xts3:
I'm not one to post very often but the sheer level of misinformation that you are attempting to shovel has brought me out of retirement, if only this once.
For starters, your CONSTANT attacking of Nintendo's reluctance to use current, but also EASILY PIRATED, media. Let's go back in time for a short while shall we? The generation leap is about to shift from the 16bit to the 32/64bit and everyone is waiting in awe for Nintendo's next system. The SNES is still going strong and the PSX is just a small player who looks to be nothing more than a nitch market if that. Just because the system supported CD did NOT mean that developers jumped on it. In fact, there were INUMERABLE CD based systems as well as add-ons that FAILED at the exact same time that Nintendo was looking to develop the N64. The Sega Saturn (Nintendo's only competition at the time) was flopping, as had the Sega CD add-on, and the 3DO was nothing more than a bad memory. Really, from everything that was going on with CD at the time, Nintendo made the only viable decision that they could after shifting back and forth from one format to another: avoid it. Afterall, CD was a bad gamble. Up until the PSX took off, which wasn't until AFTER the N64 was released coincidentaly, developers had all but REFUSED to support a CD based system even though they clammored for the media as everyone NOW states.
Media size did not become an issue until FFVII was released, a game which I still feel to this day all but bastardized gaming forever. It was a good game but it should have been ONE game and FMV should NEVER have come to become such an important part of video games. In the end though, was the MASSIVE PSX CD format even big enough for that title? NO! The game required no less than 3 DISCS! Following that were the trite FFVIII, on 4 DISCS!, and the FFVI remake, FFIX which was again on 4 discs. Apparently not even CD was enough to satiate developers lust for space last generation. Well, I should say developers lust to fill games with movies as all 3 of those titles would have fit on an N64 cart without the FMV.
Moving on from the reason as to WHY CD took off in the first place, FMV, we find that Sony had also implimented several changes to the industry that Nintendo simply couldn't afford to make as well. Namely paying developers to make games for their system as well as publishing and advertising them. Nintendo makes their OWN games, something that Sony still does a very weak job of to this day. So Sony was willing to PAY developers to make games for their system, much like MS has done this generation, as well as gave them a new way to sell games to, well... stupid gamers. For clerifications sake, I consider FMV to be a CRUTCH for bad games and lazy developers. Add on the fact that CD was much cheaper to produce for as well and you begin to see how several factors more or less built up against Nintendo completely unexpectedly. Had all of these events happened a year before they did, there's a good possibility that Nintendo would have gone with another media besides carts. As it was, they were already waffling on CD anyway.
From that point on though, NO storage media has been large enough for developers, not even the MIGHTY PS2 format. Developers have simply made games that would fit on what they were given. Believe it or not but if the PS2 had used a 20gig disk, developers would have found a way to fill it up, while at the same time games are getting shorter and shorter with less replay value. More or less it's just bloated code and lazy developers, or FMV clips and I'm sure by now that you understand my stance on them.
But anyway, you're ragging all over Nintendo for not being PSYCHIC and seeing that the industry would have a massive shift in a matter of MONTHS after they released the N64. Then yell at them for not going with full sized DVD even though last generation MANY developers had to use SEVERAL CDs for their PSX games. So... all of a sudden multi-disc games are bad??? Since when did that happen? Oh, because it's a "Nintendo" system. I gotcha.
Then you whine about the cost of GC and it's peripherals. Citing how much it costs to buy the system, 4 controllers, a memory card, bla, bla, bla... The SAME could be said about the XBox which you use as an example against it, as well as the PS2, which required it's OWN controllers and memory cards as well if you expect to actually PLAY the games the way they were meant to be played. You know, saving and the like. But in your little comparison you also neglect to factor in the cost of having to buy the DVD kit seperate for the XBox, OR the cost of XBox Live! All of a sudden ALL 3 of the systems look more expensive than they did before, now don't they? Nintendo didn't throw any "hidden costs" at gamers, that's for Sony and MS to do.
Your rant about the controller is your opinnion, and you're welcome to it so I have nothing further to add on that subject.
As for RPGs though, as has been brought up by other users, DVD does not automatically mean RPG. Again, how many RPGs are on the XBox? RPGs are mostly made by Japanese developers and most of those developers favor the PS2. It's got nothing to do with media size. If it did, there wouldn't be ANY RPGs on the GC. And yet there are a few notable exceptions to that rule now aren't there. Especially since Sony isn't buying software from developers anymore and Nintendo is beginning to cut favorable deals with certain ones. Tales of Symphonia, it's planned sequal, and Baten Kaitos are of course the most obviouse examples. But then again, wonder of wonders, who's developing for the little purple lunch-box with the small medium? Why, none other than SquareEnix! The company who almost single handedly destroyed Nintendo just one generation before because they couldn't live without CD. But what's this? They're not developing for the XBox? Now that can't be right. I mean, look at the size of their media!
Just... Get over yourself. Media size isn't all that important except to lazy developers, of which most are.
And I've expelled WAY too much effort and energy on this post so I'm going to drop it here. I dunno, guess it's just been so long since I've posted on any video games related message boards that I just went overboard. Anyway, I don't expect you to actually read any of this or to have actual INTELLIGENT and WELL THOUGHT OUT responses. I mean, you're obviousely a Nintendo hater. Which makes you most likely a Sony fanboy. However I will not pass judgment. That is for lesser, smaller beings.
Topic: Move forward nintendo! (Read 5057 times)
