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| DarkZero
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|  "GameCube Production Temporarily Halted"
, posted Fri 8 Aug 03:30
Link here.
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Nintendo is to press the pause button on production of its Game Cube consoles while it clears inventory of unsold machines, the company’s president said on Thursday. But Satoru Iwata promised the struggling games company was developing a radical new product to be announced next year — however he gave few details save to say it would be a departure from mainstream gaming consoles "that will have a big impact on the world".
Woohoo!!! We'll only need ONE MORE piece of Nintendo hardware to get the full enjoyment out of their products! This is a real relief, because I was okay with needing a GameCube, a Gameboy Advance, a Gameboy Advance link cable, the GameCube game's corresponding GBA game, an eReader, and several packs of eReader cards for my eReader to actually get the full enjoyment out of my GameCube games, but if they made me buy more than one new thing (besides those new eReader packs, which are perfectly okay with me!) for my GameCube, I was going to get a little fed up.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go out and buy a Gameboy Player and a headphone cable for my Gameboy Advance so I can have Video- and Audio-Out for my Gameboy Advance. I bet the PSP won't have those! They'll build those functions right into the PSP, because they just don't understand that it's about the games*.
* And by "the games", I mean "the hardware", as in more hardware that I can BUY for my GAMES.
** And by "the games", I also mean "the Digital Rights Management Copy Restriction Schemes", which are a much better thing for a game console to have than free DVD movie and audio playback, as well as a storage medium that's twice as large.
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| DarkZero
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| "Re(2):GameCube Production Temporarily Halted" , posted Fri 8 Aug 11:04
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I'm not sure why Nintendo is so hot on daisy chaining $700 of their hardware together so I can play a multiplayer version of Pacman but I don't think it's going to have the apeal that a strong lineup of interesting games does.
This was originally a longer post, but I decided to give you the short and sweet explanation instead:
Sony's and Microsoft's business models are based on software licenses. They sell their consoles at a loss (though Sony only does it temporarily) and make money when games are developed and sold on those consoles. Nintendo, on the other hand, makes money off of every piece of hardware that they sell, and their hardware has sold far more consistently than their software, ESPECIALLY third party software, since the GameCube's launch. Therefore, their primary concern now is selling hardware, not software.
Sadly, this causes their software to be little more than an advertisement for their other software. Case in point: Wario World, which I'm playing right now. It's a fun little platformer. However, my reward for collecting its various pretty trinkets is not a secret character, or a second ending, or a hidden level, or even something lame like a sound test. My reward is a bunch of DEMOS for Wario Ware, Inc. In other words, my reward is a commercial for another game that I can buy for $30 and an impolite nudge in the direction of a $10 GC-GBA Link Cable. Obviously, playing a game in the hopes of unlocking advertisements leaves sort of a foul taste in my mouth.
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|  "Re(3):GameCube Production Temporarily Halted"
, posted Fri 8 Aug 16:36
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I'm not sure why Nintendo is so hot on daisy chaining $700 of their hardware together so I can play a multiplayer version of Pacman but I don't think it's going to have the apeal that a strong lineup of interesting games does.
This was originally a longer post, but I decided to give you the short and sweet explanation instead:
Sony's and Microsoft's business models are based on software licenses. They sell their consoles at a loss (though Sony only does it temporarily) and make money when games are developed and sold on those consoles. Nintendo, on the other hand, makes money off of every piece of hardware that they sell, and their hardware has sold far more consistently than their software, ESPECIALLY third party software, since the GameCube's launch. Therefore, their primary concern now is selling hardware, not software.
Sadly, this causes their software to be little more than an advertisement for their other software. Case in point: Wario World, which I'm playing right now. It's a fun little platformer. However, my reward for collecting its various pretty trinkets is not a secret character, or a second ending, or a hidden level, or even something lame like a sound test. My reward is a bunch of DEMOS for Wario Ware, Inc. In other words, my reward is a commercial for another game that I can buy for $30 and an impolite nudge in the direction of a $10 GC-GBA Link Cable. Obviously, playing a game in the hopes of unlocking advertisements leaves sort of a foul taste in my mouth.
I say gamecube sucks. they should bring back the old nes controllers.
Fuck this whole generation of consoles.
Essence-Absorbing Stance!
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