What the hell... never seen one of these...

[Turkish]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8115117489

Is this Europe or Japan only or what? Never seen one before...

 

[Cooljt1]

japan, too bad they never came out in the us

 

[Colt45]

japan

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Cooljt1
japan, too bad they never came out in the us

why not though

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Xiety

Originally posted by: Cooljt1
japan, too bad they never came out in the us

why not though

Probably not many companies wanting to pay Nintendo so they can make their own GameCubes. In Japan, consoles made by other than the parent company are fairly common. I think there were at least four different companies that made SEGA Saturns for instance. Hitachi, the company that made the Saturn's two 32-Bit processors had a couple of different models, including the Navi-Saturn, which was for use in cars. JVC and Panasonic are another couple of companies that do such things over there.

The profit margin on the console hardware is usually pretty thin to begin with, paying a licensing fee on top of designing and marketing your own hardware isn't going to attract too many businesses, even though the main hardware is already designed by Nintendo.

 

[Ikonomi]

My friend has a Panasonic Q. It's pretty sweet. It's modded to play Japanese and US games, and it's all region for DVD.

 

[777php]

I thought you didn't need to mod the Q to play both US and import games? Also i read somewhere that you could play backups on it also. I probably remember incorrectly.

 

[Safeway]

Yea, I saw that thing in a magazine before it came out. Very cool and interesting story behind the Panasonic brand. Very expensive though.