Enhancement
400MHZ |
| Memory: |
High Speed DRAM
Memory Bus Speed: 3.2GB per Second |
| Video/Graphics: |
Custom LSI developed with ArtX corp.
200MHZ |
| Software Format: |
Panasonic DVD Technology with Enhanced copy protection |
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Nintendo's Next Generation machien will have a "network
capability". There has been no announcement on the details.
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While its software will be released in DVD-ROM
format in the beginning, games may be released in DVD-RAM
format in the future.
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While Nintendo is working on gmaes for simultaneous release
with the hardware, they have not asked any third
party companies to do the same, as Nintendo has their own unique
belifes in game production within the market.
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Panasonic also announced plans to release a
portable DVD player with abilites of Networking, playing games and
digital AV capabilites, around the same time as Nintendo's Next-Generation
Hardware release.
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In addition, Panasonic plans to release a "Digital
NetWork Appliance" with abilities to recieve Games, audio, graphics,
and other media., and having a communications/network port. This machine
is currently codenamed X-21. Panasonic's
Morhishita has commented that the X21 may have more addditions to it than
just the network port.
Specifics on how the portable DVD player and X21 relates
to Ninntendo has not yet been made clear.
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