If the market can't sustain 3 consoles, and we've just gone through a generation with 3 consoles, then that means one of them must have been the 'loser'.
But which one? Nintendo is the only company that has sustained a regular PROFIT throughout this generation, so it can't be them. So that leaves Sony and MSFT...
Sony's got the biggest number of eyeballs and greatest potential to make money, so it can't be them.
Thats leaves the Xbox, the 2 billion dollar "investment". I don't think Windows/Office was created to support a 2 billion dollar black hole of gaming. How long will Ballmer and the stock holders allow MSFT to fluch money down the drain?
And as I understand it, Nintendo reworked and slimmed down the triforce hunt for the North American release. A friend who played the Japanese version mentioned that the hunt at the end was even longer!
Might want to move your calendar back a few years.
1972 Odyssey
1972-1977 Various dedicated consoles
1976 Fairchild Channel F Released
1977 Atari VCS Released
1977 Bally Professional Arcade
1978 Odyssey 2
Nintendo has had an online service for every one of their major consoles, going all the way back to the mid 80's with their Famicom.
While they may not have a major one up and running today, they are far from anti-online. If you ask me, the only reason they don't have one currently is because there is no profit to be made today in that arena.
Its called smart business, not anti-online. In the same vein, is the MSFT games division anti-profit?
They can put in any clause they want in the license, but they still cannot take away a person's rights.
Just like store with signs that say "We reserve the right to inspect your bags".. they can hang that sign as much as they want, but they still cannot take away a citizens right to privacy.
I got one about a month ago.
Works good for me. I've got a wide variety of xvid/divx/mpeg files and it handles all of them fine. The remote can be a little unresponsive occasionally though.
Theres a good community over at the AVS forum site and one other web site, www.my-blt.com I think.
Its been done in the past. The colecovision had an adapter to play the current markets leader's games. Atari wasn't so happy, but IIRC Colecovision won the lawsuit.
The only thing the controller is missing are the analogue joysticks.. and thats only because Nintendo hadn't invinted them yet back when the pippin came out!
I've got one that can 'technically' do all of the above, but each process is such a hassle, I hardly use the phone for anything beyond simple phone calls now.
Slashdot Mirror
Haven't there been 3 consoles on the market now for 5+ years?
This 2 console market limitation must have been born out of the SNES/Genesis generation -- I just don't get it.
When *haven't* there been 3 consoles on the market at one given time (barring the crash)?
If the market can't sustain 3 consoles, and we've just gone through a generation with 3 consoles, then that means one of them must have been the 'loser'.
But which one? Nintendo is the only company that has sustained a regular PROFIT throughout this generation, so it can't be them. So that leaves Sony and MSFT...
Sony's got the biggest number of eyeballs and greatest potential to make money, so it can't be them.
Thats leaves the Xbox, the 2 billion dollar "investment". I don't think Windows/Office was created to support a 2 billion dollar black hole of gaming. How long will Ballmer and the stock holders allow MSFT to fluch money down the drain?
And as I understand it, Nintendo reworked and slimmed down the triforce hunt for the North American release. A friend who played the Japanese version mentioned that the hunt at the end was even longer!
and they're also Rockstars largest audience. Who do you think bought all those millions of GTA games?
Might want to move your calendar back a few years.
1972 Odyssey
1972-1977 Various dedicated consoles
1976 Fairchild Channel F Released
1977 Atari VCS Released
1977 Bally Professional Arcade
1978 Odyssey 2
And the Atari 2600 was hardly the first as well.
That honor belongs to the Fairchild Channel F. That ugly sucker was out about a year earlier...
Nintendo has had an online service for every one of their major consoles, going all the way back to the mid 80's with their Famicom.
While they may not have a major one up and running today, they are far from anti-online. If you ask me, the only reason they don't have one currently is because there is no profit to be made today in that arena.
Its called smart business, not anti-online. In the same vein, is the MSFT games division anti-profit?
Not only should you not have any doubt that the A-bombings saved lives, the Japanese government themsleves have said the same thing. (sorry, no links)
Need to mod parent up please.
You simply cannot judge yesterdays wars by todays standards.
Just like how all those emulators on the Dreamcast saved it too, right?
They can put in any clause they want in the license, but they still cannot take away a person's rights. .. they can hang that sign as much as they want, but they still cannot take away a citizens right to privacy.
Just like store with signs that say "We reserve the right to inspect your bags"
I got one about a month ago.
Works good for me. I've got a wide variety of xvid/divx/mpeg files and it handles all of them fine. The remote can be a little unresponsive occasionally though.
Theres a good community over at the AVS forum site and one other web site, www.my-blt.com I think.
Its been done in the past. The colecovision had an adapter to play the current markets leader's games. Atari wasn't so happy, but IIRC Colecovision won the lawsuit.
The xbox360 design is nothing more than a Dell OptiPlex case http://www.interlink.ru/pic/888296.jpg/n Controller.jpg/.
.. and thats only because Nintendo hadn't invinted them yet back when the pippin came out!
and an Apple pippin controller http://www.macgeek.org/museum/pippin/images/Pippi
The only thing the controller is missing are the analogue joysticks
what phone would that be, btw?
I've got one that can 'technically' do all of the above, but each process is such a hassle, I hardly use the phone for anything beyond simple phone calls now.
Dell Dimension 3.0Ghz $650.00
- 512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz
- 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
- 48x CD-ROM Drive + FREE 48x CD-RW Drive
- 17" LCD
- PCI Express x16 based Radeon X300 SE with 128MB
- XP Home included
deal hereMod parent up please
MOD parent up please
I'm the customer .. I dictate to the companies what thier businees model is. Otherwise, no business for you!
solitare
dude, thats really wierd. We posted nearly the same exact response at the same exact time.
are you my evil twin brother or something?
GTA: Vice City holds the sales record for console games at around 13M copies
Maybe the record for this generation, but certainly not the all-time record. Super Mario Brothers on the NES sold upwards of 40 million copies.
EBgames, WalMart, Amazon, and Best Buy all have them marked as "Sold Out"
Lik-sang.com is sayign that they most likely won't be able to get new orders out until next year sometime.
I'd say there is a definite shortage now, but the question is will that shortage remain through Christmas?....
sorry, thats not generalizing -- thats blatently exposing your prejudices.
Are these 2k or 4k cartidges? There wasn't any mention of that.
Do I get to finally use my paddle controllers?