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Over two years ago, on a site called Gameaday....
Ok, hands up who remembers when Gameaday was relatively new, the forums were totally different, and there were no topics at all in the Pokémon Yellow forum? Ok, not many of you, but a few of you may remember what I was like then.
That's right. I was an idiot. I was biased. And I acted like a fanboy.
I used to start topics about "how the N64 is better than the Greystation" and used to use these as my reasons:
More powerful
Better graphics
better controller
no or few loading times
cartridge based
Only console to have Zelda
etc, etc
Basically, I was posting the kind of crap that some people on the Special Reserve forums are doing today. Sure, the Nintendo 64 was the more powerful console. Sure, the Nintendo 64, for the majority of games, had better graphics. Sure, to me the controller was better. The fact that the cartridge based system has smaller or even no loading times was good too. They're still not really any decent reasons as to why the N64 was, in my opinion, the better console.
If someone said otherwise, they were wrong. No, they weren't wrong in my opinion. They were most definately wrong and no one could change my mind about anything. I wouldn't accept that anyone else had opinions different to mine and I thrived on arguments with Playstation fans.
Since then I have managed to grow out of that phase. I still have my loyalties based on what consoles and games I prefer, but I have learnt to accept that I am not always right (forget I said that :) ) and that there are just as big fans of other consoles as I am of Nintendo and SEGAs. The reason I matured on these forums? I was fed up of the Sony fans who were just as biased giving me the same kind of crap. So I bettered myself to better them. Whether it did any good I don't know, but I know that I have probably more respect on these forums than I did then.
If the archives reached as far back as then, you'd be able to see examples of my style of writing. It was totally different back in the olden days. You'll have to take my word for it now, but I am more than 100% the better poster than I was back then.
I now believe that my improved writing skills are what got me through GCSE English, what have enabled me to carry on in the sixth-form at school and are what have got me a column on the official codejunkies website talking about retro-games. Basically, not just my opinions are more mature, but my writing skills, and my ability to take other things into consideration have got better.
Anyway, that's enough of my blabbering...I'm going to eat a bacon sarnie.
Ok, hands up who remembers when Gameaday was relatively new, the forums were totally different, and there were no topics at all in the Pokémon Yellow forum?
That's right. I was an idiot. I was biased. And I acted like a fanboy.
I used to start topics about "how the N64 is better than the Greystation" and used to use these as my reasons:
More powerful
Better graphics
better controller
no or few loading times
cartridge based
Only console to have Zelda
etc, etc
Basically, I was posting the kind of crap that some people on the Special Reserve forums are doing today. Sure, the Nintendo 64 was the more powerful console. Sure, the Nintendo 64, for the majority of games, had better graphics. Sure, to me the controller was better. The fact that the cartridge based system has smaller or even no loading times was good too. They're still not really any decent reasons as to why the N64 was, in my opinion, the better console.
If someone said otherwise, they were wrong. No, they weren't wrong in my opinion. They were most definately wrong and no one could change my mind about anything. I wouldn't accept that anyone else had opinions different to mine and I thrived on arguments with Playstation fans.
Since then I have managed to grow out of that phase. I still have my loyalties based on what consoles and games I prefer, but I have learnt to accept that I am not always right (forget I said that :) ) and that there are just as big fans of other consoles as I am of Nintendo and SEGAs. The reason I matured on these forums? I was fed up of the Sony fans who were just as biased giving me the same kind of crap. So I bettered myself to better them. Whether it did any good I don't know, but I know that I have probably more respect on these forums than I did then.
If the archives reached as far back as then, you'd be able to see examples of my style of writing. It was totally different back in the olden days. You'll have to take my word for it now, but I am more than 100% the better poster than I was back then.
I now believe that my improved writing skills are what got me through GCSE English, what have enabled me to carry on in the sixth-form at school and are what have got me a column on the official codejunkies website talking about retro-games. Basically, not just my opinions are more mature, but my writing skills, and my ability to take other things into consideration have got better.
Anyway, that's enough of my blabbering...I'm going to eat a bacon sarnie.
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Ofcourse the name matters, it's what people call the machine. If a console was named the 'Dull Boring System' who would buy it?
Every part that the customers and users know about on a games console effects it's sales in one way or the other.
Every part that the customers and users know about on a games console effects it's sales in one way or the other.
phi11ip wrote:
> But the name means EVERYTHING...
Indeed. See my thread "It does exactly what it says on the tin... or does it?", somewhere down the list. :-)
> But the name means EVERYTHING...
Indeed. See my thread "It does exactly what it says on the tin... or does it?", somewhere down the list. :-)
er-no wrote:
> Sibs wrote:
> I think he means 'StarCube' (which was a potential name for 'project
> Dolphin', before they decided on GameCube...)
>
> I think...
>
> StarRoad was what Nintendo were going to call the online network that
> was going to be set up for the GameCube (or at the time the StarCube).
> They could still call it that, much alike the XboxLive.
>
> :) Remember.
Actually, Nintendo never were going to call it StarCube. That was just rumour made up by internet sites and magazines. At the time, it was still called Project Dolphin and Nintendo were yet to say what the console was finally going to be called.
I said that it never was going to be called StarCube all along, and I'm going to say this now to everyone who didn't believe me at the time...
I told you so :)
> Sibs wrote:
> I think he means 'StarCube' (which was a potential name for 'project
> Dolphin', before they decided on GameCube...)
>
> I think...
>
> StarRoad was what Nintendo were going to call the online network that
> was going to be set up for the GameCube (or at the time the StarCube).
> They could still call it that, much alike the XboxLive.
>
> :) Remember.
Actually, Nintendo never were going to call it StarCube. That was just rumour made up by internet sites and magazines. At the time, it was still called Project Dolphin and Nintendo were yet to say what the console was finally going to be called.
I said that it never was going to be called StarCube all along, and I'm going to say this now to everyone who didn't believe me at the time...
I told you so :)
Or†ega wrote:
> Names defintely do determine how it will sell.
>
> Would you buy a console it were called GayCube for example? :)
Or XBOX?
Mission for today, start as many console wars as it is humanly possible!
> Names defintely do determine how it will sell.
>
> Would you buy a console it were called GayCube for example? :)
Or XBOX?
Mission for today, start as many console wars as it is humanly possible!
Sibs wrote:
> I think he means 'StarCube' (which was a potential name for 'project
> Dolphin', before they decided on GameCube...)
>
> I think...
StarRoad was what Nintendo were going to call the online network that was going to be set up for the GameCube (or at the time the StarCube). They could still call it that, much alike the XboxLive.
:) Remember.
> I think he means 'StarCube' (which was a potential name for 'project
> Dolphin', before they decided on GameCube...)
>
> I think...
StarRoad was what Nintendo were going to call the online network that was going to be set up for the GameCube (or at the time the StarCube). They could still call it that, much alike the XboxLive.
:) Remember.
Names defintely do determine how it will sell.
Would you buy a console it were called GayCube for example? :)
Would you buy a console it were called GayCube for example? :)
But the name means EVERYTHING...
An original name is better than a crappy boring stupid unoriginal name like the 'Playstation 2'
(Crosses fingers that he will be able to start 2 console wars in 2 topics at the same time!)
An original name is better than a crappy boring stupid unoriginal name like the 'Playstation 2'
(Crosses fingers that he will be able to start 2 console wars in 2 topics at the same time!)
Who cares what it's called, so long as it plays great games?
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