Nintendo Rumors, Apple Options

[*kryogenix*]

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.

I hope this isn't G4.

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

Gamecubes are less prone to breaking. They don't have DVD drives, it was a clamshell drive as well. Up until recently, there were no modchips for the gamecube. Countless PS2's broke as a result of failed mod attempts (even more failed simply because of the quality of hardware). I know people that bought the PS2, had it break, then bought the slim PS2.

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.


Kevin! yay lets argue

when i say children i dont mean like 6 year olds lol.

the average consumer for a handheld is more from the age of 8-13 at least more so than teens and adults. especially for nintendo products.

Evidence?

mario, donkey kong, nintendogs,and pokemon does usually tend to  appeal to children... at least more so than adults. notice i said DS games. so i dont mean necessarily nintendo in general, though they do appeal more to children than playstation would.

The top selling games for DS in Japan appealed to a wide range of ages. Nintendogs for kids, Jump Superstars for teens and Brain Training for adults.

[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.

[AngryBaby]

I hope this isn't G4.

lmao. nah, spike tv

[uLoVeMikeRoch]

lmao. nah, spike tv 

Im assuming you also watch the VGAs.

[AngryBaby]

i didnt see it yet, let me guess, god of war won everything? haha

[*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.

[medic]

i'm sorry...

then the gba and the ds, those aren't made by nintendo?

and they sure do count.
medic- don't you think a console based on tried and true technology will do better than a console that's using new technology that developers are less familiar with?

Yes actually I do, if I want a peace of s*** I would own a Game Cube. To win any market, you have to be "up on" the new technology so it appeals to idiots that do not know what there talking about. Like people who buy eMachines just because they have nice specs. In the case of gaming, look at how far PC games have evolved over the years. Sim City, the first one took up a grand total of 300 megs of space. Sim City 4 now takes up 1.14 gigs, the ideals of the Gaming industry is to the newest technology. Its like saying, I'll buy a Intel Celeron because it is based on old single processor technology, or I will take the change and spend a little more money and get the Dual core Pentium Extreme, they may not be familiar technologies, but the bottom line is..... Innovation Sells.

[*kryogenix*]

Yes actually I do, if I want a peace of s*** I would own a Game Cube. To win any market, you have to be "up on" the new technology so it appeals to idiots that do not know what there talking about. Like people who buy eMachines just because they have nice specs. In the case of gaming, look at how far PC games have evolved over the years. Sim City, the first one took up a grand total of 300 megs of space. Sim City 4 now takes up 1.14 gigs, the ideals of the Gaming industry is to the newest technology. Its like saying, I'll buy a Intel Celeron because it is based on old single processor technology, or I will take the change and spend a little more money and get the Dual core Pentium Extreme, they may not be familiar technologies, but the bottom line is..... Innovation Sells.

Isn't the PS2 weaker than the Gamecube?

Now, just because something is using more resources, does it mean it's using it effectively?

You say the latest and greatest technology (Xbox 360 and PS3) is the key to winning the market, then in the last sentence, you say innovation (Revolution) sells.

[ThunderEvermore]

Im sorry but with more GBAs out there than PS2s I find it hard to believe that theyre all in the hands of kids.

The average gamer is 30 years old, and only 35% of gamers are under 18.

If we assume that even just the GBA, not factoring in the DS, is geared towards kids, the numbers dont add up.

[The_AZN_Godfathe...]

If apple does buy Nintendo [though I think unlikely] it'd probably be to compete with Microsoft. Microsoft entered the gaming world, maybe apple would.

Maybe?

[*mipadi*]

Here's an interesting question: if Apple bought Nintendo and made a gaming machine, would it be based on the Mac OS, or whatever OS Nintendo's systems are based on?

[*kryogenix*]

Unless apple is stupid, they 'd almost positively let Nintendo do whatever they want. Nintendo knows gaming, Apple doesn't. The only thing I can see apple doing is forcing Nintendo to use the consoles as a vehicle to distribute content.

But it probably won't happen.

[*mipadi*]

Yeah, I'm still inclined to believe that there is little to no truth to the rumor. The console gaming market is already saturated with the Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo console. It'd be a hard business to break into. Besides that, there isn't much profit to be had on the consoles themselves--everybody but Nintendo takes a huge loss on the hardware--the real money is made in the games.

That being said, if anyone would have the innovative attitude to break into a saturated market and be successful, my money would be on Apple. But I doubt it's a market they're interested in, considering they don't even pay much attention to gaming on the Macintosh.

[sadolakced acid]

i don't see them getting rid of the nintendo trademark.

mayhaps apple would buy them, but they wouldn't do much except make it so that nintendo things are compatible with apple things.

like, stick an ipod dock in the revoltuion or something.

[EddieV]

^ I don't really know, because the X-Box: 360 can connect to the iRiver H10.