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"FUTURE OF GAMING"

O-genki desu-ka?

(Are you well?)

Good.

So, when I ask you "What will be the deciding factor that will make you select which future console you're going to buy?"

What would you say?

Well, having just returned from the kitchen, I don't feel like posting a "mammoth" post, so here's just a few questions that may get you thinking. If you could answer them, (c + p 'em) and we'll see what happens.

This is primarily about the 128bit consoles, excluding Sega's as they've annoyed me.

These questions, wherever possible, may or may not be relevent to the topic discussion.


1) What name do you prefer out of the following, on regards to a name of a games machine?

A) X-Box

B) GameCube

C) PlayStation 2

D) Lancelot


>If you selected D, move onto question 10, i.e. don't answer the other questions<


2) How many control ports would you rather have on a console?

A) 1

B) 2

C) 4

D) 6

E) 0.

>If you selected A or E you are eliminated from the questionaire<


3) What console are you most likely to purchase next (please explain your answer in 10 words or less)?

A) PlayStation 2

B) X-Box

C) GameCube


4) Is it wise for a console manufacturer, like Sony, Microsft and Nintendo, to spend more money on promotion of the console, than actually spending on development?

A) Yes

B) No

C) Inflatable Monkey

>If you selected C, you may be excused and ramble in 5 lines or less why monkeys are great<


5) What style of game-box/case would you prefer for your chosen console?

A) DVD style casing

B) Cardboard boxing

C) See through plastic, similar to PSX/DC game casing

D) Something revolutionary: won't break, stylish and when opened a deep cinema bloke style voice starts up and tells you a brief description of the game

E) Plastic wallets

F) Suspended Animation

>If you selected D, please describe this case in no more than 3 lines. If selecting F, please re-read the question as this answer is not relevent<


6) A genre is something a games developer has to think about carefully - which genre will their next Fifa game fit into? Seriously, if one console had only games in one genre, what genre what you prefer?

A) Sports simulations - this includes boring fishing games

B) Racing

C) Adventure

D) Role Playing Games

E) Dancing/Music

F) Fighting/combat

G) Other (please include)

H) Genre defying


7) Using your knowledge of gaming and peripherals in gaming, what is the most unusual peripheral you would like to see available for games on a games console?

A) Control pad

B) Arcade stick

C) Steering Wheel

D) Fishing rod

E) Dark/Light Gun

F) Cordless Phone

G) Microphone

H) Keyboard

I) Vibrating Shoes

J) Scissors/Pruning equipment/Shears (for the new wave of gardening simulations about to smack us in the jaw like an misplaced rake might do)

K) Webcam

L) Lava lamp


8) What features would you like your console to include?

A) DVD playback

B) DVD recordability

C) CD/MP3/VCD playback

D) MP3 download space/software

E) The ability to play GAMES

F) Flying capabilities

G) LED lights

H) Unstablility


9) (This is the last question for all of you, unless you are to and froing from question 1 and 10 still) What name would you personally give to the new generation console?

Answers - all welcome.


10) Go back to question one and answer again.


Thank you for your time.

Dan2K1

Meka - you don't have to say YES and NO because if you feel the amounts should be balanced then you clearly don't think the manufacturer should spend more on promoting it than actually making it. However, that doesn't matter, well done for choosing the shoes. No I wouldn't buy a lubecube.

i'd by a FoxBox or an animationstation though.

1) What name do you prefer out of the
> following, on regards to a name of a games machine?

B) GameCube



2) How many control ports would you rather have
> on a console?

C) 4 I feel that any more than 4 would look rather crowded on the front of a console.


3)
> What console are you most likely to purchase next (please explain
> your answer in 10 words or less)?

C) GameCube

Nintendo games! I like what I've seen so far.

4) Is it wise for a console manufacturer,
> like Sony, Microsft and Nintendo, to spend more money on promotion
> of the console, than actually spending on development?

A) Yes

B) No

Well, yes AND no. The spending has to be carefully balanced. What's the worth of a decent machine that no one knows about? Likewise who would care for promotion of a t**d?

5) What style of game-box/case would you prefer for
> your chosen console?

Anything that won't break, and will fit nicely into any storage area I choose to assign it.


6) A genre is something a games
> developer has to think about carefully - which genre will their next
> Fifa game fit into? Seriously, if one console had only games in one
> genre, what genre what you prefer?

C) Adventure

7) Using your
> knowledge of gaming and peripherals in gaming, what is the most
> unusual peripheral you would like to see available for games on a
> games console?

I) Vibrating Shoes. These would be great fun for drunken bowling sims.


8) What features would
> you like your console to include?
E) The ability to play GAMES

F) Flying
> capabilities

G) LED lights


9) (This is
> the last question for all of you, unless you are to and froing from
> question 1 and 10 still) What name would you personally give to the
> new generation console?

The LubeCube. Honestly, who WOULDNT buy a console called that?

1) What name do you prefer out of the
> following, on regards to a name of a games machine?

B) GameCube


2) How many control ports would you rather have
> on a console?


C) 4


3)
> What console are you most likely to purchase next (please explain
> your answer in 10 words or less)?


C) GameCube-Already have a PS2, X-box will suck. Mmm Monkey juice.


