Nintendo Co Ltd said on Friday it plans early next year to offer a new solution that allows GameBoy Advance users to play games together without the use of cables. The new wireless Gameboy will be included free of charge with the purchase of one of two “Pokemon” games, due to be released early next year, for Nintendo’s hand-held game machine.
The wireless module will be bundled with Nintendo’s “Pokemon Fire Red” and “Pokemon Leaf Green” titles for GameBoy Advance that will go on sale in Japan early next year.
“We’ve had a lot of discussions about how to extend the networking capabilities for games such as ‘Pokemon’, to enhance head-to-head battles, exchange of information and communication with others,” said Nintendo President Satoru Iwata in a speech on the opening day of the Tokyo Game Show.
According to Nintendo, the latest “Pokemon” title for GameBoy Advance sold over 10 million titles worldwide.
Motorola will be supplying the wireless technology for the launch. The new wireless Gameboy using 2.4GHz radio frequency (RF) chipset enables up to five players to play each other wirelessly, allowing for flexible, mobile game playing. The wireless adapter with the new Game Boy Advance software “Pokemon FireRed” and “Pokemon LeafGreen” will be launched in Japan first half of 2004.
The Motorola chipset contains a 32-bit RISC architecture baseband processor and a power-saving RF transceiver in the globally available 2.4GHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical Band spectrum. This technology offers robust performance with a high-speed data rate, utilizing a TDMA (time division multiple access) communication protocol to provide game users a fast receive-and-respond capability similar to a wired experience. Motorola’s chipset also features radio signal interference prevention and low power consumption ensuring users a long battery life for extended game play. In addition, advanced technology and packaging techniques of the solution allow for integration, reducing the size of the Nintendo wireless adapter accessory for convenient mobility.
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