In addition to that, after Square 'Defected' to Sony Yamauchi (The then President of Nintendo) was So pissed, he vowed not to ALLOW any Square games on 'His systems'. After he retired, Iwata (Current President of Nintendo) went to Square to bury the hatchet. Now We have Sqaure games on each Nintendo platform (Cube, Wii, GBA, DS).
There is no reason why Square CAN'T go multiplatform to make the most money in this gen.
Final Fantasy XI is on the 360, and PC. They have also been getting friendlier with Nintendo, in case you didn't notice there are more FF:Crystal Chronicals games being developed for the DS and Wii. Also the Final Fantasy Core series 1-6 is/has been/ or has been announced to be released for the GBA / DS.
Keep in mind, A "Final Fantasy Exclusive" is more valuable to Sony than to Square. Square can and has been going multi-platform.
If Final Fantasy XIII or Kingdom Hearts goes multiplatform it will do little to hurt Squarenix, but will do MASSIVE DAMAGE to Sony.
They only listed seven Wii games, while Nintendo's website has a list of 30 that will be available within 5 weeks of launch.
Keep in mind all those that are first party; Zelda, Wii Sports, Excite truck and... and... that's it. 30 games in 5 weeks, only 3 are from Nintendo. 90% come from 3rd parties; 7 are from Ubisoft alone (with 8 more promised by April 1, 2007. Ubi loves the Wii). Though you may not have specific developers at launch like Square or Rockstar, you still have some strong 3rd party support.
It does not. I agree it really is a shame. This could have sold another launch system, just so I could golf with my dad online.
The System will be online Day 1 for VC titles and the WiiConnect Channels, but the first title online will be the Pokemon game which releases December in Japan.
Just for the record, this also means that despite it having controller lights for Controllers 1-4 (like the PS3's controller); the Wii can support up to 7 controllers, as the Wii-motes are Bluetooth as well.
I'll go you one better and say that both the DS Lite and the Wii will out sell the PS3 through 2007.
The Week (likely the day, but I'll say week) that the Wii launches in Japan it will outsell the PS3, and 360 in Japan. Unless there are serious manufacturing/supply issues from Nintendo I expect that to be the "Next Gen" market leader in Japan through 2007.
I just wanted to point out that the SD card they have in the Wii bundle is unessesary. The Wii doesn't NEED any expansion storage either. It comes with 512 megs of onboard flash memory for Saves and downloads.
While that may not sound like alot compared to the PS3 or 360 Harddrives, you could buy EVERY virtual console game available through the end of the year and save files for every launch title, and still have space to spare. It's inclusion in the Wii bundle is unessesary from an end user standpoint.
Does anyone know if FFXII will look better being played on a PS3 than on a PS2?
It won't. There is no added content to be unlocked by a PS3. In fact it may look worse (inconsistant framerate) depending on if they use emulation or not.
Amazon still codes their pages so they come up "fast" on a 28.8 modem. Ebay is the same. Where as some sites are sold by flashy experiances, they are not. They want to keep the barrier of entry low so you buy from them, and the whole process is fast and easy. To do otherwise is simply bad business.
Even though MS hasn't been able to sell in Japan, Sony's meager launch of 80,000 PS3 units will be crushed by the Wii The day it launches. With a healthy level of Wii's in the pipeline Nintendo will be the market leader in Japan through the holiday and likely the 1st 3-6 months of it's lifespan. Sony's only hope is to get their manufacturing issues fixed before Nintendo has "Too much of a lead" and developers "Follow to money to the larger userbase" as they did with the PS2.
Agreed. There is a reason that 3 other manufacturer's (MS, Nintendo, and Sega) all put their Analog sticks in the primary position. For 3D games, that's where they belong. I can understand how it happened though, the PS1 controller was only slightly modified from an SNES controller. Then they wanted to add analog support, and didn't know where to put it. Why they left it on the PS2/PS3 in this configuration I have no idea. To me this is a cap in the 360's favor as I would rather interface with that for hours at a time (or a Wavebird, or a Guitar) than the Dual shock or Sixaxis.
The Gamecube had 480p support for virtualy EVERY 1st party game (I have yet to come across a 1st party game that didn't), and many 3rd party even if it didn't have it labled on the back of the box. Even the Gameboy player supported progressive scan. What was increasingly scarce was 16:9 widescreen, but there were some Gems. Eternal Darkness, Starfox Adventures, and F-Zero GX were particularly nice (and supported both).
The issue was that the Gamecube used a non-standard digital port for component cables and only sold them online (not at retail). So eventually they removed the 2nd port from the Gamecubes that were being manufactured (sometime in Late 2003) due to 'very few people buying the cables'. Despite this they still program their games to do 480p, so if you were fortunate enough to have an old enough Gamecube, and bout the cables online before they were discontinued (like me) you can still enjoy the new releases in progressive scan.
Even though the Wii isn't puishing HD, Nintendo is offering the Component cables (online only again! ARGH!) and their standard is both 480p and 16:9.
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Since Sony has slower loading than any other system, it's more important that those load screens are in 1080p!
I have an HDTV, an Xbox, and a GameCube all connected by component. Most of the Xbox and Gamecube games ran in 480p. Some Xbox games do 720p, and many do the 16:9 ratio.
If you thought they looked fine on your TV, then the Wii will look fine in 480p and 16:9 also.
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There is no reason why Square CAN'T go multiplatform to make the most money in this gen.
