-Editorial:WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!- Ok, here are my views on the upcoming consol war! In writing this I am being as unbiased as possible and telling it how I see it! Also near the bottem of this page is a form so you can have your say! Gamecube Nintendo also has a history of being hugely innovative, always pushing genres to the max or making new Genres. Nintendo defiantly has the strongest in-house development as well as 2nd party developers (We all love Rare).Nintendo is also usually at the forefront of new new technology in the gaming world (they invented the D-pad and were first to use the potential of an analogue pad etc) and are taking advantage of awesome technology for their Gamecube consol (Massive polygon pushing count). One of Nintendo's main advantages would have to be their game franchises, with such golden gems as Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby - Just to name a few. Mario is the most famous Nintendo character of all time, in fact he is actually more famous than Mickey Mouse! Love them or hate them, Pokemon are huge and add millions onto Nintendo's profit and pretty much anything that has a Pokemon on it is guaranteed to sell. Zelda has to be my fav game series and it has a huge following (anyone see how many Zelda ODT carts were pre ordered?) and is one of the most successful game series of all time, without any of the games selling less than 4 million copies (forget the crappy 3do whatsits). Nintendo have a huge reputation for Gameplay! Rare, I have mentioned before, but really they are such a large part of Nintendo's success, that I really have to give them more room! Rare are partly owned by Nintendo, and only make games for Nintendo and what games they are! Incase you didn't know Rare are responsible for these following games! Goldeneye (N64) has anyone not played this?
-Don't have to buy the purple one!
Minuses -A lot of people don't know as much about this as the PSX2
Playstation 2 -Gran Tourismo 2000 and the Tekken series
Minuses -The Playstation2 is not very easy to programme for and a lot of 3rd parties have complained over the lack of ram -Dodgy ant-aliasing -Games are super easy to pirate, just copy onto a CD and remove the cut-scenes! (I do not recommend Pirating as it robs developers of money and can jack up the prices of games making it more costly for other gamers) -The price -Having to separately buy the stands (if you want them) -Most popular PSX titles are now appearing on other consols (Metalgear solid, Res Evil, Crash etc) X-Box
-Plays DVD Movies -Hard drive? -Four controller ports -Microsoft have a lot of power -Easy to programme for -Lots of third part support -Powerful hardware -A lot of anti-microsoft people. -A lot of people who have computers may not be too interested. -Hard drive? Dreamcast
Your Opinion!
Why hasn't the PS2 sold millions? 'Cause of its price. If it was at
the regualr console price, it would have left all others consoles for dead,
and you know it. And we know it won't be too long until the price tags
drop. Yes, big mistake by Sony, but then, look at Nintendo's mistake of
last year. Nintendos mistake of last year was the fact it didn't advertise.
N64 would probably been a huge success sales wise if it had. N64 would
probably been a huge success sales wise if it had. Yes, the GameCube is
better than the PS2. Why wouldn't it be? Its coming out a year after the
damn thing!
Too true DW, if the psx was cheaper it would have sold truckloads! So
many more people would get it, I mean a DVD player for that price? Bargin!
Also everytime I see someone looking at a psx2 in a store, they allways
comment about how it is soo expensive. I think Nintendo has it right! No
DVD (on the Nversion) and cheaper price
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