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The Gaming industry is in a funny mood this year. With Sega going under and all these new formats rebounding off the walls of the padded cells, everyone seems both confident… and terrified of what’s to come. Microsoft seems very confident with their so called powerful house console meet PC machine, but they must be weary that the 2 gaming giants are Nintendo and Sony. The funny thing is this year there will be no Sega in the console market that will be booming the market from next year but their games will appear on their old rivals’ machines. Microsoft (they hope) think they can do a lot better than Sega did by making the X-Box the most powerful machine around. Yes the Microsoft fat cats can succeed with their mega specs but they will need more third party support.
Nothing in this gaming madhouse is a sure fire certainty. There is no certainty that Microsoft, Nintendo or Sony will succeed in the coming years until all machines are out. We cannot compare the technical specs of the machines and decide from that, to say who will succeed.
Sony is king of the heap, and I dare say the PS2 will remain the top for years to come. After being a year ahead of their rivals Nintendo and Microsoft, releasing their PS2 earlier than the namely X-Box and GameCube. Sony will always be a step ahead of everyone if they can grab the attention of gamers quickly while some of us waits impatiently for the GC and X-Box consoles to be released. Of course the catalogue of games for the PS2 will be larger and there will possibly be much more higher quality games coming out, but the GC will still have kept some fans who follow Nintendo’s favourite characters Mario, Link and with Miyamoto behind the magic he promises to bring something special.
Thing is, the warmth with which the GBA has been embraces has got everyone thinking. Why risk millions developing new consoles, when Nintendo can chuck out a relatively cheap handheld and outsell your under the telly machine? Maybe because you can’t carry your console into a lavatory for example, because you don’t have a TV in there… terrible.
Why bring top 3D games when Nintendo can bring out F-Zero and Mario Advance, which sell like hotcakes. Even though these 2 games aren’t 3D rendered they still run smoothly.
I hope the GBA will be a wake up call for a lot of people. The recent popularity of the handheld was such a devastating effect on today’s new and upcoming consoles. Yes the GBA was more powerful than it’s predecessor but from this one we could have our old SNES classics recreated.
The GBA proves that at the end of the day all the technological progress of consoles is for naught.
Nothing in this gaming madhouse is a sure fire certainty. There is no certainty that Microsoft, Nintendo or Sony will succeed in the coming years until all machines are out. We cannot compare the technical specs of the machines and decide from that, to say who will succeed.
Sony is king of the heap, and I dare say the PS2 will remain the top for years to come. After being a year ahead of their rivals Nintendo and Microsoft, releasing their PS2 earlier than the namely X-Box and GameCube. Sony will always be a step ahead of everyone if they can grab the attention of gamers quickly while some of us waits impatiently for the GC and X-Box consoles to be released. Of course the catalogue of games for the PS2 will be larger and there will possibly be much more higher quality games coming out, but the GC will still have kept some fans who follow Nintendo’s favourite characters Mario, Link and with Miyamoto behind the magic he promises to bring something special.
Thing is, the warmth with which the GBA has been embraces has got everyone thinking. Why risk millions developing new consoles, when Nintendo can chuck out a relatively cheap handheld and outsell your under the telly machine? Maybe because you can’t carry your console into a lavatory for example, because you don’t have a TV in there… terrible.
Why bring top 3D games when Nintendo can bring out F-Zero and Mario Advance, which sell like hotcakes. Even though these 2 games aren’t 3D rendered they still run smoothly.
I hope the GBA will be a wake up call for a lot of people. The recent popularity of the handheld was such a devastating effect on today’s new and upcoming consoles. Yes the GBA was more powerful than it’s predecessor but from this one we could have our old SNES classics recreated.
The GBA proves that at the end of the day all the technological progress of consoles is for naught.
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Sniper wrote:
> Alot of it and FM read the whole thing not bits.
I did read it all Sniper, that's why I'm asking about your sudden swing from:
"Nintendo are the best" to "...Sony is king of the heap, and I dare say the PS2 will remain the top for years to come..."
and your deeper insight into why:
"...The GBA proves that at the end of the day all the technological progress of consoles is for naught...".
> Alot of it and FM read the whole thing not bits.
I did read it all Sniper, that's why I'm asking about your sudden swing from:
"Nintendo are the best" to "...Sony is king of the heap, and I dare say the PS2 will remain the top for years to come..."
and your deeper insight into why:
"...The GBA proves that at the end of the day all the technological progress of consoles is for naught...".
Oh yes it is. Gamegear - badly designed (too big), batteries you could use up whilst on the loo (constipation), chunky-clunky blacky-wacky, expensive etc..
GBA, smaller, powerful, well-designed, ability to link up to 4 people, hook-up to Gamecube, batteries last as long as 30+ hours (well, mine did and I was playing it all day), rather cheapish annnnnnd it's made by Nintendo - nuff said.
So i'm more of a Gamegear person meself - Dan2k1's got a gun!
GBA, smaller, powerful, well-designed, ability to link up to 4 people, hook-up to Gamecube, batteries last as long as 30+ hours (well, mine did and I was playing it all day), rather cheapish annnnnnd it's made by Nintendo - nuff said.
So i'm more of a Gamegear person meself - Dan2k1's got a gun!
Alot of it and FM read the whole thing not bits.
Sniper wrote:
> Sony is king of the heap, and I dare say the PS2 will remain the top for years to come.
Question: Is Sniper feeling ok?
> Sony is king of the heap, and I dare say the PS2 will remain the top for years to come.
Question: Is Sniper feeling ok?
Sniper wrote:
As i said most of it is written
> 100% by me!
MOST of it, huh? O_o
As i said most of it is written
> 100% by me!
MOST of it, huh? O_o
Sniper wrote:
> The GBA proves that at the end of the day all the technological progress of consoles is for naught.
Discuss...
> The GBA proves that at the end of the day all the technological progress of consoles is for naught.
Discuss...
I believe you anyway.
And Sega are not 'done in' at all, otherwise you could say the same for any multi-format console games producer, such as EA for instance (or Squaresoft, it seems...)
And Sega are not 'done in' at all, otherwise you could say the same for any multi-format console games producer, such as EA for instance (or Squaresoft, it seems...)
I didn't copy it word for word.
As i said most of it is written 100% by me!
As i said most of it is written 100% by me!
Sniper wrote:
> Actually i did use a bit off digitiser but alot i did myself!
Now if you've copied it word for word from Digitiser, without quoting it, then that's wrong. It's someone elses work as your own, and you shouldn't use it in such away.
However, if you read it, and were inspired to post something similar, perhaps your own take on the article or column then fine. There's absolutely nothing wrong with being inspired to write by something else you've read.
> Actually i did use a bit off digitiser but alot i did myself!
Now if you've copied it word for word from Digitiser, without quoting it, then that's wrong. It's someone elses work as your own, and you shouldn't use it in such away.
However, if you read it, and were inspired to post something similar, perhaps your own take on the article or column then fine. There's absolutely nothing wrong with being inspired to write by something else you've read.
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