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| DarkZero 658th Post
 
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|  "Re(2):Official Nintendo DS/Nitro specs, suppo"
, posted Thu 11 Mar 19:52
Honestly, I don't think it's going to come down to the specs or the gimmicks with this system. It's going to come down to the same thing that it always comes down to with Nintendo hardware -- stupid little details.
Will they choose a bad media format (N64)? Will we be able to see the screen (GBA)? Will you need to buy two different cables, a home console, and a peripheral for your home console just to get basic functions like Audio-Out, TV-Out, and GBA->GC connectivity (which all of Nintendo's games assume that you have) out of it (GBA SP)? Will you need to buy a peripheral for it that will let you buy more stuff that will let you unlock things that are already in the games that you've already bought (eReader)?
None of these things screamed "BIG HUGE DESIGN FLAW" to the gaming press or public before their respective hardware's releases, so I doubt that anything in the DS's specs would, either. Whether or not the DS is well-designed is probably something that we'll learn a few months after its launch.
And if this isn't a fake... then I just honestly can't figure out why it needs a touch screen. The ingenius uses for a second screen occurred to me right away, but now, about an hour after reading about the touch screen, I still can't figure it out. It's expensive, it's not as accurate as a control pad or an analog stick... I just don't get it at all.
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| DarkZero 660th Post
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| "Re(5):Official Nintendo DS/Nitro specs, suppo" , posted Thu 11 Mar 21:08:
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I am rolling my eyes because you know that Sony HYPES THE $#!¡ out of their machines and then has to back down. It happened with the PS2. It happened with PSX. ITS HAPPENING WITH THE PSP. Sony is promising the world with the PSP and guess what- its probably not gonna deliver.
Bottom line-- I see the DS combining a lot of different technologies together and making some new and exciting types of gameplay.
Touch screen. Dual screen. Long range wireless connectivity. This is all real hype.
"This is all real hype"? You're blindly believing Nintendo instead of blindly believing Sony, but you're inferring that WE'RE somehow a bunch of fanboys that are "bitter"?
And I suggest you take your fun little insanity glasses off and take another look at the thread. Hardly any of us have even MENTIONED the PSP or what it will be able to do. You're just assuming that we believe the PSP will be better, when all we're really talking about is Nintendo's track record. Actually, before you, NO ONE* mentioned the PSP. No one. You just injected that into the conversation because you thought it would give you some sort of leverage. That, or you just posted in the wrong thread.
As for the only thing that you posted that was not a non-sequitur rant against against your PSP-loving imaginary friends:
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Wah? Bitter.
Okay, its a given that Nintendo uses a lot of gimmicks to sell extra peripherals and junk-- BUT NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO FALL FOR THEIR GIMMICKS.
bitter bitter bitter. I thought I knew you better Radish.
So, just because you like something and we don't, you call us "bitter" and tell us that "NO ONE IS FORCING" us to buy it -- as if that somehow made our criticism invalid? Is that the way you approach criticism? Do you scream this at anyone that doesn't like a movie, TV show, or song that you like, childishly pretending that the fact that something isn't being forced on someone means that they HAVE to love it as much as you do? How ridiculous.
The next time you want to make a counter-argument against people who think that Nintendo should make "a handheld GameCube", or that everything that Sony has ever said is pure Gospel, or that every new handheld needs to have the best technology ever, then I think you should find some people who are actually making those arguments, rather than bothering us with your utter randomness and clear abuse of the Shift key.
And I wasn't being sarcastic about that touch screen bit, by the way. I really want to know what that could be used for that would actually be quicker and easier than using a control pad or analog stick. There probably is one, but I just can't think of it yet.
EDIT: *Actually, Ctrl+F has pointed out that I am wrong. Bootation mentioned it in the little half of a line that made up his post. But why half of a grammatically incorrect line warrants a rant like that is beyond me.
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| Hungrywolf 2719th Post
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| "Re(7):Official Nintendo DS/Nitro specs, suppo" , posted Fri 12 Mar 07:35
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Keep rolling those eyes. You're going to need the ocular excercise when you have to stare at the two screens of the DS at the same time.
Looking at Nintendo's track record, they haven't made a single piece of decent hardware since the SNES. The GC itself is great, but the controller... okay, it's not as bad as the batarang N64 controller, but lord is it not good. It's bad enough to keep me from owning the system for that alone.
The DS could be good, but after getting so little use out of my GBA, I really don't think it'll matter to me.
If the GCN controller is keeping you from owning a GCN then you don't deserve a GCN. If you didn't want one because of the games, then that is your decision and I'd have no problem with it, but not getting a GCN because of the controller is, forgive me, but idiotic. I personally like the GCN controller. I don't really want this to go on though about the controller. I'm sick of people complaining about controllers.
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