The New Age
Only because Gates is redeeming himself with philanthropy.Originally Posted by Chux
You don't have to be smart; you don't have to know the facts, you just have to be confident.
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Neo-Geo SuperGrafx Forever!
Sony's losing money because of Blu-Ray DVD playback, not because of the video game capabilities. Sony and MS should be taking huge losses on the hardware, forcing smaller companies like Nintendo out of the market and benefiting gamers. Instead, the attitude is "if you charge $70 per game, don't worry, I'll bump 'em mine up to $70, too." If they're going to make it so easy, I hope other companies jump in.
No gnus is good gnus.
If Microsoft ever did anything wrong, they redeemed themselves with Xbox. I've been a Mac user for the last six years and not even I can understand why anyone actively hates them. The fact that anyone still thinks "M$" is clever or cute astounds me.
Also, if you were waiting for VC to have games worth playing, any pinball fan who hasn't played Alien Crush should get on that. Feel free to whine about it for a couple of pages if you don't want to, though.
"They're an assload smaller than the PS3 and 360 chips and guess what saturn boy shrinking technology is just as expensive as making it faster"
So making the console tiny was worth the extra 150 dollars? Somehow I don't buy that. And no, die shrinking is not as expensive as making a faster chip. Furthermore, the SNES was far more powerful than the Genesis and the Wiimote didn't cost much $ in RnD because IT ISN'T NEW. It's two cheap accelerometers and a dinky IR sensor bar that takes a long time to setup. This is not a money sink.
Berserk
Gunstar Heroes lives up to the hype.
Please believe.
Frakkin' toasters
I don't buy VC games, I'm waiting for added content. Why are you in this thread?
Frakkin' toasters
I think this post is a new record for incorrect statements.
A) Source your die shrinking statement, because it's false. Bumping the clock speed on a processor is not more expensive than making it significantly smaller (with a few very rare exceptions). The Wii architecture is also a whole lot more power-efficient than the Cube hardware; measuring the cost that goes into developing hardware by clock speed alone is retarded.
B) The Genesis CPU was over 3 times faster than the SNES CPU, and Genesis came out 2 years earlier.
C) Nintendo has openly talked about the years it took them to get the latency down through R&D on the Wii remote; it would have come out in 2004 as a Cube peripheral were it not for all the R&D needed to make it work properly.
D) The "dinky IR sensor bar" is just 2 LED lights that the wiimote uses to triangulate it's position; it's not really sensing anything. You plug it into the back of the Wii and then place it on top of the television. How does that take a "long time to setup"? Are you disabled?
Berserk
Spo, just stop. This is stupid.
Blast
Gunstar Heroes is 1002 tons of awesome...that is all
"Source your die shrinking statement, because it's false."
Are you trying to tell me that the development time to create the Cell (or even the X360's CPU) is less than the time it took to shrink the die on the GC CPU?
"The Genesis CPU was over 3 times faster than the SNES CPU, and Genesis came out 2 years earlier"
The Genesis couldn't do anything compared to the SNES.
"Nintendo has openly talked about the years it took them to get the latency down through R&D on the Wii remote; it would have come out in 2004 as a Cube peripheral were it not for all the R&D needed to make it work properly."
They're incompetent then. What latency? What function on the controller would take so long to go form controller to system? And LOL at the last part. It confirms what everyone keeps saying ;p
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