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Nintendo piles cash and piles into shop

Touchscreen for 'Revolution' console?
By Wil Harris
Thu Apr 07 2005, 13:17
cash than planned over the last year and is ploughing some of it into a new two-story boutique in New York.

The firm revised its profit forecasts upwards, with recurring profits going from 120 billion Yen to 140 billion, and consolidated net profits going from 70 billion Yen to 82 billion. Nintendo said the upshift is due to favourable exchange rates with the dollar and the euro.

A new console, codenamed Revolution, will be shown at the E3 gamers show in May. Latest suggestions are that the traditional button-based control pad may be replaced with a touchscreen system, which game developers can customise.

Nintendo has been talking a lot over recent weeks about wireless connectivity for the DS handheld console, and it seems a fairly safe bet that WiFi at the New York store will enable multiplayer matchmaking and content downloads for the console.

The 'Nintendo World Store' in NYC's Rockefeller Centre will showcase new and unreleased games and have a large Pokemon Centre.µ

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