Matsushita Gamecube/DVD Player
combo - 2001 ?
Microsoft
X-Box -
2001
Nintendo
64 RAM Expansion - OUT NOW
Nintendo
64DD (will ever come in western shops? Nope...) -
OUT NOW in Japan
Nintendo GameCube -
2001
Sega
Dreamcast - OUT NOW
Sega
Dreamcast 2 with DVD player -
????
Sony
Playstation 2 - OUT NOW
NUON
Technology (from Toshiba and
Samsung) - OUT NOW in
USA
PORTABLE SYSTEMS
Bandai Wonderswan -
OUT NOW in Japan
Bandai Wonderswan with backlight
screen - 2000 (?)
Bandai Wonderswan with Color
screen - OUT NOW
Nintendo Game Boy Color -
OUT NOW
Nintendo Gameboy Color
Light
-
?
Nintendo Gameboy Advance -
March 2001
SNK Neo Geo Pocket -
OUT NOW
SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color -
OUT NOW
SNK New Neo Geo Pocket Color-
OUT NOW
Sony Pocket Station PDA -
OUT NOW
Sony Pocket Station PDA 2 -
2001 (?)
Portable Sony Playstation -
PSOne is OUT NOW with optional
LCD screen!
OTHER POSSIBLE PLAYERS ON THE INDUSTRY IN THE FUTURE
3DFx and other graphics producer (maybe
licensing their graphics processors)
Fujistu (makers of the ill-fated FM-Town Marty)
Matsushita (maybe they are working on something... M3 maybe?)
Motorola (Where is their Blackbird-Streamaster ?)
NEC
(never say never... hopefully! Now partners of Nintendo)
Project X licensee (Toshiba, Thompson, GE)
X-Box licensee (Compaq?, Dell?, Gateway 2000?)
HARDWARE DEVELOPERS ARE STILL OUT THERE SOMEWHERE
Amiga-Lynx-3DO hardware developers (where are they now? MICROSOFT!!!!)
ONCE TOUGHT TO BE POSSIBLE PLAYERS
Acorn (with a video game system based on
the Archimedes/Risc PC platform)
Amstrad (with a CD-I compatible system)
Data East (they worked on a Neo Geo-type system called DECO)
Epson (they worked on a 32-bit system)
Namco
(they had a 16-bit and a 32-bit system ready)
Seta
(like DE they worked on a Neo Geo-type system)
SNK (with a Hyper Neo Geo 64 home version...)
Sony (with a Gameboy-like handheld system that some sources said it
had a color screen)
Taito
(look
here!)
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