If Wii become number 1

[RancidLunchmeat]

i 'm just thinking about something, Wii is fully compatible with GC.
Wii is at least underwelming tech wize.
Can possibly the bigN aim at a shorter lifetime for console?

They'd better be, because I can't imagine the wii selling very well in years 3 and beyond.

 

[liolio]

so if your agree, the title of this post should be : "if nintendo become number one"

 

[RancidLunchmeat]

so if your agree, the title of this post should be : "if nintendo become number one"

I still don't see how Nintendo would become number one, unless you're then going to use a different metric... combining all the sales of all the backwards compatible products on the market.

In which case, N would have a tough challenge over taking just the PS1 and PS2 (and I'm still waiting to see the true nature of PS3 bc.. and their "free" online service for that matter)

Besides which, the biggest problem with your 'plan' is that in order for it to really work, the newer games would have to work on the older consoles.. not just the other way around.

Now if N could get THAT to work, that would actually be something revolutionary. You buy one version of Zelda. It plays and looks great on the wii. It plays and looks not so great on the GC, etc.. etc..

I guess the point would be making the games scalable and backwards compatible, rather than the systems.

Like you can play F.E.A.R. on a A64 rig with SLI 7950XTs and 4 Gigs of ram, or you can play it on a 2.4 PIV with a 6800 and 512mb of ram.

You buy one game, it looks and plays better on different systems. N would give you the option to keep your old system, play your old games or play new games at a slower frame rate/lower resolution/less effects (done automatically behind the scenes), or buy a new system to play your old games or the new games with more features.

Sounds like a wonderfully brilliant idea to me, I'm sure it must be completely unfeasible otherwise somebody would have done it already.

 

[fearsomepirate]

Um.. Because PC manufacturers don't sell hardware at a loss due to heavy competition and price point expectations?

OK, I don't understand the logic.

Sony is selling hardware at an initial loss due to various considerations. Therefore the hard drive should not be an integral part of the PS3, but an optional peripheral.

Sorry, I just don't see the connection. You've going to have to help me out there. The add-on hard drive failed with PS2. The hard drive in Xbox failed because PS2 was driving game development, not Xbox (the vast, vast majority of Xbox games were basically PS2 ports). An add-on hard drive would seem to me to just undermine whatever they think they're going to achieve by having it included with every system.

 

[RancidLunchmeat]

OK, I don't understand the logic.

An add-on hard drive would seem to me to just undermine whatever they think they're going to achieve by having it included with every system.

Perhaps because we have different ideas of what we believe that 'they think they're going to achieve'?

 

[Tagrineth]

i 'm just thinking about something, Wii is fully compatible with GC.
Wii is at least underwelming tech wize.
Can possibly the bigN aim at a shorter lifetime for console?
If we look to handheld console bigN push a new product, a better product quiet often, but most of the time keep full backward compability.

I don't think so. Nintendo didn't push new hardware in the handheld market very quickly at all. GBC was the exception but its hardware was only a microscopic fraction above the DMG's really.

At $499, you get a wireless controller, a Blu-Ray player, and a 20 GB hard drive. Of course, the Blu-Ray player won't output in 720p once the HDCP or whatever it is starts getting implemented. At $599, you get in addition wireless Internet, HDMI , and 60 GB hard drive. This is well-known.

A blu-ray player that won't output anything once the HDMI gets implemented, because HDMA support is part of the copy protection spec that, in two years, will be mandatory on all blu-ray discs.

GG?


Edit: Fixed the acronym that was staring me in the face, and I still got it wrong... and I work at Circuit City dammit!