I think the Dreamcast will fall into the same pit every other Sega console system has fallen into: bad, bad games. (well, Sega's master system wasn't bad, but it just didn't catch the way nintendo did.)
Nintendo has controlled the market on console systems for one simple reason: they had the best games. Sure there's a couple of Sega titles that stick out, but Nintendo's had nearly every fighting game (Sega's orginal design for the 3-button pad on the genesis was terrible for fighting games... hitting select to switch between punches and kicks is not cool! They later tried to amend this with their six-button controller, but it came to late to beat out the SNES's hold on the market) and such memorable titles as: Megaman, Final Fantasy (personally, i buy wherever Squaresoft goes... that can at least guarantee you some good games), Castlevania, Mario (though the sonic series is great... one of the only fast games), Metroid, Contra, Donkey Kong Country... and many many more. After the NES and SNES, the upstart Sony Playstation picked up the torch (Grand Turismo and Final Fantasy are just the beginning). Once again, they had the good games, and so they succeeded. N64, with all its hype, has very few good games. Goldeneye 007 is great, but Mario 64 and Zelda 64 lacked the magic of their earlier counterparts.
Personally, i'm putting my money on PS2... the hardware specs look good, and Squaresoft's supporting them. At the very least, i'll get a couple great games out of the deal:-)
The bottom line is, the market will go where the games are... and Dreamcast doesn't have them.
So this is what it's coming to... Things like this shouldn't happen. Microsoft shouldn't have been able to fiddle with the Kerberos protocol to begin with, So now Slashdot's in a bind.... if they don't bow down to Microsoft, they're gonna end up with a lawsuit, that may just put an end to Slashdot. So where does the problem lie? In Slashdot users for posting the copyrighted information? For Slashdot for allowing the information to be posted? The laws that allow Microsft to publicly post a trade secret? Mirsoft for coming up and getting away with that legal slight-of-hand? I"m eighteen... just finished my freshman year of college... and i'm wondering what kind of world i'm going to live in when i graduate... and what can i do now to make it not suck. When a corporation has enough power to influence people (MSNBC...), government, and now even Slashdot. I guess i've writen a bunch of words without much meaning... what i want to say is, that this is wrong... it's not supposed to be this way... and we should do something about it... today. Just what that something is, i don't know.
Sounds feasible...Nintendo's largest downfall recently (from my own POV) is their lack of good games. Plus breaking into the console market by acquisition seems most similar to M$ style. Oh well...I still don't like the idea of having to shell out cash to Billy Gates 'cause I want to play the latest Final Fantasy.
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I think the Dreamcast will fall into the same pit every other Sega console system has fallen into: bad, bad games. (well, Sega's master system wasn't bad, but it just didn't catch the way nintendo did.) Nintendo has controlled the market on console systems for one simple reason: they had the best games. Sure there's a couple of Sega titles that stick out, but Nintendo's had nearly every fighting game (Sega's orginal design for the 3-button pad on the genesis was terrible for fighting games... hitting select to switch between punches and kicks is not cool! They later tried to amend this with their six-button controller, but it came to late to beat out the SNES's hold on the market) and such memorable titles as: Megaman, Final Fantasy (personally, i buy wherever Squaresoft goes... that can at least guarantee you some good games), Castlevania, Mario (though the sonic series is great... one of the only fast games), Metroid, Contra, Donkey Kong Country... and many many more. After the NES and SNES, the upstart Sony Playstation picked up the torch (Grand Turismo and Final Fantasy are just the beginning). Once again, they had the good games, and so they succeeded. N64, with all its hype, has very few good games. Goldeneye 007 is great, but Mario 64 and Zelda 64 lacked the magic of their earlier counterparts. Personally, i'm putting my money on PS2... the hardware specs look good, and Squaresoft's supporting them. At the very least, i'll get a couple great games out of the deal :-)
The bottom line is, the market will go where the games are... and Dreamcast doesn't have them.
So this is what it's coming to... Things like this shouldn't happen. Microsoft shouldn't have been able to fiddle with the Kerberos protocol to begin with, So now Slashdot's in a bind.... if they don't bow down to Microsoft, they're gonna end up with a lawsuit, that may just put an end to Slashdot.
So where does the problem lie? In Slashdot users for posting the copyrighted information? For Slashdot for allowing the information to be posted? The laws that allow Microsft to publicly post a trade secret? Mirsoft for coming up and getting away with that legal slight-of-hand?
I"m eighteen... just finished my freshman year of college... and i'm wondering what kind of world i'm going to live in when i graduate... and what can i do now to make it not suck.
When a corporation has enough power to influence people (MSNBC...), government, and now even Slashdot.
I guess i've writen a bunch of words without much meaning... what i want to say is, that this is wrong... it's not supposed to be this way... and we should do something about it... today. Just what that something is, i don't know.
Sounds feasible...Nintendo's largest downfall recently (from my own POV) is their lack of good games. Plus breaking into the console market by acquisition seems most similar to M$ style. Oh well...I still don't like the idea of having to shell out cash to Billy Gates 'cause I want to play the latest Final Fantasy.