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a bizarre collection of somewhat-necessary N64 accessories like the Expansion Pak and the Memory Card (do games save to the cartridge or not?). How many of those do we still have around?
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If my sister had a dick, she'd be my brother. IF is a very big word, and you can't sit behind your computer and predict with any accuracy what would have happened 12 years ago IF Nintendo had made different choices.
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Sure I can. I looked at what happened, and made an educated guess. If the PS wasn't being engineered to work with the SNES, it would have been vastly different. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure that one out.
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Memory cards are not useless accessories. I get daily use out of my PS2 memory card. I do not get daily use out of the Super Scope I bought in 1988 which only worked with 3 games.
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And I'm sure, with nearly every announced title for DS using it, gamers will get daily use out of the touch-screen.
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The HD addition for the PS2 allows users to play Final Fantasy XI, the only full MMORPG available on any console to date. FFXI is a massive title with over a million subscribers worldwide, with play value amounting to hundreds of hours. I see a real difference between the HD addition, and the Power Pad which let you play two crappy games and was never seen again.
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So, the HD is used for, what, one game? That, once it goes down, will never come back up? MMO's don't last forever. Oh, and there's been twice as many pre-orders for the DS than there are players on FFXI.
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Nintendo's successes outweighed their failures when they had no competition, 15 years ago. Sony began dominating Nintendo in the console market in 1994, they're still dominating Nintendo today, and even the Xbox has a larger market share than the 'Cube.
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Interestingly enough, even with a 'smaller marketshare' (which I'm yet to see anyone back up with decent evidence), the GameCube is profitable. The X-Box is not. Go figure.
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If Nintendo didn't have exclusive rights to Shigeru Miyamoto's franchises (Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, and all associated products and spinoffs), they'd have nothing at all besides Pokemon.
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And how popular would the PS2 be without it's exclusives? Would the X-Box have gone anywhere without Halo? Would your computer run without it's CPU? No?
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Nintendo's only "success" is in the handheld market, and only because they still have no competition (the N-Gage? Please.) And next year, Sony is going to dominate THAT market too with the release of the PSP, which is going to crush the silly, gimmicky Nintendo DS into yesteryear. Oh, you have two screens? That's cute... we have Grand Theft Auto and mp3 support. Game, set, match?
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Oh, hey, look,
GTA and
MP3 on the GBA. Congratulations for coming second place again.
I haven't seen a device in a long time that's gotten developers as excited as the DS has. People are enthusiastic to see what can be done with two screens, as opposed to people who know exactly what the PSP is capable of. A couple of hours of sub-PS2 quality games. Whoopee.