Nintendo confirms N5 for E3 2005

In a further response to allegedly erroneous reports in Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun - in which Nintendo president Satoru Iwata was misquoted as implying that the company was shelving ideas for a direct successor to the GameCube - the company has declared that the new machine will debut at the 2005 E3 in L.A. Speaking in daily newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, Nintendo PR executive Yasuhiro Minagawa has reconfirmed that Iwata’s comments were actually referring to the launch of next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft in 2005 or 2006, indicating that Nintendo also wouldn’t be releasing a new home console until that time either. In setting a deadline of May 2005 as the first unveiling of the new machine, currently codenamed only as ‘N5’, the company implies a Christmas 2005 launch in Japan and a spring 2006 launch in the West. Source: Reuters