[Cyrax9]

Ok, the souce may be sketchy as far as Cube Europe goes, but let's say it's right for once.

Why the hell WOULDN'T you want Bakcwards compatibility?!?! The GBC had it, the GBA had it it WORKED and I admit I porbably wouldn't be so keen on new systems if they DIDN'T have it and I knwo peope who bought a PS2 ad sold the PSX because they had games they still wanted to play adn a way to play it. I know people who BOUGHT PS's and wound up BVUYING PSX games they missed so as well qas it works on paper, it also ahs to work in real life, besides anyone who thinks SOny would be as far ahead as they are now without Backwards Compatibility needs to ut the crackpipe down, BC is what's letting SOny pound Nintendo more than anything, geko I'm surpise dyou're one of the poeple NOT agreeing! :eek:


As far as BC goes on Nintendo consoles, think back to the name SUPER NES.l DOes anybody know the REAL REASON Nintendo didn't give this some flashuy name but took the same term of "NES" and slapped the word SUPER in front of it? Time for some enlightement. Yamauchi WANTED BC on the SNES, he WANTED the SNES to PLAY NES GAMES!! Problem: Thye cost was outrageous! $500 USD for that new SNES or Super Famicom in Japan would've sent Nintendo the way of 3DO (WTF is a 3DO anyway we still don't know?) Atari and all the other dismal failures. Yamauchi was RUITHLESSS (What else is new?) about this and did EVERYTING he could THINKO F to make the SNES BC with the NES right to the point of figring people just for stating 'It's not doable" beofre he realized he awas fighitng a loosing war. He then went with the enw non-BC cartridges for the SNES and again, for the N64 which hit the same price tag snag!

We aren't dealing with "Cartsd" anymoe guys, we're using DIsc's, just like Sony and M$. The "It's too expensive" BS Excuse isn't going to fly on the N5, not unless the Big "N" wants to be looking at Chapter 11. The reason the GCN wasn't BC was also due to the stupid cartridge syndrome (SCS) that Yamauchi created. Because the N64 had SCS and Yamauchi woldn't sue OPticxla Tecnology, he shot his own foot and le SOny get away with the whoel CD-ROM deal. Then, to make maters worse after he'd ruined the N64s sales ther wasa an SCS hangover on the Gamecube, because the cartridge slot for an N64 cart on the GCN would've jacked up the cost to an insanely high $300, ABOVE Sony and M$'s prices! Now wehave Optical Disc's we;'ll ahve Opticla Disc's again and BC is going to be aprt of the PS3 and Nintendo knows this, 100 says they'll follow suit, ditto for Microsoft although I'd make it more arund the lines of 50 there.

My only problem wit BC is "That dman GC Controller" as we all know it. The XBox has a giant clucky POS for a controlelr, the PS2 astle the designf rom the SNES, and the GCN st9ole it back and used funky shaped buttons that are a paint to figure out. If Nintendo can design a SIMILAR controller, just a litlte bit LARGER, namely something that doesn'thave my hands pressed intoa sandwhich while playing gams, enlarge the D-Pad and oh, GIVE the D-PAD some PADDING (Thing is so hard it's annoying) It'd be fine, I wouldn't mind if they tok a note form Sony and swapped the location of the Stick and the pad either, because I wuld rather use the Pad over the stick when possible any day.

The N5 controler, if they do anything aside form what was mentioned above, should be fixing the whacky buttons and making them all round a la SNES and using dual "L" and "R" butons a la PS1/PS2, as well as making the controller all Analog a la PS2, a SELECT button wouldn't hurt either for ports of old gamnes, heck, "Z" could dou8ble as SELECT! I mean I like the GCN alot but the controlelr is one of my least favorites, the SNES had the best controlelr for the BIg N on a console, let's use it's general design again like they ddi for the GCN and jsut rework the few "problem areas" of the thing. I mean, the GCN contorller is far beter than the N64's three-handed man design, but it's nowhere near as good as the SNES/PS2 designs Nintendo needs ot stop looking at M$'s controlers adn start loking at Sony's, now, who wants to take best on whether or not Nitnendo and Microsoft will continue the war for the "
Worst Controlelr ever!" award or whether Nitnendo will frrealize how to make the GCN controller a litlte bit beter?

I'm think BC is great, I'm thinkng the controller needs an overhaul though.