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http://special.reserve.co.uk/news/story.php?id=1151
And they're even thinking of making the name similar to 'PlayStation', and making it do 'everything' like Sony plan for PS3.
Ho hum. Where Sony shall lead, the rest shall follow...
Imitiation is the sincerest form, and all that.
Oh, and don't take this post too seriously! :-)
And they're even thinking of making the name similar to 'PlayStation', and making it do 'everything' like Sony plan for PS3.
Ho hum. Where Sony shall lead, the rest shall follow...
Imitiation is the sincerest form, and all that.
Oh, and don't take this post too seriously! :-)
The Game wrote:
> Nintendo set trends...
Wave Race, 1080, Wireless controller...
Well, there were plenty of wireless controllers on the Mega Drive... me and some mates used to play on them all the time :) As for the 2 games... eh? How are these Ninty's creation- there have been sooo many snowboarding games, 1080 just implemented 3D well for the first time... WOW!
Logan
> Nintendo set trends...
Wave Race, 1080, Wireless controller...
Well, there were plenty of wireless controllers on the Mega Drive... me and some mates used to play on them all the time :) As for the 2 games... eh? How are these Ninty's creation- there have been sooo many snowboarding games, 1080 just implemented 3D well for the first time... WOW!
Logan
Errrr... you know, a month before the PS2 release in Japan, the Sony president set forth plans and mock specs for the PS3... which Sony had already started work on.
About 2 months after the DC realease Sega announced the development of their next console (although that's probably stopped now)
And now MS do it. It's the way companies work. After the console has come out, the hardware side has little to do other than make add ons and new controllers... so they start the next console design... complate waste of time seeing as the chips they will ACTUALLY use have not been onvented. For example, the PS3 has a spec with 1000 times more circuits on the chips... yer, like that exists (well, yet!)
Logan
About 2 months after the DC realease Sega announced the development of their next console (although that's probably stopped now)
And now MS do it. It's the way companies work. After the console has come out, the hardware side has little to do other than make add ons and new controllers... so they start the next console design... complate waste of time seeing as the chips they will ACTUALLY use have not been onvented. For example, the PS3 has a spec with 1000 times more circuits on the chips... yer, like that exists (well, yet!)
Logan
Nintendo set trends...
Wave Race, 1080, Wireless controller... PSX and PS2 have stolen all these type things... There is even a Mad Catz Wavebird rip-off!
But anyway...
Good post!
Wave Race, 1080, Wireless controller... PSX and PS2 have stolen all these type things... There is even a Mad Catz Wavebird rip-off!
But anyway...
Good post!
I must make this post as detailed as possible as within minutes of posting this post I expect I will be hunted down my Microsoft agents and terminated and I also expect that the Special Reserve network will be closed down by the all powerful Bill Gates. It wouldn't suprise me if agents were on their way right now.
I have been in hiding for several years now ever since 1994 when the Playstation was first launched in Japan. In February 1995 I was inside the vents in the Microsoft towers - the main headquarters for Microsoft. What I was doing there is classified but what I can tell you is this...
I heard them discussing how consoles were the biggest threat to them and how they had to be "taken out" once and for all if they wanted to remain as rich as they were. They were greedy swines intent on picking the pockets of console lovers everywhere.
I heard them hatch a master plan. They were to carry out "Operation Trojan Horse". They planned to fool the public by creating a "new generation console". The reality was it would be a P3 computer with 256mb memory and G-FORCE MX 2 in cased in a black box they decided to call the "X-BOX". This 'console' would basically be a home computer inside what looked like a console with the only difference being it would use a television screen rather than a monitor!!
Bill Gates in this meeting laughed for 30 minutes non-stop at the prospect of fooling the world into buying this home computer. He talked about how he hope that by people "buying the consoles they would show they favoured Microsoft to consoles and that Microsoft were supreme. He also talked about how the XBOX's suspicious green disk on it's case would hypnotise children everywhere into wanting to buy the latest Microsoft products and hardware. He also claimed this "would end piracy as we know it" as the hypnotic disk would make children believe copying microsoft products was wrong.
I was so shocked about what I heard in that meeting that the chewing gum in my mouth fell downwards on to the head on to Bill Gates head. He looked up to see me through the thin vents. At the call of "GET HIM!" around ten armed guards ran into the room and starting shooting at the vents. I quickly scurried through the vents to avoid the bullets that made it through rather than richocheting off the thin metal. I scurried down the vents with bullets passing through the metal with "clunk" sounds. I was hurried out of the vicinity by superiors in a helecopter and sworn to secrecy.
