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Nintendo makes a profit on their hardware, and they are maximizing their profits on each piece of 1st/2nd-party software sold. It seems like Nintendo will make more money by selling 750K copies of Luigi's Mansion 2 on a GC2 than 1 Mil copies on the XB2. Why screw it up, especially when...

There's some more interesting information in the Family Product pdf on the arm site. I wonder if they consider this to be more than a gaming device. Other "lifestyle" functions like a camera or phone would be pretty cool. (But outside of Nintendo's focus) Looks like the Arm9 run in the...

Yes and No. We're all just speculating anyway, but that doesn't mean we're necessarily spreading FUD or BS. If you worked at Sony and were planning for some type of May 2006 North American Launch, you can't preclude out the possibility of MS trying to launch in Dec 2005. That's the type of...

I think that Sony has to be a little nervous about the XB2 hitting North America six months sooner than the PS3. On the other hand, MS probably isn't too concerned about Japan. I wouldn't be too surprised if MS tries to launch NA and Europe simultaneously (or with a short three month window)...

Nintendo will certainly need to be aggressive to fend off the PSP. I agree with what's been said here, but this type of reality does not always reach the misty fog that surrounds Nintendo's lofty offices. I'd love to see Nintendo offer two handhelds that didn't compete in the same markets...

It's all about maximizing profits. Nintendo probably could have accelerated the release of the GBA six to eighteen months sooner. Why didn't they? Because they were still pulling in GB money hand-over-fist. Why should Nintendo consider releasing GBA2 anytime soon when GBA is a guaranteed...

Portable GC2? Who knows. IGN ran this quote from Iwata: "It should be a hint to the next generation of hardware. This will be the year that we put up a serious fight with this new product." Gamecube Network ran an article with some of the same Iwata quotes from the newspaper interview...

I remember somebody else saying that the US should begin transferring power to the IGC, and then cede complete control over to them in six to nine months by the summer of 2004... Who was that guy... Wasn't it... French President Jacues Chirac? I'd be interested to hear why the Bush...

Yeah, Smith may not have known that Neo was hard-wired to the Deus Ex Machina when they were fighting. I wonder if that would've affected his decision to assimilate Neo. If you go through the website, you can find some good interviews with the people who designed the APUs. The final model...

Agreed about the lack of cockpit. Not even a damn roll cage. And this is supposed to be the future? :P Even for their engineering/physical flaws, I really enjoyed the battle of Zion. And when Zee's rocket partner showed up on screen, she should've just wore her red shirt ensign uniform from...

Is this the thread for Reloaded or Revolutions??? I thought that Trinity's death was a little long and shmaltzy... Neo: You can't die. Trinity: Yes, I can. I laughed out loud at that line, and then noticed that all of the girls in my group were literally wiping their eyes. I knew...

I think that choice is very important to this movie except that it is the machines/programs time to make decisions. The Oracle makes two choices in the movie that seem counterintuitive to a machine's decision tree. The ending is heavily foreshadowed in the first two movies, and I'm not sure...

Nintendo does have a slight advantage on its competition because they aren't bound by a larger corporate strategy to deliver an entire next generation home theater / TiVO system. With some large retail outlets getting out of the VHS business altogether, the consumer migration to DVD should be...

I wouldn't expect to see very many more effects in MP2 than in the first one. I've heard that Retro's engineers have been split, some are working to pretty up MP2 a little and the rest are working on another project. All of the artists and level designes are completely focused on MP2, though...

Agreed. The great divide in the United States isn't between liberals and conservatives, it is between moderates and extremists. The hyperbole and rhetoric coming from both sides is enough to make me sick of the entire process. And I hope that Rush gets the help that he needs. However...