Sad truth is, stick SONY on the bottom, triple the price and "Joe Consumer" along with "Expert 14 Year Old" will be tripping over themselves to not only buy it but also praise it up to all and sundry.:(
And Nintendo revolution: Will be released featuring lesser graphics, lesser cpu, some "mysterious" (and knowing nintendo: Silly) controller plus a bunch of 20+ year games that can be found anywhere in the internet right now. (and gamecube titles).
Like Sony and MS are not prone to overhyping their hardware and software in order to belittle competitors. Several posts on that point here probably worthwhile considering them.
Additonally as much as the back catalogue isn't a system maker is a nice sweetner and WILL earn them some customers which they might not get without it.
Oh yeah, definetily Nintendo fans should be cheering all over, after all they are the only ones who are even going to notice when this thing is launched.
Sad but true, hardly the fans fault if (IMHO) the media are too swayed by the PR departments of Sony and MS. Just because they spend more money on parties and flashy commercials doesn't mean you're getting a better system.
btw, did they used a toaster, a cd drive or a hard disk drive for the design? nice ps2 colors btw.
As I've said before tonight. What does it matter how it looks. You want to walk away from your tv thinking you own a sexy looking console or having played one of the best games of the lifetime and have no consideration for the console you played it on. The design is compact and functional, nothing amazing but then it doesn't have to be. If you feel any better about it buy one, wrap it in 5 rolls of sticky tape, cover in glitter and you'll probably be ready for your level of tackyness.:)
Slashdot! the only place in earth where you are modded as flamebait for stating the obvious (against Nintendo of course)
I'd say flamebait because you aren't stating the obvious, you're stating an opinion based on hardly any facts.
Right now Nintendo probably make $0 out of NES and SNES and to some extend N64 titles. The second hand market doesn't benefit them at all either.
Now what would suit them and probably many many games players (both young and old) is a free or extremely cheap back catalogue at their finger tips. Would you rather go to blockbuster and pay $5-10 for a rental game for a few nights or pay $5 and get a couple N64 classics which you'll then own for the lifetime of the system.
Of course this is all speculation (Nintendo runs on that doesn't it?), I don't however think $5 is a good line to draw for each title and nobody likes the 5game (1 cool 4 shite) packs!
* Revolution - underdesigned. First, keeping in mind that Iwata said this is not the final design (meaning the whole point could be moot), to me this system looks like a car stereo, or an external CD-ROM drive. It is frankly boring - it doesn't take a lot of imagination to think up a thin black box. Some people like how minimalist it is, but I think it's a mistake - people will stick it on top of whatever stack of something they've already got and forget about it. And you don't want people forgetting about your company's game console.
I'm not sure I agree there, the point I would hope they are trying to get across is that the console is NOT the important factor. Hell when you think Nintendo do you think of the games or the console?
Both Sony and MS are playing up on the increase in power and as pointed out in your comments on the PS3 such images are also given in the shape of the console design. Nintendo however have said many times the power is irrelivant, the gaming is more important. I think they want this non entity sitting there, they want people to buy into their software (lets face it Nintendo are total crap at marketing ANYTHING compared to Sony and MS).
I'll just conduct a wife test here (she's total anti gaming so no fanboy influence here).... she says Xbox is tacky and common looking, PS3 looks very stylish and Revolution is nice too. So I guess that does kind of tally with your findings too.:)
I think I understand why the PS3 design doesn't sit well with me. They've designed the damn thing so it has to sit on the top of any under TV equipment. There's going to be no stacking this baby under the DVD, AMP and Decoder box.
Then again I guess the same could be said for the ultra small Revolution box.:)
Not out of reach but if there is no storage (unlikely out of the box given the announced size of the unit), you'll be losing that download on power down. So thats up to 1.5 hours waiting each time you want to play a gc game.
Far easier in my mind to grab that 16/32 mbyte N64 game in a few minutes each time you want to play it and just store the necessary save files on the internal memory.
Perhaps the whole thing will centre around a seperate bluetooth harddrive attachement, they've stated the DVD playback will be used with an addon.
Have to agree here, what the hell was Sony thinking with that design? I've even looked back at the pictures in the alst 24 hours thinking that maybe I'm just seeing it the wrong way, it looks like a ATM for christ's sake!
