Nintendo is d00med, OH NOEZ

[Blackmane]

I think I just like arguing with you, Null

[Teuthida]

Whee.

Never had a Nintendo console break except for my original GB after it "fell" out of a 10 story building.

My Sony TV only lasted 25 years. Pathetic.

Never owned any hardware made by Microsoft but I did "abuse" my roommate's Xbox when he wasn't there. Quite durable indeed.


If Nintendo were to be a 2nd party I would rather have them develop for Microsoft. 25 years for a TV just doesn't cut it...

[Crash]

I've said this many times... you can compare nintendo to the Mac... superior but have a cult like fan base... not going anywhere at anytime...


sony is like microsoft windows (pc) inferior technology and games (in my opinion) but sells more because the world is sold on ps2...

i play my xbox the most probably, like more games on the cube and they wont ever catch up to sony, but nintendo will never drop hardware.....


in other news the new cell chip for the PS3 is crap.... sony admitted it themselves:

Meanwhile, Nanako Kato, official spokeswoman of the Sony Computer Entertainment headquarters in Japan, was careful to cut through the hype created by the Cell Chip announcement.

“The details of Cell announced at ISSCC are based on the full specs of the chip. Cell is the broadband processor used for a wide number of applications, and will be optimized according to the needs of each application,” she told INQ7.net.

Asked to comment on how powerful a Cell processor the PS3 will be able to accommodate, she replied: “The performance of Cell announced at this time may not equal the performance of SCE’s next-generation computer entertainment system. At this point in time, it is too premature to discuss our next system. We will announce the details in due course.” lol_2.gif

Ironically, both the PS3 and the next-generation console of its closest rival, Microsoft, will make use of IBM’s processor technology, though of course the next Xbox won’t be powered by the Cell chip. Microsoft has yet to unveil the specs of the successor to the Xbox, which has been code-named Xenon (and sometimes referred to as Xbox 2 or even Xbox 360). Some of these alleged “official documents” leaked on the Net have claimed that Xenon will be powered by three IBM 64-bit processors (which ironically are supposed to be the same type of chips that power Apple’s G5 PowerMac).

Asked to compare the IBM chips that will be used for the PS3 and Xbox 2, IBM Fellow Kahle replied: “Microsoft announced that it has licensed leading-edge semiconductor processor technology from IBM for use in future Xbox products and services to be announced at a later date. No other details have been disclosed and we cannot compare Cell to any custom work for Microsoft.”

translation: "cell chip isn't going to be able to work the way we want it to in the PS3... We suck hardcore"

[Null]

[Jonbo298]

Didnt Sony hype cell to be eleventy billion times faster then any PC Processor (I'm being sarcastic, OK?)

But oh well. Every company is gonna have to cut corners from their hype

[Blackmane]

Hmmm, interesting, but no unexpected.

You have to think. Would Sony be willing to pay so much money to get the very best Cell chip? It is probably too costly to do that, so they are going to go with a good, economic version. It makes sense.