Nintendo's Third Hardware to be Released This year. [Archive]

TheSlyMoogle

01-03-2004, 04:44 PM

According to Gameforms Nintendo will be showing their new hardware at E3 this year and releasing it in the second half. Apparently it will work with both the GC and GBA.

Here's the article (http://www.gameforms.com/news/?1078)

So wow. I wonder what this next peice of hardware will be?

Dyne

01-03-2004, 05:59 PM

I don't know, but EGM also hinted at a new Mario this year, too. It'll be interesting to find out.

Jonbo298

01-03-2004, 06:31 PM

Where's gekko to shoot down this article because its not from a legit site.

Jason1

01-03-2004, 06:53 PM

Its that waffle Iron add-on that ive been talking about them putting in for their next console. And why not, I say? It'll make the perfect add on. Hot delicious waffles straight from your cube.

GiMpY-wAnNaBe

01-03-2004, 08:55 PM

Its that waffle Iron add-on that ive been talking about them putting in for their next console. And why not, I say? It'll make the perfect add on. Hot delicious waffles straight from your cube.
that is the most absurd thing i've ever heard! odds are its a 128-bit powered vacuum cleaner :D

GameMaster

01-03-2004, 09:01 PM

I hope it's a sequel to Game Boy Camera that's similar to Eye Toy. :)

Dyne

01-03-2004, 09:02 PM

Where's gekko to shoot down this article because its not from a legit site.

What you say? Someone set you up the bomb. Gameforms is a descendant of the old Gaming Intelligence Agency.

It's legit.

Blix

01-03-2004, 10:40 PM

I hope it's a sequel to Game Boy Camera that's similar to Eye Toy. :)
Don't you mean the Eye Toy is similar to the GB Camera?

Jonbo298

01-03-2004, 10:56 PM

What you say? Someone set you up the bomb. Gameforms is a descendant of the old Gaming Intelligence Agency.

It's legit.

I'm just poking some harmless fun at someone:p

GameMaster

01-03-2004, 11:23 PM

Don't you mean the Eye Toy is similar to the GB Camera?

No, becuase the GB Camera was strictly still photos while the Eye is more like a webcam kind of, with interactive games involving yourself.

TheSlyMoogle

01-03-2004, 11:33 PM

Where's gekko to shoot down this article because its not from a legit site.

It may not be from a legit site but everything I've read from it has been true. I'm pretty sure they take their stuff from IGN. He he. The gaming news world is full of theivery. And Dyne, I miss the GIA.

Mushlafa

01-04-2004, 03:16 AM

i wonder if anybody remembered MEGATON lol :)

sorry just had to add this into this thread :unsure:

bobcat

01-04-2004, 07:08 AM

what was megaton again?

Shadow Fox

01-04-2004, 10:19 AM

what was megaton again?Please...don't start...that...again...

At any rate, this sounds like Nintendo's Online kit with AOL...though rather late, that just may be what Nintendo's been researching heavily the past 18 months...

Or, it could just be iQue again, or the rumored IBM Harddrive...

-Official Ninja and Writer of [coming soon]...

Jason1

01-04-2004, 11:56 AM

Vampyr

01-04-2004, 12:16 PM

I kinda like GM's Idea of a new awsome high resolution GBcamera...although I dont know if thats awsome enough...online sounds great, but with AOL?............as long as they dont force us to go through the, I guess its OK. That would be so awsome if Nintendo just all of a sudden went BAM BIATCHES IN YO FACE with the ONLINE GAMES. Mario 128 online, Zelda online, pokemon online. w00t!

The camera would be okay...

And online with only AOL would suck...

But the idea of all of a sudden having awesome online games would rock. :D But from Nintendo? Not impossible, but extremely improbable.

Dyne

01-04-2004, 02:56 PM

It's probably going to connect to that last port that's not being used right now: the one beside the modem/broadband adaptor slot. I guess you put something in there and plug this new device into the side. :)

Hologram machine, Nintendo! C'mon!