My agency have been working to stop the X-Box from being distributed ever since. We have tried everything in the book to get Gates bankrupt thus he can't fund his evil scheme. You know the Netscape vs Internet Explorer trial? We caused that. We even tipped them off that a Train Simulator game would make them millions which they foolishly believed (however sadly the jokes on us).
They've been hunting me ever since those secret Microsoft agents. I have done well so far to avoid them. If for whatever reason I am discovered remember what I have told you and spread the word! There is a Microsoft conspiracy! And if you don't believe me be very suprised when you see the "Windows XP" sign upon load up followed by a start menu, a mouse, and various icons! What do you think XP stands for?!! XP = XBOX Program!!
You have been warned!!
I have been in hiding for several years now ever since 1994 when the Playstation was first launched in Japan. In February 1995 I was inside the vents in the Microsoft towers - the main headquarters for Microsoft. What I was doing there is classified but what I can tell you is this...
I heard them discussing how consoles were the biggest threat to them and how they had to be "taken out" once and for all if they wanted to remain as rich as they were. They were greedy swines intent on picking the pockets of console lovers everywhere.
I heard them hatch a master plan. They were to carry out "Operation Trojan Horse". They planned to fool the public by creating a "new generation console". The reality was it would be a P3 computer with 256mb memory and G-FORCE MX 2 in cased in a black box they decided to call the "X-BOX". This 'console' would basically be a home computer inside what looked like a console with the only difference being it would use a television screen rather than a monitor!!
Bill Gates in this meeting laughed for 30 minutes non-stop at the prospect of fooling the world into buying this home computer. He talked about how he hope that by people "buying the consoles they would show they favoured Microsoft to consoles and that Microsoft were supreme. He also talked about how the XBOX's suspicious green disk on it's case would hypnotise children everywhere into wanting to buy the latest Microsoft products and hardware. He also claimed this "would end piracy as we know it" as the hypnotic disk would make children believe copying microsoft products was wrong.
I was so shocked about what I heard in that meeting that the chewing gum in my mouth fell downwards on to the head on to Bill Gates head. He looked up to see me through the thin vents. At the call of "GET HIM!" around ten armed guards ran into the room and starting shooting at the vents. I quickly scurried through the vents to avoid the bullets that made it through rather than richocheting off the thin metal. I scurried down the vents with bullets passing through the metal with "clunk" sounds. I was hurried out of the vicinity by superiors in a helecopter and sworn to secrecy.
My agency have been working to stop the X-Box from being distributed ever since. We have tried everything in the book to get Gates bankrupt thus he can't fund his evil scheme. You know the Netscape vs Internet Explorer trial? We caused that. We even tipped them off that a Train Simulator game would make them millions which they foolishly believed (however sadly the jokes on us).
They've been hunting me ever since those secret Microsoft agents. I have done well so far to avoid them. If for whatever reason I am discovered remember what I have told you and spread the word! There is a Microsoft conspiracy! And if you don't believe me be very suprised when you see the "Windows XP" sign upon load up followed by a start menu, a mouse, and various icons! What do you think XP stands for?!! XP = XBOX Program!!
You have been warned!!
Wòókiee Møn§†€R wrote:
Oh, and don't take this post too
> seriously! :-)
No one would, it's by you!
:-)
Oh, and don't take this post too
> seriously! :-)
No one would, it's by you!
:-)
And they said that Sony calling their new box PS2 was unoriginal....
:)
:)
Hmm..i think Microsoft should wait to see if Xbox is a hit first, putting all your eggs in one basket and that.
based on Pentium 4 ehh....even that is nearly old hat now
http://special.reserve.co.uk/news/story.php?id=1151
And they're even thinking of making the name similar to 'PlayStation', and making it do 'everything' like Sony plan for PS3.
Ho hum. Where Sony shall lead, the rest shall follow...
Imitiation is the sincerest form, and all that.
Oh, and don't take this post too seriously! :-)
And they're even thinking of making the name similar to 'PlayStation', and making it do 'everything' like Sony plan for PS3.
Ho hum. Where Sony shall lead, the rest shall follow...
Imitiation is the sincerest form, and all that.
Oh, and don't take this post too seriously! :-)