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"why nintendo should just give up!!"

This is not meant as a big offenisve remark to people who really love nintendo and the nintendo company but i feel that it is about time that they should give up on the larger game console market. Throughout the years nintendo have always been second best to some other game consoles(that you must all admit), first it was that the master system and the megadrive which clearly overtook the market from nintendo. Now we have the playstation and PS2 and do nintendo seriously think that the Game Cube will be able to stand up against the PS2, in my own opinion the PS2 should outsell the game cube my popularity alone, and games made for it (eg Gran Turismo 3) Could sell the console by themselves. This, compared to the cutsie, sickening twaddle(Mario, Kurby etc...)that has been presented to the world by Nintendo and their associates, will once again send Nintendo's Game Cube scuttling back to it's creators all bloodied and bashed in the same way that the Playstaion duffed up the "more advanced" N64. Every time i walk into my city centre "GAME" shop there is always someone trading in a nintendo64 for a playstation or PS2, never the other way around. I have seen what the nintendo64 could do and to be honest i was not impressed, the graphics were shoddy and blured and the games are still on cartridges!!! aren't nintendo going to learn that cartridges were years ago and gamers have moved onto discs, will the game cube be still on cartridge. I do admit that the gameboy has been very successfull, luckly for nintendo, but look at the new gameboy advance. The technolgy that is being here was being used in the early 90's by sega's game gear (remember that?) and the graphics were still better then as they didn't use a dot matrix screen and it could double as a portable TV, plus the new gameboy advance does strangly look like the poor old game gear.

medical attention? for heavens sake why? your the nutter!

You both need medical attention.

Yes. So chunky...

a reason?! i'm sure the handle is a good enough reason for the Gamecube being better than than the PS2!

GODDAMNIT! Sony do make their own games. They own at least 5 software development houses!

Also, could you give a reason why the GameCube will be far better than the PS2?

Nintendo is probably just as popular as sony, if not more. don't forget, they have made the gameboy, gbpocket, gblight, gbcolour and gbadvance. the gameboy was the most popular console ever, and the pokemon was the fastest selling game. gamecube will be far better than sony, and since nintendo make their own games, they can support themselves, but since sony don't make their own games, they can't.

The whole point of only developing for your own hardware is that if people want your games, they need your hardware... and ninty have such a strong reputation that people will always go to their consoles. If they lost this share, then they might consider going 3rd party... but that will not happen unless GC is a flop (ie not for a long time!)

NiGHTS!

I think that nowadays they both are pretty poor. On the subject of the original post, I do think that Nintendo should hang on. With Sega out of the market that opens up more customers. Nintendo were always the most popular in the USa however. In fact 25% of all US homes have a Nintendo product. I did think that Nintendo should go soft ware only until I realised the promise that the GC has. I do agree that there is a lot of cutsie stuff but there will be other more mature games. Time will tell.

Well Turbo, there is a question: what is better- more sound channels, or better quality with less sound channels?

As it stands, the N64 quality per channel IS worse than the PSXs as you say. However, it is still good enough to give a good effect with more channels... and Zelda has more than most games I'd have thought?

NiGHTS!

Heh, it's OK.