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TalkBack / RE: Game Boy Micro Australian Details

« on: August 21, 2005, 06:35:08 PM »

What a rip. $149 is far too expensive for the micro. Sell the thing for $149 with the new pokemon game if u want to, but that price is rediculous. I doubt they'll see more than a few hundred sales of this thing - old and expensive.

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TalkBack / RE: Revolution Wireless To Be Provided By Broadcom

« on: April 21, 2005, 08:49:01 AM »

Michael "TYP" Cole said the DS nintendo wi-fi is a bit lackluster.... wasn't it set up to consume less battery life and that's the reason its not a fully-fledged wi-fi connection? That's what i thought anyway.

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TalkBack / RE: BLAH BLAH BLAH: GameCube 64

« on: April 05, 2005, 09:20:38 PM »

Just make the Revolution worth buying as a must have console and release better-than-average non-franchised games onto other consoles. That's the future. Keep mario, and wario or whatever but give games like 1080 and Fzero a shot on the PS3 and Xbox2. Hell, they'd probably learn a thing or two about their competitors business strategies and improve as a result.

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TalkBack / RE: Phoenix Unveils New Market Research Results

« on: March 30, 2005, 04:06:45 AM »

I love it when companies make up the acronym before they decide what they should call something....

"hey guys, games have scores, so lets call it scores!"
"awesome idea man... what can we make it mean?"
"i dont give a f**k, make something up!"

SCORESTM (Syndicated Consumer Online Research Evaluation Survey)

pfffft

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TalkBack / RE: Blue

« on: February 15, 2005, 04:59:49 PM »

Pepsi Max is the be all and end all of cola drinks.

Regular pepsi sucks, as does just about all of Coke's varieties.

I want one of these blue DS's. I've got a nice red SP and would LLLLOVE a different coloured DS...

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TalkBack / RE: PGC Louie Awards 2004

« on: February 01, 2005, 03:02:58 AM »

I used to come to PGC almost daily a couple of years ago and back then I thought the Loui awards were great.

Perhaps its just me, or perhaps its because we are in the console-dulldrums with slow news but PGC seems to be far less interesting these days.

Perhaps its that the writers have lives. I dunno. I miss more exciting news and great editorials and reviews.

Hmmm.

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TalkBack / RE: Editorial: PlayStation or Xbox?

« on: October 26, 2004, 07:59:02 AM »

Ok i've just got a few comments / opinions.

Firstly, i live in Australia. The cube over here is doing worse than the xbox in Japan. It's terrible. I would slap anyone from Nintendo Australia if i met them.

Here's my thoughts on this whole topic. Ninty should start thinking for the future, not the cube.

I say hold off the realistic Zelda for the next gen and blow everyone away at launch. I say develop the best looking, smoothest playing mario ever and launch that next gen too. Bringing out zelda again on the cube will NOT result in a sales boost and will waste the most anticipated title from nintendo.

Third parties need to be sure they don't lose money with nintendo next gen. I would doubt Capcom is pleased with the sales of Resident Evil on the cube. They'd have to be only 10% of what could be achieved on the PS2. Here's what they need to do: Approach Sega, EA, rockstar, capcom, namco, et al., and say 'ok, we want your big games on our system. We will PAY for your development costs and ensure you make money on your game equivelant to what you would with another platform.' Get the big names and you get the casuals. Get the casuals and you get more software support and more first party game purchases.

A average, run of the mill PS2 game will out-sell zelda on the cube. The biggest nintendo game can't make the overall sales numbers of an average PS2 game. The way to solve this is to increase the install base. The way to increase the install base is to spend money with the popular developers. Ninty would surely make its money back from and losses involved with paying third parties for big name games.

Argh i dunno. I'm rambling.  

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Tells Players

« on: October 25, 2004, 05:32:43 AM »

Hopefully Planetgamecube can get their hands on some of that official nintendo advertising dollar!

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TalkBack / RE: Chrono Trigger Resurrection Update

« on: September 06, 2004, 05:41:14 PM »

I think it is perfectly acceptable for SE to ask for this project to be stopped.

The dudes making this 3d remake are aware that they are breaching IP laws. It's just that now they've been officially told to stop instead of NOT STARTING IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Regardless of whether it is a good remake or as bad as they come, being told to stop because of IP law breach should not be news to these people, it should be expected.

