Why not have both? I too am eargly awaiting the Dolphin, but I relieze that a new handheld would be quite nice too, and should the Dolphin not come out on time (which is probable, but I really hope it's not late) then they have the GBA to fall back on. Not to mention the really cool stuff that is rumored between the Dolphin and GBA, like hooking them together, and doing stuff like a Dreamcast VMU.
BTW, the console is gettign developed, and a lot of companies already have dev kits. ANd some of the really big companies (Rare) have had them for quite a while now. So don't fret too much : )
As for your question as to why it did better, the answer is games. The games on that sytem rock. It has my two favorite games (Tetrix and Super Mario Brothers Deluxe), a ton of cool RPG's and 2D games, and Pokemon is one of the fastest selling and biggest videogames of all time. It's consistantly number 1 and 2 on the weekly sales charts. The GB is far from dead, and since the GBA is going to have backwards compatiblity and bring the possiblility of internet connection to a handheld, it's going to keep on going.
I own a PSX, and the intro to Gran Turismo 2 is footage from Gran Turismo 2000 on the PS2, and I'd say the graphics are better than Sega Rally 2, but not amazingly better.
No conosle really starts to "beat the socks off" the older generation when it is first released. A lot of people wait till it gets cheaper to buy their system. It's the hardcore gamers that pave the way, and then a few year(s) later everyone else gradually starts to pick it up.
Just so you know, Tony Hawk for the N64 is coming out in March, and for the DC in Q2 2000. Secondly, have you ever played Super Mario 64 or Sonic Adventure, or are you just being a "mainstream" gamer who goes by what's popular and not how good a game is? The tone of your post leads me to believe that. BTW, you are right, it is backwards compatible.
1. Just because the PSX succedded, doesn't mean the PS2 will automatically suceed. Look at the Genises and then the Saturn.
2. Let's do a reverse on the Rare thing. Let's say Square goes to Nintendo. It would still develop for Sony, but if that happened, the PS2 lost a big part of it's appeal to a lot of gamers.
3. You mentioned Nintendo's mistakes. Yep, they made a lot, but what do you mean you were dissapointed when it came out? The PSX comes with "one controller, no games, no memory packs" so I don't know what you're complaining about.
4. If you want RPG's, go to the PSX. The N64 is a bad system for those.
A lot of games now a days are really just walk through movies
A lot of games are walk through movies. Maybe I'm old fasioned, but I actually like to PLAY games, not watch a movie. I hate cutscenees, most of the time (except in RPG's) their unneccasary and I'd rather developers spend that space in more levels or something rather than a damn movie.
Lets' see, I boot up, start Netscape, start XMMS, and start XChat. Proceed to listen to music, surf the web, and chat in IRC for the next few hours while every once in a while writing some HTML (which I proceed to upload to a server so I can get it later from somewhere else should I need it). Now why exactly would i need to access anything away from home? Heck, I don't even think I've ever had the chance to even consider getting something from my computer at home from another computer. I hardly travel at all too. The only thing my computer does when I'm not sitting at it is crunch some SETI@home and distributed.net stuff. So no, I still don't see why I should leave it on all the time.
LIke I said, I don't think it's hard if nothing goes wrong. But the first few times I tried it, I kept getting compile errors. I'm not really an in-depth programer (yet) and so I had no idea what to do and just gave up. Then I read the article I posted above, installed some stuff that it suggested, recompiled it with some new configuring and it worked. So then I tried to install a new kernel, but when it booted up it said it couldn't mount root or something like that (been a while). Again, I tried a few things but never did get it to work. So if everything goes right, it's easy. But as I've experianced a lot with compiling, it doesn't always work right.
Well, I just dont' get to it. Sure, I guess it would be nice, but it's just a home computer, nothing important is on it. Even my mail is web-based so I don't even have to connect to my home computer to get it. There isn't any real reason to connect to it in the first place.