Crash

01-04-2004, 07:16 PM

no, it will definately be a camera and will be called the GAME EYE, for the gameboy and the gamecube, if you remember back in the E3 days, there was this game called Stage Debut, which nintendo quickly removed from their website, it had the faces of people taken with a camera and put on video game characters faces, they had faces in animal crossing, and singing and crap like that, lemme see if i can find pictures, but it is a camera.

here is a picture of it.

http://pocketmedia.ign.com/pocket/image/gameeye_052202_line1.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/vgnews/052802/gameeye_thumb001.jpg

and here are the pictures of what it can do.....

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/e3/0513b/gc_stagedebut05130200_screen001.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/e3/0513b/gc_stagedebut05130200_screen002.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/e3/0513b/gc_stagedebut05130200_screen003.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/e3/0513b/gc_stagedebut05130200_screen004.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/e3/0513b/gc_stagedebut05130200_screen005.jpg

yes, I am right, and you will all see it soon enough for yourselves! :hump:

Blix

01-04-2004, 07:19 PM

No, becuase the GB Camera was strictly still photos while the Eye is more like a webcam kind of, with interactive games involving yourself.
Well, ofcourse they had to make some advances and use the new technology. IMO, they just took the GB Camera idea and improved on it. But aaaaanyways...

GameMaster

01-04-2004, 09:09 PM

yes, I am right, and you will all see it soon enough for yourselves! :hump:

No, no, no. I was right also. :nono:

Jason1

01-04-2004, 10:11 PM

I just had an interesting thought, but I dont know how they would make it work. A gameboy Waffle maker. Portable and everything. Waffle's anytime. Now that would be megaton.

Dyne

01-04-2004, 10:23 PM

I just had an interesting thought, but I dont know how they would make it work. A gameboy Waffle maker. Portable and everything. Waffle's anytime. Now that would be megaton.

It better have a grilled-cheese sandwich maker too! Or Nintendo can keep their money! :mad:

The Germanator

01-04-2004, 10:35 PM

It better have a grilled-cheese sandwich maker too! Or Nintendo can keep their money! :mad:

Nintendo and George Foreman can collaborate for the greatest grill/game console hybrid ever!

TheSlyMoogle

01-04-2004, 11:02 PM

Nintendo and George Foreman can collaborate for the greatest grill/game console hybrid ever!
Whoa! Then I could eat Fat Free meat while playing FFTA! Wow! That would be the greatest console/grill hybrid ever! Wait it would be the only console/grill hybrid ever...

Dyne

01-04-2004, 11:06 PM

Hmm, I like it. BUT.. I'd like it even more if it came with a smokehouse/barbecue attached to it! I'd link for some hot smokie action! And don't forget that mean beef jerky. Tear your teeth out to a ripping game of Wario Wares.

Dark Samurai

01-05-2004, 08:01 AM

Canyarion

01-05-2004, 08:51 AM

I think I'm going for the idea of Crash (And GM). :)
Or the online thing.... it would be cool to play AGB online. :D

Jason1

01-05-2004, 10:37 PM

I guess Crash is closer to the company than anybody...he's probably right, although that should be pretty neat, I dont think it's gonna be a huge seller or anything for Nintendo. I was hoping for an announcement for something to compete with the PSP, but oh well. Some places have hinted at the PSP going for 300-400 dollars, and im sorry, but not enough people will pay that for a handheld. Simple as that.

Danchastu 4.0

01-08-2004, 11:36 AM

Nope, not the GameEye (since that's not a stand alone system but a peripheral anyway)

From the-magicbox.com:
- Nintendo confirmed to Famitsu magazine that they will present a new game system at E3 2004 in May. The machine is not a successor to GameCube or GameBoy Advance, this product can play back existing game titles. (Editor's note: Further hint that the new machine is a variation of iQue Player?)

Crash

01-08-2004, 12:54 PM

Nope, not the GameEye (since that's not a stand alone system but a peripheral anyway)

From the-magicbox.com:

that would be ghetto if it was a variation of the I-Que Player. (even though I'd probably get one)..... but it is ghetto unless it is battery operated with a screen already attatched!! If they can make a 64 that small, they should be able to come out with their successor of the GBA like next year with 64 style graphics, not those crappy PSone graphics that are on the n-gage. Makes you wonder what Nintendo has in the works!

