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Originally posted by jonSun Well right when Sony got into gaming with PS1 people knew Nintendo was done since Sony's pockets were so much deeper. Then Microsoft decided to give it a run & Gates knew he could challenge any company & made an awesome system. Sony stayed alive with rights to games & lower cost. Then when Sony decided to design PS3 in like 2001 they got 2 other huge companys involved (i think Toshiba, but forgot the other) to make the system & wanted to make something that would be unbeatable. Also to own the patents so no one can make the same or similar for some years. So I think Nintendo knew they were done a while ago. Game Cube was thier last hurrah.

Actually, Nintendo is getting it's shit together with their next console. Unfortunately the reputation of the Cube is hurting them a bit in the publics/media's eye. Believe me they're not done. A lot of it is because of their last CEO who was a very old-school, conservative CEO that thought Nintendo could do their own thing and everyone will still care.

And Yan...whats your point that no one mentions Nintendo? It was always obvious that mainstream media are pretty biased.

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH And Yan...whats your point that no one mentions Nintendo? It was always obvious that mainstream media are pretty biased.

Just wanted to point out what I found so amusing. Wherever you go it's really a sad case. I feel proud to be a retro gamer, though. NINTENDO FOREVAR!

This week will make or break Nintendo.

So far it seems they're doing the right thing, but it's all up in the air until tomorrow's conference. If they reveal enough information to get the media's attention, but hold back enough to keep people intrigued then they're on the right track. And they need a BIG game for their launch.

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH This week will make or break Nintendo. So far it seems they're doing the right thing, but it's all up in the air until tomorrow's conference. If they reveal enough information to get the media's attention, but hold back enough to keep people intrigued then they're on the right track. And they need a BIG game for their launch.

Super Smash Brothers

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Originally posted by Yan Super Smash Brothers

I really don't like SSB, but Super Smash Brothers Online as a launch title would be really good for sales

ps. 30 minutes till video stream of Sony's conference goes up

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH I really don't like SSB, but Super Smash Brothers Online as a launch title would be really good for sales

DUCK HUNT REVOLUTION!!!!111ONEONEONE!1ELEVEN

i predict nintendo being software-only in the next ten years or so. those specs of the ps3 look pretty good 400gb seems a bit excessive tho.


you can't go wrong with the trusty dreamcast. i suggest that everyone go out and buy one immediately.

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Originally posted by Nell XBOX 360 is only offering a 20GB hdd last i heard. plus 2nd gen ps3 will have a 400gb hdd...

yerrr I didnt realise that the Xbox 360 is getting release in november before P3 (which is going to be mid 2006 release).

Here are the supposed Xbox 360 specs:

360 HW:
1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
6. Detachable 20GB drive
7. Wi-Fi ready

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
- 2 hardware threads per core
- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
- 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance
- 9 billion dots per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
- 500 MNz
- 10 MB embedded DRAM
- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
- unified shader architecture

Memory
-512 MB GDDR3 RAM
- 700 MNz DDR

Memory Bandwidth
- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus

Audio
- Mulitchannel surround sond output
- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32 bit processing
- 256+ audio channels

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Originally posted by Omega_Blue i predict nintendo being software-only in the next ten years or so.

Anything is possible right now.

You do know they're supporting regular DVD format next though, right? So the possiblity of DVD playback is there. Plus, online will be standard too.

I hope the console looks like this:

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Originally posted by Xenocreator_PG_ Here are the supposed Xbox 360 specs:

All specs have been finalized.

i wanna play Final Fantasy 25 on it!!!

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH Anything is possible right now. You do know they're supporting regular DVD format next though, right? So the possiblity of DVD playback is there. Plus, online will be standard too. I hope the console looks like this:

Supposedly, the new Nintendo console will be almost just as big as standard DVD case. ( )