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Nintendo Gaming / Importing Soul Caliber

« on: March 29, 2003, 05:54:25 AM »

You don't need to import a memory card, you can buy one domestically (europe or america whereever you are) and it will work with the JP game, is the game that formats the card, after a card is formatted for a JP game you can only use it with JP games. If you accidently save another region game then its going to reformat it to that region and you will just loose your saves.

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Nintendo Gaming / Does the rest of your family play the cube?

« on: March 02, 2003, 02:04:07 AM »

My family is a gaming family, we have set up the the 3 systems in the living room and everybody plays. My dad likes mostly all but prefers racing and my mom more the platformers and nontext heavey games. My 29, 28 and 26 year old brothers they all play all the games and my 28 year old sister plays mostly less paced games (monkey island, hot shots golf). We have two gba and three pcs in the den for some serious lan gaming and for a week in May every year we pack the bags to Los Angeles for a little expo they hold there every year, this is going to be our fifth one. Pretty hardcore family no?

In a kind of relate topic this week happen one of those gaming moments, you all know what i'm talking about, those moments you remember for a long while and it happen with a Nintendo game.  I was playing Ocarina Of Time on the bonus disk with my 5 year old niece when out  of the blue she says "this is the best game ever" in a very serious tone, mind you that she gets to see mostly all the games coming out,  then I ask her why, so she goes on to describe how the adventure with the scary elements like the graveyard and the funny like the flying chickens and the hero link and sad deku tree dying, in her way she told me how all this element blends her emotions and thats why this is the best game ever, a very proud moment. How awesome it is that a five year old girl sees the great gameplay of Shigeru Miyamoto's Nintendo. Dare you agree?

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Nintendo Gaming / Hits of 2003, Rumors, Big Guns, speculation

« on: March 02, 2003, 01:18:44 AM »

Who said Ocarina of Time had realistic graphics? Nor Ocarina nor any video game has realistic graphics, go ahead check your bonus disc, rationalize people, if you want realistic graphics watch a film or tv. Games have a long way to go till they can trick the mind in seeing something that resembles anything realistic out of the real world.


I know this is out of topic, I apologise.

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Nintendo Gaming / Game's that Lost Money?

« on: February 19, 2003, 09:47:01 AM »

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The problem is further exasperated by that fact that Sony and Microsoft true aim is not video game production, even though video games is probably the fast growing entertainment field. Sony and Microsoft want to sell us multimedia set top boxes,

That is not a fact, and certainly is not a right statement either. Believe me MS and Sony are very happy making money from software sales and royalties, the backbone of the video games industry, almost anybody would dare to say that if their interest was just to sell the system they wouldn't even be making one.

Just don't get carry away even by what MS and Sony says about the future, the multimedia system dream. Probably is what they want but this industry has defined itself into what it is today, games are just a proven system and without them you are nothing, concerning this industry.  

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Nintendo Gaming / a thing N should do?

« on: February 14, 2003, 08:57:59 AM »

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Two PSX games appear in the charts before any GCN game in the combined Japanese console charts right now. I'd wager that a good number of people playing those PSX games, are doing so on their PS2; after all, graphics aren't everything. 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...

ink you make a good point but I was actually just thinking of North America

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Well that arguement doesn't really make any sense when you consider that the GBA is backwards compatible. Why would Nintendo's "quality over quantity" mantra only apply to the Gamecube? That whole "quality over quantity" doesn't really mean anything anyway. It's just something Nintendo's spin doctors made up in 1997 to explain why the N64 had so few games. If Nintendo REALLY cared about quality over quantity then the GBA library wouldn't be made up mostly of SNES ports and licensed crap. If Nintendo could make the Gamecube library the size of the PS2's they would.

Thats why I purposely left out the GBA. I'm with you about Nintendo don't really believing the quality over quantity and like you said it was just a marketing thing and thats my point that Nintendo has marketed their customers not to see quantity as a key feature up to this GameCube days. There is very little doubt that if backwards compatability was more feasible (meaning cheaper solution) Nintendo would have implemented it.

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Nintendo Gaming / a thing N should do?

« on: February 13, 2003, 07:18:18 PM »

I don't think that backwards compatabillity would really help Nintendo. Its just simply not Nintendos consoles' style, what have they been screaming since 96? quality not quantity while Sony has really played it the other way around and in the eyes of a playstation customer backwards compatability was a key selling point for the first year in the market. As the psx market went down the importance went with it. Its all how Sony and Nintendo have market it their consumers.

Many would say that thats the basis for the current generation and it would surely help explain how Playstation with so few AAA titles but inmense catalog is the market leader and not Nintendo which dedicates to quality game play.

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Nintendo Gaming / Gamecube console, profit from day one?

« on: February 13, 2003, 06:51:46 PM »

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Well Microsoft has never really planned on making a profit with the Xbox so it doesn't really have anything to do with inexperience. The Xbox is more or less being used to get a foothold in the console market so that future Microsoft consoles can make a profit.

That may be true that Microsoft didn't planned to make a profit but almost anybody can assure you that in designing the xbox they were trying to be as cost effective as possible, and thats the point that if MS was more experience they would have though of this phase of the xbox's lifespan. Like somebody mention that Nintendo started modifying the cube almost from the get go, and thats the difference from the experience.

by the way I'm new here but long time reader of the PGC forums and this is my second post in a games forum since like 1998.

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Nintendo Gaming / New Miyamoto game to be shown at E3

« on: February 13, 2003, 10:59:33 AM »

It has to be a succesfull game in order to be a franchise.

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Nintendo Gaming / Gamecube console, profit from day one?

« on: February 13, 2003, 09:47:08 AM »

I guess this really shows Microsoft inexperiance in this industry , and its a good way to see if they have learn for the next generation.