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The Gamecube is costing Nintendo big and sagging sales are a large part of their problem, ditch the deadwood before it's to late.
"PSP is simple to program"
"PSP games are better because of the UMD, bigger disk space=better games"
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And with practically no loading times and saving straight to the card, why use anything else for a handheld?
> Macintosh wrote:
> The N64 should have been CD based. The Cube should have been DVD
> based.
>
> !"£$%^&*
>
> It is DVD based you mong, It's called mini-DVD, which CAN BE USED IN
> ANY DVD PLAYER.
>
> Jesus christ, I've explained this to you about 11 times already.
mini-DVD, ahh the format Nintendo thought would be used for holding movies, when everyone knows DVD movies wont fit on those lower capacity discs, without the aid of more severe graphic & audio compression which defeats the object of moving away from tape. Not only that, but call it whatever you want, the smaller disc from Nintendo holds a lot less data full stop. That doesnt just mean problems in getting movies onto them, but also that game developers who usually make stuff for DVD have to remove/reduce content, and/or re-code in order to stand any chance of fitting their ported games on gamecube discs. Thats why a lot of stuff that is "multiformat", is released last on GameCube. Plus the Nintendo disc needs a different size cutter, and printing setup - extra production costs.
> Yeah, and everyone has a CD and DVD player anyway.
>
> He just uses these naive and stupid arguments all the time because he
> knows nothing else.
Then why is Nintendo not leading the market, and why are we all not looking at films made on Nintendo "mini-DVD". Ever seen a high quality audio only Nintendo type disc used for music? No, I wonder why!
. Temp exclusivity to Sony or Microsoft
. The fact Nintendo take an extra week to produce third party games
. Online support needs replacing with something different for the Gamecube.
Nintendo never thought mini-DVD's would play movies. The fact is there is a Gamecube out there that plays DVD's anyway, Nintendo didn't mass market it in fear of piracy.
You are the biggest idiot in the word Macintosh, no body here cares if Nintendo make a good profit or a great profit or a relativly great profit. We don't care. We don't care if Playstation games use bigger capacity. We don't care that the playstation plays DVD's.
You see we're gamers, we aren't stupid, just because a game can hold more things doesn't mean it is better, just because a console can play DVD's does not mean the games are great.
We are Nintendo fans, Nintendo have been "losing" the war for a good 9 years, we are aware Nintendo's profits aren't as great as they once were. Although they are still good and solid.
As Nintendo fans we play Nintendo games. Nintendo games are our favourite games. You are not gonna persuade any of us that playing GTA or a cool looking console or a console that can play DVD's are better than Nintendo's systems.
Because Sony can do everything right, own the rights to every game, play free movies from the box, brush your teeth and look like sex on legs.
It just doesn't play Nintendo games.
Therefore Nintendo still wins in our eyes.
So go and cry about Nintendo not selling as well as they used to elsewhere.
Why oh why did the DS not use the GC disc it's bigger, they already produce it and they could translate GC games much easier, cheaper for the developers, nintendo everyone.
>
> Then why is Nintendo not leading the market, and why are we all not
> looking at films made on Nintendo "mini-DVD".
A: It is Panasonic's DVD player.
B: It was never intended to play movies.
C: There is a Gamecube-DVD player.
D: We really don't care.
DS not use the GC disc it's bigger, they already
> produce it and they could translate GC games much easier, cheaper for
> the developers, nintendo everyone.
Battery life.
I still don't care.