Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Consoles are dead! Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 07:56:31 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 57 Message-ID: <35F7BE6F.34BAF48E@bigfoot.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.dialup.datasys.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; U) Jeff Hannan wrote: > > To me the most hilarious thing about ETCS is the people who are touting > the end of the console era. That is funny. > There was Datamonitor, who reckon that over the next few years PC Game > sales will outstrip that of consoles. And Intel, who are proclaiming that > games consoles are history, and that PCs are the future. Fools. They think they can change the way things are by just closing their eyes. I don't see why they are doing it though, who cares? PC's will never go out of date. Why do they have to proclaim the end of consoles? > I've played most of these PC games. Most are a bit short on gameplay, > they just say 'Missing DLL, would you like us to overwrite your system > files - Quit Y/Y?' That raises a good and legitimate argument about concoles... You can't screw anything up. They are idiot proof. The best example is of Final Fantasy 7. Great game, on playstation or PC, but I hear it's a pain to get working correctly on PC. The instalation system sucks I hear. On a console - nothing to install. Game consoles were ALWAYS plug-n-play, and now plug-n-play is a big buzz word in the PC scene. Give me a break. USB is a good start, but consoles had the idea nailed decades ago. Plus you can tweek a console to hell to make a game look better, but you can't do that to a PC because they are all different--a quick speed-up on one computer could send another crashing to a blue screen of death. Or worse, your computer turn off. (HAH! So much for those advances software power management systems) It's happened to me. Pisses me off. Working a way, then BLAM. Computer turns OFF, monitor goes into power saving mode. (OFF. All fans stop and all lights turn off. I have to press the power button to get it back on) Plus programers seem to like programing for consoles more than PC's because of the technical support from the hardware developer... It's all game oriented; hardware and technical support. Game companies will rise and fall, but game consoles will never die. At least not in the forseeable future. The ease of use, combined with the faster development and more rugged piracy protection make consoles around for a long time. (Nintendo is in trouble though...) Anyone who thinks differently is deluding themselves. I know it might be a taboo to talk about it here, but I'll be purchasing a Dreamcast system the day it comes out in the states. I've looked through the hardware specs, and it looks very impressive. Check out the Next Generation article if you are able -- you might only be able to get it in the states. 'Darco