14th May 2004, 12:32 PM
Here's my worry about the media. Skipping and disk damage. Sony seems to have solved the disk scratching issues with the disk caddy (bringing back memories of the earliest CD-ROMs). However, I'm still very concerned about the fact that a portable system is going to be jostled and realigned a LOT during play. Considering how faulty every single disk drive that has claimed to be capable of standing vertically has been in the past (what with gravity and all), I worry about how quickly the laser could misalign itself with all the off-angles people could be holding this in. Perhaps they have found a way to combat the whole issue; maybe the caddies will be holding the disk firmly enough in place so that gravity won't misalign it when held at an off-angle. I'll have to see it for myself to believe it though. Until then, I say carts may just be the better solution for portable gaming. Might be wrong, that's just what my experience has told me.
MP3 playback is something likely to be added later anyway. The GBA already has an MP3 player add-on. It IS an add-on though. Still, I really don't think many people seem to care about that. That feature certainly didn't seem to help the N-Gage, but then again that system had not a single exclusive game, and still doesn't I think, so I don't think even a cure for cancer built into it would have saved it.
Technical power, this could be a real sticking point, COULD be anyway. Depends on a few things. Certainly, if the DS is powerful enough over the N64, the programmers could really take enough advantage of the hardware that one might not notice, at first, until PSP developers take full advantage of that. Anyway, I think price is the thing. I haven't heard the set price of the PSP yet, but if it's more expensive than the DS, then I suspect the offset price would make up for it in the eyes of the commoner. Eh, I dunno...
Anyway, the innovative stuff certainly has my interest more than anything.
As for the medium, well it's likely not actually an SD card simply due to price I imagine. I just wasn't aware how different the format was. If it was JUST shape and memory storage format, and nothing technically different as far as hardware features, I'd still think using actual SD cards would be the better solution. As for your statements ABF, well first off, all you said was "why would they do that?", not "they wouldn't do that BECAUSE", and when it's JUST a question, even next to something else that's a problem, it basically just tells me you didn't even bother reading my reason why they would. It's not an all consuming reason to do so, but it is A reason.
Anyway, the format would be easy enough, IF IT WASN'T FOR STUPID SOFTWARE THIEFS. Otherwise, it would have to be some nonaccessible file. Ugh, honestly it's just sickening about this, and you claim it doesn't hurt anyone when pirates do that. Well, it hurt ME PERSONALLY. Besides that, one could take those cards and just download the data from kiosks in stores to them for cheaper than buying a brand new card with the game on it. It would be just like the olden days of the floppy disks and the Famicom Disk System add-on. I still think it would be cool if they did that, but oh well. Honestly, I am not Nintendo's accountant, I just want to have fun, so I don't care about their own personal risk in this.
No matter, as of now, it's still good enough that I want it.
MP3 playback is something likely to be added later anyway. The GBA already has an MP3 player add-on. It IS an add-on though. Still, I really don't think many people seem to care about that. That feature certainly didn't seem to help the N-Gage, but then again that system had not a single exclusive game, and still doesn't I think, so I don't think even a cure for cancer built into it would have saved it.
Technical power, this could be a real sticking point, COULD be anyway. Depends on a few things. Certainly, if the DS is powerful enough over the N64, the programmers could really take enough advantage of the hardware that one might not notice, at first, until PSP developers take full advantage of that. Anyway, I think price is the thing. I haven't heard the set price of the PSP yet, but if it's more expensive than the DS, then I suspect the offset price would make up for it in the eyes of the commoner. Eh, I dunno...
Anyway, the innovative stuff certainly has my interest more than anything.
As for the medium, well it's likely not actually an SD card simply due to price I imagine. I just wasn't aware how different the format was. If it was JUST shape and memory storage format, and nothing technically different as far as hardware features, I'd still think using actual SD cards would be the better solution. As for your statements ABF, well first off, all you said was "why would they do that?", not "they wouldn't do that BECAUSE", and when it's JUST a question, even next to something else that's a problem, it basically just tells me you didn't even bother reading my reason why they would. It's not an all consuming reason to do so, but it is A reason.
Anyway, the format would be easy enough, IF IT WASN'T FOR STUPID SOFTWARE THIEFS. Otherwise, it would have to be some nonaccessible file. Ugh, honestly it's just sickening about this, and you claim it doesn't hurt anyone when pirates do that. Well, it hurt ME PERSONALLY. Besides that, one could take those cards and just download the data from kiosks in stores to them for cheaper than buying a brand new card with the game on it. It would be just like the olden days of the floppy disks and the Famicom Disk System add-on. I still think it would be cool if they did that, but oh well. Honestly, I am not Nintendo's accountant, I just want to have fun, so I don't care about their own personal risk in this.
No matter, as of now, it's still good enough that I want it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)