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Here a question.

How long do people think the N64 has left to live?

With games like Perfect Dark, Zelda: The Continuing Sage, Turok 3, A Resident Evil game, Top Gear Rally 2, and a bunch of other wicked games this year. How long will the N64 live for? Specially with the PS2 and Dolphin on the horizon how much longer can the N64 last?

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Why can't I see the last message posted? Where is Sleepers latest post! Maybe it'll appear after I post this?

Something makes me think that the name Cool_Dude is something of an exaggeration.

Nintendo have raked in millions with Pokomon games of all sorts: red, blue, and yellow version on the gamesboy, and Pokomon stadium and snap on the N64. What is stopping them. If they've got anymore ideas (I don't know how long Ponkomon can last out for anymore) they will keep bringing out games untill the Gamecube comes out about Christmas next year. And I say "Good on them". All these little kids are fasinated by pokomon, and I know quite a few 8 years olds, with N64's, whose parents will happily go out and spend 40, 50 quid on them to keep them satisfied and quite. When the Gamecube comes out though Nintendo will make Pokomon games for that aswell. Children of 7 to 10 thesedays, are young and impressionable, and they will lay their hands on the first thing that comes to them. If its on trading cards, on the TV, and on computer consoles, kids will be happy. And, as kids are kids, they'll go out and buy it.
Pokomon will definately save Nintendo.

CAUTION: ONLY READ IF YOU LIKE STUPID JOKES!

When are they going to make the Final Famtasy? I mean, there can only be one final fantasy. Did you ever see anything with more than one endings? It's really stupid man, jeez....

That last message actually wasn't true, it just came out of my somewhat perverted mind. And another thing: WHY WON'T ANYBODY POST STUPID MESSAGES LIKE I AM?!?!?!?!?!

You agreeing with me?

I just want to say that I believe in correct grammar and spelling, and I try to correct it when it is wrong.

Now that's completely irrelevant, so I am going to shut up now.

Well sorry for the spelling mistake! I don't go proof reading everyone elses messages looking for errors and I usually ignore them from other users.

Anyway, I do spend more time on the PC than I do any other console and that's because Console games are more expensive! (For any console)

I bought Total Anihillation for £4.99 at EB and my brother got Duke Nukem Atomic Edition for £3.99 at a place called Trago Mills!

So the GameCube is more powerful than the PS2?
Well even if it wasn't then I'd still buy one.
The PS2 looks like it's going to go the same way as the Saturn. I'm not being biased, look at the evidence!

Sega's previous console before the Saturn was the hugely sucessful Mega Drive (Sucessful, just like the Playstation)

Sega released the console at a high price (like PS2)
It was too hard for third party developers to create games(again like PS2)

Only the greatest game companies (eg. capcom) developed games when it failed to sell (It WILL happen to PS2)

Sega's Saturn didn't go too badly as Sega themselves made great games (Sony won't be able to do that!)

I might be wrong but is £300 worth the risk.
And if you want a DVD player then you'll find much better in a specialised DVD player or even better, the X box.

If you want the best games then choose Gamecube,
If you want a great games machine and DVD player in one, choose Xbox.
If you can't wait a year then buy the Dreamcast.
If you want to waste £300 quid then give it to charity not Sony.

Why were his N64 games not successful? They werent that bad. I kinda enjoyed the first one. But I guess that it was the multiplayer that let it down. It just didn't have the life of the original.

