Nintendo N5 set to make E3 2005 appearance

The next home console from Nintendo will be shown off in public at E3 2005, according to comments from senior company executives quoted in a report in Japanese daily newspaper Mainichi Shimbun. The news follows intense speculation earlier this week concerning Nintendo’s future intentions in the home console market, after another Japanese newspaper - Nihon Keizai Shimbun - and several western media sources misinterpreted statements from company president Satoru Iwata as implying that the company had postponed plans to launch a new hardware platform.