Especially considering that they released a hack to let you run DS Homebrew, INCLUDING DSLinux, using the GBA Movie Player you linked to, just this week.
Well, so far, the DS has outsold the PSP two-to-one.
And it seems to have a killer lineup, with Metroid Prime Hunters, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Age of Empires 2, Nintendogs, Viewtiful Joe DS, Tony Hawk DS (online and cel-shaded), Animal Crossing DS (online), Mario Kart DS (online), MMBN DS, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, a new 2D Mario Platformer, Mario & Luigi 2, Sonic Rush, and Need For Speed Most Wanted all coming this fall...
Throw in 25 online games in development, as well as big franchises such as Katamari Damacy (yes, KD is coming to DS), Baten Kaitos, Xenosaga, Dynasty Warriors, Pokemon (ick), Zelda, etc, all coming to the DS...
The DS is not going to die anytime soon.
In fact, Nintendo is even catering to bookworms and pedophiles with this game about a touchscreen dictionary...
Disappointed Nintendo is making it?
Less than a month till Metroid Prime Hunters, a FPS, comes out.
Splinter Cell and GoldenEye already came out.
"I do wonder why they even bothered with the second screen - I haven't seen many games that justify the expense of even having it."
It's pretty simple when you think about it. If it only had one screen, when you play an FPS game, your stylus or finger would cover whatever you are aiming at. Therefore you need one screen for the view and one for the touch sensitivity, like in Metroid Prime Hunters.
Remember that PowerPC compiled binaries will run quite well under Rosetta on the Intel Macs.
With the sole exception of games, which won't run at all under the Intel Macs because of AltiVec optimizations (Rosetta does not emulate AltiVec), all PowerPC programs will run on the Intel Macs AND the VAST installed user base. Further, Apple will continue selling PowerPC Macs until well into 2007 by their own statements. Any developer (outside of games developers) who dropped PowerPC before 2007-2008 would be a blithering idiot, cutting themselves out of a huge userbase.
A simple solution to that. I was watching the former TechTV a while back (rest in peace:( ) and I remember seeing in "Invent This!" a rich guy who ran a small company who had developed a directional speaker. You could only hear it if it was directly pointed towards you.
Combine this directional TV with these speakers and bam, each person sees AND hears different things.
"Yeah, well, so do Intel and AMD. Why does IBM think they have the inside track all of a sudden?
Furthermore, nVidia and ATI are marketing their GPUs as capable of taking over more primary PC functions, thus, thet makes 4 HUGE opponents for this kind of stuff. Personally, I believe this is IBM's attempt at wagging the dog. They're still screwed."
Except that Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are already using IBM's PowerPC processors (yes, Sony's Cell has a PowerPC core as the primary processor). Which means that all THREE consoles are using IBM processors, for sure. And that means for the next five years, every console sold (about 150 million were sold this last generation IIRC) will have an IBM processor in it. There's only 10-20 million Macs, on the other hand.
Not only will these hundreds of millions of consoles have IBM processors...but they'll have to CONTINUE to use IBM processors to retain backwards compatability unless there is a massive speed breakthrough enough to get a competing processor and emulate the PowerPC's. That's why the XBox 360 will have to have backwards compatability with 'top selling games' via recompiled patches preinstalled on the hard drive; the processor architecture change. It won't have full compatabilty while PS3 and Revolution will.
So IBM is set for the next five years and unless the console manufacturers DESPERATELy want to change architectures and forfeit backwards compatability, they're set for the next ten.
IBM already is inside these new systems.
And the PS3, btw, may even boot Linux by default when you buy the hard drive, turning it into a full PC with six USB ports, a powerful graphics card, a decent processor, WiFi, Bluetooth, and three gigabit ethernet ports. http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/09/news_61272 19.html
Of course Bill Gates doesn't want implants to take off. Microsoft would end up being the one writing the software for it. I for one would really like to avoid having Windows powered body parts. Blue screen of death, anyone?
Q: Is Revolution "two-to-three times more powerful than GameCube"?
A: USA Today reported this news based on a comment from Nintendo of America's vice president of corporate affairs, Perrin Kaplan. The information was later determined to be false. We do not yet know how much more power Revolution wields over its predecessor.
