Apart from the fact the Gizmondo actually managed to get itself released (at least in the UK). Not that many people in the UK would've actually noticed.
Didn't one of the Atari consoles have an analogue joystick? (It was infamous for not being self-centreing IIRC). Plus PCs had them for years beforehand...
Although I think Nintendo may have invented the thumbstick, the N64 design was rather unique, and they then copied the Dualshock style stick for the Gamecube.
Xbox, as it's controllers are mostly ripoffs of the Dreamcast pad, use analogue triggers like the Sega analogue pads. The main face buttons are also analogue like the PS2 pad.
I realised after making my comment, he does know this. He says "I'd be surprised if Revolution games would be able to use the Gamecube controller connectors". ie: He knows the Revolution has Gamecube connectors, but he thinks they're only for Gamecube (and downloaed / emulated?) games.
Personally I think it depends on what form this "controller shell" takes, if it's similar to the Gamecube controller, I'd guess "shell" using games might be able to use Gamecube controllers. Plus some Revolution games might use wired peripherals (eg. the DK Bongos).
It's all a pointless pissing contest anyway, the PlayStation 2 is number one.
I suppose it can be broken down to:
Gamecube: It's number 2 in the world!
Xbox: It was pretty much neck and neck with the Gamecube until they stopped making it, and it's number two in Europe and North America!
I'm not sure if the Xbox has been a "humilating marketplace failure", at least in the west, the console did perfectly well on the marketplace, it's more a financial failure for Microsoft.
But induvidual markets don't work on worldwide sales, they usually go on local sales.
For example, if you're right, the Gamecube may be second place worldwide, but in the UK, just about all stores have dropped the Gamecube (my favourite was my local ASDA, where the Nintendo DS pushed out it's own big brother), whilst the third placed Xbox is still going strong. (Although the Xbox 360 hasn't really made much progress yet).
Actually, the model that was shown at last year's E3 had a full set of Gamecube controller and memory card ports on the side. I'd assume you could use Gamecube controllers, at least for Gamecube games.
Nintendo presumabley continuing there tradition of being behind the times, keeping legacy controller ports is so last generation.:-)
It's mostly that it's an extremly good game, and presumably had a limited run in the US. The combination of good vibes from hardcore gamers + limited number on the shelf = expensive on eBay.
I'm not a reviewer, but I think the thing about Rez is the experience. Gameplay wise it's a stripped down rail shooter (Panzer Dragoon / Starfox etc.), which on it's own would be rather plain, but it's just the intergration of the music into the gameplay, the stylized graphics, merging into a really good experience as a whole. It's definatley one of my favourite games ever.
The Trance Vibrator was only released in Japan, like most of these weird accessories. The game does make good use of the rumble pack though.
The Independent is a British newspaper, launched in the mid-1980s, originally as a broadsheet. It's always been left-wing.
A couple of years ago it went tabloid (triggering The Times to follow, and The Guardian to go to a inbetween tabloid and broadcheet format), and it also started running big "single issue" covers, quite a large portion of these of "OMG THE EVIROMENT WE'RE DOOMED" sort of things.
I don't think they can easily change the functionality of the device that much in an update, adding an analogue control would effectivley split the platform (I'm guessing the next Gameboy / DS will have one though), and it's not like you can just buy a new controller for the old system.
As for backlight and clock, I don't think the DS "OS" has much say during gameplay, I'd guess it's up to the game to provide that sort of stuff (some games like Mario 64 and Polarium do have backlight controls for example), rather than the hardware itself. Although I suppose it might be possible to hack them on top of stuff.
No, this is The Independent, every day is front page big issue story day. The Enviroment is one of their favourite big issues to use. They've been like it ever since they turned into a tabloid, they're basically the left-wing Daily Mail now.
Considering the reading range on RFID cards is usually a few centimetres, I think I might notice someone trying to put a piece of electronic equipment to my trouser pocket.
I don't think the Royal Mail ever really got round to using the Consignia name it was so badly recieved. (Although IIRC they mostly planned to use Consignia abroad, and keep Royal Mail in the UK, so me being in the UK I might not notice really). I think a new boss took over, and basically scrapped the name as one of his first acts.
Well, they only changed the logo a couple of days ago.
Looking at the icons list, AOL, Corel and Caldera / SCO have out of date logos as well, someone needs to go through and change them. (The iMac and Xbox icons are older hardware as well).
I'm really hoping for a more system-wide level, the Xbox has a fair number of widescreen titles, and I wonder if that's partly becuase the Xbox Dashboard has a universal setting for TV type in it, so games don't have to mess around asking what type of TV the user has etc.
