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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Castlevania Interview

« on: April 02, 2005, 02:52:34 PM »

Gotta love them fluff interviews from Nintendo Power...
But really, Castlevania desperately needs to be re-invented again...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:On Even Terms With Xenon and NOT PS3?

« on: March 29, 2005, 03:12:16 PM »

"The PS3 Waffle Iron" ...


With all the things that Sony wants to put Cell into,
nothing would suprise me anymore...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Iwata quotes

« on: March 29, 2005, 03:10:23 PM »

Ian, I feel your pain.  Sony learned during the PS1 generation, if it's not broke, don't fix it.(Controllers that is)

The bit about the API being the same???  What kind of API does Nintendo use?  An OpenGL-ish one or custom propiertary?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Castlevania Interview

« on: March 28, 2005, 02:19:29 PM »

IGA has a little too much ego for his own good.  He nuked the N64 Castlevanias for kicks and giggles.  Next he proceded to make the same game(SotN) over and over again on a different platform.  Now he's making SotN in 3D.  Someone needs to reel this guy in...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:On Even Terms With Xenon and NOT PS3?

« on: March 28, 2005, 02:14:20 PM »

Seems to me the four Cell layout was an idea presented in the original patents that where found on the net about Cell.

Also, unless Sony can get the heat down on Cell, a four Cell PS3 should be able to cook breakfast
with no problem...

I kinda wonder how MS is going to sell Xenon's CPU?  Is MS going to position it as a three core unit or as a six thread unit?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:On Even Terms With Xenon and NOT PS3?

« on: March 27, 2005, 03:38:45 PM »

So KDR, do you think they will go with a four Cell layout?

I find it hard to believe, but then again Sony did develop the PS2...

 

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General Gaming / RE:No More Dual Shock - SONY fined $90.7 million

« on: March 26, 2005, 01:51:26 PM »

Why does this case smell like Eolas vs MS?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:On Even Terms With Xenon and NOT PS3?

« on: March 26, 2005, 01:48:25 PM »

Here's one main question.

How easy will it be to access the power of Rev, Xenon, and the PS3?

I can tell you from a programmer's stand point, that getting nine processors
that all work independently, to run at maximum power is not an easy task.  

 

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General Gaming / RE:PSP vs. DS ... Final Verdict (G4)

« on: March 22, 2005, 04:31:09 PM »

Wow, another nugget of wisdom from the flaming wad of crap known as G4.
It's way to early to tell whether the DS on PSP will win.
Still, Nintendo needs to launch some more AAA titles for the DS.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Revolution rumors

« on: March 22, 2005, 03:48:35 AM »

Bloodworth said...
"Nintendo has been the only company to really focus on making the controller easy to distinguish by touch alone. Making a touch screen controller, would force you to look at it, and you'd get a lot of fingerprints on it too."

Amen to that

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Revolution rumors

« on: March 21, 2005, 01:28:54 PM »

I can think of one reason why Nintendo won't use touch screens.  
Price and durability.  

Though the customization part sounds cool.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Zelda Four Swords MMORPG

« on: March 21, 2005, 01:24:04 PM »

Come on, someone was going to bring it up sooner or later...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Zelda Four Swords MMORPG

« on: March 20, 2005, 04:28:49 PM »

How many of you here have heard of Graal???

Go play the original version,(not the 3d one) and guess what
game inspired it....

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Nintendo's Next Gen Software Tools

« on: March 20, 2005, 02:17:28 PM »

Rick, I have a couple of questions for you, I don't know if you can answer them....

Is Rev's CPU going to be dual-cored?  I just read a new CELL article over at Anandtech and
it brought up some interesting info about the PS3 and Xenon.

I have my internal theories about Broadway, but I'm curious to see if
what I'm thinking is correct...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:I predict Nintendo will be #3 again...

« on: March 20, 2005, 02:11:25 PM »

The question is can Nintendo reverse the mind share it's been losing these
last  2 generations?  

I can live with Nintendo being in 3rd place if it means carving
some market/mind at Sony/MS's expense.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:"Lunar Genesis" for the DS!

« on: March 19, 2005, 04:09:09 PM »

Another Lunar Game?  

Why don't they just translate the little known third Lunar Game from the Game Gear?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Could it be possible for the Revolution to...TruForm?

« on: March 19, 2005, 03:58:07 PM »

Kinda like Sony did with the PS2?  Didn't they add fast loading and texture filtering to certain games?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Nintendo's Next Gen Software Tools

« on: March 15, 2005, 01:44:56 PM »

Rick, as you know Cg is Nvidia's high level programming language for pixel shaders.  Porting them to Cell, the PS3 CPU would make little since.  I assume ZDNews's article meant the PS3's GPU, not Cell.

Unless my comment is true, which I doubt...

Also, my guess is that Metrowerks will be involved in Revolution's
tools.  Considering that Metrowerks is used for N64, DS and GC development.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Nintendo's Next Gen Software Tools

« on: March 14, 2005, 01:35:56 PM »

I found some of the sites that were talked about on the ZDNews article, it looks like Sony is embracing a version OpenGL for it's development language.  

If you goto Collada's website you can see some interestings things over there.  
Namely people from SCEA and SCEJ talking/arguing with other developers.  It's kind of weird.

The only thing is, that article talks about Cg being ported to Cell.  That doesn't make a lot
sense if unless Sony plans on throwing a CRT controller on a Cell chip and calling it a
graphics processor...  

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo's Next Gen Software Tools

« on: March 13, 2005, 04:42:02 PM »

Well MS has announced XNA for Xenon and ZDNews has some info about the PS3's tools.


My question is, who is Nintendo partnering with to make it's next gen software tools?
Remember, being easy to program for was GC's hallmark...

Here's the ZDNews link about Sony...
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5606515.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed

Link to MS's XNA site...
http://www.microsoft.com/xna/

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Could it be possible for the Revolution to...TruForm?

« on: March 13, 2005, 03:46:10 PM »

Unreal supports Truform?  Or is it Unreal 2?

I'll have to do my homework on this one...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Could it be possible for the Revolution to...TruForm?

« on: March 12, 2005, 01:53:55 PM »

Truform?

Does ATI even support this technology any more?
I thought there was a grand total of two games that used it, and they didn't look
very good.

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General Chat / RE:The Great Crash of 05: Part Deux

« on: March 09, 2005, 06:23:53 PM »

Just confirmation of what I said earlier about Epic...

http://xbox.ign.com/articles/594/594673p1.html?fromint=1

The question is, will this be running the next Halo?

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General Gaming / RE:Xenon specs revealed.

« on: March 09, 2005, 06:21:51 PM »

The sad part is, Sony vision of the future isn't too much different the MS.
If you go back and look at what Sony has said about the Playstation platform, Sony
wants to do what MS is doing with Xenon.

MS is doing using software as it's means of taking of over the world,
Sony wants to do using Sony branded gadgets and hardware.

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General Chat / RE:The Great Crash of 05: Part Deux

« on: March 09, 2005, 05:55:06 PM »

KDR, you sorta answered your own question.  Except the only two platforms MS has in mind are Windows and XBox.

Rising development cost is a big factor to many studios today.  Love it or hate it, MS is trying to deal with this subject head on.

Is XNA the next big thing in development systems, or is it the next .Net?