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Nintendo Details "Revolution" GameCube Console Successor

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 11, 2005 - 4:17am.
San Francisco -- Japanese video games firm Nintendo this week announced details of its next-generation GameCube console successor, codenamed "Revolution," revealing that the new device will offer both Wi-Fi capabilities and, for the first time, backward compatibility with current game titles for the GameCube. The Revolution will run on a processing chip developed by IBM -- codenamed "Broadway" -- and a graphics chip created by ATI Technologies. Both Microsoft's and Sony's next-generation consoles will also run on chips at least co-developed by IBM, while Sony will use an Nvidia graphics chip and Microsoft will switch from Nvidia to ATI for the next Xbox graphics chip. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata also said that the company plans to launch a Wi-Fi service for its Nintendo DS handheld game later this year, adding that worldwide DS shipments have now surpassed 4 million units.
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