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Re: Rev Graphics barely better then GC?

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Originally Posted by Bond

Yes, because Nintendo can't compete with Sony and Microsoft. The videogame industry has become a big business industry. Nintendo simply can't compete with Sony and Microsoft, so they are trying to find a niche that will at least give them some honorable sales.

Hmm do you think they can't or won't? To compete they'd probably have to develop shooters like Halo and other "mature" titles that would damage the whole family-friendly philisophy. Plus they'd have to make a console with the latest in cutting-edge hardware, and possibly start taking losses on each console sold. And even if they sell a much greater number of consoles this way they may or may not be as profitable as they are now. And of course if you look at the gaming industry as a whole (handheld included) Nintendo is 1st place with Sony a distant 2nd. They're beating Sony and MS overall, just not in the specific realm of home console sales (which they are still making money off of).

If the goal is simply to sell more consoles, all they'd have to do is give it a $99 price tag and watch as their sales go up and their profits go down.

Re: Rev Graphics barely better then GC?

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Originally Posted by Bond

That sounds like a business Bond. Profit Profit Profit. Thats Nintendo's goal and its worked to their advantage.

To Deathshand: most of those comparisons are bunk anyways. Why? Because Quake 3 was PORTED from PC to PS2 and Quake 4 was PORTED from PC to Xbox 360. Those games weren't build off their specific consoles. Quake 4 on PC still looks better then the Xbox 360 version because of higher resolutions (thats if your PC can handle it :p ) and will have a great modding community.

Re: Rev Graphics barely better then GC?

they wouldnt have to develop thoes kind of 'mature' games at all. Nintendos own games sell great, thats not the problem. they'd need to attract 3rd parties to make thoes kinda games for them.

Re: Rev Graphics barely better then GC?

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Originally Posted by Jonbo298

Because Quake 3 was PORTED from PC to PS2 and Quake 4 was PORTED from PC to Xbox 360.

That's why I picked them... I compared quake/quake (both PC ports), and timesplitters/PD0 (both FPS' handled by Rare/Former Rare developers)...

There weren't really many other options to choose from when it came to comparing launch games... But if you prefer, substitute images from Red Faction (which would give PS2 some brownie points, as it wasn't a launch title)...

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Originally Posted by Myself, because I'm cool like that

"I seriously wonder how people can look at these images, all the other images, the videos, etc of the games that are out and the games that are coming out in the future and NOT consider them to be 'next-gen' (visually)..."

That was an important part of my post... Because of course basing everything on a total of 4 screenshots is silly, I was just picking a couple specific examples out of many, with comparisons that were as close as I could find...