Revolution = Xenon

Hahaha good drawings :)

Hey! Cpu+8 coprocesors + ATI kick ass GPU would do fine for me.

GameCube is a suprisingly powerful piece of kit.
In my eyes it looks to be even more powerful than xbox, even though the official specs would say otherwise.
GC has muliplatform titles that are weaker than xbox, but that could be because of effort put into them.

Taking in account GC lower clockspeeds 485/162 vs. 733/233 and memory 24 Main+16 Mb vs. 64 Mb I would say that GC hardware really kick ass from a efficiency point of view, a hipotetical 733/233 64 Mb GameCube woud probably have floored Xbox performance wise...
 
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20547[/URL]]How Nintendo boss silenced Steve Ballmer

Balls in the other court

By Nick Farrell: Thursday 06 January 2005, 09:10
NOW HE IS safely retired, the 77-year old former Nintendo boss Hiroshi Yamaushi is regaling Wired magazine about how he reverted to abuse to silence the mighty Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Apparently Microsoft was making a bid to buy Nintendo for absolutely huge amounts of money. Vole was confident that Nintendo would take it. The Game Cube wasn't doing particularly well at the time and there was a lot of money involved. Ballmer himself showed up at the negotiations to have a quiet word.

However Yamaushi didn't like the deal, which he saw as a loss on a level similar to World War Two. He said he ranted a bit about Japanese values and identity but it went no-where. So in the end he said in Japanese "suck my yellow balls Mr Ballmer".

The translator looked embarrassed and was clearly not translating the phrase exactly, although Ballmer did smile at a sentence that included the word 'yellow' in it.

Frustrated Yamaushi stood on a chair, put his hands around his mouth and very slowly and in English said: "Hey Ballmer why don't you suck my tiny yellow balls."

He said Ballmer and team were speechless. They were as scandalised as if he had shown them a nipple at the Superbowl, he said.

It is nice to know that high powered board room meetings involving billions of dollars use the same language and methodology of a Kave piss-up. A copy of the interview can be found here but is probably illegal so you should buy a copy of the February issue of Wired.

Yeah, yeah, its the theinquirer ... IMO still quite amusing, even though its likely not to be true.
 
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