You can read the replys on the other stuff, but as for upgrading your kernel, it's not too hard....if nothing goes wrong. I myself have only reconfigured it, still haven't gotten a full kernel upgrade to work for me. But it's different for everyone. But one article that helped me a lot (especially if you're using red hat or Mandrake (as they talk about RPM's)) can found found here.
Well, I always turn off the computer at night. I don't like to pay for the extra electricity, and should we have a power surge or something, I don't feel like fixing the fscking file system cause it still doesn't have a journaling one yet. Damn I can't wait till that thing is implimented in the stable kernel, not having one has screwed me so many times. Anyway, right now I have 8 minutes of uptime (Winix box) and so I think I'll attempt to install the new kernal.
While I don't think Pokemon can keep up it's current popularity, I don't think it'll totally die out anytime soon, if only for the game. The game is what started this whole thing, and in my opinion, it's a damn fine game. I never watch the TV show because it's never on when I'm at home, but I saw the movie and thought it was pretty good. And like someone else above me said, it was a kids movie, and a lot of people above 12 were scared of it. I was the only teen-ager in the theater. But yet it still almost managed to sell out every show the first weekend. My god, I didn't relieze how many little kids there are where I live, but I found out when I went Thursday (it was a county wide day off from school). Anyway, the card game never really interested me, and I can see that falling out of favor, but Pokemon as a whole is far from dead I believe.
And the alternative to being held in place is to not be held in place and be flying all around in the car and crash through some glass? I think I'd rather be in the relative saftey of a seat-belt. And just how do you intend to unbuckle yourself when a crash is coming? In my experiance, I don't get a nice 5 second advance of a crash, and if I did, I think that would probally be enough time to prevent one.
I too thought that was a really stupid choice. They hardly ever make my hands completely dry like a paper towel. And since I get bloody noses a lot, I like having the paper towels there to stop the bleeding instead of venturing into the stalls, or worse, someone being in the stall. And, according to a very unscientific but interesting study (very cool site by the way) says that they don't help as much with getting rid of germs as paper towels do.
So when is this expected to become mainstream? I mean, I'm guessing it'll be released later this year for people to start using, but when will most browsers start supporting it and it becomes commonplace? It sounds like a really cool piece of technology though, I've been waiting for it for a while.
Just about everything is working fine in Tampa, FL. Water works, phone works, and I crossed over into the New Year chatting on IRC just fine. The IRC server also crossed over jsut fine a hour later. A couple of my friends computer are slightly messed up, one says it's 1984 (hmmm, 1984....interesting.....) and another said his computer got really slow after Y2K. The only real y2k bug I noticed myself was in a CGI script I copied somewhere that counted down the millinnium. It says it's the year 19100 and there is -17101 years until 2000. The full thing can be found here
Also went looking for some of those "bunker" people who got parnoid and ran to the hills for Y2K. Here is one's admission of embarrasment.
Is there a link anywhere that says when the New Year hits in different major cities across the world? One that is set for an American zone, but lists the cities, for instance like Greenwhich at 7 PM Eastern. Or heck, just for starters, at what time in Eastren time does Y2K FIRST start over in the Pacific?
I was watching the local 24 hour news channel in Tampa this afternoon, and they were holding a press conference to say how Y2K compliant they were, and that was one of the main points they stressed, don't pick up your phone to see if there is a dial tone. It makes a lot of sense to me. Of course, you just know somewhere people will do that and the grid will go down and then they'll panic over it. Same way with the power as you mentioned. I just plan to only have my computer (cable modem, so no phone lines to worry about) and TV on (other than normal stuff like VCR's).
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Why not have both? I too am eargly awaiting the Dolphin, but I relieze that a new handheld would be quite nice too, and should the Dolphin not come out on time (which is probable, but I really hope it's not late) then they have the GBA to fall back on. Not to mention the really cool stuff that is rumored between the Dolphin and GBA, like hooking them together, and doing stuff like a Dreamcast VMU.
