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Originally posted by tarakan69
Well if YOU WANT an intertanment hub... just don't get a Nintendo console. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. Producing a machine which will compete with PS3/X-Box 2 on the feature level would be EXCEPTIONALLY dumb.
As for HD... if Nintendo isn't going to push online with full force it's hardly necessary. Next gen memory cards should provide Nintendo's next console with plenty of space. (32 about megabytes not enough??)
As for not supporting DVD or Blue-ray standards... I explained it by piracy. If you think it's not widespread then you should look around.
So what Stonecutter wants is a system (clone of PS3/X-Box 2 feature wise) to go heaad to head with Microsft and Sony??
If Nintendo adopted that theory this gen they would have already called quits since they wouldn't make a profit on thier console.
As for DVD playing feature... Next gen it WON'T matter. It's like buying a PS2 for it's ability to play music CDs.
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VB tags are so annoying to type, I'm not going to chop this up.
So this is paragraph by paragraph.
1) You honestly don't think some of the biggest selling points of xbox and ps2 are their extra features? I don't care about the entertainment hub but lots of people do. Lots of people buy the xbox and ps2 because of the dvd?
2) Look at Xbox Live. You don't think that's going to be the standard by next generation?
Take a look, no one said Live would be able to succeed with a broadband only service but it's doing way better than PS2 online. Live is the new standard.
3) I don't care if everyone you know is pirating software, 90% of the people who buy video games do not have the knowledge to do it of the 10% mabye half do it. It's not widespread, it's a very minor problem.
4-5) If nintendo would have tried to go head to head they would have aready have lost because they didn't make a profit
If you belive that, you're a moron. In this case the point of whether it would have been postive or negitive is 100% moot. The point is that the system would not have been worse off for having these features? You care to explain yourself with this one, because it really sounds like you're talking out of your ass.
6) PFFT. You do realize that's apples to oranges don't you. The ps1 was never ment to be a cd player. It just so happens that it
could play cd's, obviously it's not a feature on the ps2, it just CAN play cds. What good is a cd player that occupies your tv screen when it's in use? A dvd by its very nature is ment to be used in conjunction with a tv. While ture that the dvd will not be as prominant a feature in the next generation it will still be a poplualr feature.
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