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More exciting is the statement by Hitachi's Morishita Koichiro, head of Consumer Electronics that a future "digital-hub" (his words are "home gateway" but perhaps digital-hub is known by more consumers) based on the PPC is planned. This digital-hub will be a joint partnership between Hitachi, Nintendo, NEC and Access. Industry buzz in Japan is that the Kyoto-based Nintendo, is planning to phase out hardware production of home consoles (but not mobile models) as SEGA did recently. In related news, the Japanese video game magazine, "DenkiKidsGen" (translation) also interviewed Nintendo's Hardware Solutions manager and he confirmed that the future product betwen Hitachi and Nintendo would be supported by the team behind the GameCube (which if I recall uses IBM's PPC) and that the two companies plan to make a good challenge (translation -- > we plan to take their market share) to Microsoft and Sony products. He also confirmed that remaining hardware from the company would be targetted at the mobile market (GameBoy line) once the phase-out of the home unit (GameCube) is completed, projected Q2 2004. NEC (Nippon Electronics Company) will hold a 15% stake in the new project and will be providing the graphics hardware for the system. Interesting to note that NEC marketed their own game system not too long ago called the TurboGraphics and ALMOST provided the graphic chipset to power a console from Nintendo three years back. ACCESS CO.,Ltd, known for their cellular-phone browsers (market leader in Japan) amoung other things will be assisting Hitachi and Nintendo to integrate this "digital hub" into the Internet and also into consumer products like MP3-based products.
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More exciting is the statement by Hitachi's Morishita Koichiro, head of Consumer Electronics that a future "digital-hub" (his words are "home gateway" but perhaps digital-hub is known by more consumers) based on the PPC is planned. This digital-hub will be a joint partnership between Hitachi, Nintendo, NEC and Access. Industry buzz in Japan is that the Kyoto-based Nintendo, is planning to phase out hardware production of home consoles (but not mobile models) as SEGA did recently. In related news, the Japanese video game magazine, "DenkiKidsGen" (translation) also interviewed Nintendo's Hardware Solutions manager and he confirmed that the future product betwen Hitachi and Nintendo would be supported by the team behind the GameCube (which if I recall uses IBM's PPC) and that the two companies plan to make a good challenge (translation -- > we plan to take their market share) to Microsoft and Sony products. He also confirmed that remaining hardware from the company would be targetted at the mobile market (GameBoy line) once the phase-out of the home unit (GameCube) is completed, projected Q2 2004. NEC (Nippon Electronics Company) will hold a 15% stake in the new project and will be providing the graphics hardware for the system. Interesting to note that NEC marketed their own game system not too long ago called the TurboGraphics and ALMOST provided the graphic chipset to power a console from Nintendo three years back. ACCESS CO.,Ltd, known for their cellular-phone browsers (market leader in Japan) amoung other things will be assisting Hitachi and Nintendo to integrate this "digital hub" into the Internet and also into consumer products like MP3-based products.