It's too bad you're making this stuff up. There are various rumors going around (quad core 2.5 GHz X360-type processor, dual processor 1.8 GHz G5's, etc, etc) but there is absolutely NO reliable info on the Revolution's processor. None.
Please provide a link if you're absolutely sure there is. I've been mongering every scrap of information released on the next gen console and I can guarantee Ninty isn't "expected" to have any kind of processor on the Revolution- Nintendo has kept it completely quiet.
"Now Nintendo's claims that its Revolution will be "only" two or three times more powerful than the Gamecube don't seem so bad. I always root for the underdog, and I like their lack of crazy hype so far."
Nintendo never said this, it was a magazine which made this quote and was mistaken. This was NEVER said by Nintendo.
"What developers really want is the *exact same* architecture, but much faster, more memory, etc. No more processors, no more complex ways of addressing different caches. Just make the thing the same, only faster, and developers would love it. Initially..."
While we have yet to see exactly what Ninty has up their sleeves, this sounds like the Revolution. Same API, using IBM CPU's and ATi GPU's again just like last time...as long as they don't do some exotic IBM CPU like the Cell (co-developed by Sony so unlikely) or three pathetic CPU's working together to be okay like the XBox 360, it'll be basicly just a much much faster GameCube.
With wireless, free online play, thousands of downloadable games and game demos, and a new 'revolutionary' controller added, of course.
According to CNET, the transition will begin with the low end in 2006.
My assumption is that small form factor systems like the Mac Mini, and the laptops that are stuck with G4's, will go with Pentium M processors.
After all, Apple said they are going with Intel for performance per watt, and the only current Intel processor that gets that is the Pentium M.
The PowerMacs will stay with PowerPC processors for a while and will probably be the last to switch, because you don't really care about the performance per watt on a watercooled monster like the PowerMac unless you're an overclocker;)
Gyroscopes in the controllers (gyroscopes detect revolution, don't they? >-) ), pressure sensing grips, voice controls, downloadable demos for DS and Revolution, and of course online play.
While this might be technically true, it carries a very heavy marketing spin in order to glom onto an enthusiast technology. To be succinct, the Xbox 360 is not water cooled in the way we, meaning just about every computer hardware enthusiast on the planet, tend to think of water cooling. The Xbox 360 motherboard we were shown did have a CPU heatsink in place that utilized a heatpipe. Yes, a heatpipe does have liquid in it and some H2O as well, but is usually primarily ammonia. In a heatpipe, the liquid at the "hot" end vaporizes, and is moved to the "cold" end of the heatpipe by a pressure differential and convection. Once the heat is transferred to the fins in the cold end, the substance condenses and the process repeats. The CPU cooler we saw on the Xbox 360 processor looked very much like this CPU cooler seen at Plycon except the Xbox 360 cooler was taller than wider and only utilized one copper heatpipe tube.
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BTW Nintendo has promised that the Revolution will be very powerful. It seems its coming about 6 months after the XBox 360. It's using the same hardware essentially- IBM and ATi.
I expect it to be at least as powerful if not more than the XBox 360. Rumors/developer leaks say the same thing.
"So, quick question: Windos has appeared to evolved into a seriously fragmented OS. How many different versions of Windows are there? There is a Mobile, Embedded, Server, Pro, Home, Starter, Handheld......What else?"
You forgot Media Center, Reduced Media edition, Tablet PC, and all the different Service Packs.
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Especially considering that they released a hack to let you run DS Homebrew, INCLUDING DSLinux, using the GBA Movie Player you linked to, just this week.
Looks like they changed the name...
Here's the original name
Well, so far, the DS has outsold the PSP two-to-one.
And it seems to have a killer lineup, with Metroid Prime Hunters, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Age of Empires 2, Nintendogs, Viewtiful Joe DS, Tony Hawk DS (online and cel-shaded), Animal Crossing DS (online), Mario Kart DS (online), MMBN DS, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, a new 2D Mario Platformer, Mario & Luigi 2, Sonic Rush, and Need For Speed Most Wanted all coming this fall...
