The Shrine

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:49 pm**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6 ... l">here</a>

I think Nintendo has finally lost it's mind....I don't know what to make of this, but I'll be at E3 to find out....</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:55 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>haha yeah...2 screens? That should be interesting..</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Jan 22, 2004 3:38 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Ditto. I awaiting PA's opinion on it.</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Jan 22, 2004 8:25 am**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It has dual processors, one which runs at 133 mhz, and another at 266 mhz (in comparisspn, the PS2 runs at about 300, Dreamcast at about 200, N64 at about 100, and the Gameboy Advance at about 17mhz). They are using a lighting which is supposedly superior to the GBA SP.

Other features

-two 3 inch screens (same size as the GBA SP each)
-the two screens can be used as one large screen
-DS cartridges may contain up to 128 MB of storage space (or one Gigabit, in comparisson, Zelda Ocarina of Time was 32 Mb's)

Originally it was rumoured to be a portable system that would be backwards compatable with SNES and N64 titles (similar to that system released in China recently). No official announcements have come yet as to what is compatable and what is not. It was also said to be able to interact with the hardware of Gamecube's and GBA's successor.</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:28 am**

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>128meg cartridges? What're the games gonna cost? 80 bucks?</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:34 am**

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Is this really necessary?</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:28 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>They haven't said, but I doubt very much that they will be more than 45. Iwata is very conscious about the success of having competetive pricing.</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:18 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Probably not. I don't see it doing well.</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:45 pm**

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>speaking of which you still hookin me up with that right?</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Jan 23, 2004 11:21 am**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>You could say that about anything in entertainment, because none of it is really necessary.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:25 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>worst....idea....ever.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 24, 2004 7:03 am**

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>It'll be interesting to find out whether the dual screens will allow innovative/revolutionary gameplay or whether they're there only for the novelty factor</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 24, 2004 8:41 am**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It'll definetely take a lot to convince me that this is gonna be good</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 24, 2004 10:05 am**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Well geez, give the Scientoligists some credit.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:42 am**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm just picturing the versatility of multiplayer games in the vein of LoZ: Four Swords.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:16 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt "Stylus BT"; text-align: left; '><img src="http://cubemedia.ign.com/cube/image/nin ... ounced.jpg">

Here's a picture of the device.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:51 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Hahaha, the device will actually be two screens facing vertically.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:49 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I've just started playing some Arcade games online, multiplayer is awesome. :P</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:34 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "Stylus BT"; text-align: left; '>http://www.members.shaw.ca/staloshinji/Gba2screen.jpg
http://www.the3dresource.com/images/nintendobs.jpg
http://www.members.shaw.ca/staloshinji/GTAds.JPG
http://www.m-gaming.nl/showscreen.php?screen=DS005.jpg
http://www.m-gaming.nl/showscreen.php?screen=DS007.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/nervx/nintendods.jpg

http://www.bolman.nl/classic_nintendo_ds.jpg
http://mercury.walagata.com/w/schram/2885665.gif
http://www.gq-guild.com/~chibby_traxx/N ... DS%202.jpg
http://www.gq-guild.com/~chibby_traxx/N ... DS%201.jpg
http://www.m-gaming.nl/showscreen.php?screen=DS014.jpg
http://www.gameqube.nl/showscreen.php?screen=wip1.jpg
http://www.m-gaming.nl/showscreen.php?screen=DS002.jpg
http://www.gameqube.nl/showscreen.php?screen=gbads.jpg
http://static.gameparty.net/screenshots/1355/9848.jpg
http://www.m-gaming.nl/files/DS003.jpg
http://static.gameparty.net/screenshots/1355/9847.jpg
http://static.gameparty.net/screenshots/1355/9846.jpg
http://static.gameparty.net/screenshots/1355/9845.jpg
http://www.gamemag.nl/itp/screens/400e8 ... D.jpg</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:56 am**

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>lol, these are all pretty funny.</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:30 am**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Bah! You know how I feel about online games (except Utopia and sometimes Starcraft). But they may get better on console and handheld, unfortuanetly I think they'll just continue to suck like they do on PC.</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:02 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>some are hillarious, and some actually look pretty believable</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:50 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Well try it out, there are emulators for the SNES, Genisis, Gameboy out there that you can play against other people online, including The Four Swords.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2004 12:57 am**

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2004 12:59 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, because we all know that a multiplayer FPS automatically sucks on the PC, but Goldeneye with four tiny split-screens is god, right?</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2004 1:00 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Well, if it was such a bad idea, Hubbard wouldn't have died rich.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2004 1:02 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Gentz, a GB of RAM is less than 80 bucks nowadays. I think they'll manage.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2004 2:46 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>5 years ago when Goleneye was still relatively new, of course, that's why it was the most played videogame in North American history. And yeah, online FPS's blow the dark root.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2004 2:51 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It just doesn't appeal to me. I think you have to be a certain type of person to enjoy playing the majority of games online, to me it just feels like a big waste of time in the worst way possible.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2004 3:09 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Same could be said about all video games, in general. They're all a waste of time.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2004 4:05 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>For example, someone like Tessian who can play 40-60 hours of a game in a few days, hates humanity, and likes Starwars may enjoy online games, or even shoot up a classroom when they make fun of his trench coat. But I only play about 2-5 hours any week of the year. When I am playing mutliplayer games, I like to have everyone in the same room; I just find that having it online defeats the purpose since you can't really have a real conversation, have a few beers, go out to the bars later, or anything like that. I generally will not play a game unless it is with other people, too boring otherwise.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2004 5:23 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>lol, on that first sentence. But what if you could play GoldenEye online?</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2004 7:00 pm**

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>yeah but you live uder a bridge and eat billy-goats....you don't count</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:43 pm**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Online is a committment which is why it'll always be a niche IMO</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:24 am**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Umm, you're on crack.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:42 am**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:43 am**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>People in general, not him specifically.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:48 am**

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>That one with the view of Nintendo stock value is TOO good : )</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:48 am**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Okay, think it through. You can't use RAM as permanent storage. Not to mention that they don't just take PC parts and stick them in cartridges.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:53 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Of course, but permanent storage (ROM) is easier to make than RAM. All they need is a 128MB ROM chip and maybe 2MB of CMOS.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:57 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Why? I never really heard an answer for this?</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:20 am**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>But you're missing the real point Sine, if they just stuck some PC parts into a cartridge, they couldn't call it their own special proprietary technology and charge you extra for it.</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:31 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Well, of course not, but even a gaming CONTEXT this seems kinda pointless.</div>

The Shrine

I think Nintendo has finally lost it's mind....I don't know what to make of this, but I'll be at E3 to find out....

I think Nintendo has finally lost it's mind....I don't know what to make of this, but I'll be at E3 to find out....

Here is what I know of the system so far

Oh. I guess that eliminates most of these then

LOL...here they are as images... (Are these from a Fark PS?)

Some people probably do feel that way about videogames in general, not me, I have a lot of fun playing them. But I find online games to be too time consuming and boring.