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Originally posted by GameKinG
I dont think they will team up next gen, though rumors speculate the next console will incorperate Panasonic enough to consider it a joint venture, and not just Nintendo.
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Panasonic + Nintendo= Yes.
Panasonic would love to see Sony, their main competitor, crash and burn. If we had the Panasonic Q instead of the Gamecube (but still called Gamecube), how do you think it would do?
Well, the obvious note comes up that Gamecube can't play bigger discs, disallowing large-memory games. Right now, their different style in the market is their strong point against the Xbox.
I had a dream the night I heard about the succesor to the Gamecube... I dreamt of a console that looked like the N64, but had the gamecube style disc insert instead of the RAM part and the cartridge space... and was silverish-blue. It was for big discs. That truly would be the perfect system in my opinion. People wouldn't complain about how it was big like the Xbox. It had a DVD player (panasonic partnership, just like the IBM or ATI partnership), and it looked really cool. But too bad it really was a dream.
Nintendo can't continue this "portable" thing, it's taking away from good CPU processing and polygon counts. Someone's going to have to be the oddball out, and if Nintendo falls into that category once more, it's going to be a hard time for us all. I know Nintendo is able to make great games, we've seen that over the years. But it's time to make another Super Nintendo if they want a good chance. It's pretty amazing a software company managed to come out with better hardware than Nintendo.
If Nintendo means "We do our best and leave luck to heaven!" then they certainly aren't doing their best. They have good luck, but they can't rely on it like this.
Edit: Well... I do realize they jumped ahead by accident by releasing the 64 bit cartridge system. The virtual boy really knocked them off. One mistake after another... from letting go of Sony while they were making the SNES CD add-on and allowing them to become the toughest competitor against them since 1995, to making the weak virtual boy as a 32-bit entry to compensate for Sony and Sega's 32 bit entries, to making a strong system that still used cartridges (and losing square's ff7 and the rest for all of those years--wasting millions of sales so far) much too late, to the Gamecube which doesn't have the latest stuff either, which happens to be DVD support. The Gamecube's lucky it's not suffering the same fate. Nintendo needs to do their absolute best next generation. Nintendo Software and Panasonic/Nintendo/IBM/ATI partnered hardware is a killer combination.