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| you all forget one thing... well, some noticed, and I'll explain further in a minute...
Load times. Amazingly fast on a GC. And, IMHO, their graphics beat the pants off of a ps2 with most games. Far less pixellated, much smoother, more depth.
Now, for a short history lesson. Playstation emerged because Nintendo wanted a disc based system... they hired Sony to make the drive. PS1's cd-rom was what, 2x? Pathetic. Horrible load times, and PS2 wasn't much better at loading games. Nintendo wasn't having it, they wanted near instant loading from a disc, like the rom carts. Sony said 'ok, whatever' and put out the Playstation, and made it a hit.
Gamecube finally comes along and has 2 things NO other console has... very fast load times, and very fast RAM. I think it was Matsushita that ended up making the disc drive on GC, and hey, it had WAY less problems than ANY playstation's have... hmm...
I'm very surprised no geek here has noticed that the GC used 1-T RAM. Any true geek should instantly realize how much faster this is compared to any amount of standard DRAM. So what if it didn't have quite the processing power of an Xbox... it still had graphics that were closer to that than PS2... amount wasn't as important to them as speed.
Sure, lots of gamers won't buy a wii, but tons of others will. It may not be clocked as fast as a supercomputer, but I would be willing to bet its graphics are so much faster and smoother than most expect. I'm not saying they'll be HD ultra crazy good, but it'll be at least twice as good as the GC, and most certainly better than a standard Xbox.
Don't underestimate the Wii because of the obvious spec's, this thing will still have extremely fast memory, better, newer chips that aren't just 'hyped up' GC chips, and likely some very good control. Sure, Nintendo's probably not going to have Rockstar games, but there will still be tons of fun.
Looking forward to it. Hoping the control is all it's hyped to be and getting old games will be simple. Also, I hope they go with free online gaming. Don't see much point spending more money on yet another subscription just to game with friends over a net connection we already both pay for.
Oh, and for the record, screw xbox. 360 seems a lot better, sure, but I don't care.
I'd rather spend more money on a ps3 just because MS/intel don't make it.
Heck, I think I'll skip 'em both, for now, and wait on the new Nintendo. They know their consoles, it's what they've been doing for decades. |
