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The latest sales figures do not read good for the Nintendo Gamecube at all.
GC sold 10,000
Xbox sold 21,000
and PS2 sold a staggering 95,000 3 times as may as the other two put together.
Pretty poor reading if you are an Xbox owner, but far worst for Ninty fanboys.
Less than half the amount of Xbox, why is the GC doing so poorly well thats is obvious to everyone except hardened Ninty fanboys.
No dvd people would rather pay a little extra for that function.
GC packages are actually no cheaper than the Xbox or PS2.
Rubbish games line-up that prove the gamer has moved on from
games like Mario. Dont take my word for it look at the figures, Starfox was hardly a resounding success either.
Games are taking far too long to produce (I thought the GC was a sinch to program for), people sick of waiting.
Xbox and PS2 get all the really big titles because they have the bigger, better and industry standard format .
GC sold 10,000
Xbox sold 21,000
and PS2 sold a staggering 95,000 3 times as may as the other two put together.
Pretty poor reading if you are an Xbox owner, but far worst for Ninty fanboys.
Less than half the amount of Xbox, why is the GC doing so poorly well thats is obvious to everyone except hardened Ninty fanboys.
No dvd people would rather pay a little extra for that function.
GC packages are actually no cheaper than the Xbox or PS2.
Rubbish games line-up that prove the gamer has moved on from
games like Mario. Dont take my word for it look at the figures, Starfox was hardly a resounding success either.
Games are taking far too long to produce (I thought the GC was a sinch to program for), people sick of waiting.
Xbox and PS2 get all the really big titles because they have the bigger, better and industry standard format .
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Belldandy wrote:
> Just for the record, isn't it a little sad that you're arguing about
> how the consoles load discs now ? I mean come on....
>
> What next, power on lights ? Fan sounds ? cable quality ?
>
> ~~Belldandy~~
The orange light on the GC is better than the XBoxes stupid light
But seriously, fan sound would be a big issue, if one of them was really noisy, but none of them are, so it isn't.
> Just for the record, isn't it a little sad that you're arguing about
> how the consoles load discs now ? I mean come on....
>
> What next, power on lights ? Fan sounds ? cable quality ?
>
> ~~Belldandy~~
The orange light on the GC is better than the XBoxes stupid light
But seriously, fan sound would be a big issue, if one of them was really noisy, but none of them are, so it isn't.
There probably is an obscure reason why it's not a good idea to stop a disc spinning yourself. Mechanical things break/wear easily.
Tribute wrote:
> And the X-Boxes disk tray sucks.
Nice try fanboy.
~~Belldandy~~
> And the X-Boxes disk tray sucks.
Nice try fanboy.
~~Belldandy~~
So why's it such a bad idea to stop a disk with your fingers?
Will you damage the motor that's spinning it?
No, because the motor has switched off and is waiting for the disk to stop itself spinning.
Will you damage the disk?
You'd have to be really stupidly clumsy to manage that and if you were that clumsy, you be more likely to scratch it by putting it in or removing it from a tray!
The laser's not trying to read it so there's no harm there.
So tell me, in what way is it a bad idea?
Will you damage the motor that's spinning it?
No, because the motor has switched off and is waiting for the disk to stop itself spinning.
Will you damage the disk?
You'd have to be really stupidly clumsy to manage that and if you were that clumsy, you be more likely to scratch it by putting it in or removing it from a tray!
The laser's not trying to read it so there's no harm there.
So tell me, in what way is it a bad idea?
Strafex wrote:
> Update2.01 wrote:
> At least the PS2 (and XBox) have a *proper* disc loading tray, not
> the
> cheap top loader drive found on the GC.
>
> BTW, I know PS/PS1 had a top loading drive, but that was 1995 - in
> this day and age, we should expect tray loading drives on all
> machines. I have even seen portable stereo's with front loading tray
> CD drives - why no tray loading drive for GC?
>
> The disk drives look neat, but once the novelty wears off they're a
> pain!
>
> You have to press the button, wait for the disk to stop spinning, wait
> until the tray SLOWLY comes out, put the new disk in, wait for it to
> SLOWLY go back in...
>
> With the GC, instant open when you press the button, stop disk
> spinning with finger, take it out a slam the next one in and get
> playing again.
> No silly time wasting. You see, Nintendo remembered that people like
> to PLAY games, not wait for a disk drive to come in and out...
errm, you do know that on tray loaders, the disc should already be stopped spinning by the time the tray starts to open. Stopping the disc with your fingers is a bad idea.
> Update2.01 wrote:
> At least the PS2 (and XBox) have a *proper* disc loading tray, not
> the
> cheap top loader drive found on the GC.
>
> BTW, I know PS/PS1 had a top loading drive, but that was 1995 - in
> this day and age, we should expect tray loading drives on all
> machines. I have even seen portable stereo's with front loading tray
> CD drives - why no tray loading drive for GC?
>
> The disk drives look neat, but once the novelty wears off they're a
> pain!
>
> You have to press the button, wait for the disk to stop spinning, wait
> until the tray SLOWLY comes out, put the new disk in, wait for it to
> SLOWLY go back in...
>
> With the GC, instant open when you press the button, stop disk
> spinning with finger, take it out a slam the next one in and get
> playing again.
> No silly time wasting. You see, Nintendo remembered that people like
> to PLAY games, not wait for a disk drive to come in and out...
errm, you do know that on tray loaders, the disc should already be stopped spinning by the time the tray starts to open. Stopping the disc with your fingers is a bad idea.
Belldandy wrote:
> Just for the record, isn't it a little sad that you're arguing about
> how the consoles load discs now ? I mean come on....
>
> What next, power on lights ? Fan sounds ? cable quality ?
>
> ~~Belldandy~~
Just for the record, I would NEVER get involved in an arguement of this amount of stupidity
And the X-Boxes disk tray sucks.
> Just for the record, isn't it a little sad that you're arguing about
> how the consoles load discs now ? I mean come on....
>
> What next, power on lights ? Fan sounds ? cable quality ?
>
> ~~Belldandy~~
Just for the record, I would NEVER get involved in an arguement of this amount of stupidity
And the X-Boxes disk tray sucks.
YOUR XBOX SPILT MY PINT
Just for the record, isn't it a little sad that you're arguing about how the consoles load discs now ? I mean come on....
What next, power on lights ? Fan sounds ? cable quality ?
~~Belldandy~~
What next, power on lights ? Fan sounds ? cable quality ?
~~Belldandy~~
The GC sells because it has good games
The X-Box sells because they are almost giving them away
Go figure.
The X-Box sells because they are almost giving them away
Go figure.
I believe that, after the PS2 crashed, Top Score divorced it, because no one could fix it, and married DaveRJR. Dave was exceedingly happy because he had felt left out after the original marriage (Always the bridesmaid never the bride, if I recall)
Oh how we laughed.
Oh how we laughed.
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