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I am the H& (hand) and I've come to tell you about the new Nintendo GameCube games (and DVD) console which is due to hit the shelves (out of shear frustration) around March 2002, so you have a year to save up for the new piece of goodness!
You see, there are many Playstation owners - yes? Yes. Of course there are, and about 6million of them dwell in the United Kingdom. How many Playstation owners in the UK own the UK Final Fantasy 9 game? Around 300,000 - just 5%! How many Final fantasy 9 games were actually sold by retailers? About 60,000 so far…
Hmmm, sussed it yet? Piracy - it's a United Kingdom of piracy and unfortunately the pirates are helping to spin the gaming industry out of control and into turmoil. So what does this have to do with GameCube? Can you guess?
Well, believe it or not, you can in fact get Dreamcast mod chips, PSX mod chips and even PS2 mod chips. And we all know what they do, right? The problem is, Dreamcast games can be copied - Playstation 2 games can be copied, and PSX games are mostly all copied. Why have there hardly ever been any cases of piracy with Nintendo in the past? You can't copy cartridges can you (we'll ignore that PC connection device...).
GameCube, as well as being one of the most powerful consoles to hit the stores and land in your living rooms, will be completely pirate proof - the games will be published and sold in 'larger than Mini-Disc discs' and will be copy proof, hopefully.
Now, while this may deter pirates from buying the consoles, it will also ensure quality (no copies being leaked all over the place) and will help the games industry move on and help games companies make a profit again - they deserve it after all they have given us. So, with only original games circulating around, the games sales will go up, people will start seeing the GC at the top of the charts and they WILL take notice - they will forget the looks, they'll forgive the awkward looking pad design and they will trade there old machine in for a GameCube!
Possibly.
Then there's the 'XBox'. Let's forget that. Maybe they'll change their minds about entering the market.
Ok, so the GC - it'll be able to link-up with the Game Boy Advance - superb stuff, and will also house 4 control ports - so you won't have to fork out a further 10% of your consoles' worth of money on a multi tap. Nice. The games may seem to be sequels - but I believe Nintendo will still treat it's consumers with a shred of decency they/we deserve. The GameCube will have another Mario title, and it will have another Zelda game. What's that - PS2 owners criticising? Nintendo 64 owners - you weren't annoyed when Zelda and Mario were announced for the 64 were you? They'd already been on the previous two Nintendo consoles. If it ain't broke...
Then there will be DVD technology and Internet access, leading to online gaming. Just think - play Mario Kart 128 against the Japanese, the Yankees and even the French! I can't wait.
The power. Yes, ok - so the GameCube may not boasts the stats of the X-Box, but then the PS2 has 50% more processing ‘umph’ then the Dreamcast. I don't see anything equal to Shenmue yet - do you? So forget the stats, forget the number of bits and prepare yourself for one of the most amazing consoles you'll ever own.
Oh yeah - the launch will actually go smoothly unlike a certain other console. Quality – not quantity all the way.
So while Playstation 2 owners are laughing at Dreamcast owners because their console has been 'ceased', and while Dreamcast owners are throwing Shenmue and MSR in the PS2 owners' faces, there will be a proper Next Generation battle going on, and I have every confidence the GameCube will not let me down!
Cheers
Talk to the H&
(oh yeah, and the GBA – well that can’t fail with no competition…)
You see, there are many Playstation owners - yes? Yes. Of course there are, and about 6million of them dwell in the United Kingdom. How many Playstation owners in the UK own the UK Final Fantasy 9 game? Around 300,000 - just 5%! How many Final fantasy 9 games were actually sold by retailers? About 60,000 so far…
Hmmm, sussed it yet? Piracy - it's a United Kingdom of piracy and unfortunately the pirates are helping to spin the gaming industry out of control and into turmoil. So what does this have to do with GameCube? Can you guess?
Well, believe it or not, you can in fact get Dreamcast mod chips, PSX mod chips and even PS2 mod chips. And we all know what they do, right? The problem is, Dreamcast games can be copied - Playstation 2 games can be copied, and PSX games are mostly all copied. Why have there hardly ever been any cases of piracy with Nintendo in the past? You can't copy cartridges can you (we'll ignore that PC connection device...).
GameCube, as well as being one of the most powerful consoles to hit the stores and land in your living rooms, will be completely pirate proof - the games will be published and sold in 'larger than Mini-Disc discs' and will be copy proof, hopefully.
Now, while this may deter pirates from buying the consoles, it will also ensure quality (no copies being leaked all over the place) and will help the games industry move on and help games companies make a profit again - they deserve it after all they have given us. So, with only original games circulating around, the games sales will go up, people will start seeing the GC at the top of the charts and they WILL take notice - they will forget the looks, they'll forgive the awkward looking pad design and they will trade there old machine in for a GameCube!
Possibly.
Then there's the 'XBox'. Let's forget that. Maybe they'll change their minds about entering the market.
