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Nintendo Wii
Stingray:
--- Quote from: tommy on November 09, 2006, 07:22:48 pm ---The first few consoles ever made were made to bring the arcade games that people of all ages enjoyed and went to an arcade to play able to play at home. The games we now consider classics that were originally only played in arcades were the first to be offered in any home console and did end up killing the arcade.
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These were the VCS launch titles. Which of these are arcade games?
Air-Sea Battle
Basic Math
Blackjack
Combat
Indy 500
Star Ship
Street Racer
Surround
Video Olympics
I'm not arguing your point about people wanting to bring arcade "classics" home, but it wasn't happening during the very early days of video game consoles. Back in those days any video game was enough to make us happy. Nobody cared if it was a game we had never seen in an arcade.
-S
Grasshopper:
I've not bothered at all by the Wii's inferior graphics. They look more than adequate to me. But what does irritate me a lot, and may ultimately cause me not to purchase the console, is Nintendo's decision not to include a harddrive.
Regardless of which console I buy next, I want to be able mod it, and the Wii's lack of a hardrive will severely limit what can be done with a modded machine.
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on November 10, 2006, 03:14:13 pm ---I want to be able mod it, and the Wii's lack of a hardrive will severely limit what can be done with a modded machine.
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That is true. But it does have an SD card slot. I know there are tons of hacks for SD card stuff out there. I did an sd hack for my linksys wrt54g router.
I also saw that there is a hack that hooks an ide harddrive to the nintendo ds.
However, since the Wii's power is not much more than the original xbox if all you want is something to hack get that instead.
tommy:
One of these days, hopefully, we will be able to buy a console and open it up and be free to buy upgrade hardware to improve the whole machine.(Processor, video card, memory) A console like PC is only a matter of time i think.
AlanS17:
--- Quote from: tommy on November 10, 2006, 11:53:20 pm ---One of these days, hopefully, we will be able to buy a console and open it up and be free to buy upgrade hardware to improve the whole machine.(Processor, video card, memory) A console like PC is only a matter of time i think.
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I think something of that sort would be as expensive as a high-end PC. Plus, with so many variations in hardware, how could game devs make a one-size-fits-all game? I just don't see it being feasible. Reducing options keeps prices lower.