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First Nintendo IQue Reviews

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-crazy-toy dept.

Major Payne writes "I have found two reviews for the exclusively in china released Nintendo IQue Player which is capable of emulating Nintendo64 as well as SNES Games hardwarewise. English one is located over at Dextrose.com and is a bit more technically advanced than the German one. Both reviews are very detailed though and interesting to read. I also think those two are the world first reviews for this new hardware and there is also some interesting leads on how to hack the device to make it even more interesting to the rest of the world."

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  1. Re:Nintendo's Winning Strategy by Troed · · Score: 5, Informative

    1) Nintendo has sold more Gamecubes than Microsoft has sold Xboxes. Official numbers are available from Nintendo and Microsoft.

    2) The top selling games for the GC are outselling the top selling games for Xbox. There's nothing to do about PS2 and GBA.

    3) Several multiplatform games sold better on the Gamecube than other consoles, and for a hard core gamer there are several exclusive non-Nintendo titles not found on Xbox or PS2.

    4) In Europe, the average buyer of a Gamecube at launch was 23 years old. Mature games like Resident Evil sold above Capcom's expectations.

    I can back up everything above, it's easier if you just admit to being clueless and posted what you _thought_ was true.

    --
    it's in my head
  2. Re:Nintendo's Winning Strategy by Troed · · Score: 5, Informative

    The games-part of Sony is about just the only one supplying them with money. Nintendo has 8 billion dollars in the bank and have a positive cashflow. Their first ever loss was due to the weak dollar - since that's now adjusted for they'll keep on making money.

    Hanging by a thread? Really - why post when you don't know what you're talking about. Guess why they were voted one of Japan's most successful companies ever ... ?

    Now consider Microsoft - losing money on the Xbox, only making money on Office and Windows. If there's any one company of these three that's going to stop making consoles it's Microsoft.

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    it's in my head
  3. Small observation ... by phoxix · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you that don't know, Nintendo holds an infamous patent on the D-PAD. (The directional pad). This is the reason, why only on Nintendo gaming pads will you find a prefect cross as the D-PAD. Other systmes will include clumsy circles (X-BOX) or individual buttons (Playstation).

    Keeping this in mind .... its rather interesting to see that the iQue doesn't have the D-PAD .........

    Sunny Dubey

    PS: Some of you might be thinking: "Hey, the Sega dreamcast had a D-PAD just like the Nintendo ones!". Which isn't true, you just have to flip open the controller to see why that is so.