12th January 2004, 6:38 PM
Missed this somehow...
Er, everything! Look, when you're distributing games on small media cards and having these automated stations in all kinds of stores that download games from the station to the card upon purchase, you're working on a very limited game size if you want a reasonable price for the cards. Nintendo's going with 64MB cards in China, which means that N64 games is the limit of what can be on it (GBA being lesser than N64 but obviously wouldn't be on this because it's another viable platform)...
Nintendo does have the other advantages of a massive install base on the GBA, which is still a very viable platform... that gives them all kinds of advantages and time. Sony might make up some ground, but it'll take a while...
Especially the part where they explain why mass market gamers, which have always loathed the idea of "handheld" consoles with three-hour battery lives, should suddenly change that opinion because Sony says so. That's the biggest hurdle, and one Sony could very well have trouble with...
Obviously some games look great on the GB Player, but can you honestly say that LttP looks better in GB Player than SNES? Or any of the Mario Advance tiles? Etc, etc, the list of SNES ports is so long...
No, I didn't think so.
Quote:What does that have to do with anything...
Er, everything! Look, when you're distributing games on small media cards and having these automated stations in all kinds of stores that download games from the station to the card upon purchase, you're working on a very limited game size if you want a reasonable price for the cards. Nintendo's going with 64MB cards in China, which means that N64 games is the limit of what can be on it (GBA being lesser than N64 but obviously wouldn't be on this because it's another viable platform)...
Quote:That's baloney. When Nintendo was prepping the Gamecube they also said that they didn't consider it to be directly competiting with the PS2 and X-Box, and look how wrong they were. Most game sales come from adults, so Nintendo definitely has a lot to be worried about.
Nintendo does have the other advantages of a massive install base on the GBA, which is still a very viable platform... that gives them all kinds of advantages and time. Sony might make up some ground, but it'll take a while...
Especially the part where they explain why mass market gamers, which have always loathed the idea of "handheld" consoles with three-hour battery lives, should suddenly change that opinion because Sony says so. That's the biggest hurdle, and one Sony could very well have trouble with...
Quote:You've obviously never played something like Golden Sun or Mario & Luigi on a GBA Player if you really believe that. True, they do have a slightly lower resolution than SNES games, but everything else makes them look better than any SNES title.
Obviously some games look great on the GB Player, but can you honestly say that LttP looks better in GB Player than SNES? Or any of the Mario Advance tiles? Etc, etc, the list of SNES ports is so long...
No, I didn't think so.
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