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Two months after Sony announced its PlayStation II, which will be DVD-ROM-based, Nintendo has announced it will work with Matsushita Electric to develop Nintendo's next-generation game machine-also DVD-ROM-based. Matsushita and Nintendo have agreed on a wide-ranging collaboration, based on the DVD platform, to cooperate on products that incorporate game machines and digital audio/video technologies.
Nintendo has not yet revealed all the details of its plans for the next-generation machine, code-named "Dolphin." According to Howard Lincoln, chairman, Nintendo of America, "We're going to continue to be very circumspect in revealing all of Dolphin's specs for a very simple reason-there are more technological surprises to come and we'd like to keep them just that...for you and especially for our competitors."
However, Nintendo has announced that Matsushita will develop and supply the DVD media and the...