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I meant to answer the question : Which console is the best? but I got side tracked and I end up going on about the life and death of SEGA as a hardware manufacturer and escalating my fears about the success of Gamecube. Sorry! But please, read on.
Everyone asks the question : Which console is the best? but there can only be one answer... none of them are!
Each of the next generation consoles has its own strengths and weaknesses and for the most part, the success of a console is often not relative to the quality of it. I don't think that this is fair.
The Dreamcast was the first of the next generation consoles. It tried, it failed. The main reason for this is that SEGA did not have Joe consumer on their side.
After huge success with the Megadrive, SEGA promised something new... the world's first 32-bit console. At this point, SEGA were the company of choice in America and Europe although in Japan they weren't so popular. Then, with the public excited and pre-ordering Saturns, SEGA made a huge mistake.
Eager to keep the Megadrive going for as long as possible, SEGA delayed the Saturn and released the Mega CD and 32X. This did not go down well. Then SONY arrived on the scene offering screenshots of 'true 3D technology.'
SEGA made the same mistake with the Dreamcast while, although not extending the Saturn's life, they came up with some quirky adverts with no in-game screenshots at all. Once again, SONY delivered the goods. Or did they?
The Dreamcast, now dead, was a great console but failed due to SEGA's own stupidity. The PS2, in some people’s opinion has not lived fully up to the hype it generated. However, SONY have money coming in from DVD players and the like as well as PS2 and so can afford to advertise. In a way, the N64 might have done better with more advertising although NINTENDO could not afford it and NINTENDO may have gone the way of SEGA had they not had the GB to fall back on. NINTENDO are also losing support after failing to deliver top class in-house games such as Zelda and Mario at launch and with their proposal to turn the epic Zelda series into a cartoon ( I feel it will still be a great game, but there you go... )
NINTENDO and SEGA are great game manufacturers and their consoles ooze originality as far as games are concerned ( although DC had a lack of 3rd party support ) but PS2 seems to be developers console of choice, although that is changing now that they have seen X-Boxes popularity and taken into account that it is technically the superior console. I don’t like NINTENDO’s chances against MICROSOFT’s powerhouse and SONY’s incredible swarm of fans, despite GC being just as good as both.
Some people feel that PS2 has not fully lived up to its hype. GC may go the way of DC/N64 due to a lack of 3rd party support. X-Box may not secure the Japanese market. Each console also has its own down sides and merits, and each are pretty equal in terms of quality, but ultimately, people will take sales figures as a sign of quality and developers will produce for the most popular console, whether it’s best or not, resulting in a lack of decent games on the losing console in the war. It aint right! Let’s not have a repeat of the DC incident where a great console dies needlessly.
Everyone asks the question : Which console is the best? but there can only be one answer... none of them are!
Each of the next generation consoles has its own strengths and weaknesses and for the most part, the success of a console is often not relative to the quality of it. I don't think that this is fair.
The Dreamcast was the first of the next generation consoles. It tried, it failed. The main reason for this is that SEGA did not have Joe consumer on their side.
After huge success with the Megadrive, SEGA promised something new... the world's first 32-bit console. At this point, SEGA were the company of choice in America and Europe although in Japan they weren't so popular. Then, with the public excited and pre-ordering Saturns, SEGA made a huge mistake.
Eager to keep the Megadrive going for as long as possible, SEGA delayed the Saturn and released the Mega CD and 32X. This did not go down well. Then SONY arrived on the scene offering screenshots of 'true 3D technology.'
SEGA made the same mistake with the Dreamcast while, although not extending the Saturn's life, they came up with some quirky adverts with no in-game screenshots at all. Once again, SONY delivered the goods. Or did they?
The Dreamcast, now dead, was a great console but failed due to SEGA's own stupidity. The PS2, in some people’s opinion has not lived fully up to the hype it generated. However, SONY have money coming in from DVD players and the like as well as PS2 and so can afford to advertise. In a way, the N64 might have done better with more advertising although NINTENDO could not afford it and NINTENDO may have gone the way of SEGA had they not had the GB to fall back on. NINTENDO are also losing support after failing to deliver top class in-house games such as Zelda and Mario at launch and with their proposal to turn the epic Zelda series into a cartoon ( I feel it will still be a great game, but there you go... )
NINTENDO and SEGA are great game manufacturers and their consoles ooze originality as far as games are concerned ( although DC had a lack of 3rd party support ) but PS2 seems to be developers console of choice, although that is changing now that they have seen X-Boxes popularity and taken into account that it is technically the superior console. I don’t like NINTENDO’s chances against MICROSOFT’s powerhouse and SONY’s incredible swarm of fans, despite GC being just as good as both.
