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"iQue to get official release outside China"

Good news eh, adding it to my Xmas list as we speak

http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3290

No it wouldn't. Not if you used decent encryption systems. It just isn't worth anyone's time spending years trying to break 64 bit, let alone 128 bit encryption.

There would be a market for the iQue over here. Certainly the market that buys the Atari joysticks, and who still buy PS games.

But the larger market would be the kids who want to play more Mario games.
Even kids can understand that graphics are not what make a good game.

Well given that Nintendo are supposedly risking a lot on the launch of this DS thing it makes no sense to launch the Ique outside of China at all.

And I'm right aren't I? The games have to be downloaded to the Ique in stores in China. They'll not let you do the same over the internet because it would be a massive piracy risk.

The IQue is a cheap console alternative for the main big 3 systems...

Stop whinging boy.

Anyway, you can buy old nintendo games on GBA and aren't the games only cheap because you don't buy the game, you have to go into the store to load it onto the Ique?

Cooky wrote:
> K, then what about ageing types that can't cope with crazy new 3D
> graphics...?
>
> (grasping at straws now)
>
> :)

N64 used 3D graphics in a lot of games, as did some snes games, albeit crudely. Still have fond memories of Starwing and the "amazing super FX" graphics.

An Ique is cheaper than buying a SNES, NES and N64 and the games are like £2 each or something totally stupid.

Not to fussed about the Ique coming out over here... the fact it has the power of the N64 in that small pad though is facinating...

Imagine what the GBA 2 will do.

K, then what about ageing types that can't cope with crazy new 3D graphics...?

(grasping at straws now)

:)

Yeah there is that I suppose, though I think it's a minority of kids that enjoy retro games these days. Even my 5 year old cousin won't play anything older than PSone games...

All depends really. You might not think there the same as when you played them on your original NES, SNES, or N64, but what about the kids of today, that missed out on those generations on consoles?

I remember when I was a kid and use to buy Game and Watch games! They cost almost the same as some games today and I thought they were great. You can still buy them in small supply in places. But just think that if you were a kid again, what it'd be like, to buy something the price of an old Game and Watch game, but it being a fully fledged proper game! Now how great would that be!?!

I personally think the release of the iQue would be a very good idea, and would be the answer to a lot of peoples problems, when they are looking for a bit of quick fun. Rather than having to fork out around £30 for a new game!

:)

It's not the same though, it's like these retro game rerelases, they look the same but they're never quite the same.