Next Gen console or portable? GCP, anyone? It seems to me that while Nintendo can probably keep in a race with PSP without it, a portable GameCube would be their only chance to really steal PSP's thunder and possibly bury it, in addition to a likely boost in GC HW and SW. But who knows, I guess we'll have to wait until next year.
Nintendo plans new game product
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Next Gen console or portable? GCP, anyone? It seems to me that while Nintendo can probably keep in a race with PSP without it, a portable GameCube would be their only chance to really steal PSP's thunder and possibly bury it, in addition to a likely boost in GC HW and SW. But who knows, I guess we'll have to wait until next year.
From what is currently known, I do agree with some of that, it does feel like the PSP is going into competition more with Laptop Computers than the Gameboy advanced. Thus far everything we know leads me to believe the PSP will be portable, but not in a Gameboy "fit in your pocket" kind of way. I think it sounds like an intriguing piece of hardware, something I will definately check into, but it would never "replace" the GBA that I can slip into the pockets of my sweatshirt when the boss comes around the corner. If I cant hide it, I can't make as much use of it.
Paul said:
The fact that they've already stated that the successor to the GC will be out sometime between 2005 to 2006, while they declined to give out a timeline on this one, leads me to believe that it's something else. He also seemed, at least from the article, to be going out of his way to define Nintendo's standing in relation to PSP, although that could be selective interpretation by the journalist. I'll be pissed though if this is about some sort of "Pokemon Ultimate" or some crap like that.
E3 2004 is going to be big.. Nintendo's "next platform", sony's PSP, possible the unveilling of their next gen consoles, zelda next.. wooo
I have a feeling that its going to be their next portable, with a small bet on a GCP.
"We are preparing a new product which will give a fresh surprise to consumers,"
Can be many things but one of them is the consumers having to buy only 1 type of software for 2 platforms, gamecube ~ GCP. Buying one game that you can play anywhere you want and at your home aswell on the big screen hasnt been done outside of "gameboy players" add-ons.
Its a better "ideal" videogame business than making consumers buy a different format for every devices they own, on consumers' point of view of course.
I have a feeling that its going to be their next portable, with a small bet on a GCP.
"We are preparing a new product which will give a fresh surprise to consumers,"
Can be many things but one of them is the consumers having to buy only 1 type of software for 2 platforms, gamecube ~ GCP. Buying one game that you can play anywhere you want and at your home aswell on the big screen hasnt been done outside of "gameboy players" add-ons.
Its a better "ideal" videogame business than making consumers buy a different format for every devices they own, on consumers' point of view of course.
marconelly!
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People hoping for GCP are setting themselves up for such a rude awakening. Nintendo will never make a handheld console that would alienate millions of their core users (read: kids) by it's price, size and fragility. Let's face it, PSP will not be a device that you'd gladly throw around on your desk, not worrying that something might happen to it.
I'm kinda sick of these Nintendo's Megatons!1! that rile-up people on message boards, and never deliver anything. Just watch how this grand announcement turns out to be a new pokemon card e-reader or some crap like that.
Besides that, what was this conference about? Announcing an announcement that will happen next year? Nintendo Air-miles? What kind of a joke is that? Are they really completely losing their touch with reality?
I'm kinda sick of these Nintendo's Megatons!1! that rile-up people on message boards, and never deliver anything. Just watch how this grand announcement turns out to be a new pokemon card e-reader or some crap like that.
Besides that, what was this conference about? Announcing an announcement that will happen next year? Nintendo Air-miles? What kind of a joke is that? Are they really completely losing their touch with reality?
GCP? No way. The GC draws 30+ watts at the moment, I seriously SERIOUSLY doubt it could be scaled down sufficiently to portable levels. Considering that even a G3-level portable PPC CPU (comparable to Gekko) draws quite a lot of juice on its own, and then add Flipper + 24MB 1T SRAM on top of that... No way.
Forget about GCP I say, the architecture was never made to be portable. Besides, how would you load the discs since they lack a caddy?
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Forget about GCP I say, the architecture was never made to be portable. Besides, how would you load the discs since they lack a caddy?
*G*
Paul said:
Um paul since the psp is not backwards compatible with anything i believe it be a toss up if neither have backwards compat .
Also you don't really need a caddy for discs. You could just use some anti skip detection. That with the small size of the gamecube discs i doubt there be much skipping if any .
Could it be synergy between gamecube next and gameboy next .
Mabye they will both be the same system with one having ram for higher res and better fsaa and the portable using lower res .
All the baggage would disadvantage them from getting as good a powerconsumption as Sony (whose processors were designed for lower power consumption for a given performance target, and designing the architecture around that target, as opposed to a GCP which would need to strive for bug for bug compatibility). It would also cost more money to redesign the GC parts, instead of just licensing existing cores.
IMO you could do it with the dreamcast, since the design is a lot more basic and you can have more headroom to handle some aspects of the old hardware through emulation/binary-translation, but I dont think the gamecube would translate well to a handheld.
IMO you could do it with the dreamcast, since the design is a lot more basic and you can have more headroom to handle some aspects of the old hardware through emulation/binary-translation, but I dont think the gamecube would translate well to a handheld.
Why does PSP being backwards compatable even matter? PSP vs GCP = GCP get's crushed by Playstation's hype and anticipation. Not to mention without all the hundreds of gameboy games being able to be played on the system consumers wouldn't have such a sweet option as that to buy GCP instead of PSP.
I dunno about that. A portable device that isn't durable is pretty worthless. Especially since this thing will most likely be of a size that only kids will want to carry it around.marconelly! said:
I'm kinda sick of ppl like you who blame Nintendo for not living up to your ridiculous expectations.
I find it particularly sad that it's mostly the anti-Nintendo crowd who seem to care about these things. Be it for trolling purposes or the simple desire to see Nintendo fail.
Perhaps if you paid attention you would've noticed that Nintendo released its quarterly report earlier this week. It is quite common to follow up on those with a press conference.
Seriously... don't comment on something if you haven't bothered making sure what it is about.
Yes... damn them for giving away free stuff! Who do they think they are... the bastards. *grrr*
Vince:
> To which I respond:
I know your Sony Fan Club membership requires that you react to anything that puts Sony in a less than favorable light however if you could just look past that for a moment I think we can both agree that while this thing won't necessarilly be huge it will at least be bigger than, say, a MD player or a GBA SP. Would you honestly walk around with a Discman, a portable DVD player or a regular GBA in this day and age? Size matters.
> To which I respond:
I know your Sony Fan Club membership requires that you react to anything that puts Sony in a less than favorable light however if you could just look past that for a moment I think we can both agree that while this thing won't necessarilly be huge it will at least be bigger than, say, a MD player or a GBA SP. Would you honestly walk around with a Discman, a portable DVD player or a regular GBA in this day and age? Size matters.
