12th January 2004, 9:28 PM
Quote: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)...
First of all, that's not what I was referring to. Re-read the past few posts. Memory has nothing to do with it. They're using 64MB cards because they're N64 games, not the other way around. The reason why the IQue plays just N64 and SNES games and not GC ones is because otherwise the system would be expensive, and that would defeat the purpose of releasing the system in China.
And GBA carts can be much larger than N64 carts, btw.
Quote: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...
I've heard this sort of nonsense before, it was during the time FFVII came out and the PlayStation started to completely destroy the Nintendo 64. Fanboys will say what they will to help them sleep at night. Believe me, I was one of them. I don't want Sony to succeed in the handheld business any more than Nintendo does, but it's going to happen no matter how many foolish people skoff at them. It won't be the same kind of struggle, but it will certainly be a struggle for them. Let's hope that Nintendo has something big up their sleeves to go up against the PSP. This "they're not even competition" facade has only resulted in them losing their stronghold over the market.
Quote: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.
Of course not, Einsten. That's because those are straight ports. Repeat after me: They are straight ports that do not take advantage of the GBA hardware!
I don't know how this makes you think that the IQue would be a success here, but whatever. I'd have more luck convincing this banana to stop dancing then I'd have convincing you that you're nuts.