But you could do widescreen on the N64 (Goldeneye, I think it might be a Rare thing) and Saturn (NiGHTS and Panzer Dragoon Zwei) as well (and theoretically, anything using polygons is easy), it's just a case of squashing everything horizontally.:-)
I'd have to hope most Revolution games are in widescreen, 4:3 is a dead ratio really, it's kinda hard to buy 4:3 TVs in the UK at least, they were pretty much replaced by widescreen a few years ago, and these new HDTV things are all in widescreen... Plus people playing a 4:3 game in stretch-o-vision might screw up all this motion tracking stuff.
It's probably possible to disable the automatic reset to enable multi-disc games, just there haven't been any multi-disc games on the Xbox. The Dreamcast had a similar automatic reset, but when games needed a disc swap, they didn't reset.
I guess they have the console reset automatically becuase they assume the only reason you'd want to remove the disc is when you've finished playing that game, so the game returns you to the menu.
Well, I think some people predict that the actual normal game data will exceed 9GB (because of textures etc.). Hence some talk about procedural synthesis and stuff.
But current PC games are about at the "next gen console" level, and they aren't spanning multiple DVDs yet, so it may be partly unfounded (although I'm sure some games will span multiple discs).
... and people could play online on a games console over five years ago.
Nintendo haven't exactly been fast to get to the online party, and it's not like Microsoft and Sony hadn't had a chance to learn from Sega and PC online gaming when they started their online stuff. I hope that people don't try to make Nintendo out as some kind of online pioneer in the future. This DS online stuff does sound good, but it's not like we haven't had Xbox Live, and their Gamecube online support was crap.
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As the older brother to the PSP2? :-)
Apart from the fact the Gizmondo actually managed to get itself released (at least in the UK). Not that many people in the UK would've actually noticed.
Another for the obscure failed consoles list...
Didn't one of the Atari consoles have an analogue joystick? (It was infamous for not being self-centreing IIRC). Plus PCs had them for years beforehand...
Although I think Nintendo may have invented the thumbstick, the N64 design was rather unique, and they then copied the Dualshock style stick for the Gamecube.
Xbox, as it's controllers are mostly ripoffs of the Dreamcast pad, use analogue triggers like the Sega analogue pads. The main face buttons are also analogue like the PS2 pad.
I realised after making my comment, he does know this. He says "I'd be surprised if Revolution games would be able to use the Gamecube controller connectors ". ie: He knows the Revolution has Gamecube connectors, but he thinks they're only for Gamecube (and downloaed / emulated?) games.
Personally I think it depends on what form this "controller shell" takes, if it's similar to the Gamecube controller, I'd guess "shell" using games might be able to use Gamecube controllers. Plus some Revolution games might use wired peripherals (eg. the DK Bongos).
I thought we were talking about consoles, not handhelds.
Plus, according to Wikipedia the DS has sold 14 million, Gameboy Advance 70 million, which even when counted together don't beat the 100 million PS2s.
If you counted pre-Advance Gameboys you'd certainly beat the PS2 though. But to be fair you'd have to add the 100 million PlayStations as well.
It's all a pointless pissing contest anyway, the PlayStation 2 is number one.
I suppose it can be broken down to:
Gamecube: It's number 2 in the world!
Xbox: It was pretty much neck and neck with the Gamecube until they stopped making it, and it's number two in Europe and North America!
I'm not sure if the Xbox has been a "humilating marketplace failure", at least in the west, the console did perfectly well on the marketplace, it's more a financial failure for Microsoft.
But induvidual markets don't work on worldwide sales, they usually go on local sales.
For example, if you're right, the Gamecube may be second place worldwide, but in the UK, just about all stores have dropped the Gamecube (my favourite was my local ASDA, where the Nintendo DS pushed out it's own big brother), whilst the third placed Xbox is still going strong. (Although the Xbox 360 hasn't really made much progress yet).
Actually, the model that was shown at last year's E3 had a full set of Gamecube controller and memory card ports on the side. I'd assume you could use Gamecube controllers, at least for Gamecube games.
:-)
Nintendo presumabley continuing there tradition of being behind the times, keeping legacy controller ports is so last generation.
Well, now your original post has been modded up... and your second one has been modded down. :-)
You were slightly wrong, NBC's parent company is now NBC Universal, which is owned 80% by GE, and 20% by Vivendi Universal.
