Well, I went back to that article to check his math on the 1/25 thing, but my browser's being funky, and won't load it, so I'll go off information from the top of my head. Last time I checked, the GameCube was going to push like 30 million fully rendered, etc. polys a second. That's alot fellas
The X-box is set to put out, oh, somewhere in the vicinity of like 300 million. Yes, in the millions. Now, that would be fine and dandy for MS,
if 1. the computer technology wasn't going surpass it before it came out, which is going to happen, regardless of how many changes and last minute updates are made, 2. the GameCube and PS2 are goign to be out somewhere near a year before, and if Microsoft holds true to what they have in the past, it'll be longer than that.
In regards to the PS2 being basically a full home theatre (that's not what was said, just my summing up of it), I won't argue that, nor will I argue that the GameCube won't play DVDs. The thing is, how many people do you know have the hardware to copy mini-DVDs? Hell, there may not be that many now, but there will be enough in a year to may PS2's DVD format a piracy heaven. Mini's however, won't be so easily pirated. Sounds like smart business, rather than dumb mistake. From what I derive from that article, the graphics chip it's using will be either a scaled up or a streamlined Raedon from ATI. Now, with the comment of all the PS games being backwards compatible with the PS2. Now if you just went out and paid $300 bucks for a new console, you're going to take it home, rip it out of the packaging, set it up, and then throw in all the game's you've already beaten that you own? WTF? If (and When) I buy a new console, I'm going to at least buy one new game, possibly two designed FOR THAT SYSTEM, which will use it's capabilities, not the capabilities of the cheapest chip in it. That's madness. It's like buying the hottest, baddest, most expensive computer you can find, then playing Wing Commander 1 on it. Not that there's anything wrong with that
, it's just that when I get a new piece of hardware, i'm going to see waht it can do first, and play some of the stuff I couldn't before, not the stuff I've already beaten. Just because the PS2 is backwards compatible, doesn't mean it's automatically going to have a library of 100s of games. That's insane man! And BTW, what's wrong with playing Mario? I know he's been done to death, but he's what got alot of people, including myself, into computers and gaming alike. Hell, I'd dare to go as far and say that if it wasn't for Mario and Duckhunt on one cartriage, I might have not even cared much for video games
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