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| DarkZero 476th Post
 
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|  "Re(3):new gen Nintendo console next year"
, posted Thu 13 Nov 22:39
According to this GameSpot article, the original news reports were a little off. Nintendo's next-gen console is a separate product from whatever this thing is. They also claim that it will be neither a console nor a portable machine, but I'm not getting my hopes up. Nintendo is so hopelessly addicted to hype and marketing spin that while it could definitely be something new and exciting, we could just end up with a sad little Nintendo executive excitedly assuring the press at E3 that, INDEED, a GBA with a cell phone duct-taped to it is neither a portable gaming machine nor a cell phone, but a courageous innovation in the exciting field of duct tape technology!
Here's hoping that it's fun, though. I've been fairly underwhelmed with Nintendo's recent "innovations", like unlocking three second game demos by connecting a GameCube to a GBA with a link cable, finally getting the much-needed TV-Out capability for your GBA games by buying a $50 GameCube peripheral, or buying a new GBA peripheral just so you can buy packs of cards to feed it. I miss the days when their hardware was really innovative, bringing us the first portable game machine, a console that came with two games and a light gun, and the most ambitious failure in gaming, the Virtual Boy.
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| Luisinan 563th Post
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| "Re(3):new gen Nintendo console next year" , posted Fri 14 Nov 12:35
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To add some ideas here, I'm taking these quotes from slashdot.org...certainly some interesting ideas...
"I'm leaning more towards the next Gameboy to be a Gamecube-on-a-chip. Notice the Sony PSP using 6cm 1.8Gb cds - notice the Gamecube using 6cm 1.6Gb cds. That's why the cube used them from the beginning - building up to the same hardware being used in a portable. Instant selection of great games at launch aswell.
The cube hardware is being sold (at a profit, most certainly) for $99. Expect Nintendo to be able to buy cheap displays - and off you go."
This sounds like a sweet idea to me.
And DarkZero, I don't think Nintendo is as prone to hype as Sony or Microsoft. Name an instance where Nintendo hyped a product and never came through. The only instance I can think of was the CD-Rom drive add-on for the SNES, but that wasn't even super hyped.
Sony and Microsoft are hype machines. Sony talked so much BS about the PS2, and look at how 'wonderful' the PS2 is. It's a mess of a machine. Most people agree that the GC can beat it in terms of graphics. Sony is also over hyping the PSP. The sad thing is that people fall for hype. All the time.
Microsoft is always putting down Nintendo in their press releases. More hype and FUD from them.
Anyway, I want Nintendo to stay in the console business. Yeah, the N64 was a bad idea. But the GC was a sweet deal. Here's hoping that their next console has a hard drive and a modem out of the box.
My hope is that Nintendo can put the Gamecube hardware into a portable while beefing up the specs and maintaining backwards compatibility. Yeah, that's fanboy talk but WHATEVER.
Or maybe Nintendo will just go bonkers and their next console will be powerful enough to be portable and a home console? Hrm.
Nintendo can be evil, but I trust them more then MS or Sony. At least Nintendo has higher quality consoles.
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