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General Gaming / Re: PSP GO Officially leaked from Qore

« on: June 01, 2009, 04:56:47 AM »

The fact that Sony had dropped the crappy UMD format means they are on the right track, and this is a VERY bad thing for Nintendo. You can say what you want about the crappy design and how awful it looks, and you would be right, but the UMD was a ball and chain that would have prevented Sony from ever really dominating the handheld market, but now that's gone.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: E3 2009 to reveal big software, from the man himself, Iwata. PS2 in his sights.

« on: May 31, 2009, 11:00:39 PM »

I'm excited and can't wait to see what Nintendo has up their sleeves.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: May 27, 2009, 02:45:00 PM »

Wow! The 360 actually outsold the PS2 by 100 units this week, plus it has a game in the number 3 slot.

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General Gaming / Re: Sony's secret weapon is PS3 Slim... Jim?

« on: May 27, 2009, 02:39:37 PM »

And it'd have 6 prongs and 4 sticks.

Aren't buttons outdated anyway? Why not replace every button with a stick? :p

And instead of D-pads we could have Analog pads which would be made of 4 tiny analog nubs joined together into a pad.

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General Gaming / Re: Sony's secret weapon is PS3 Slim... Jim?

« on: May 27, 2009, 02:37:50 PM »

What's simply bizarre is that Sony has retained this horrible, horrible, dpad, in the sweet spot on all their controllers, for 15 years.  Even worse, Sony made exactly the same idiotic control mistakes with the PSP (which is a new system with a different control scheme, so much less affected by compatibility concerns) -- an awful dpad, in the "main position", and an awkwardly-placed analog controller seemingly tossed in at the last moment as an afterthought.

I think the reason for the lack of imagination or innovation in Sony's controllers probably has a lot to do with video games being a major after thought to the company. They started out making TVs and VCRs and crap like that, and that's what drives their thinking even today. They really shouldn't be in the video gaming industry at all, and the reason they are is because of their work with Nintendo on that SNES CD addon which never came about, and this was repackaged and released as the PS1 which was successful because of good timing, luck, and stupidity of Nintendo and other companies in that era. So they really shouldn't be in the industry at all, and their dominance of being the market leader has been a position they never really deserved because its all based on ripping off Nintendo's ideas and being lucky.

But I would beat that the Sony executives don't actually even play video games, not even their own. They are more concerned about Blu-ray and other consumer electronics and the PS3 was just a means to an end, with that end being Blu-ray winning over HD-DVD. Well, they've achieved that end (unfortunately) but the cost was them dropping from 1st place to 3rd place in the console wars.

But I don't think they really even care... Sony treats its fans as cows for them to milk off of, which is also true of Nintendo somewhat, but at least Nintendo is completely game oriented and actually invests in innovative control methods and game concepts. Every Nintendo system has seen a different controller setup than the last. When the Wii 2 comes out you can be sure that it will feature some new controller method, but as for the PS4 its probably going to be the same boring old Dualshock/SIXAXIS piece of crap that they've stuck with since they ripped the idea off of the SNES.

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General Gaming / Re: Sony's secret weapon is PS3 Slim... Jim?

« on: May 27, 2009, 02:24:13 PM »

The fact that Sony's d-pad sucks is irrelevent to the discussion.  I'm not talking about Sony's controller as much as controllers in general and what design would make sense if you were in charge of designing one from scratch.  For me d-pad centric is the way to go and obviously the d-pad should be comfortable.  But I think a good controller should be compatible with as many types of games as possible and analog centric doesn't do that.  To me digital vs. analog is a lot like 2D vs. 3D.  Neither one is better and the newer design isn't a replacement for the old.  Some types of games work best with a d-pad.

Doesn't this make the N64 controller the best of both worlds? It can be either Analog stick centric or D-pad centric depending on how you hold it.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Tenchu 4

« on: May 25, 2009, 11:29:57 AM »

I don't have anything to save for future missions because I end up using stuff as soon as I find it...

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Her Majesty Receives Golden Wii

« on: May 25, 2009, 11:27:50 AM »

It would be cool if the controller were custom made with rubies, emeralds, diamonds, etc. as the buttons.

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General Gaming / Re: Sony's secret weapon is PS3 Slim... Jim?

« on: May 25, 2009, 11:26:46 AM »

My only complaint about the GC controller is the Z button. It should have been placed underneath the controller somehow, like the trigger of a gun, because that's the way the Z button is traditionally used. Putting it up on the shoulder made it more awkward and frustrating to use.

I do think the rest of the GC controller was genius, though. Having the buttons shaped, sized, and colored differently made them much easier to use when you're in the middle of a game. There was much less need for hunting and pecking, and it was very unlikely you would hit the wrong button by mistake.

In controller terms, I would say the GC was the best, then the XBOX and then finally the uninnovative PS2 .

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General Gaming / Re: Sony's secret weapon is PS3 Slim... Jim?

« on: May 24, 2009, 10:21:10 PM »

The PS controller's D-Pad isn't even a pad at all. The arrows aren't actually connected... wtf?

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General Gaming / Re: Sony's secret weapon is PS3 Slim... Jim?

« on: May 24, 2009, 07:15:43 PM »

I don't like the Sony controllers because they place the D-pad before the thumbstick, which if you ask me is a very backwards thinking because virtually every game nowadays relies on the analog stick instead of the D-pad. This isn't the SNES era anymore, and while I know the PS controllers are a blatant ripoff of the SNES controller scheme times have changed... it is long past due for the ps controllers to change as well.