OK EVERYONE!!!! Listen up! I have been a Nintendo fan ALL my life. I can admit that at some times I wish that Nintendo would make some more Mature rated games for the N64. But I have faith in the GAMECUBE! This machine iz a supercomputer packed into half of a shoebox! The spects on it are AMAZING! The newly released game shots are even more OUTSTANDING! And those games they show are still in the process of being made! I am going to buy the GAMECUBE for sure. I LOVE the looks of this console! It iz one of the very few that I love the look of! Nintendo beleives in QUALITY NOT QUANTITY! There games have amazed people ALL over the world! There has been alot of mistake games on the N64... But I beleive that iz going to change with the 1.5 Gigs of game space. ANYONE in there right mind would love the looks of this thing! This iz the BEST home gaming console EVER so far. I am AMAZED that Nintedo has come up with this console so fast. I can admit that Nintendo made some mistakes in the past like the small ball on the bottom of the N64 controller that got worn out quickly... But they have fixed that problem with the new GAMECUBE controller! Think of it! When the 8-Bit Nintend came out... U WERE DYING FOR ONE! Just think of the look on ur face when u saw those rich 8-Bit graphics for the first time... And plenty more times after that! U know that u LOVED the 8-Bit Nintendo. ALSO.... Sony has not been in the video game business. The PS2 iz only there SECOND console! Nintendo has ALOT of experiance in the video game industry! Wouldn't u rather buy something from people that have only focused on gaming since their first console ever came out then people that make all sorts of things!? U may not like Nintendo from the relese of the N64... I admit... There were alot of flaws i it... But U see... Now they can learn from these flaws and correct them! I have looked at the PS2 and thought about bying one.. Only because I like the newest things on the market. But quite frankly... It iz the most ugly f*cking thing I have EVER seen! I don't want to be embarassed of that thing lying in my living room making it look like something I have made in shop class! Look at the stupid cooling fins on the PS2... Nintendo didn't have to make those stupid looking fins on there console... They just used there minds a bit and added a cooling fan! DUH! It waz SO simple to think of! Nintendo has made quality items in all there years or being in the video game business... I mean come on... How many of U droped ur 8-Bit Nintendos off ur shelf.. Put them back up... And then started them right up again!? I have even dropped my N64 about 4 feet off a shelve onto a hard, wood floor and continued playing my game of Goldeneye without even having to get up and seeing if it waz ok! Now let me see if I could do THAT with the flimsy PS! I think that it would snap in half! I have ALWAYZ loved Nintendo and will continue to support it even if it made the most stupid mistake on anything! Because I know that they have VERY intellagent poeple working at Nintendo brainstorming a way to over trow ALL of the console businesses. If U have not cheacked out the pics of the GAMECUBE u should! U will love it! I hope u take these word into mind when thinking of which sytem to buy! OK Guyz.. N U extremely AWSOME women video-game players, I thank u so very much for ur time to read my thoughts on the console war. If U wonder why I have not talked about the Dreamcast... It iz becuase it would be a waste of my pretty time! No offence to u people that wasted ur money on it or n e thing. Peace outz to everyone! NINTENDO RULES ALL!
Keep cool!

Here Are The Official GAMECUBE specs:

Nintendo Gamecube Specs
Microprocessor unit IBM Power PC "Gekko"

Manufacturing process 0.18 microns coppern wire technology

Clock frequency 405 MHz

CPU capacity 925 Dmips (Dhrystone 2.1)

Internal data precision 32-bit integer and 64-bit floating point

External bus bandwidth 1.6GB/second (peak) (32-bit address, 64-bit data bus 202.5 MHz)

Internal cache L1: 32KB instruction, 32KB data (8-way) L2: 256KB (2-way)

System LSI "Flipper"

Manufacturing process 0.18 microns NEC embedded DRAM

Clock frequency 202.5 MHz

Embedded frame buffer Approx. 2MB; sustainable latency: 5ns (1T-SRAM)

Embedded texture cache Approx. 1MB; sustainable latency: 5ns (1T-SRAM)

Texture read bandwidth 12.8GB/second (peak)

Main memory bandwidth 3.2GB/second (peak)

Color Z-Buffer each is 24 bits

Image-processing function fog; subpixel antialiasing; hardware light x8; alpha blending; virtual texture design; multitexture mapping/bump/environment mapping; MIPMAP; bilinear filtering

More image-processing functions real-time decompression of display list; hardware motion-compensation capability

Sound processor special 16-bit DSP

Instruction memory 8KB RAM plus 8KB ROM

Data memory 8KB RAM plus 4KB ROM

Clock frequency 101.25 MHz

Maximum number of simultaneously produced sounds ADPCM: 64 channels

Sampling frequency 48 KHz

System floating-point arithmetic capability 13Gflops (peak), (MPU, geometry engine, hardware lighting total)

Actual display capacity 6 to 12 million polygons/second (display capability assuming actual game with complexity model, texture, and so on)

System main memory 24MB sustainable latency: 10ns or lower (1T-SRAM)

A-Memory 16MB RAM (100-MHz DRAM)

Disc drive CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) system, average access time 128ms, data-transfer speed 16 to 25 mbps

Media 8 cm Nintendo Gamecube disc based on Matsushita's Optical Disc technology; approx. 1.5GB capacity

Input/output controller port x4; Digicard slot x2; analog AV output; digital AV output; high-speed serial port x2; high-speed parallel port

Power supply AC Adapter DC12V x 3.5A

Main unit dimensions 150 mm (width) x 110 mm (height) x 161 mm (depth) 6" In Width, 4" In Height, 6.5" In Depth

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