Some people feel that PS2 has not fully lived up to its hype. GC may go the way of DC/N64 due to a lack of 3rd party support. X-Box may not secure the Japanese market. Each console also has its own down sides and merits, and each are pretty equal in terms of quality, but ultimately, people will take sales figures as a sign of quality and developers will produce for the most popular console, whether it’s best or not, resulting in a lack of decent games on the losing console in the war. It aint right! Let’s not have a repeat of the DC incident where a great console dies needlessly.
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Badgerman wrote:
> WRONG. you have to be here for
> 21 days and have 300 posts totalling 10,000 words.
Sorry, one day off.
> WRONG. you have to be here for
> 21 days and have 300 posts totalling 10,000 words.
Sorry, one day off.
outlaw_uk2002 wrote:
> Yeah, let's not start a Newbie revolution. And you have to post 300 posts and
> be here for 20 days with something like a 10,000 word count to become a
> regular.
WRONG. you have to be here for 21 days and have 300 posts totalling 10,000 words
> Yeah, let's not start a Newbie revolution. And you have to post 300 posts and
> be here for 20 days with something like a 10,000 word count to become a
> regular.
WRONG. you have to be here for 21 days and have 300 posts totalling 10,000 words
Yeah, let's not start a Newbie revolution. And you have to post 300 posts and be here for 20 days with something like a 10,000 word count to become a regular.
½pint wrote:
> OK, ok, whatever. Fine. It was a joke. It is just that, normally, JATs don't
> know very much about SR.
I didn't say I knew much about SR; you merely jumped to that conclusion. You have only been a regular for 2 days so you think that you're Strykes little apprentice. I quote GasMask when I say "just because you were the purple coat dosen't mean you get special powers".
> OK, ok, whatever. Fine. It was a joke. It is just that, normally, JATs don't
> know very much about SR.
I didn't say I knew much about SR; you merely jumped to that conclusion. You have only been a regular for 2 days so you think that you're Strykes little apprentice. I quote GasMask when I say "just because you were the purple coat dosen't mean you get special powers".
outlaw_uk2002 wrote:
> Yawn. Could we stop starting threads about the console war as nobody gives a
> crap. Still, it was a very good post.
Yeah, but no thread ever ends up being as it intended it to be... look at this one for example. I also felt like writing a tribute to the Dreamcast as it was a great console.
> Yawn. Could we stop starting threads about the console war as nobody gives a
> crap. Still, it was a very good post.
Yeah, but no thread ever ends up being as it intended it to be... look at this one for example. I also felt like writing a tribute to the Dreamcast as it was a great console.
OK, ok, whatever. Fine. It was a joke. It is just that, normally, JATs don't know very much about SR, and you were arguing with me. I'm not prone to this kind of petty arguing but I was getting annoyed. I think I'll stop now, as should you.
½pint wrote:
> Hah. I'm sorry if its kind of ironic me saying this, but a JAT walking about as
> if he owns the place??? I dunno. Oh, and 1 slight flaw in your posting. Your
> username is 'outlaw_uk2002', yet under your other username, 'FreddoMonster'
> (which you then changed to Chiffs)you said 'Its snowing here in Nepal'. You
> lie!!! You say you live in Nepal and the UK!!!!
I did not say anything that made me sound like I 'own the place' that is just your paranoia. See 'it's blowing me away' thread for more on this aspect. And when I said I live in Nepal that was a JOKE. How could I get my GAD if I live half way up Mount Everest (where there is snow all of the time).
> Hah. I'm sorry if its kind of ironic me saying this, but a JAT walking about as
> if he owns the place??? I dunno. Oh, and 1 slight flaw in your posting. Your
> username is 'outlaw_uk2002', yet under your other username, 'FreddoMonster'
> (which you then changed to Chiffs)you said 'Its snowing here in Nepal'. You
> lie!!! You say you live in Nepal and the UK!!!!
I did not say anything that made me sound like I 'own the place' that is just your paranoia. See 'it's blowing me away' thread for more on this aspect. And when I said I live in Nepal that was a JOKE. How could I get my GAD if I live half way up Mount Everest (where there is snow all of the time).
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