Of all the recent and upcoming consoles, the Nintendo really is the most unimpressive piece of plastic crap I have seen in a long time. -Nintendo still believes that the gamer market consists of 10 year olds, but in a recent study in Australia the average gamer age turned out to be 22. I know it is something similar in Europe, probably higher (rpgs, strategy games, adventure games and simulators sell better in Europe than the US). US and Japan I don't know about, but I guess average age is closer to 22 than 10. Despite this, Nintendo sticks with a console design that owes more to Barbie's Playhouse than iMac. Don't you love that hot pink "Princess Peach" color scheme? It even has a cute little strap so you can take it over to your friends clubhouse! Why not giving buyers a free pacifier with every box while they are at it?
Hahaha if you bothered to realise then NGC comes in a variety of colours other then Pink. Also the carry strap might not/probably won't even be on the the other country versions, because it is a very Japanese concept. But the main point is, who cares what it looks like, so long as it has awsome games then it can look like a cardboard box for all I care.
Unlike PS2, PC and Xbox, it can't play normal DVDs.
Thankgod I say, to be honest I do not want to have to fork out an extra 100 bucks just for some second rate DVD playback without a remote. By the time NGC is going to be released most consumers will own a DVD Player anyway. Plus it is one less thing that can break down/encounter problems, I buy a console to play games not watch movies.
I can understand that companies worry about piracy, but in the long run I think Nintendo's new proprietary mini-CD format (cute, of course!) will lose them customers.
Why? You have not backed that up. From what I have heard the mini-DVD (not CD) is cheap for developers and while it doesn't hold as much as a big sized DVD it still holds a huge amount (much more then CD). So I see nothing wrong with it. I actually like it, mini-DVD's sorta James Bond/Mission Impossible like....
The hardware looks less impressive than PS2, Xbox, and even Dreamcasts and mid-range PCs. The controller has gotten pretty bad reviews. "Wavebird"...come on.
It is clear to me that you have not bothered to read any articles. The hardware is easily on Par (if not better) them PSX2 (not to mention the fact that developers can't even develop correctly for the Emotion Engine on the PSX2, yet..)and it blows away the Dreamcast. I do not know much about the Xbox so I won't comment.
The controller has actually recieved a lot of praise! Its button layout is apparently very very good and it is extreamlly comfortable to hold. The Wavebird isn't the default controller, it is a prototype wireless controller that Nintendo is also developing.
Utterly uninspired titles. They keep basing 95% of the games on the bloody Mario characters that were worn out in the frigging 80s. Oh yeah, and I forgot, now they have Pokemon too to fill up the remaining 5%. -They only have one big developer, and that is Miyamoto or whatever his name is.
How can you say uninspired titles? Mario64 was revolutionary, it paved the way for 3D console games. I agree Pokemon is a bit over the top but why not, kids love it and is a huge money maker, Nintendo would be fools not to flaunt it!
One developer???? Are you insane?? Rare, Factor 5, Retro Studios and many many I could name, all are first rate developers!
I think you need to craw back under the rock from whence you came!
I am sorry but this makes me really mad. I mean why the hell don't they concentrate on getting the standard of their operating system and programs up to scratch then maybe try a gaming console. However if that was the case they would never get the chance to make a console. I think that would be a good thing and that they should leave it up to the masters....NINTENDO!
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Of all the recent and upcoming consoles, the Nintendo really is the most unimpressive piece of plastic crap I have seen in a long time. -Nintendo still believes that the gamer market consists of 10 year olds, but in a recent study in Australia the average gamer age turned out to be 22. I know it is something similar in Europe, probably higher (rpgs, strategy games, adventure games and simulators sell better in Europe than the US). US and Japan I don't know about, but I guess average age is closer to 22 than 10. Despite this, Nintendo sticks with a console design that owes more to Barbie's Playhouse than iMac. Don't you love that hot pink "Princess Peach" color scheme? It even has a cute little strap so you can take it over to your friends clubhouse! Why not giving buyers a free pacifier with every box while they are at it?
Hahaha if you bothered to realise then NGC comes in a variety of colours other then Pink. Also the carry strap might not/probably won't even be on the the other country versions, because it is a very Japanese concept. But the main point is, who cares what it looks like, so long as it has awsome games then it can look like a cardboard box for all I care.
Unlike PS2, PC and Xbox, it can't play normal DVDs.
Thankgod I say, to be honest I do not want to have to fork out an extra 100 bucks just for some second rate DVD playback without a remote. By the time NGC is going to be released most consumers will own a DVD Player anyway. Plus it is one less thing that can break down/encounter problems, I buy a console to play games not watch movies.
I can understand that companies worry about piracy, but in the long run I think Nintendo's new proprietary mini-CD format (cute, of course!) will lose them customers.
Why? You have not backed that up. From what I have heard the mini-DVD (not CD) is cheap for developers and while it doesn't hold as much as a big sized DVD it still holds a huge amount (much more then CD). So I see nothing wrong with it. I actually like it, mini-DVD's sorta James Bond/Mission Impossible like....
The hardware looks less impressive than PS2, Xbox, and even Dreamcasts and mid-range PCs. The controller has gotten pretty bad reviews. "Wavebird"...come on.
It is clear to me that you have not bothered to read any articles. The hardware is easily on Par (if not better) them PSX2 (not to mention the fact that developers can't even develop correctly for the Emotion Engine on the PSX2, yet..)and it blows away the Dreamcast. I do not know much about the Xbox so I won't comment.
The controller has actually recieved a lot of praise! Its button layout is apparently very very good and it is extreamlly comfortable to hold. The Wavebird isn't the default controller, it is a prototype wireless controller that Nintendo is also developing.
Utterly uninspired titles. They keep basing 95% of the games on the bloody Mario characters that were worn out in the frigging 80s. Oh yeah, and I forgot, now they have Pokemon too to fill up the remaining 5%. -They only have one big developer, and that is Miyamoto or whatever his name is.
How can you say uninspired titles? Mario64 was revolutionary, it paved the way for 3D console games. I agree Pokemon is a bit over the top but why not, kids love it and is a huge money maker, Nintendo would be fools not to flaunt it!
One developer???? Are you insane?? Rare, Factor 5, Retro Studios and many many I could name, all are first rate developers!
I think you need to craw back under the rock from whence you came!
I am sorry but this makes me really mad. I mean why the hell don't they concentrate on getting the standard of their operating system and programs up to scratch then maybe try a gaming console.
However if that was the case they would never get the chance to make a console.
I think that would be a good thing and that they should leave it up to the masters....NINTENDO!