Ok, so the GC - it'll be able to link-up with the Game Boy Advance - superb stuff, and will also house 4 control ports - so you won't have to fork out a further 10% of your consoles' worth of money on a multi tap. Nice. The games may seem to be sequels - but I believe Nintendo will still treat it's consumers with a shred of decency they/we deserve. The GameCube will have another Mario title, and it will have another Zelda game. What's that - PS2 owners criticising? Nintendo 64 owners - you weren't annoyed when Zelda and Mario were announced for the 64 were you? They'd already been on the previous two Nintendo consoles. If it ain't broke...
Then there will be DVD technology and Internet access, leading to online gaming. Just think - play Mario Kart 128 against the Japanese, the Yankees and even the French! I can't wait.
The power. Yes, ok - so the GameCube may not boasts the stats of the X-Box, but then the PS2 has 50% more processing ‘umph’ then the Dreamcast. I don't see anything equal to Shenmue yet - do you? So forget the stats, forget the number of bits and prepare yourself for one of the most amazing consoles you'll ever own.
Oh yeah - the launch will actually go smoothly unlike a certain other console. Quality – not quantity all the way.
So while Playstation 2 owners are laughing at Dreamcast owners because their console has been 'ceased', and while Dreamcast owners are throwing Shenmue and MSR in the PS2 owners' faces, there will be a proper Next Generation battle going on, and I have every confidence the GameCube will not let me down!
Cheers
Talk to the H&
(oh yeah, and the GBA – well that can’t fail with no competition…)
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Whatever turns out, thid might be not the right time to turn to CD's as the pirate market is still around, still turning to use CD's is a good turn so they can secure some developers to make games for them.
I'm not sure is this has been mentioned yet but the GC wont be pirate proof.
The Mini-DVDs have very small holes in them, almost like a code, the GC will read these holes and determine if the disc is authentic or not.
The mod chip tells the GC not to look for these holes and just tells it to accept the disk.
All the pirates out there need is the smaller DVDs, hopefully these will be dificult to get.
however,
If Panasonic do create a DVD version of the GC about a year later then it will have to accept regular sized DVDs and so the pirates wouldn't have to get hold of the smaller disks thus making their life a lot easier and the games cheaper.
I hope for Nintendo's sake that the pirates dont find a way but lets face it, if they realy try then they will find a way, Sony put lots of money into making their consoles "pirate proof" and look where it got them.
The Mini-DVDs have very small holes in them, almost like a code, the GC will read these holes and determine if the disc is authentic or not.
The mod chip tells the GC not to look for these holes and just tells it to accept the disk.
All the pirates out there need is the smaller DVDs, hopefully these will be dificult to get.
however,
If Panasonic do create a DVD version of the GC about a year later then it will have to accept regular sized DVDs and so the pirates wouldn't have to get hold of the smaller disks thus making their life a lot easier and the games cheaper.
I hope for Nintendo's sake that the pirates dont find a way but lets face it, if they realy try then they will find a way, Sony put lots of money into making their consoles "pirate proof" and look where it got them.
Dan2K1 wrote:
> Where is the best (cheapest) place to get a PS2 memory card -
> legally of course? And the official one.
On the web somewhere, mate.
Or get someone else to get it for you. {:)
> Where is the best (cheapest) place to get a PS2 memory card -
> legally of course? And the official one.
On the web somewhere, mate.
Or get someone else to get it for you. {:)
Møn§†€R H& wrote:
> So, is anyone going to pre-order their Cubes
I was pretty much set on waiting until the X-Box came out and graabing hold of that...
However, After having had a revival of Mario Kart64 and GoldenEye with myself and a few mates, also from the upcomming games, the price of the console and that I'm guarendeed to purchase a GBA, I'm probably at somepoint gonna put my cash on the table...
But probably not until the price of the beast has been finalised... if its costs a lot more than expected, I may wait until its been out 6 months, and has lowered in price before I splash my cash... :)
> So, is anyone going to pre-order their Cubes
I was pretty much set on waiting until the X-Box came out and graabing hold of that...
However, After having had a revival of Mario Kart64 and GoldenEye with myself and a few mates, also from the upcomming games, the price of the console and that I'm guarendeed to purchase a GBA, I'm probably at somepoint gonna put my cash on the table...
But probably not until the price of the beast has been finalised... if its costs a lot more than expected, I may wait until its been out 6 months, and has lowered in price before I splash my cash... :)
Ridge Racer 64 is actually VERY VERY good, and I would suggest anyone who sees a copy second hand to buy it. It is in the top racers of all time.
M¤n$†ËR H& wrote:
> I can't wait for a decent racing simulation on a Nintendo console!
Ridge Racer 64, F1 world grand prix, F1 Racing Champ, WOrld driver championship?
> I can't wait for a decent racing simulation on a Nintendo console!
Ridge Racer 64, F1 world grand prix, F1 Racing Champ, WOrld driver championship?
The only thing I've pre-ordered is Metriod, I claimed it for Gameaday a while back.
I trust my brain.
(Thanks.)
I trust my brain.
(Thanks.)
I'll be pre-ordering mine, but I'm waiting till E3 before I do it. I want to know precisely what I'm putting my money down for; I'd also have a fair idea what games will be available at launch. I'm hoping Metroid will be, but there's no way to be sure; SSX: Special Edition would be really nice, but that depends on how fast they can port it over and add new stuff.
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