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Probing the Guts Of the Consoles
Max Entropy writes "Finally, an in-depth article of the technologies within the GameCube, PS2, and Xbox. The article covers architectures, processor/memory silicon, I/O, expandability, and storage among a host of other topics." If you are wondering what makes each system distinctive (Besides
the fact that one has about a hundred times as many games, one overheats,
and another has Luigi) this might be worth a read.
Despite the fact that PS2 has more games, Super Monkey Ball is reason enough to buy a GameCube. I would think CmdrTaco makes enough money by now that he could buy each of the consoles and not feel the need to slam the ones he didn't get... =)
WWJD? JWRTFM!!!
This has been advertised for sooooo long. I have 2 ps2's I finally have a use for, as soon as I can port Apache and mysql over.
Will you personally buy a game cube?
If you answer yes to this one you'll be the only one I know who will. Why? The Nintendo64 had such a sorry array of games when compared to the PS1, its a no-brainer to expect the same of their cube.
I think I represent the average gamer and I want strategy games, fighting games, REALISTIC images, great audio. I want games to move me and scare me. I especially don't want Mario this or Luigi that. Game cube commercials are already touting a new Mario + friends mortal combat style fighting game. I truly think you need to be 11 to get a kick out of that.
Enough already with this pro-GC bias! Quite frankly, the GC is pretty mediocre from what I've seen and this Slashdot bias toward it is annoying. The games I've played are hokey or stiff (Luigi's mansion looks like a warmed-over N64 game; the Star Wars game is the least fluid SW game I've ever played--compare it to the PS2 SW games.) It's underpowered compared to the other two competitors. At the time of this writing I've witnessed *3* GameCube crashes (that's 2 more than I've seen the XBox do) and the controllers look and feel like cheap toys. Don't get me wrong--I love Nintendo and if I were buying a console now, I'd try to avoid MS, but this GC bias on Slashdot underscores how willfully some bask in their own bias. The GC is half-assed, a bad showing for Nintendo, and not worthy of an editorial bias. I wish they had done better. I wish Sony and Nintendo had given MS a very rude awakening, but that didn't happen. Praise should be directed at the PS2, NOT the GC. And honestly, if it were between the GC and the XBox... I'd probably grit my teeth and get an XBox.
--Rick
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
Yeah, but you probably have the system set up in a well ventilated area.
Your average collage student, however, is going to let dust collect, and possiblly have dirty laundry or pizza boxes stacked around it.
And that will cause it to overheat, and catch some dorm on fire.
And I don't think that this will happen just once. It's going to happen multiple times.
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.