Jonbo298

01-08-2004, 01:05 PM

Nintendo will have 64 style (or at least better) graphics on their next handheld. If the N-Gage can do PS1 now, then in a year or 2, the next GBA can do much better. Hell, Sony is claiming their PSP can do nearly PS2 graphics, so why can't Nintendo?

DeathsHand

01-08-2004, 01:34 PM

Hell, Sony is claiming their PSP can do nearly PS2 graphics, so why can't Nintendo?

Price, probably... Or maybe just being stubborn...

I'm curious as to what the new dealy is...
I've been hoping they'd do something to make NES/SNES games easilyerish available to gamers nowadays, not having to pay high prices at used game stores, or risk getting ripped off buying from seperate buyers... But I'd rather them just release more compilations on NGC or something...

Canyarion

01-09-2004, 10:53 AM

Yeah it would be perfect if they'd build a machine that would play ALL the cartridges. Plus have an option to DL games (with charge of course). That way nobody would have to mess with a broken NES or numb controllers. :mad: :D

Crash

01-12-2004, 02:33 PM

http://www.gc-inside.com/news/126/12628.html

You know that mysterious product Nintendo plans to reveal at this year's E3 Expo? The one that's not going to be the next-gen GameCube or GBA? Well, in an interview with a Japanese newspaper, Nintendo president Satrou Iwata let out a little hint of what we might be expecting in a year or two when talking about that mystery Nintendo product.

When asked about what the upcoming consoles will be like, Iwata commented that the current systems have basically reached their limits, implying that making a new game system similar to the ones currently available isn't something that should be done. He then went on to talk about Nintendo's new and unique game device, saying that the concept of the thing will offer a hint of what we can expect for Nintendo's new game system.

It has been heavily rumored that this new gaming device would simply be the recently released Chinese iQue, but after hearing what Iwata had to say, it's probable that it won't be. E3 2004 is only four months away now, and it will probably take that long to figure out what Nintendo has up their sleeves.

so that wouldn't make sense for it to be the Ique. But our camera theory still stands.

Canyarion

01-13-2004, 08:16 AM

Well, as someone said, a camera isn't a stand-alone thing.

I'd love to have a console that plays all the old games. ALL OF THEM!!! :mad2:

Of course, it could be virtual reality... :unsure:
Reminds me, I gotta make a thread in the Old Skool forum! :p

Seth

01-21-2004, 12:29 AM

http://www.planetgamecube.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=7750

*yawn*

Jonbo298

01-21-2004, 01:24 AM

That sounds nifty. But as usual, people's expectations of anything Nintendo now are very low. A new mario game *sigh*...a new "realistic" zelda *sigh, been there done that*

This thing has tons of potential. It could really help in RPG's. But I want to see some pics of this and the controls for it. Hopefully its not too wide or tall.

Dyne

01-21-2004, 01:29 AM

Actually, that sounds very fun. I'd want to play it.

There's more details here.

http://www.game-science.com/

GameMaster

01-21-2004, 01:31 AM

I hope it runs on a rechargeable battery like the SP. Man, two screens, that's going to consume some major power. It better have jaw-dropping, revolutionary features.

Dyne

01-21-2004, 01:38 AM

I don't think it'll be meant to be a portable..? Maybe, maybe not.

Jonbo298

01-21-2004, 01:49 AM

I hope it runs on a rechargeable battery like the SP. Man, two screens, that's going to consume some major power. It better have jaw-dropping, revolutionary features.

It's gonna have to be a lithium-ion battery. Batteries ain't gonna cut it.

Canyarion

01-21-2004, 06:48 AM

Hm, I see some potential for shooters: 1st AND 3rd person perspectives. :D

This ain't quite what we expected... :unsure: I wonder how it will turn out!

rottwylor

01-21-2004, 11:19 AM

I'm getting one... period

DeathsHand

01-21-2004, 01:07 PM

Eh I don't see the big deal... I mean it could have good games like any other system, but two screens? Two perspectives? I could see how that could come in handy for some games, but I dunno...

Nintendo said it was supposed to be "Totally different" etc from stuff we have today, but it seems more like a handheld with a silly gimmick to me... I don't think the future of videogames lies in seeing games from two different perspectives at once...

But maybe it'll surprise me... Or maybe it'll be the next Virtual Boy :sneaky: