Tikker wrote:toshiba owns HD-dvd and i've heard no such nonsense about waving patent rights
besides, sony owns 40% of all movie titles ever made, so whatever sony chooses, especially if they get 14+million PS3's sold as planned will go a long way towards settling the format war
every other movie house will support both formats until blu-ray becomes the defacto standard
Yeah right. Sony release a console without shortages? pffft
Actually the major movie houses are split right down the middle right now, and Microsoft is pushing for HD-dvd, so odds are they're gonna win. Sony doesn't release nearly as many movies as Fox does either.
This is the most pathetic sounding console in Nintendo history and I've been a Nintendo fan since the beginning. At least the Virtual Boy offered something different. I already have or have owned all of the classic Nintendo consoles and have played most of those games to death so I really am not impressed by the fact that you can play legacy games on it. The Dreamcast offered the ability to play classic console games including the NES, SNES, Gameboy, Genesis, Neo Geo, Turborgrafix and Playstation 1 via emulator and that was like 8 years ago. The rest of the "features" sound gimmicky like the controllers, on the cheap like the lack of at least 5.1 surround and totally 1/2 commited to the project to avoid huge losses.
The new 3-D controller will revolutionize the console community. The retro aspect for all the old school nintendo games is also something no other company has done (officially). They have the largest selection of launch titles (they'll have more titles at launch then the 360 will have on the shelves even though it's been out for a year). True they're getting into the online game late (Playstation went there first, and XBox has nearly perfected it) but their spin on it will probably leave little to be desired (judging this solely by the DS). The graphics are upto to par, the price point is WAY lower then the other two systems (almost 1/4 of the expected price of the PS3) and a pedigree of games that will certainly blast it to the front of the pack.
True the Gamecube didn't make the splash they would of wanted it to, but if you ask people that have owned all 3 systems for years which one gets the most use THESE days and almost certainly the GameCube gets more play then the other two.
Muglack wrote:True the Gamecube didn't make the splash they would of wanted it to, but if you ask people that have owned all 3 systems for years which one gets the most use THESE days and almost certainly the GameCube gets more play then the other two.
QFT
The wii will release the best games at a decent price focused on fun.
My guess is two years from now it'll still be getting the lions share of gametime, and the newer Sony and MS consoles will be gathering dust, just like the old ones currently do in my house.
Also, Hollywood does not like Microsoft. IF they back a standard, I'd look for it to get a lot of opposition just for this reason.
It's too early to determine if Bluray or HD DVD will win. The fact the 360 was rushed out without HD DVD hurts it, especially since PS3 will sell a ton of consoles with Bluray support.
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Muglack wrote: True the Gamecube didn't make the splash they would of wanted it to, but if you ask people that have owned all 3 systems for years which one gets the most use THESE days and almost certainly the GameCube gets more play then the other two.
PS2 gets used 5702587025824542x more than anything else here
that being said, i'm likely going to buy a wii, and probably a ps3
Yoshihiro Miro, senior managing director for Nintendo, has confirmed that Wii will cost no more than ¥25,000 in Japan or US$250 in America. A Nintendo spokesman has said that the price in the UK "will be in line with Japanese and US prices announced." Nintendo intends to have 6 million console units and 17 million software units released by March 31, 2007.[6]
As for the price of the games, despite the price point of US$60 quoted for many next-generation games,[7] Satoru Iwata said in an interview that he could not imagine that any first-party games would cost more than US$50.[8]
Im fo sho buying this I got my xbox 360 but im going to give this one a whirl also. I did actually like the gamecube they had massive amounts of fun multiplayer games that you could play over and over and over with friends if you ever had a party and crap or with family etc. Im not sure about the whole controller thing but hey at least they are inovating which is always a + in the video game industry. Since they made the whole motion sensitive thing sony has followed with their controller and so has microsoft.....so this can't be all that bad.
I emulated the crap out of my Dreamcast and it's not as easy as you might think. SNES and GENESIS games don't play well unless you play without sound so you lose a lot from the games.
