13th January 2004, 4:08 PM
Quote:You still don't understand...No shit! That's what I've been all along!! Good grief, your inability to pay attention to a single word I say is extremely annoying. The IQue is what it is because it has to be cheap enough to the Chinese market! It has nothing to do with the size of memory cards! If Nintendo could make cheap enough GC hardware then they'd find another piracy-proof way of distributing games. It's that simple.
Look, if it played Gamecube games it'd be a Gamecube. If it played GB games it'd be a Game Boy. Nintendo isn't about to release a new hardware that works with another current hardware! So obviously it'll be older stuff, if it isn't a new higher-power system in either one of those categories... the iQue aims right for that niche and I think hits it. How would it do in the West? I don't know. There is definitely quite an appetite for SNES ports on GBA... sure some of that is people rebuying games for portability but I'm sure a lot of it is new buyers. As for N64 it is true that the games are widely available used, but some Nintendo system like these machines could have a even bigger selection and SNES games too... as I said it wouldn't light up the charts but I do think the market for older games (or just cheaper games) is definitely big enough for it to sell.
And again, the way the games are sold is a big part of the system! It wouldn't be an iQue and wouldn't be a seperate category from the NGC and GBA if it was a normal distribution system, so of course I'm only thinking of ways to sell games with that system... if the iQue was anything else it couldn't really stand at the same time as the NGC and GBA. Sega learned that when they tried to keep the 32X and Saturn on at the same time.
Quote:I have a NP issue from before the system came out that mentions the 900 megabit max cart size... and I remember reading all over the place that the 512 cart in RE2 wasn't the biggest possible, just the most anyone wanted to pay for given the high prices of cartridges...Talk to Angel Studios, Factor 5, or any other developer that had to get huge N64 carts and they'll tell you what the limit is. I trust the actual developers and Nintendo over a crappy magazine.
Quote:Well yeah, it's meant to be a cheap system and that helps on that a LOT...Jeez, you still don't get what the IQue is for, do you?