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Originally posted by: FFantasyFX
Actually Byron, I'm pretty sure that Reuters is talking about cumulative installed base in that paragraph, not sales for the month. I might be wrong though.
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Originally posted by: Sean
My main problem, as I said, was the control pad itself--NOT THE BUTTON LAYOUT, per se. The control pad is EXACTLY the same size as the GBA's. NO ONE ON EARTH wants to play, exclusively, a game like VF4 on a GBA. Once you dig really deep into VF4, the finest control nuance is utterly essential, and I PERSONALLY would hate to play it on a pad that small. The PS2's regular pad is hard enough for the really complicated stuff. (The PS2 has it's own problems, too, that almost no one mentions, which is the horror of not having diagonal connections on the pad. Am I the only one on earth who hates this?)
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First, I must disagree that the 7800 is inferior.... [snippage]
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Can you show me the numbers to support this ridiculous claim? I check the monthly sales, and all I see are PS2, GCN, and XBX sales. I don't see any evidence that PS1 games are out-selling GC games. Show, just back up your claim with some stats please. Thank you.
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Originally posted by: theavengQuote
Originally posted by: inkQuote
Nintendo must make their next console backwards-compatible, if they want to grow their userbase. I wish I could transfer my OoT saved games to my GCN, but alas...
I guess I need to repeat myself for those who weren't listening: "Atari 7800 was backwards compatible with the most popular console of the early 80s: The Atari 2600/VCS. Did this backwards compability help Atari dominate the late 80s? HA! No way! The 7800, despite being compatible with over 1000 previously-released games like Space Invaders and Asteroids, was totally and completely demolished by the Original Nintendo ES."
Given that backwards-compatibility did not help the Atari console succeed, why do you think it would help the Nintendo console? Answer: It would not.
Well, if Nintendo's next-gen console is as inferior to it's peers as the 7800 was to the NES, then it will fail as well. Your non sequitur argument only shows that backward compatibility won't guarantee the success of the console in and of itself; it will need other characteristics such as graphics, sound, games and competitive pricing. The fact that PSX games are still being sold at higher rates than the best GCN games are would seem to validate this hypothesis (although, I suppose that all those people could be using PS1s to run the games). The 7800 (and 5600, and Jaguar) are all case studies in why brand-recognition and silly marketing (it's 64 bits!!!) mean nothing. The games are what make a system, and great games from the past can definately help a system.
I still wish I could transfer my OoT saved games to my GCN...
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As the psx market went down the importance went with it. Its all how Sony and Nintendo have market it their consumers.
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Uh, Microsoft doesn't MAKE the 10GB hard drives. They BUY them, so they pay whatever the cost is when they buy the lot. So it's not a fixed cost.
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Originally posted by: Grey Ninja
*sigh*. Give it up. I have been saying this stuff for well over a year now. The problem is that people read the specs as being: Higher numbers = more powerful. Being that I am a recognized Nintendo fan, as most of us here are, nobody pays attention to us. Yes we all know that the GameCube stands eye to eye with the Xbox in terms of graphics, but the problem is the same as the "kiddie" argument against GameCube. There's just no way to fight myths that are so far ingrained in people's skulls. It's really sad.
