Our system has been designed from the ground up solely as a videogame console - Nintendo GameCube is more than the sum of its very powerful individual components. GameCube is better designed than anything else on the marketplace and its components work together at faster speeds with more efficiency, yielding far better results in a shorter period of time. Those results specifically maximize play. The level of game development for NGC is significantly beyond that for Nintendo64 at a corresponding point in time - dozens of different development entities in the western hemisphere are in possession of Nintendo GameCube tools. We realize the important contributions to be made by independent developers, and understand that they will play a pivotal role in our system's success.
Development is well underway at numerous development locations worldwide.
Nintendo will continue to refine and enhance development tools throughout the lifespan of the product. Since we have the advantage of not being a DVD player, we took the opportunity to capitalize on the attributes of DVD while creating a new media format that is better suited to gaming. Yes, NGC will be extremely powerful. We've got the acronym soup our competitors like to talk about and some they don't even know about yet. But that's missing the point.