Hopefully they place their talent into an original game idea instead of riding off the back of the talent of another company.

And Valkan, its NOTHING like making a UT mod! UT has clear and straight-forward licensing laws for UT mods.

In response to the commentry about SE taking this on board, or employing the dudes, i find that rediculous. SE has already invested vast $ in creating 3D engines for their games, why would they bother investing in a (no doubt) inefficient, amatuer engine or artist? Oh, and don't forget the language barrier... i doubt the creators of this unlicensed remake speak Japanese.

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TalkBack / RE: Acclaim Files Bankruptcy

« on: September 02, 2004, 07:31:55 PM »

"why should Atari die? They were the first company to make games for at home viable. They were responsible for tons of arcade games before that happened, and without arcade games, not only would there be no home games today, but who knows what the industry would be today."

Actually, the Atari of today is not the same company that was Atari 5, 10, 15 or 20 years ago. The Atari you are talking about threw in the towel a couple of years ago, Infogrames are now known at Atari - they just swapped their names.

Generally speaking now though, if 300 game makers are sacked, that makes 300 up & coming game makers with bright new ideas and talent waiting in the wings for longer.  Shrinking of the industry is always a bad thing.

Sure, Acclaim weren't the greatest quality developer but i spent many hours on the couch with my housemate playing baseball...

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TalkBack / RE: Acclaim Files Bankruptcy

« on: September 02, 2004, 07:30:14 AM »

Ok, so Acclaim may not have been a shining star of late, but i think everyone should show a bit more respect here.

The company is laying of hundreds of staff and has been a part of video game history... they've been around for ages.

I personally don't want to see EA as the only game developer in the world, and this loss of Acclaim is just one more step towards formulaic games that we've been playing for too long already.  What companies are going to continue to take risks with new franchises and novelty ideas if this happens???

It's also very sad so here people wanting Eidos and Atari to go this way also... joking or not i'd HATE to see Eidos and Atari go bankrupt.

The more publishers, the more variety, and the better choice for us.

Show the respect the company deserves!

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TalkBack / RE: Nascar 2005 Circles Retailers

« on: September 01, 2004, 06:37:15 PM »

I can't imagine anything more boring than a Nascar game.

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TalkBack / RE:Nintendo Superchallenge in Victoria, Australia

« on: June 30, 2004, 07:12:39 AM »

This is yet another USELESS promotion from Nintendo Australia. I hate Nintendo Australia. They've got such a big, nice office... can't see why! It couldn't take more than 1 person to enter the words 'today, zero gamecubes purchased' each day.  

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TalkBack / RE:Splinter Cell is Everywhere

« on: March 16, 2004, 03:22:05 PM »

I'm a little concerned about the product placement in newer games coming out. I really don't think its a good idea. I see enough dodgy adverts as it is, i don't need them in game. Plus, how are other genres, such as Fantasy meant to capitalise on this? It's not like they can use the Sony-Ericson Magic Wand or anything, which may in the future move gaming towards more realistic scenarios to enable this sort of advertising.

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TalkBack / RE:Editorial: Don't Leave Me Now

« on: March 09, 2004, 12:46:07 AM »

Here's something that i thought i'd bring up as it hasn't really been mentioned yet in this forum. From reading all the posting from other people i have been reading them in the frame of mind that 'each person owns a single console'. When u think of it like that, 3rd party support is really important.

When you think that a lot of people have more than 1 console, things are different.
(i own a GC and Xbox)

Last gen i owned a N64, all my friends owned a PS, and they all had them chipped and didn't buy many games at all, they just copied them all.

Now, its widely circulated that the xbox is the most powerful system of the current gen, and from what i can tell from the cross-platform games, it is.  There's a major difference in Burnout 2 for xbox and GC - the GC slows to 30 FPS in 2 player mode, the xbox stays at a solid 60 FPS.

I'm going all over the place with this post and not making much sense. I'm trying to get 3 points across:

1 - 3rd parties may prefer GC because of the difficulty in copying the games

2 - People own more than 1 system a lot of the time

3 - Different systems have different ports and customers choose the system that the game runs on best when purchasing.

Why would i buy Burnout 2 on GC when i can get the same game running smoother on the Xbox?

It may be beneficial for Nintendo to "help" renderware and the other cross-platform development tools work the best they possibly can for Nintendo hardware so that dodgily ported PS-2 games work best on the GC, therefore gain more purchases.