Nintendo Rumors, Apple Options

[EddieV]

I have recently found out that if the Nintendo Revolution fails, Apple is planning to buy Nintendo and create their own console, with Apple Graphics Technology.

[AngryBaby]

Not much is known about Broadway yet, but it's rumored to be dual core, with twice as much power as Gamecube's processor.

im hearing about the rev right now on tv and it said it was about 3 times more powerful.

but isnt like, the xbox 360 "supposedly" 8 times as powerful as the xbox?(they just said that too on the show im watching, and asked how it would stand up graphic wise to the ps3 and 360)
well i havent seen it happen yet, but who knows, the games havent exactly pushed the 360 at all.

This was the issue with the PS2 and the emotion engine. Sony said something like it could render Toy Story real time, yet initial graphic quality was pretty much even (if not worse) than what the Dreamcast could put out. I heard that some early games will not use all of the SPE's (same is true for the Xbox 360, only two of the three cores are in use for some games, don't know about the Revolution yet).

This can only mean fewer multiplatform games.

well the thing is with the ps2, one could argue that it came out earlier, dreamcast came out sep 9th 1999 right? then ps2 came out quickly after in 2000. while xbox and game cube came out late 2001. if they all came out at the same time, then i think i would be alot harder on em'.

i own both dreamcast and ps2, and ps2 is ahead of dreamcast graphics wise, they are not even that close....play soul caliber on dreamcast and then on Ps2, you will notice a bigger difference than you think. or to find a great difference is by playing nba 2k2 and then playing nba 2k3 on ps2. a big way i could recognize the difference to my self is that i could notice these things: the players that were on the court in dreamcast look like the players that were on the bench in ps2. and ps2's character models off the bench look like an upgraded version. and resident evil on ps2 looks much better than nemises on dreamcast. and when i plug my dreamcast in to play one of my all time favorite games, shenmue. when the opening sequence comes on i always think to myself "haha i remember when i thought these graphics were AMAZING"

Another interesting fact: Sony gives numbers on how many products they ship, not how many were sold. Let's not forget that some people bought more than one PS2.

what makes you so sure that people didnt buy more than one gamecube?

Not by much? The GBA has vastly insuperior hardware to the PSP, yet look at the November charts. I think there was one point in time (I believe it was after the release of Jump Superstars and Nintendogs) where the DS outsold every other gaming hardware combined (handhelds AND consoles).

again me and thunder were talking game cube, xbox and ps2. not nintendo corporation vs. playstation and xbox.

but let me give some reasons why I think nintendo DS might be doing better than PSP, realistically.

1.the majority of handheld consumers are children.

2. believe it or not nintendo tends to appeal to young children....

3. the games on DS interest children more so than PSP would, PSP tends to attract a bit of an older audience.

4. PSP has discs, Discs + children= trouble

5. the PSP can be intimidating to a younger audience.

6. DS came first...

now i own both of these handhelds, but however innovative DS may be doesnt mean i like it any more than my PSP...

[uLoVeMikeRoch]

im hearing about the rev right now on tv and it said it was about 3 times more powerful.
well the thing is with the ps2, one could argue that it came out earlier, dreamcast came out sep 9th 1999 right? then ps2 came out quickly after in 2000. while xbox and game cube came out late 2001. if they all came out at the same time, then i think i would be alot harder on em'.

What? What the hell does that have to do with anything? You mean, if they were made around the same time, the graphics would be similar? Yeah, they might have been, but it also depends on the hardware quality. Xbox and gamecube came out nearly the same time, but xbox has better graphics.

what makes you so sure that people didnt buy more than one gamecube?

Wow, that has nothing to do with Kyro's last comment either. He's saying that they don't know how many ps2's were bought. That people were also buying 2.

With people buying 2 GC's doesn't matter. Cause Nintendo keeps track of all the consoles that were sold.

again me and thunder were talking game cube, xbox and ps2. not nintendo corporation vs. playstation and xbox.

You need to get your freaking facts together. What the hell are you talking about. nintendo, ps2, xbox. Nintendo is a company, xbox and ps2 are consoles.

1.the majority of handheld consumers are children.

2. believe it or not nintendo tends to appeal to young children....

3. the games on DS interest children more so than PSP would, PSP tends to attract a bit of an older audience.

4. PSP has discs, Discs + children= trouble

5. the PSP can be intimidating to a younger audience.

6. DS came first...

1.Maybe. Not in Japan.
2.Maybe here, not in Japan.
3.Oh yeah, Resident Evil is definitley marketed towards 8 year olds.
4.PSP uses UMD. Which aren't disks. Technically, they are disks, in like a sort of protective like shells. But, the shells also add more storage capacity. Like the Blu-Ray disks. With the actual disk itself, its 25-50 gigs. But the Case adds a couple more gigs, or something like that. The disk itself could be like, 40-45. So the case would add 5 gigs.
5.It is not. When Iw as younger, I was as tech savvy as I am today> I would definitley have picked a PSP over a DS.
6.Maybe.

[*mipadi*]

4.PSP uses UMD. Which aren't disks. Technically, they are disks, in like a sort of protective like shells. But, the shells also add more storage capacity. Like the Blu-Ray disks. With the actual disk itself, its 25-50 gigs. But the Case adds a couple more gigs, or something like that. The disk itself could be like, 40-45. So the case would add 5 gigs.

UMD's are an optical disc. They each hold 1.8 GB of data.