Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: For all N64 owners... Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 20:52:04 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 70 Message-ID: <358C5934.6B441148@mail.datasys.net> References: <3589db78.3213996@news.scea.sony.com> <358B34F4.4F1BCE2D@mail.datasys.net> <1dax4xs.zunp529gzsywN@[194.151.88.141]> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-3.r7.ncbldw.InfoAve.Net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) DEnnis Brinkhuis wrote: > > Heh. The GameBoy is outselling the N64 in japan. Go figure. > > Every system can get a hit in Japan. That doesn't say it's good or not. > I must say that I own 3 Gameboys and in my opinion that is the best > portable system ever made. Yeah it is, I agree 100%. I'm gona buy a Color GB when it comes out. :) > I red it to. Damn, am I the only one who hasn't read that article!? I feel like an idiot... I'm gona go read it right now. > > The n64 should have been a CD system. It's as simple as that, it would > > have totaly destroyed the playstation if it hadn't been a cart system. > > Nope, I don't agree. PSX is not only succesful due to the CD-system. > Sony also won becourse of the developer-support from sony and to sony > and because they keep themselves to the release dates. PSX was also the > first consle optimized for 3D. *GRIN* I'm not going to get in a discussion about this - I'm not even sure why I said it. > > > Nintendo has made some bad design flaws lately, their most obvious > > flaw being shown in their Virtual Boy, which could have possibly been > > a color system. > > I was told it was the healt problem that made the VirtuaBoy flop. I > played it several times, but after half an hour I got very dizzy. I bought two of them after the price dropped to 20 bucks a system. I love it, but I hardly play it. It was a cool system, it's a shame that it failed so misserably. > >Then came their CD-less N64, which did good but could > > have done better. Their new Color GameBoy I have a feeling will be a > > big hit and really help out Nintendo alot, but I think their GameBoy > > Camera will be a flop. > > The camera IS a flop. It's a fun flop though. :) Every time I go by the display I'm playing with it. > The colour gameboy will only be a hit if it's also > can play the old games and when the battery keeps up log enough. From the nintendo web site I read the the color game boy CAN play the old games, and the battery will last 10 hours on average. Sounds good to me. > The geamgear also had problems with the battery-sucking. That's Another reason the game boy did better. Even another was the fact that it was the only system that could possibly fit in your pocket. -- 'Darco darco@NOSPAM@bigfoot.com (Replace "@NOSPAM@" with an "@" to email me) UIN: 1454810 (You can page me at http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1454810) Voria: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/voria PGPKey: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/pgpkey.txt