Not having seen a 360 first hand I'd have to say its design is much nicer but is it a lot smaller than the original xbox, damn that thing was beastly.:)
But the Revolution. Wow, thats nice. good scope for colours. probably real easy for custom spray jobs seeing as there are no buttons and trays to worry about. Minimalist and functional.
Just my opinion on the three new systems, does anyone like the PS3 design over the 360/Rev and if so what is it you like?
I'd probably guess that they would have some sort of account login similar to steam and allow the downloads based off of that. Anything from N64 back is easily downloaded on any broadband connection.
Gamecube and Rev games though do seem a bit out of reach for at least a few more years.
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Sad truth is, stick SONY on the bottom, triple the price and "Joe Consumer" along with "Expert 14 Year Old" will be tripping over themselves to not only buy it but also praise it up to all and sundry. :(
Like Sony and MS are not prone to overhyping their hardware and software in order to belittle competitors. Several posts on that point here probably worthwhile considering them.
Additonally as much as the back catalogue isn't a system maker is a nice sweetner and WILL earn them some customers which they might not get without it.
Oh yeah, definetily Nintendo fans should be cheering all over, after all they are the only ones who are even going to notice when this thing is launched.
Sad but true, hardly the fans fault if (IMHO) the media are too swayed by the PR departments of Sony and MS. Just because they spend more money on parties and flashy commercials doesn't mean you're getting a better system.
btw, did they used a toaster, a cd drive or a hard disk drive for the design? nice ps2 colors btw.
As I've said before tonight. What does it matter how it looks. You want to walk away from your tv thinking you own a sexy looking console or having played one of the best games of the lifetime and have no consideration for the console you played it on. The design is compact and functional, nothing amazing but then it doesn't have to be. If you feel any better about it buy one, wrap it in 5 rolls of sticky tape, cover in glitter and you'll probably be ready for your level of tackyness. :)
Slashdot! the only place in earth where you are modded as flamebait for stating the obvious (against Nintendo of course)
I'd say flamebait because you aren't stating the obvious, you're stating an opinion based on hardly any facts.
Right now Nintendo probably make $0 out of NES and SNES and to some extend N64 titles. The second hand market doesn't benefit them at all either. Now what would suit them and probably many many games players (both young and old) is a free or extremely cheap back catalogue at their finger tips. Would you rather go to blockbuster and pay $5-10 for a rental game for a few nights or pay $5 and get a couple N64 classics which you'll then own for the lifetime of the system. Of course this is all speculation (Nintendo runs on that doesn't it?), I don't however think $5 is a good line to draw for each title and nobody likes the 5game (1 cool 4 shite) packs!
I think I understand why the PS3 design doesn't sit well with me. They've designed the damn thing so it has to sit on the top of any under TV equipment. There's going to be no stacking this baby under the DVD, AMP and Decoder box. Then again I guess the same could be said for the ultra small Revolution box. :)
Not out of reach but if there is no storage (unlikely out of the box given the announced size of the unit), you'll be losing that download on power down. So thats up to 1.5 hours waiting each time you want to play a gc game. Far easier in my mind to grab that 16/32 mbyte N64 game in a few minutes each time you want to play it and just store the necessary save files on the internal memory. Perhaps the whole thing will centre around a seperate bluetooth harddrive attachement, they've stated the DVD playback will be used with an addon.
Have to agree here, what the hell was Sony thinking with that design? I've even looked back at the pictures in the alst 24 hours thinking that maybe I'm just seeing it the wrong way, it looks like a ATM for christ's sake! Not having seen a 360 first hand I'd have to say its design is much nicer but is it a lot smaller than the original xbox, damn that thing was beastly. :)
But the Revolution. Wow, thats nice. good scope for colours. probably real easy for custom spray jobs seeing as there are no buttons and trays to worry about. Minimalist and functional.
Just my opinion on the three new systems, does anyone like the PS3 design over the 360/Rev and if so what is it you like?
I'd probably guess that they would have some sort of account login similar to steam and allow the downloads based off of that. Anything from N64 back is easily downloaded on any broadband connection. Gamecube and Rev games though do seem a bit out of reach for at least a few more years.