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It amazes me every time I see someone say how the Gamecube is kewl because it is 'small and portable', and that none of the other consoles are. What planet are you on?
Every console is portable. PCs with their monitors and cables are not portable, but consoles are. The fact that the Gamecube is marginally smaller than other consoles does not mean it's the only portable console - it means it is marginally smaller, and that's all. They are all still very portable.
You seem to class the smallest console as the only console that is portable.
It's like saying only cars that can go over 200mph can move.
What will you lot say when someone releases a console that is smaller than the Gamecube? Will the Gamecube all of a sudden not be portable, just like the Xbox and PS2 now? The Dreamcast was also very small, yet no-one claimed that as a selling point. Why not? Because it already had enough selling points that were much more valid - first 128-bit console, only console with working online games, first true next-gen console etc. etc.
The Dreamcast didn't need half-@rsed pointless and trivial selling points like 'it's so small you can take it anywhere!' because that is true of ALL consoles.
Perhaps the fact that Nintendo fans claim the size of the console makes it portable or not and then claim this as a selling point should not come as a surprise, as the majority of Nintendo fans are aged to suit the console? If Nintendo build a console to look like a dinky toy, and then make games to suit my little sisters, I suppose they can't complain when their fan-base is so young that they come up with lame positive points like the size of the console.
Step over the the Microsoft, Sony or Sega forums and you see things like 'specifications' and 'hardware' being talked about. This is because these are in fact adult consoles. No-one expects Nintendo fans to care about such things, as they are too obsessed with their cutesy little fluffy game characters to notice 'frame rate' or 'polygon count', but what they DO expect is that you appreciate that some people actually care about the POWER inside their console, and not just if it's small enough to fit down your Jap's eye or not.
At the end of the day if you lot want to sit there and get erections over your small consoles then you can do that, but don't try using it as a reason behind 'mine is better than yours' as it just makes you look stupid.
How many people have been unable to take their Xbox to another room because it was too big? None. Do you hang your Gamecubes on your eye-lashes to play on it, or do you stick it under your TV, exactly where you would stick an Xbox? How many people can take their Gamecube to places an Xbox cannot go? None. Why is this? Because SIZE DOESN'T MATTER.
Every console is portable. PCs with their monitors and cables are not portable, but consoles are. The fact that the Gamecube is marginally smaller than other consoles does not mean it's the only portable console - it means it is marginally smaller, and that's all. They are all still very portable.
You seem to class the smallest console as the only console that is portable.
It's like saying only cars that can go over 200mph can move.
What will you lot say when someone releases a console that is smaller than the Gamecube? Will the Gamecube all of a sudden not be portable, just like the Xbox and PS2 now? The Dreamcast was also very small, yet no-one claimed that as a selling point. Why not? Because it already had enough selling points that were much more valid - first 128-bit console, only console with working online games, first true next-gen console etc. etc.
The Dreamcast didn't need half-@rsed pointless and trivial selling points like 'it's so small you can take it anywhere!' because that is true of ALL consoles.
Perhaps the fact that Nintendo fans claim the size of the console makes it portable or not and then claim this as a selling point should not come as a surprise, as the majority of Nintendo fans are aged to suit the console? If Nintendo build a console to look like a dinky toy, and then make games to suit my little sisters, I suppose they can't complain when their fan-base is so young that they come up with lame positive points like the size of the console.
Step over the the Microsoft, Sony or Sega forums and you see things like 'specifications' and 'hardware' being talked about. This is because these are in fact adult consoles. No-one expects Nintendo fans to care about such things, as they are too obsessed with their cutesy little fluffy game characters to notice 'frame rate' or 'polygon count', but what they DO expect is that you appreciate that some people actually care about the POWER inside their console, and not just if it's small enough to fit down your Jap's eye or not.
At the end of the day if you lot want to sit there and get erections over your small consoles then you can do that, but don't try using it as a reason behind 'mine is better than yours' as it just makes you look stupid.
How many people have been unable to take their Xbox to another room because it was too big? None. Do you hang your Gamecubes on your eye-lashes to play on it, or do you stick it under your TV, exactly where you would stick an Xbox? How many people can take their Gamecube to places an Xbox cannot go? None. Why is this? Because SIZE DOESN'T MATTER.
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I'm not gonna get involved in this argument, all consoles are good for their own reasons, so everybody follow these instructions
Breath deeply and think happy thoughts.
Breath deeply and think happy thoughts.
Well just cause the Ninty fanbase all storm out and buy a GC doesn't make the GC a better console either. You only have to look at a good number of posters around the SR forums to see why the GC has sold more. Theres just so many fanboys around that hate anything that rivals their favourite company. There are a few for all consoles, but the majority of them are Ninties. Then of course theres the ones that hate Microsoft because its some "fashion" that makes them look really clever in front of other people that scream about it.
