selling video game machine is expected to include the new "Cell" microprocessor developed with International Business Machines Corp. and Toshiba Corp. and also support Sony's next-generation high-capacity format for DVD discs. Nintendo, which so far has said very little about its successor to the GameCube, code-named "Revolution," is expected to position its console as pure gaming machine rather than an entertainment hub. Sony's PS3 and Nintendo's Revolution are widely expected to debut sometime in 2006. But the organizers of E3 say that, all the hype about the hardware aside, the show always ends up being about games. "Hardware is great, hardware is exciting, hardware is newsworthy, but the heart of this business is about software," said Doug Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association, which organizes E3 every year. --more 2216 Local Time 1916 GMT
