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"GC fans can't boost about the price now try and get a DVD player for £30 or £40 pounds"

Well Well Sony and MS drop the price of there already very affordable machines this can only be a bad thing for GC as no-one can buy a GC and seperate DVD player for £159 or £169.

As I have stated countless times before the GC is cheap because it is a cheap piece of technology.

Facts

GC Xbox PS2

1.5 gig format 4.5gig dvd 4.5gig dvd

Dvd playback none Yes needs controller Yes out of the box

10 million 90 million 20 million
polys per second polys per second polys per second

Dolby 5.1 none Dolby 5.1 yes Dolby 5.1 yes

Serial ports USB, Opitical, ethernet USB, firewire,Optical

480 x 640 1172 x 800 at least 1172 x 800 at least

These are a few examples and just go to show why the GC is cheaper than the other two console because it's old hat technology, the one bit of modern technology is not worth having the custom 1.5 discs (Resi Evil on two disc so yesterday) are a waste of time and only designed so that Nintendo can charge the publishers more for custom tooling.

techno u act like such a sony or billy gates fanboy.....

GBA - GC linkup is ok, but it's not true "open" expansion. I mean, it just links GBA and GC together. Ethernet adaptors, USB, Firewire are "open" platform technology.

Dont need a DVD player on my GC as i already have one.

I have no idea what you're on about Dave and I'm guessing neither do you, it's gamers like you that make me wonder why I bother coming on these forums.

Games are supposed to be fun so can we all stop slating other people consoles, it's like me going round a mates house and insulting his toaster. They're only bits of electrical equipment.

But come on that toaster is rubbish, mine can boil water too.

Techno freak wrote:
> The thing is dvd is the standard not an extra as GC fans would like
> you to believe.


And i suppose you would like me to believe that 4 controller slots arnt standard.

Oh well 2 years old what do you expect.

NaS†Ÿ_Nêighßoû® wrote:
> Techno freak wrote:
> The thing is dvd is the standard not an extra as GC fans would like
> you to believe.
>
>
> And i suppose you would like me to believe that 4 controller slots
> arnt standard.
>
> Oh well 2 years old what do you expect.

I suppose you can have up to 8 players on your GC then if you had a multitap that is.

no 16 if you have 3 of those links they have in japan.

Yet another crappy fanboyish comment from Techno Freak.

The GC can reach up to 20,000,000 pps whilst the Xbox can reach up to 125,000,000.

Get your facts right before you say them.

Newbies posting tech specs...

They NEVER have a clue what they're on about...