There stock is still availible to purchase, just not on the American markets, it's still listed in Paris
It's mostly that it's an extremly good game, and presumably had a limited run in the US. The combination of good vibes from hardcore gamers + limited number on the shelf = expensive on eBay.
I'm not a reviewer, but I think the thing about Rez is the experience. Gameplay wise it's a stripped down rail shooter (Panzer Dragoon / Starfox etc.), which on it's own would be rather plain, but it's just the intergration of the music into the gameplay, the stylized graphics, merging into a really good experience as a whole. It's definatley one of my favourite games ever.
The Trance Vibrator was only released in Japan, like most of these weird accessories. The game does make good use of the rumble pack though.
The Independent is a British newspaper, launched in the mid-1980s, originally as a broadsheet. It's always been left-wing.
A couple of years ago it went tabloid (triggering The Times to follow, and The Guardian to go to a inbetween tabloid and broadcheet format), and it also started running big "single issue" covers, quite a large portion of these of "OMG THE EVIROMENT WE'RE DOOMED" sort of things.
I don't think they can easily change the functionality of the device that much in an update, adding an analogue control would effectivley split the platform (I'm guessing the next Gameboy / DS will have one though), and it's not like you can just buy a new controller for the old system.
As for backlight and clock, I don't think the DS "OS" has much say during gameplay, I'd guess it's up to the game to provide that sort of stuff (some games like Mario 64 and Polarium do have backlight controls for example), rather than the hardware itself. Although I suppose it might be possible to hack them on top of stuff.
No, this is The Independent, every day is front page big issue story day. The Enviroment is one of their favourite big issues to use. They've been like it ever since they turned into a tabloid, they're basically the left-wing Daily Mail now.
Considering the reading range on RFID cards is usually a few centimetres, I think I might notice someone trying to put a piece of electronic equipment to my trouser pocket.
...to go with my tinfoil hat!
I really don't get the paranoia about this RFID stuff, they mostly seem like fancy barcodes.
I don't think the Royal Mail ever really got round to using the Consignia name it was so badly recieved. (Although IIRC they mostly planned to use Consignia abroad, and keep Royal Mail in the UK, so me being in the UK I might not notice really). I think a new boss took over, and basically scrapped the name as one of his first acts.
Well, they only changed the logo a couple of days ago.
Looking at the icons list, AOL, Corel and Caldera / SCO have out of date logos as well, someone needs to go through and change them. (The iMac and Xbox icons are older hardware as well).
I'm really hoping for a more system-wide level, the Xbox has a fair number of widescreen titles, and I wonder if that's partly becuase the Xbox Dashboard has a universal setting for TV type in it, so games don't have to mess around asking what type of TV the user has etc.
:-)
But you could do widescreen on the N64 (Goldeneye, I think it might be a Rare thing) and Saturn (NiGHTS and Panzer Dragoon Zwei) as well (and theoretically, anything using polygons is easy), it's just a case of squashing everything horizontally.
I'd have to hope most Revolution games are in widescreen, 4:3 is a dead ratio really, it's kinda hard to buy 4:3 TVs in the UK at least, they were pretty much replaced by widescreen a few years ago, and these new HDTV things are all in widescreen... Plus people playing a 4:3 game in stretch-o-vision might screw up all this motion tracking stuff.
Surely the Revolution will at least support widescreen TVs, I'd much prefer to play Giant White Rectangle.
Perhaps what they meant to say was "First and best tactical RPG on PlayStation in North America" :-)
(Shining Force was also out way before as well, possibly the first to be released in English?)
It's probably possible to disable the automatic reset to enable multi-disc games, just there haven't been any multi-disc games on the Xbox. The Dreamcast had a similar automatic reset, but when games needed a disc swap, they didn't reset.
I guess they have the console reset automatically becuase they assume the only reason you'd want to remove the disc is when you've finished playing that game, so the game returns you to the menu.
Well, I think some people predict that the actual normal game data will exceed 9GB (because of textures etc.). Hence some talk about procedural synthesis and stuff.
But current PC games are about at the "next gen console" level, and they aren't spanning multiple DVDs yet, so it may be partly unfounded (although I'm sure some games will span multiple discs).
... and people could play online on a games console over five years ago.
Nintendo haven't exactly been fast to get to the online party, and it's not like Microsoft and Sony hadn't had a chance to learn from Sega and PC online gaming when they started their online stuff. I hope that people don't try to make Nintendo out as some kind of online pioneer in the future. This DS online stuff does sound good, but it's not like we haven't had Xbox Live, and their Gamecube online support was crap.