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Nintendo Gaming / Her Majesty Receives Golden Wii

« on: May 23, 2009, 10:53:52 PM »

No, not that kind of "Golden Wii" 

Check it out: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/big-family-games-thq-delivering-a-gold-plated-wii-to-the-queen-today--let-s-hope-she-s-in

The Queen and other members of the Royal Family will be able to use their new gold Wii to play 24 unique twists on classic family games including golf, tennis, ladder golf, lawn darts, horseshoes, bocce and more.

Her Royal Highness will be able to play through the game as a single player or get Princes Philip, Charles, Harry, and William, and even Camilla, involved when playing in multiplayer mode. HRH will even be able to create customisable characters for herself and the rest of the family.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: "Official" Metroid Prime Trilogy discussion thread ;)

« on: May 23, 2009, 10:26:08 PM »

We all knew this was coming sooner or later. The only real surprise here is that Ian doesn't seem to be too pissed off about it... that's a major shock.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: "Official" Metroid Prime Trilogy discussion thread ;)

« on: May 23, 2009, 07:34:03 PM »

And since Nintendo is saving this title for the beginning of Fall, it sounds like they have no to release at the end of the year.  This pony is it.

I would hold off until E3 before making such claims. I'm sure Nintendo's got more up its sleeves than ports of old games....

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: May 22, 2009, 10:38:55 PM »

No PS3 or 360 games in the top 20.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Amazing Deals!

« on: May 20, 2009, 06:23:54 PM »

Between the amount of cash you'll spend on tax to get the two games at retail you'd be better off purchasing both at Amazon.

Plus the cost of gas, which isn't cheap these days.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Bethesda whips out their Wii... aims at the Mature

« on: May 19, 2009, 03:22:27 PM »

I'd like a Star Trek game that lets you be more like the Kirk or Picard where you can just go off exploring the universe without any real plot forcing you into any particular direction. Of course, there should be some sort of plot, but following it should be optional, or it should leave you alone for long periods while you explore. Being attacked by strange new alien civilizations who come at you from out of nowhere would be cool, but there should also be peaceful ones who help you out or need your help. You should also be able to form away teams ala TNG and explore the surface of planets too.

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General Gaming / Re: Sony getting hit Hard lately

« on: May 19, 2009, 12:40:37 PM »

This is a 30-yr strategy.

I don't even believe their claims it will have a 10-year lifespan. The Sony execs will say anything to make it look like the PS3 will be a success, but they can see the writing on the wall and you just now they are quietly laboring away on the PS4. I'm sure they will want to get it out on the market before or at least not too long after the next Xbox comes out.

Sony fans can say what they want, but the fact is the PS3 is only marginally more powerful than the 360, at best. If MS is going to release a 360 successor in 3 years then there's no way the PS3 will be able to compete, graphically speaking. Of course, by then Nintendo will also have its own HD system out. The PS3 will have a 5 year lifespan.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Bethesda whips out their Wii... aims at the Mature

« on: May 19, 2009, 12:33:32 PM »

I wouldn't mind seeing a remake of the SNES Starfleet Academy game on the Wii. Bethesda owns the rights necessary to make this happen, right?

Oh yeah, and the TNG game on SNES wasn't too bad either. I'm surprised there isn't something going on to capitalize on the new movie out now...

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General Gaming / Re: Sony getting hit Hard lately

« on: May 19, 2009, 09:53:46 AM »

Well, at least now the PS3 isn't being outsold by the GBA like it was back in the first year of its life...

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General Gaming / Re: Sony getting hit Hard lately

« on: May 18, 2009, 02:23:35 PM »

Son Krazy Ken is alot like King Louis and Marie Antoinette living their life of extravagance while things quietly fell apart all around them.

I'm not going to complain, though, because as a Nintendo fan its good to see Sony at the bottom and Nintendo back on top. Kinda makes you wonder if Kutaragi wasn't actually a Nintendo agent, or something.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Are all Nintendo-published Wii games still in production?

« on: May 18, 2009, 09:06:57 AM »

The thing with Amazon is that it isn't really shopping, it's cheating. I want to go to the store, I want to browse the shelves, I want to stumble upon the deals and sales. I don't want to just submit a list and wait to be notified of the sales, then have it all shipped to me. Where's the suspense? Where's the mystery? Where's the excitement? It's no fun.

There's always the "exciting" possibility of your order getting screwed up, lost, stolen, or damaged.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: New Super Mario Brothers 2?

« on: May 18, 2009, 09:05:03 AM »

It would be awesome to have another one! Im sad that awhile ago I lost my copy of NSMB but I still have the case. It happened to one of the my friends also. Is the first one still running $30?

Sometimes you see people on sites like ebay or half selling just cartridges without the case or the manual. These go for a lot less than complete games, and since you already have the case this shouldn't matter to you at all.

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General Gaming / Re: Sony getting hit Hard lately

« on: May 18, 2009, 09:03:03 AM »

Hell, for the last decade or so, Sony's no Sony!

[Hard to say when the rot began, but it seems to curiously coincide with the introduction of the playstation...]

Akio Morita would be so ashamed...

Probably has something to do with the insanity of Ken Kutaragi. If that man hasn't been committed to a mental hospital yet he definitely should be...

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General Gaming / Re: Sony getting hit Hard lately

« on: May 18, 2009, 09:00:37 AM »

Sony's no Nintendo.

Just sayin

Exactly. The Gamecube did hold an important advantage that the PS3 has yet to achieve: it was a money-maker. It may have been in third place, but it was always profitable. The PS3 is in 3rd place but is not yet profitable, and its uncertain whether it will ever be profitable.