BTW, the console is gettign developed, and a lot of companies already have dev kits. ANd some of the really big companies (Rare) have had them for quite a while now. So don't fret too much : )
I've never even heard of this [Gameboy Advance]
;)
Well, let me enlighten you to this wonderful piece of hardware:
Nintendorks.com (includes "exclusive" GBA picture
DMGICE
IGN Pockets' GBA FAQ
Nintendo's Press Release
As for your question as to why it did better, the answer is games. The games on that sytem rock. It has my two favorite games (Tetrix and Super Mario Brothers Deluxe), a ton of cool RPG's and 2D games, and Pokemon is one of the fastest selling and biggest videogames of all time. It's consistantly number 1 and 2 on the weekly sales charts. The GB is far from dead, and since the GBA is going to have backwards compatiblity and bring the possiblility of internet connection to a handheld, it's going to keep on going.
ALL generalizations are false anyway....
I own a PSX, and the intro to Gran Turismo 2 is footage from Gran Turismo 2000 on the PS2, and I'd say the graphics are better than Sega Rally 2, but not amazingly better.
No conosle really starts to "beat the socks off" the older generation when it is first released. A lot of people wait till it gets cheaper to buy their system. It's the hardcore gamers that pave the way, and then a few year(s) later everyone else gradually starts to pick it up.
"news for nerds" and a lot of nerds play videogames, and Sony is making a new videogame system. So there you go.
$300 US
Just so you know, Tony Hawk for the N64 is coming out in March, and for the DC in Q2 2000. Secondly, have you ever played Super Mario 64 or Sonic Adventure, or are you just being a "mainstream" gamer who goes by what's popular and not how good a game is? The tone of your post leads me to believe that. BTW, you are right, it is backwards compatible.
1. Just because the PSX succedded, doesn't mean the PS2 will automatically suceed. Look at the Genises and then the Saturn.
2. Let's do a reverse on the Rare thing. Let's say Square goes to Nintendo. It would still develop for Sony, but if that happened, the PS2 lost a big part of it's appeal to a lot of gamers.
3. You mentioned Nintendo's mistakes. Yep, they made a lot, but what do you mean you were dissapointed when it came out? The PSX comes with "one controller, no games, no memory packs" so I don't know what you're complaining about.
4. If you want RPG's, go to the PSX. The N64 is a bad system for those.
A lot of games now a days are really just walk through movies
A lot of games are walk through movies. Maybe I'm old fasioned, but I actually like to PLAY games, not watch a movie. I hate cutscenees, most of the time (except in RPG's) their unneccasary and I'd rather developers spend that space in more levels or something rather than a damn movie.
Lets' see, I boot up, start Netscape, start XMMS, and start XChat. Proceed to listen to music, surf the web, and chat in IRC for the next few hours while every once in a while writing some HTML (which I proceed to upload to a server so I can get it later from somewhere else should I need it). Now why exactly would i need to access anything away from home? Heck, I don't even think I've ever had the chance to even consider getting something from my computer at home from another computer. I hardly travel at all too. The only thing my computer does when I'm not sitting at it is crunch some SETI@home and distributed.net stuff. So no, I still don't see why I should leave it on all the time.
LIke I said, I don't think it's hard if nothing goes wrong. But the first few times I tried it, I kept getting compile errors. I'm not really an in-depth programer (yet) and so I had no idea what to do and just gave up. Then I read the article I posted above, installed some stuff that it suggested, recompiled it with some new configuring and it worked. So then I tried to install a new kernel, but when it booted up it said it couldn't mount root or something like that (been a while). Again, I tried a few things but never did get it to work. So if everything goes right, it's easy. But as I've experianced a lot with compiling, it doesn't always work right.
Well, I just dont' get to it. Sure, I guess it would be nice, but it's just a home computer, nothing important is on it. Even my mail is web-based so I don't even have to connect to my home computer to get it. There isn't any real reason to connect to it in the first place.
