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"Oh dear Oh dear all seems a bit familiar the DS"

What is going on with Nintendo I thought that after all these years of fobbing us off with inferior tripe that was graphically no better than a SNES game they have managed to pull it off again.

I have seen screens of Mario DS, some really ropey Ngage racer port and of the Ridge Racer game and they are shocking, no textures, blocky graphics and
no better than a first gen PS1 game.

Having seen a comparison between the DS ridge racer game and PSP ridge racer game there is only one your are gonna want to play on and it ain't the one with the gimmicey stylus.

Nintendo DS stands the (Dier System), this console was realised and produced in a year and it shows.

Lots of people buying Ridge Racer doesn't mean it's good, it means the buyers are morons.

I laugh.

'Nintendo make rubbish/ugly/different ports/games and are always wrong' is about the sum of this argument.

T score 04 wrote:
> Dringo Wrote:
>
> I've said it once and I'll say it again the (to soon be) £50
> GBA system that plays simple games will win the handheld war.
>
> Simple games for simple people the backbone one Nintendo's handhelds

So says somebody who;

A) Can't use English correctly
B) Can't use a simple internet quoting system correctly
C) Believes simplicity is both stupid and idiotic
D) Form a cogent argument

ßulle†† wrote:
> Lots of people buying Ridge Racer doesn't mean it's good, it means the
> buyers are morons.

Without a base of users, you cant make much money. You need the machine to be popular so lots of people have one. Then you can make lots of games for them to buy, which makes money, and then starts to offer choice (type of game) to the customer. Without these things, the console will be a "minority" system, which results in less 3rd part support, less choice of games, and so on. A mean, as good as the G5 Macintosh is, knowbody who is serious about games would buy a G5 for that. It doesnt have strong enough support from the games industry, which means there are less games released for it compared with the more common place Pentium 4 PC. You may think RR buyers are all morons, but they cant be (too many of them), but the fact remains you need a popular machine to appeal to the most people, which is what PSP (like PS, and PS2) will do.

And its happened before. Nintendo and Sega were king of the home consoles. But then Sony took a new view, and provided buyers with something quite different, and more modern. Most people took this up, leaving Nintendo & Sega out inthe cold. Where are Nintendo and Sega now, compared with the 1980's? This kinda proves my point I think.

Bejam wrote:
> This is classic, just classic. Yes, better graphics mean that the PSP
> will definitely be far superior and sell millions more units than the
> DS.
> It's obvious really isn't it?
>
> Still, each to their own. I'm going to be perfectly happy playing
> great innovative software on my lovely little DS rather than being
> ripped off for an over-priced portable PS1/2 with dull
> ports/franchises and a battery life shorter than Gary Coleman.
>
> But it's got betta grafix and a big screen and can play MP3s!!!!
>
> Assclown.

If they are so innovative why are there so many ports I thought Nintendo only produced software that was original or is it that they can use a stylus (laught's out loud) and Ninty fanboys call the ported game a innovative gameplay (different is not always innovative).

Your pure stupidity is simply astounding.

Going back to the original argument, I fail to see how you've come to the conclusion that Ridge Racer will be better on the PSP than the DS because of the graphics. Compare the old SmackDown games on the PS1 to No Mercy on the N64... absolutely no competition. Visually much worse, yet No Mercy was still about 10 times more enjoyable, and in turn this makes it better. Mario Kart: Super Circuit, comparing it to the N64 and Gamecube versions, is visually atrocious, but yet, it's a much more enjoyable game. Therefore, I hope you realise, it's better.

Of course better visuals win over idiots these days (much like yourself, I'm thinking), but they really don't have much to do with the quality of the game as a whole.

And next time you want to talk about Nintendo fanboys, please don't until you've removed your head from Sony's crack and are in a position to make judgements like that.

Macintosh wrote:

> If thats so, we did so many people buy it on the PS2?

What Ridge Racer PS2 game?

The last one was R-Racing Revolution, released on all consoles and sold like a led balloon.

And as for comparing Ridge Racer on the PSP to the DS, well the PSP looks better but the DS's one is more original.

Both crap mind.

T score 04 wrote:

>
> If they are so innovative why are there so many ports I thought
> Nintendo only produced software that was original or is it that they
> can use a stylus (laught's out loud) and Ninty fanboys call the
> ported game a innovative gameplay (different is not always
> innovative).

Hang on? Nintendo fans criticised the Gameboy Advance (a fantastic machine) for having too many ports? Nintendo fans have been criticising Nintendo for only releasing Pikmin, Metroid Prime, Animal Crossing and Wario Ware as original titles these days.

So when did you last talk to a "Nintendo fanboy".

And for the record, Mario 64 blew away EVERYTHING the Playstation had to offer back in 1996...


But the N64 with just one game cost £300.
And each new game cost £60.
And there were about 10 games to choose from over the first 10 months.
And loads of people already had mates with Playstations.
So Nintendo screwed up the marketing side, and by the time they'd sorted out pricing, they'd lost most of the "wow!" factor.

This time the DS is being released first and at a cheaper price and offers the sort of games you can't already get on a home console.
The PSP has an analogue stick, which is a plus... but doesn't make up for the rest of it...