Nintendo plans new game product
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Psychogenics
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Nintendos Problem has always been the screen technology in there GBs
not there games....but I personally think that Nintendo can't compete with Sony on screen technology just look at the PSone screen they came out with 2yrs-3yrs ago......Nintendo slammed on Sony for having a CD base system then dared to say that they too want to come out with a CD based system even with all the problems they said Sony would encounter such as Battery Life,Skipping ,easy to lose the disk because of size....Funny thing is if its sooo negative to go the way of the cd then why do nintendo want to head that route....IMO nintendo will never show up Sony on the size or picture quality of there screen.
not there games....but I personally think that Nintendo can't compete with Sony on screen technology just look at the PSone screen they came out with 2yrs-3yrs ago......Nintendo slammed on Sony for having a CD base system then dared to say that they too want to come out with a CD based system even with all the problems they said Sony would encounter such as Battery Life,Skipping ,easy to lose the disk because of size....Funny thing is if its sooo negative to go the way of the cd then why do nintendo want to head that route....IMO nintendo will never show up Sony on the size or picture quality of there screen.
Panajev2001a
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Tagrineth said:
I'd say that maybe they could also add true bi-linear filtering ?
marconelly!
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In fact, I did not have any ridiculous expectations, but they somehow managed to underwhelm even what little I was expecting (price drop maybe, or just something to show that they even care to compete, especially after the news of production halting and small GC shipments) It's Nintendo we are talking about. Company that once was very aggressive in pursuing their goals! Instead, we get some weird air miles concept... Is that the best they could think of?
But how am I supposed to make sure what it is about? Why did Nintendo bothered talking about it if they don't want me to know what it is about? That was like the worst attempt at hype - ever.
Nintendo: In 2004 - we will make SOMETHING!
Everyone in the audience: *standing ovation*
Nintendo doesn't have a problem with technology access. It's about getting them in volume at the lowest cost and drawing little current. You actually think Nintendo didn't have access to a similar LCD panel to the PSOne addon? Do you know how many companies manufacture small LCDs?
Vince:
> I don't agree (as we have no evidence for this) and I refer back to your
> very comment:
No evidence? We know the screen size 4.5 inches in a 16:9 format. That translates into a width of approx. 3.9 inches - just for the screen.
In comparison the GBA SP is 3.23 inches wide and a modern MiniDisc player is just over 3 inches wide.
If Sony goes for a flip-top design similar to the GBA SP I doubt they'll be able to make it much smaller than 4.3 inches wide. It would likely also be considerably thicker than a GBA SP or a MiniDisc making for a very bulky unit. A horisontal design similar to the original GBA is probably what they will go for making the PSP quite big indeed.
> Something about glass houses and stones....
Indeed.
Qroach:
> cybermerc, god be quiet...
Ah Quincy, you never fail to come up with an insightful comment. What would this board be without you.
MfA:
> Dont think they bought Matrix semiconductor
"bought into".
marconelly!:
> That was like the worst attempt at hype - ever.
Who says they were hyping it? Were you there?
> I don't agree (as we have no evidence for this) and I refer back to your
> very comment:
No evidence? We know the screen size 4.5 inches in a 16:9 format. That translates into a width of approx. 3.9 inches - just for the screen.
In comparison the GBA SP is 3.23 inches wide and a modern MiniDisc player is just over 3 inches wide.
If Sony goes for a flip-top design similar to the GBA SP I doubt they'll be able to make it much smaller than 4.3 inches wide. It would likely also be considerably thicker than a GBA SP or a MiniDisc making for a very bulky unit. A horisontal design similar to the original GBA is probably what they will go for making the PSP quite big indeed.
> Something about glass houses and stones....
Indeed.
Qroach:
> cybermerc, god be quiet...
Ah Quincy, you never fail to come up with an insightful comment. What would this board be without you.
MfA:
> Dont think they bought Matrix semiconductor
"bought into".
marconelly!:
> That was like the worst attempt at hype - ever.
Who says they were hyping it? Were you there?
Bohdy said:
Could you link to where you found this?
How low would it have to be to be feasible with a custom lith-ion battery? A Sega Nomad got 3-5 hours on AA batteries, (6, I realize), off of a system that originally drew 17W, if I'm reading my Genesis power adapter correctly.
Also, a GCP with backwards GC compatability would mean a hell of a lot more to me, as a consumer, than backwards GBA compatability on a GBA2. Hasn't it already been pointed out that the GBA compatible cartriges have already reached somewhat of a saturation point?
I don't think not having a caddy or cartridge system would be especially prohibitive, as there are plenty of kids 8-10 years old that have Discmen and can handle them just fine. Should it be durable? Sure. But that doesn't mean it has to withstand an intentional stomping. If durability were such an important aspect in the minds of the average consumer, nobody would have bought a PS1.
Moreover, I think GC discs being used in a handheld system would make the original decision not to use DVDs make alot more sense.
Given what the PSP is set to accomplish, I find it hard to see how making a GCP is out of the picture. We've got an article stating that their is already a variant of the same CPU that draws half the power, (and this is likely before any process shrinks), there is ATI which is the best at building mobile graphics parts that there is, there a small optical medium roughly the same size as the UMD, and the GC mainboard is already the smallest seen in a console since the Genesis 3. It seems to me that if any console were ever developed to be turned into a handheld, the GC is it. A GCP doesn't have to be something developed in response to PSP, it could have been something Nintendo has been planning for some time. You could even start a new generation of backwards compatibility, with GC2 using a similar sized, larger capacity disc and being backwards compatible with GC/GCP, and 5 or 6 years down the road developing a GCP2.
Moreover, I think a GCP that hit the market around the same time as PSP has the potential to hand Sony some embarrassment, as even Sony's marketing team would be hard pressed to combat hundreds of games already available on a similar-spec'ed competitor's machine.
I don't think not having a caddy or cartridge system would be especially prohibitive, as there are plenty of kids 8-10 years old that have Discmen and can handle them just fine. Should it be durable? Sure. But that doesn't mean it has to withstand an intentional stomping. If durability were such an important aspect in the minds of the average consumer, nobody would have bought a PS1.
Moreover, I think GC discs being used in a handheld system would make the original decision not to use DVDs make alot more sense.
Given what the PSP is set to accomplish, I find it hard to see how making a GCP is out of the picture. We've got an article stating that their is already a variant of the same CPU that draws half the power, (and this is likely before any process shrinks), there is ATI which is the best at building mobile graphics parts that there is, there a small optical medium roughly the same size as the UMD, and the GC mainboard is already the smallest seen in a console since the Genesis 3. It seems to me that if any console were ever developed to be turned into a handheld, the GC is it. A GCP doesn't have to be something developed in response to PSP, it could have been something Nintendo has been planning for some time. You could even start a new generation of backwards compatibility, with GC2 using a similar sized, larger capacity disc and being backwards compatible with GC/GCP, and 5 or 6 years down the road developing a GCP2.
Moreover, I think a GCP that hit the market around the same time as PSP has the potential to hand Sony some embarrassment, as even Sony's marketing team would be hard pressed to combat hundreds of games already available on a similar-spec'ed competitor's machine.