You can read the replys on the other stuff, but as for upgrading your kernel, it's not too hard....if nothing goes wrong. I myself have only reconfigured it, still haven't gotten a full kernel upgrade to work for me. But it's different for everyone. But one article that helped me a lot (especially if you're using red hat or Mandrake (as they talk about RPM's)) can found found here.
Well, I always turn off the computer at night. I don't like to pay for the extra electricity, and should we have a power surge or something, I don't feel like fixing the fscking file system cause it still doesn't have a journaling one yet. Damn I can't wait till that thing is implimented in the stable kernel, not having one has screwed me so many times. Anyway, right now I have 8 minutes of uptime (Winix box) and so I think I'll attempt to install the new kernal.
While I don't think Pokemon can keep up it's current popularity, I don't think it'll totally die out anytime soon, if only for the game. The game is what started this whole thing, and in my opinion, it's a damn fine game. I never watch the TV show because it's never on when I'm at home, but I saw the movie and thought it was pretty good. And like someone else above me said, it was a kids movie, and a lot of people above 12 were scared of it. I was the only teen-ager in the theater. But yet it still almost managed to sell out every show the first weekend. My god, I didn't relieze how many little kids there are where I live, but I found out when I went Thursday (it was a county wide day off from school). Anyway, the card game never really interested me, and I can see that falling out of favor, but Pokemon as a whole is far from dead I believe.
And the alternative to being held in place is to not be held in place and be flying all around in the car and crash through some glass? I think I'd rather be in the relative saftey of a seat-belt. And just how do you intend to unbuckle yourself when a crash is coming? In my experiance, I don't get a nice 5 second advance of a crash, and if I did, I think that would probally be enough time to prevent one.
I would sure hope Uri Geller wouldn't look like this......
I too thought that was a really stupid choice. They hardly ever make my hands completely dry like a paper towel. And since I get bloody noses a lot, I like having the paper towels there to stop the bleeding instead of venturing into the stalls, or worse, someone being in the stall. And, according to a very unscientific but interesting study (very cool site by the way) says that they don't help as much with getting rid of germs as paper towels do.
So when is this expected to become mainstream? I mean, I'm guessing it'll be released later this year for people to start using, but when will most browsers start supporting it and it becomes commonplace? It sounds like a really cool piece of technology though, I've been waiting for it for a while.
Just about everything is working fine in Tampa, FL. Water works, phone works, and I crossed over into the New Year chatting on IRC just fine. The IRC server also crossed over jsut fine a hour later. A couple of my friends computer are slightly messed up, one says it's 1984 (hmmm, 1984....interesting.....) and another said his computer got really slow after Y2K. The only real y2k bug I noticed myself was in a CGI script I copied somewhere that counted down the millinnium. It says it's the year 19100 and there is -17101 years until 2000. The full thing can be found here
Also went looking for some of those "bunker" people who got parnoid and ran to the hills for Y2K. Here is one's admission of embarrasment.
But Bill Clinton says it's the millennium..........
Sarcasm people, sarcasm.
No, it was supposed to slow the processor when it was running off batteries instead of off a wall socket. Big difference there.
Is there a link anywhere that says when the New Year hits in different major cities across the world? One that is set for an American zone, but lists the cities, for instance like Greenwhich at 7 PM Eastern. Or heck, just for starters, at what time in Eastren time does Y2K FIRST start over in the Pacific?
I was watching the local 24 hour news channel in Tampa this afternoon, and they were holding a press conference to say how Y2K compliant they were, and that was one of the main points they stressed, don't pick up your phone to see if there is a dial tone. It makes a lot of sense to me. Of course, you just know somewhere people will do that and the grid will go down and then they'll panic over it. Same way with the power as you mentioned. I just plan to only have my computer (cable modem, so no phone lines to worry about) and TV on (other than normal stuff like VCR's).