However, other analysts projected a different picture. Some expected to see superfast Pentium II desktop PC3 with advanced graphics cards in 1999 priced at about $700 that could deliver deliver better graphics than Sony or Nintendo players. The strategic decision for sony and the other game manufacturers was whether to stick with a dadicated $150 machune that was good at doing one thing only,0r to develop a system that performed more functions in the living room and brought more value to the consumber. Howard Lincoln, president of Nintendo of America, expressed Nintendo's perspective on this issue as follows.