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Old 05-16-2002, 11:45 AM   #2
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Originally posted by The Strangler
If your point is that most people have 8 DVD players, I think you're off your rocker . In the real world, where money does not grow on trees, DVD players are not as abundant as shoes. Hell, I don't even own 8 pairs of shoes. 4 I think.

Anyway, my argument wasn't that the Gamecube SHOULD have a DVD player, but that Nintendo's rep was laying the BS chin high. If they truly wanted the Gamecube to purely be a gaming console they wouldn't have made, or liscenced, a Gamecube DVD. Nuff said.

Now, as for Nintendo gauging its customers, I think I understand it more now that I think about it. Nintendo is a company purely entrenched in the gaming industry. MS and Sony a monster companies who have their hands in multiple enterprises.

My point is that MS and Sony can afford to have smaller profit margins from their gaming segments because they make profits in other areas as well. Nintendo does not have the luxury of making up lost profits with TV or PC operating system sales. So Nintendo is off the hook in my eyes.

But Sony is still the spawn of Satan
Well, being a HARDCORE GAMER, I don't like when any company sacrifices Game quality for $$$.

If Nintendo didn't want to be money grubbing (keyword: IF) they had thier chance to team up with both Microsoft and Sony at different points in time. According to Nintendo, they didn't need the money, so they need to quit acting like it.

I wouldn't have minded if Nintendo was under M$'s wing and developed games for X-Box... cause a game is a game. But once a console manufacturer crosses the line of sacrificing game and hardware quality just to make a little $$$, it has to potential to piss me off. (N64/GBA/GBC)
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