I dunno, it's been quite a long time since we've had a good old fashioned debate around here so maybe this could be a good topic...
Vladimir Tepes "Vlad the Implaer"-Had his own people killed in the most worse and gruesome ways possible...often while eating his own meals too. Joseph Stalin "Man of Steel"-Communist leader, had about 10-20 million of his own people killed. Adolf Hitler "Wolf"-History's bastard child, killed about 11 million of his own people (plus the tens of millions of allied forces around the world)
Damn that's a tough one....but I gotta say I'm on the ropes with Lord of the Rings and the Matrix...what do you think?
Oh yeah...if you like uncompleted series (e.g. The Matrix and LotR), more than the others give 'er your vote...and somebody add some more trilogies 'cause I can't add any more.
Quote:Posted by
Christian Kontul at 11:05:16 PM EST on 10.24.2003.
Nintendo announced today in Japan that it will offer a new peripheral, the Advance Movie, for the Game Boy Advance on November 20.
The device will be able to play movies and music from Smart Media cards. Nintendo has plans to cooperate with several companies to bring content out for the device - when it launches, a set of three movies will be made available for 2,380 (about $22) yen apiece. The Advance Movie player itself will retail for 3,200 ($30) yen, and a combo pack, with the first movie, will sell for 3,800 ($35) yen. This set will be limited to 30,000 units.
More movies will follow through December, and, beginning in April, consumers will be able to download things onto their cards at special internet kiosks. Downloads will run anywhere from 100 yen (91 cents) to 500 ($5) yen, and Smart Media cards can be purchased for only 1,800 ($16) yen.
With a 32 MB Smart Media card, Nintendo claims that almost 25 minutes of video or five hours of music can be stored. This technology can even be used on Game Boy Advance software, as Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories demonstrated during September's Tokyo Game Show.
Nintendo has not announced plans to bring the Advance Movie to North America, but expressed interest while unveiling the product today. We'll follow the situation closely, so check back soon and often.
Source: QUITER
Wow, this is great news as it shows that Nintendo is preparing to match the PSP in every aspect, or so it seems. The PSP is supposed to be able to play movies and music and I bet Nintendo is doing this to test the waters for possible capabilities of their next handheld. I hope that this is a sign that the next Gameboy system will be able to play movies and music in order to better compete with the PSP, and using the SD cards is the perfect thing to do.
Quote:Here are some new images and preview video of Nintendo's Pokemon Colosseum for GameCube, the game is scheduled to release in Japan on November 21, for 5800 yen. A free Memory Card 59 will be bundled with the game.
A 30 hours long RPG mode will be included in the game, you can battle against the main characters from Pokemon Red/Blue, Gold/Silver, and Ruby/Sapphire.
RPG MODE?! WHAT?! How come no one has said anything about this?!
Quote:As previously repoprted, Nintendo has purchased 1.28 million shares of Bandai's (Japan) stock, giving Nintendo aproximately 2.6% ownership of Bandai.
Speculation that this purchase was actually the precursor to a merger or takeover bid has since grown so much that Bandai president, Takeo Takasu, held a press conference to squelch the rumours.
Takasu explained that, Bandai was looking for a third party that could acquire a number of its shares from financial institutions and other companies that bandai had cross-shareholding issues with. Nintendo expressed interest in investing in Bandai and Bandai consented. Nintendo subsequently purchased the 1.28 million shares from the financial institutions and companies, including 260 000 shares from Mattel.
Bandai and Nintendo stocks have both risen today, Bandai up 5.79% to it's highest share price of the year, and Nintendo up .34 %.
Something is definitely going on here, either Nintendo wants some exclusive games or they some bigger plans. You don't just buy 1.38 milllion shares of stock for nothing.
Quote:For the week of October 13-19 in Japan the number one selling game was Made in Wario for GameCube. The GBA versions seems to have spurred it to early sales reaching about 90,900 in total, which is 55 thousand more than the second game that is on PS2. Grand Thefto Auto III for PS2 has sold 21,700 last week and has 226,600 total since its release in Japan.
1. Game Boy Advance SP -- 31,600 / 1,788,600
2. Playstation 2 -- 26,900 / 2,149,000
3. GameCube -- 11,100 / 564,800
4. Game Boy Advance -- 6,300 / 1,080,800
5. Playstation -- 650 / 58,600
6. Xbox -- 440 / 76,700