Throw in 25 online games in development, as well as big franchises such as Katamari Damacy (yes, KD is coming to DS), Baten Kaitos, Xenosaga, Dynasty Warriors, Pokemon (ick), Zelda, etc, all coming to the DS...
The DS is not going to die anytime soon.
In fact, Nintendo is even catering to bookworms and pedophiles with this game about a touchscreen dictionary...
See, they called it, "Touch Dic".
http://www.touchdic.co.kr/
If you had one large touchscreen, would not your finger conceal your target in FPS?
Disappointed Nintendo is making it?
Less than a month till Metroid Prime Hunters, a FPS, comes out.
Splinter Cell and GoldenEye already came out.
"I do wonder why they even bothered with the second screen - I haven't seen many games that justify the expense of even having it."
It's pretty simple when you think about it. If it only had one screen, when you play an FPS game, your stylus or finger would cover whatever you are aiming at. Therefore you need one screen for the view and one for the touch sensitivity, like in Metroid Prime Hunters.
Remember that PowerPC compiled binaries will run quite well under Rosetta on the Intel Macs.
With the sole exception of games, which won't run at all under the Intel Macs because of AltiVec optimizations (Rosetta does not emulate AltiVec), all PowerPC programs will run on the Intel Macs AND the VAST installed user base. Further, Apple will continue selling PowerPC Macs until well into 2007 by their own statements. Any developer (outside of games developers) who dropped PowerPC before 2007-2008 would be a blithering idiot, cutting themselves out of a huge userbase.
Yup, that's it exactly. Even the same guy I saw on TechTV.
Of course, adding this multi-view TV + multiple of these speakers for different directions will result in one dang expensive, but also dang cool, TV.
A simple solution to that. I was watching the former TechTV a while back (rest in peace :( ) and I remember seeing in "Invent This!" a rich guy who ran a small company who had developed a directional speaker. You could only hear it if it was directly pointed towards you.
Combine this directional TV with these speakers and bam, each person sees AND hears different things.
The articles I've seen stated that it could still function as a hub, just the router function had been dropped.
I said it has ethernet, not that it has a router.
you forgot the Nintendo Revolution, which is also PowerPC.
And IBM is supplying the current GameCube processor as well.
"Yeah, well, so do Intel and AMD. Why does IBM think they have the inside track all of a sudden?
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Furthermore, nVidia and ATI are marketing their GPUs as capable of taking over more primary PC functions, thus, thet makes 4 HUGE opponents for this kind of stuff. Personally, I believe this is IBM's attempt at wagging the dog. They're still screwed."
Except that Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are already using IBM's PowerPC processors (yes, Sony's Cell has a PowerPC core as the primary processor). Which means that all THREE consoles are using IBM processors, for sure. And that means for the next five years, every console sold (about 150 million were sold this last generation IIRC) will have an IBM processor in it. There's only 10-20 million Macs, on the other hand.
Not only will these hundreds of millions of consoles have IBM processors...but they'll have to CONTINUE to use IBM processors to retain backwards compatability unless there is a massive speed breakthrough enough to get a competing processor and emulate the PowerPC's. That's why the XBox 360 will have to have backwards compatability with 'top selling games' via recompiled patches preinstalled on the hard drive; the processor architecture change. It won't have full compatabilty while PS3 and Revolution will.
So IBM is set for the next five years and unless the console manufacturers DESPERATELy want to change architectures and forfeit backwards compatability, they're set for the next ten.
IBM already is inside these new systems.
And the PS3, btw, may even boot Linux by default when you buy the hard drive, turning it into a full PC with six USB ports, a powerful graphics card, a decent processor, WiFi, Bluetooth, and three gigabit ethernet ports.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/09/news_6127
"That would be like saying that Apple gave away free MP3s that work in the Ipod but that crash other music players. "
What the heck are you talking about?
Of course Bill Gates doesn't want implants to take off. Microsoft would end up being the one writing the software for it. I for one would really like to avoid having Windows powered body parts. Blue screen of death, anyone?
Here's your source!
http://cube.ign.com/articles/522/522559p2.html
Q: Is Revolution "two-to-three times more powerful than GameCube"?