4) Is it wise for a console manufacturer,
> like Sony, Microsft and Nintendo, to spend more money on promotion
> of the console, than actually spending on development?

C) Inflatable Monkey

There's an inflatable gorilla in Fur fighters by the way. Five lines eh? Monkeys eat bananas. They have multi-coloured butts. They are extremely amusing. On nature programs they give them weird names like Arthur. I am going to cross-breed a dragon with a monkey-Who wants one?

Dan2K1 wrote:
> O-genki desu-ka?

(Are you well?)

Good.

So, when I ask you
> "What will be the deciding factor that will make you select
> which future console you're going to buy?"

What would you
> say?

Well, having just returned from the kitchen, I don't feel
> like posting a "mammoth" post, so here's just a few
> questions that may get you thinking. If you could answer them, (c +
> p 'em) and we'll see what happens.

This is primarily about the
> 128bit consoles, excluding Sega's as they've annoyed me.

These
> questions, wherever possible, may or may not be relevent to the
> topic discussion.


1) What name do you prefer out of the
> following, on regards to a name of a games machine?

B) GameCube


2) How many control ports would you rather have
> on a console?

C) 4


>3)
> What console are you most likely to purchase next (please explain
> your answer in 10 words or less)?


C) GameCube - It's got the most attractive games shown (so far).


4) Is it wise for a console manufacturer,
> like Sony, Microsft and Nintendo, to spend more money on promotion
> of the console, than actually spending on development?


B) No



>If you selected C, you
> may be excused and ramble in 5 lines or less why monkeys are
> great<


5) What style of game-box/case would you prefer for
> your chosen console?

A) DVD style casing




>If you selected D, please describe this case in no
> more than 3 lines. If selecting F, please re-read the question as
> this answer is not relevent<


6) A genre is something a games
> developer has to think about carefully - which genre will their next
> Fifa game fit into? Seriously, if one console had only games in one
> genre, what genre what you prefer?




D)
> Role Playing Games





7) Using your
> knowledge of gaming and peripherals in gaming, what is the most
> unusual peripheral you would like to see available for games on a
> games console?


L) Lava lamp


8) What features would
> you like your console to include?


E) The ability to play GAMES




9) (This is
> the last question for all of you, unless you are to and froing from
> question 1 and 10 still) What name would you personally give to the
> new generation console?

Answers - all welcome.
Eclipse NG (Next Generation)


10) Go back
> to question one and answer again.


Thank you for your
> time.

Dan2K1

Sack the Topic Maker!

R) Voice recognition and coice - meant to be voice. Sorry.

1) What name do you prefer out of the following, on regards to a name of a games machine?

A) X-Box

2) How many control ports would you rather have on a console?

D) 6

3) What console are you most likely to purchase next (please explain your answer in 10 words or less)?

C) GameCube

Sonic Team love it, maybe Nights 2 will appear.

4) Is it wise for a console manufacturer, like Sony, Microsft and Nintendo, to spend more money on promotion of the console, than actually spending on development?



C) Inflatable Monkey

>If you selected C, you may be excused and ramble in 5 lines or less why monkeys are great<

Monkeys are fantastic, not simply great, due to the fact that we were once monkeys, but they decided not to evolve into us, which means, when they do evolve, they'll be the new breed of humans sort of thing, which will be very strange. We'll all become fish again because of the rising temperatures melting the ice, and there'll be humans also, but cavemen sort of humans, evolved from monkeys, pollution won't be a problem, ice caps will form, ice ages will take place.

Circle of life?

5) What style of game-box/case would you prefer for your chosen console?

D) Something revolutionary: won't break, stylish and when opened a deep cinema bloke style voice starts up and tells you a brief description of the game


>If you selected D, please describe this case in no more than 3 lines. If selecting F, please re-read the question as this answer is not relevent<

Carbon Fibre casing, but interesting minidisc see through style, flashing lights, unbreakable and the voice start up thing. Easy storage too, and it must come with an inbuilt manual, hmmmm.


6) A genre is something a games developer has to think about carefully - which genre will their next Fifa game fit into? Seriously, if one console had only games in one genre, what genre what you prefer?

H) Genre defying

7) Using your knowledge of gaming and peripherals in gaming, what is the most unusual peripheral you would like to see available for games on a games console?



I) Vibrating Shoes

L) Lava lamp


8) What features would you like your console to include?

A) DVD playback

B) DVD recordability

C) CD/MP3/VCD playback

D) MP3 download space/software

E) The ability to play GAMES

F) Flying capabilities

G) LED lights

R) Voice recognition and coice changing features...

9) (This is the last question for all of you, unless you are to and froing from question 1 and 10 still) What name would you personally give to the new generation console?

Answers - all welcome.

Komodo

Argh, I'll be serious then.

1) What name do you prefer out of the following, on regards to a name of a games machine?



D) Lancelot


>If you selected D, move onto question 10, i.e. don't answer the other questions<



10) Go back to question one and answer again.

Who wrote this questionaire? Ouch, my back is tingling and ouch.

Thanks guys. I may well answer this.

FM and Dringo - had you read question 9, you would have seen it was the last question unless you chose D in question one, and thus you didn't need to answer it.

However, that isn't important. Well done for taking the time to post.

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