Nintendo's Press Conference

[A Black Falcon]

Key words being "Nintendo is cheap", actually. Nintendo rarely ever loses money per each piece of hardware that they sell because they make their consoles cheaper than Sony and MS do. Both Sony and MS lose money for each console that they sell (or at least Sony did in the first two years of the PS2's life). Sony is willing to lose more money than Nintendo is.

That is true, and its the only reason the PSP might come out for a reasonable price. Still, the GBA will be at most half the price of it...

I see another N64 vs. PSX situation happening all over again. Nintendo has a stronghold over a particular market, Sony introduces a new system, everyone underestimates them, but all of the third-parties flock to Sony's system because Sony offers much lower licensing and production fees than Nintendo does. Unless Nintendo offers even lower licensing fees and has a new handheld that's just about as powerful as the PSP and comes out no later than a few months after the PSP, I'm afraid to say that Sony will probably dominate the handheld gaming market.

That COULD happen, but its quite doubtful. The GB has a very long history of success and I doubt it'll just collapse that fast... and the GBA has lots of great games out on it, too... and on the handheld front, as we've seen many times, graphics aren't always the main reason why a console succeeds. :)

Sony makes some of the best, most efficient rechargable batteries in the world, so what do you think they'll use? And having a rechargable lithium battery pack isn't a huge improvement over having to spend tons of money on alkaline batteries each year?

There is still only so much they can do with disc-based media. Better batteries? Sure. But battery technology (ie length it lasts) hasn't changed in a long, long time... so it is an issue from any way I can see it...

I provided screenshots that showed the drastic difference in graphics quality between the two games, I explained very clearly how the games differ in control and gameplay, and I've repeated myself at least a dozen times now. I will not repeat myself again. If you have that bad of a memory, read the last few pages of this argument. This is ridiculous.

You provided ONE screen of DK64 that was the equal, quality-wise, of all of the BK shots... and comparing one shot to five is hardly fair or even, so that arguement was pretty pointless. You cannot compare blurry shots to clear ones and say "look, the clear ones are better!"... yet you did that!

Oh, and your things on control and gameplay just aren't convincing, and often don't make sense to me given my playing the games...

The jumping in DK64 is very limited. None of the characters can jump very high, and because of that there are no challenging jumping puzzles. There are many more jumping puzzles in the Banjo games, and it's one thing that I sorely missed while playing through DK64.

I played DK64 for many hours, and seem to recall quite a bit of platform jumping... B-T hasn't had more, certainly.

Do you think I had a choice?? The only new system I had from 1996-2000 was an N64. The only games I could play were N64 ones, so I sucked the life out of them. I got very well acquainted with each major N64 release, so I have much more experience with them than you do, which is why I can tell the difference between the likes of Dk64 and BK and you cannot.

So any time you argue about PC games its fine for me to insult you about how I've had a PC for 8 years longer than you have (we got our first one in January 1992,.and I used the internet for the first time in '95 or '96), so you clearly have no clue what you are talking about and it is obvious that me, the more experienced one, cannot be wrong since I have had the system for longer?

IMO, that arguement just doesn't make sense. Sure it has SOME effect, but NOT SO MUCH THAT YOU CANNOT STILL COMPARE GAMES QUITE WELL.

So you replayed games. I have never been the type to do that, whether I have newer games or not... I generally don't replay the kinds of games you are talking about. Its not really about when I got the console, just how you like to play games... and I think that playing a game once through makes you just as qualified as if you've played it three times... for this kind of arguement, anyway, for sure.