Sony got through this initial problem (fanboys) because they attracted a new audience to gaming. Microsoft however have got the tough situation of getting fanboys from Nintendo and the people that only know the name Playstation to look at their console. Its this problem that killed off the Dreamcast, great console, but a large amount of people wouldn't give it a chance because of blind devotion to Nintendo and Sony. Personally I'm open minded about consoles, theres few I haven't owned over the years and I looked at the X-Box, found it was an excellent console and then looked at magazines on what was planned for it, etc.
I think Microsoft have some excellent plans for the console as well as a very good games line up with more games being announced all the time.
I don't think the X-Box is doomed to fail though, sales are picking up and I think the online plans (X-Box Live) could be the direction that really gets their foot in the door.
Sony got through this initial problem (fanboys) because they attracted a new audience to gaming. Microsoft however have got the tough situation of getting fanboys from Nintendo and the people that only know the name Playstation to look at their console. Its this problem that killed off the Dreamcast, great console, but a large amount of people wouldn't give it a chance because of blind devotion to Nintendo and Sony. Personally I'm open minded about consoles, theres few I haven't owned over the years and I looked at the X-Box, found it was an excellent console and then looked at magazines on what was planned for it, etc.
I think Microsoft have some excellent plans for the console as well as a very good games line up with more games being announced all the time.
I don't think the X-Box is doomed to fail though, sales are picking up and I think the online plans (X-Box Live) could be the direction that really gets their foot in the door.
Gar-J wrote:
> davyboy wrote:
> anyway the sales figgers speak for them selves, what is it 50 to 1
> cube vrs Xbox. I know one shop sold 1 Xbox on lauch day and sold 10
> Ps2s lolololol
>
> So if I went into a shop and bought 10 dog s**ts and 1 GC, a dog s**t
> would be better than a GC?
You buy dogshits ? you can get them free from the park and that is a poor arguement.
> davyboy wrote:
> anyway the sales figgers speak for them selves, what is it 50 to 1
> cube vrs Xbox. I know one shop sold 1 Xbox on lauch day and sold 10
> Ps2s lolololol
>
> So if I went into a shop and bought 10 dog s**ts and 1 GC, a dog s**t
> would be better than a GC?
You buy dogshits ? you can get them free from the park and that is a poor arguement.
davyboy wrote:
> anyway the sales figgers speak for them selves, what is it 50 to 1
> cube vrs Xbox. I know one shop sold 1 Xbox on lauch day and sold 10
> Ps2s lolololol
So if I went into a shop and bought 10 dog s**ts and 1 GC, a dog s**t would be better than a GC?
> anyway the sales figgers speak for them selves, what is it 50 to 1
> cube vrs Xbox. I know one shop sold 1 Xbox on lauch day and sold 10
> Ps2s lolololol
So if I went into a shop and bought 10 dog s**ts and 1 GC, a dog s**t would be better than a GC?
0-MessiaH-0 wrote:
> Gar-J you can't bring me round to your point of view by seducing me
> with winks. Go and chat up your Xbox friends.
But he's done both of them already!
> Gar-J you can't bring me round to your point of view by seducing me
> with winks. Go and chat up your Xbox friends.
But he's done both of them already!
Frontline*
BLD wrote:
> Yeah, i hurd MOH was coming out 4 the Cube. It would only be in
> extreme desperation i would get a box!
>
> But theres little news about it.
>
> Anyone know which one it is? Allied Assualt? Frontline? or a
> completely new one?
>
> The lack of facts is making my ears bleed!!!!
MOH:Fronline. It has been confirmed. But im not sure if its gonna be a direct port or if the GC version will have extra bits added. I think that they'll give extra features for the GC version. No confirmation though. No release date either. All thats been confirmed is that it IS COMING to GameCube. Hope this helps :o)
> Yeah, i hurd MOH was coming out 4 the Cube. It would only be in
> extreme desperation i would get a box!
>
> But theres little news about it.
>
> Anyone know which one it is? Allied Assualt? Frontline? or a
> completely new one?
>
> The lack of facts is making my ears bleed!!!!
MOH:Fronline. It has been confirmed. But im not sure if its gonna be a direct port or if the GC version will have extra bits added. I think that they'll give extra features for the GC version. No confirmation though. No release date either. All thats been confirmed is that it IS COMING to GameCube. Hope this helps :o)
Gar-J you can't bring me round to your point of view by seducing me with winks. Go and chat up your Xbox friends.
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