A: USA Today reported this news based on a comment from Nintendo of America's vice president of corporate affairs, Perrin Kaplan. The information was later determined to be false. We do not yet know how much more power Revolution wields over its predecessor.
It's too bad you're making this stuff up. There are various rumors going around (quad core 2.5 GHz X360-type processor, dual processor 1.8 GHz G5's, etc, etc) but there is absolutely NO reliable info on the Revolution's processor. None.
Please provide a link if you're absolutely sure there is. I've been mongering every scrap of information released on the next gen console and I can guarantee Ninty isn't "expected" to have any kind of processor on the Revolution- Nintendo has kept it completely quiet.
"Now Nintendo's claims that its Revolution will be "only" two or three times more powerful than the Gamecube don't seem so bad. I always root for the underdog, and I like their lack of crazy hype so far."
Nintendo never said this, it was a magazine which made this quote and was mistaken. This was NEVER said by Nintendo.
"What developers really want is the *exact same* architecture, but much faster, more memory, etc. No more processors, no more complex ways of addressing different caches. Just make the thing the same, only faster, and developers would love it. Initially..."
While we have yet to see exactly what Ninty has up their sleeves, this sounds like the Revolution. Same API, using IBM CPU's and ATi GPU's again just like last time...as long as they don't do some exotic IBM CPU like the Cell (co-developed by Sony so unlikely) or three pathetic CPU's working together to be okay like the XBox 360, it'll be basicly just a much much faster GameCube.
With wireless, free online play, thousands of downloadable games and game demos, and a new 'revolutionary' controller added, of course.
According to CNET, the transition will begin with the low end in 2006.
;)
My assumption is that small form factor systems like the Mac Mini, and the laptops that are stuck with G4's, will go with Pentium M processors.
After all, Apple said they are going with Intel for performance per watt, and the only current Intel processor that gets that is the Pentium M.
The PowerMacs will stay with PowerPC processors for a while and will probably be the last to switch, because you don't really care about the performance per watt on a watercooled monster like the PowerMac unless you're an overclocker
I can see: A) Intel makes a PPC chip B) Apple comes out with the rumored iTablet and uses XScale or ARM for the tablet.
One of the higher ranking words, just under woot, is Chillax.
I have NEVER heard of this before...it sounds like "chill lax" or a chilled laxative...
Does anyone know anyone who uses this word?
I'm putting my stock in the Aries rumor.= 0
http://ps3.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=482&st
Gyroscopes in the controllers (gyroscopes detect revolution, don't they? >-) ), pressure sensing grips, voice controls, downloadable demos for DS and Revolution, and of course online play.
A quote on the subject of watercooling:
While this might be technically true, it carries a very heavy marketing spin in order to glom onto an enthusiast technology. To be succinct, the Xbox 360 is not water cooled in the way we, meaning just about every computer hardware enthusiast on the planet, tend to think of water cooling. The Xbox 360 motherboard we were shown did have a CPU heatsink in place that utilized a heatpipe. Yes, a heatpipe does have liquid in it and some H2O as well, but is usually primarily ammonia. In a heatpipe, the liquid at the "hot" end vaporizes, and is moved to the "cold" end of the heatpipe by a pressure differential and convection. Once the heat is transferred to the fins in the cold end, the substance condenses and the process repeats. The CPU cooler we saw on the Xbox 360 processor looked very much like this CPU cooler seen at Plycon except the Xbox 360 cooler was taller than wider and only utilized one copper heatpipe tube.
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BTW Nintendo has promised that the Revolution will be very powerful. It seems its coming about 6 months after the XBox 360. It's using the same hardware essentially- IBM and ATi.
I expect it to be at least as powerful if not more than the XBox 360. Rumors/developer leaks say the same thing.
"So, quick question: Windos has appeared to evolved into a seriously fragmented OS. How many different versions of Windows are there? There is a Mobile, Embedded, Server, Pro, Home, Starter, Handheld......What else?"
You forgot Media Center, Reduced Media edition, Tablet PC, and all the different Service Packs.
Everyone has known it was going to be called Tiger for the last YEAR. Why do they wait until release day to file a lawsuit?
And wait a sec. Are these guys telling me that they have a patent on the word "Tiger"? Somebody better get some lawyers for the local zoo.