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"Question: If Nintendo have been so revolutionary...."

Why is the DS the first handheld they have used a 3D chip in?

Come on it's not like 3D chips are new

There were three CD-i Zelda games weren't there?

Sony,Philips and Nintendo started making the add-on for the Snes. Only then sega did the same with their "mega drive" so then Nintendo stopped it.

Philips later created the CD-i which was more based on the ideas planned which had the crap Zelda game and then Sony released the playstation.

I read it somewhere about the zelda series, never heard of it before that.

How could anything like this fail :( lol [URL]http://www.zeldacentral.net/cdi/za/ss_4.png[/URL]

Concept wrote:
> Also in Japan didnt sony create somin with nintendo using CDs to start
> with? made the crappest Zelda ever.
>
> I read that somewhere not too sure on details!

I thought that Sony (who were not into games at the time) were going to make the CD drive for the Nintendo console of its day, but they parted company, and Nintendo lost the CD technology in the bargin, so they had to put a cart drive on the new machine. That new machine would later become the N64. Sony went out and developed their own machine, based on that CD system, and the rest is history.

Also in Japan didnt sony create somin with nintendo using CDs to start with? made the crappest Zelda ever.

I read that somewhere not too sure on details!

Edgy wrote:
> The original CD based non-PC home videogame systems didn't do too
> well:
>
> Mega-CD or Saturn anyone?

mega-cd

The original CD based non-PC home videogame systems didn't do too well:

Mega-CD or Saturn anyone?

And family members who don't know how to care for them properly.

I doubt anyone here said anything like that. The only complaint held against using discs is the loading times.

I remember the original CD game systems for home. Cry's of "it will never work, its a disc". Or "the disc will skip", and "CD is for music, why put games on a music disc?".

Now look where we are. CD and now DVD is common place and is the format of choice.

gerrid wrote:
> Macintosh wrote:
> One reason why a DVD might skip is dust on the underside of the
> disc,
> fingerprints, etc. Not a problem for DVDRAM or Sonys UMD on PSP -
> the
> disc is in a shell.
>
> But the casing has a hole in it to expose the disc to the laser, so
> pasrt of the disc is exposed and could become damaged. UMD isn't
> perfect.

But not as bad as many people whould have others think!