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[total_ass]

uk - england.

[VampX]

Release date is september 24th here, getting pretty close

[Xboxmodder3690]

Gamecube

[thund3rstruck]

I also grew up with the NES/SNES and they both kicked ass. I was a SEGA owner but made the switch after the SNES consistently put out the same games that were on the Genesis but they looked and felt 1000% better (IE: Aladdin, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter2, etc, etc).

 I think the end of Nintendo began when they refused to embrace the CDROM. By holding onto a dead technology (carts) this drove up prices for production immensly and forced Nintendo to charge unacceptably high prices for their software (sometimes as high as $100 for a game). The over-estimated their market dominance and name brand recognition.
 In addition they charged exceptionally high 3rd party liscensing fees while their new competitor (sony) was offering really generous fees.
 I still feel Nintendo could have served up some serious competition and retained their market value if they'd have had some liberal thinkers in their bunch. After winning the war with Sega they self-destructed due to their own ignorant complacence.
 

Oh well.....

T$

[total_ass]

QUOTE (thund3rstruck @ Aug 16 2004, 05:42 PM)

I also grew up with the NES/SNES and they both kicked ass. I was a SEGA owner but made the switch after the SNES consistently put out the same games that were on the Genesis but they looked and felt 1000% better (IE: Aladdin, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter2, etc, etc).  I think the end of Nintendo began when they refused to embrace the CDROM. By holding onto a dead technology (carts) this drove up prices for production immensly and forced Nintendo to charge unacceptably high prices for their software (sometimes as high as $100 for a game). The over-estimated their market dominance and name brand recognition.  In addition they charged exceptionally high 3rd party liscensing fees while their new competitor (sony) was offering really generous fees.  I still feel Nintendo could have served up some serious competition and retained their market value if they'd have had some liberal thinkers in their bunch. After winning the war with Sega they self-destructed due to their own ignorant complacence.   Oh well..... T$

 That is all true, Nintendo won one war only to lose in the next.

[Thraxen]

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but the innovation of the ds 2 screens (one touchable) its going to be awesome if nintendo work it well. (but honestly i dont think other publishers like thq is gonna spend much time thinking about how to use it...theyre just gonna release one game of every cartoon network, nickelodeon, fox kids cartoon hit.)

I think this may prove to be bad.  They have the Metroid game for the DS set up to use a stylus to shoot (you tap on the screen).  WTF?  This is a bad idea.  Can you imagine kids poking the screens with their stylus?   That can only turn out badly.

[VampX]

QUOTE (Thraxen @ Aug 16 2004, 09:16 PM)

I think this may prove to be bad.  They have the Metroid game for the DS set up to use a stylus to shoot (you tap on the screen).  WTF?  This is a bad idea.  Can you imagine kids poking the screens with their stylus?   That can only turn out badly.

Its good to know Nintendo hasnt changed their ways yet, first the GBA without a backlit screen,
and now you'll have to buy many replacement touch-screens

[ZildjianKX]

[deathx88]

QUOTE (ZildjianKX @ Aug 17 2004, 12:56 AM)

No Virtual Boy?  I guess I'll go with SNES then..

virtual boy!?  

you'll get some kind of head trama playing that too long

you can still play virtual boy on the surreal 64 emulator, get doom64 and play it under 1964 or project 64  


EDIT: and im sure gamecube lost alot of people becuase it didn't have online play, maybe if they had that then more people would buy it
but then again if the next nintendo console had online play there still wouldn't be as many people playing it because they havn't had as much experience with online gaming as the xbox or the ps2, so more people will probably won't trust the next nintendos online play

[VampX]

[deathx88]

QUOTE (VampX @ Aug 17 2004, 01:21 AM)

I want a Virtual Reality based console damnit!!! imagine playing Metroid Prime that way.. there could even be a new kind of zapper created. (although we would look pretty silly to people watching from the outside)

that WOULD be cool, maybe something that looked 3d instead of something that was all red
i could imagine playing virtual doom  

but we probably would look like were all mental from people watching us  

oh yeah, they did have virtual sword fighting things at some of the arcades around here, were you put on a head set and swing a sword around. That was pretty cool  

[VampX]

QUOTE (deathx88 @ Aug 17 2004, 03:32 AM)

oh yeah, they did have virtual sword fighting things at some of the arcades around here, were you put on a head set and swing a sword around. That was pretty cool

It would be the next big thing, imagine Doom 3 in VR.


*Newsflash* Man dies of Heart Attack after VR game of Doom 3*


then again.. maybe not.

[104224's person to join!]

all idiots need to STFU:

DS will pwn all, and so will gamecube 2 or whatever they call it

[ziggyzboy]

also i think mr vampx needs 2 grow up an get a fukin life but i guess he or she or it as we all call it cant help the fact that it was born with a tic tac cock an a face that even its 2 dads dont love


ps vampx u couldnt beat urself outta a wet paper bag so plz no more pm's about ur gonna hunt me down an beat me up plz for ur own sake stick 2 beating off ur 2 dads as im sure u hav alot 2 make up 4

[total_ass]

QUOTE (ziggyzboy @ Aug 17 2004, 10:16 AM)

also i think mr vampx needs 2 grow up an get a fukin life but i guess he or she or it as we all call it cant help the fact that it was born with a tic tac cock an a face that even its 2 dads dont love ps vampx u couldnt beat urself outta a wet paper bag so plz no more pm's about ur gonna hunt me down an beat me up plz for ur own sake stick 2 beating off ur 2 dads as im sure u hav alot 2 make up 4

WTF?? Where did that come from?