Final Fantasy 1-2 IV, & V are out for the GBA.
Final Fantasy III - is out for the DS.
Final Fantasy VI has been announced for the GBA.
Final Fantasy Started on the NES, moved to the SNES. then to the Playstation. Final Fantasy VII was the first Sony Exclusive.
There is no reason why Square can't go multiplatform.
Keep in mind, A "Final Fantasy Exclusive" is more valuable to Sony than to Square. Square can and has been going multi-platform.
If Final Fantasy XIII or Kingdom Hearts goes multiplatform it will do little to hurt Squarenix, but will do MASSIVE DAMAGE to Sony.
Keep in mind all those that are first party; Zelda, Wii Sports, Excite truck and... and... that's it. 30 games in 5 weeks, only 3 are from Nintendo. 90% come from 3rd parties; 7 are from Ubisoft alone (with 8 more promised by April 1, 2007. Ubi loves the Wii). Though you may not have specific developers at launch like Square or Rockstar, you still have some strong 3rd party support.
The System will be online Day 1 for VC titles and the WiiConnect Channels, but the first title online will be the Pokemon game which releases December in Japan.
Just for the record, this also means that despite it having controller lights for Controllers 1-4 (like the PS3's controller); the Wii can support up to 7 controllers, as the Wii-motes are Bluetooth as well.
The Week (likely the day, but I'll say week) that the Wii launches in Japan it will outsell the PS3, and 360 in Japan. Unless there are serious manufacturing/supply issues from Nintendo I expect that to be the "Next Gen" market leader in Japan through 2007.
I just wanted to point out that the SD card they have in the Wii bundle is unessesary. The Wii doesn't NEED any expansion storage either. It comes with 512 megs of onboard flash memory for Saves and downloads.
While that may not sound like alot compared to the PS3 or 360 Harddrives, you could buy EVERY virtual console game available through the end of the year and save files for every launch title, and still have space to spare. It's inclusion in the Wii bundle is unessesary from an end user standpoint.
$60 games are for the 360 or the PS3. All Wii games (so far) are $50 USD.
It won't. There is no added content to be unlocked by a PS3. In fact it may look worse (inconsistant framerate) depending on if they use emulation or not.
Wii+ Wii Sports = $250
Zelda:TP = $50
Extra Wiimote = $40
SuperMonkeyBall Bannana Blitz = $50
2 DS Lites = $260 (Hand one to my Girlfriend)
Mario Kart DS = $30
New SuperMario Bros = $20 (Used, Gamefly)
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$700.
Incidentially That's about the price of 1 PS3, high def cables and a game. (no second controller.)
Source?
Amazon still codes their pages so they come up "fast" on a 28.8 modem. Ebay is the same. Where as some sites are sold by flashy experiances, they are not. They want to keep the barrier of entry low so you buy from them, and the whole process is fast and easy. To do otherwise is simply bad business.
Even though MS hasn't been able to sell in Japan, Sony's meager launch of 80,000 PS3 units will be crushed by the Wii The day it launches. With a healthy level of Wii's in the pipeline Nintendo will be the market leader in Japan through the holiday and likely the 1st 3-6 months of it's lifespan. Sony's only hope is to get their manufacturing issues fixed before Nintendo has "Too much of a lead" and developers "Follow to money to the larger userbase" as they did with the PS2.
Agreed. There is a reason that 3 other manufacturer's (MS, Nintendo, and Sega) all put their Analog sticks in the primary position. For 3D games, that's where they belong. I can understand how it happened though, the PS1 controller was only slightly modified from an SNES controller. Then they wanted to add analog support, and didn't know where to put it. Why they left it on the PS2/PS3 in this configuration I have no idea. To me this is a cap in the 360's favor as I would rather interface with that for hours at a time (or a Wavebird, or a Guitar) than the Dual shock or Sixaxis.
Don't forget Xbox. They sold 20 million units, but lost $4 billion to do it.
Funny, I just saw this today. An interview with Perrin Kaplan of NOA stating that component Cables would be available Day 1 at both Retail and online.
The PS1 is technically inferior in every way (except disk capacity) to the N64. Which sold more?
The PS2 is technically inferior in every way (except disk capacity) to both the GameCube and the Xbox. Which sold more?
Clearly, the "Most powerful console =! the winner."
Eternal Darkness, RE4, and F-Zero GX all pwn, and you could get all 3 now for $40 or less (used) total. I would start with those. :)
I have an HDTV and my Gamecube Games look fantastic on it. Also with the Wii 480p and 16:9 is (at least for Nintendo 1st party) the standard.
The issue was that the Gamecube used a non-standard digital port for component cables and only sold them online (not at retail). So eventually they removed the 2nd port from the Gamecubes that were being manufactured (sometime in Late 2003) due to 'very few people buying the cables'. Despite this they still program their games to do 480p, so if you were fortunate enough to have an old enough Gamecube, and bout the cables online before they were discontinued (like me) you can still enjoy the new releases in progressive scan.
Even though the Wii isn't puishing HD, Nintendo is offering the Component cables (online only again! ARGH!) and their standard is both 480p and 16:9.
Since Sony has slower loading than any other system, it's more important that those load screens are in 1080p!
The system? Not so much. The controller? Absolutely!
Inflation isn't relevant to technology as it depreciates so rapidly. Over time you get more technology for less money.
If you thought they looked fine on your TV, then the Wii will look fine in 480p and 16:9 also.