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  • It'd be great if Nintendo had a competetor in the hand held market that had the power to go head to head, but then again, that's what they said about the Game Gear and Linx....

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #21697  by Oracle
 Fri Feb 16, 2001 8:20 pm
<div style='font: bold 12pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://pocket.ign.com/news/31523.html">Red Jade</a>

It'd be great if Nintendo had a competetor in the hand held market that had the power to go head to head, but then again, that's what they said about the Game Gear and Linx....</div>
 #21698  by Don
 Fri Feb 16, 2001 8:39 pm
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Last time I heard, they're actually selling those things in Japan.

Though I also heard Bandai lost money on the WonderSwan Color too.</div>
 #21699  by Mr.Person
 Fri Feb 16, 2001 8:50 pm
<div style='font: 14pt Modern; text-align: left; '>However, I'm a bit skeptical. Game Gear was more powerful, the atari lynx was more powerful, but none of them could beat out the game boy. It's gonna take more than the big muscle that Ericcson has.., now you might talk about Sony(don't know about Microsoft yet, I think they will succeed in the U.S), but remember they had some experience with the games market before releasing the Playstation, and were neck and neck with Sega until Square went to their side.

The initial specs on the system look kickass, and seems like they did their homework partly.., however I don't see any names which make me go "wow!! this thing is gonna !@#@$@ things up". If I was Nintendo I would still take note however. If the system is as powerful as it says it is, and has games available to preview at E3(just videos), it will be tough for the GBA to up that.</div>

 #21703  by Kupek
 Sat Feb 17, 2001 12:22 am
<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I think they win in the dumbest name for a system contest.</div>

 #21705  by Red Eye
 Sat Feb 17, 2001 12:38 am
<div style='font: 14pt Draconwick, Modern; text-align: left; '>Haven't heard about it at all here in the States... can't be that good.</div>

 #21708  by SineSwiper
 Sat Feb 17, 2001 1:41 am
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>Something worse than Dreamcast? That's hard to do.</div>

 #21709  by SineSwiper
 Sat Feb 17, 2001 1:42 am
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>They are using Linux for development. I'm sure somebody will invent a version of Linux for it as soon as it comes out. (Hey, if you got Linux for PDAs...)</div>

 #21710  by Lee S.
 Sat Feb 17, 2001 2:09 am
<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: justify; '>Fuck dude, if you think "Dreamcast" sounds worse than the ultra-faggy sounding "Wonderswan"....well, that's just fucked up, man.</div>

 #21712  by Kupek
 Sat Feb 17, 2001 3:03 am
<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Dreamcast isn't that bad, and is much better than WonderSwan. I mean "swan" for crissakes, where'd that come from?</div>

 #21713  by Sephy
 Sat Feb 17, 2001 12:59 pm
<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman", Modern; text-align: left; '>Dreamcast is actually a decent name...</div>

 #21714  by SineSwiper
 Sat Feb 17, 2001 3:02 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>I didn't say that.</div>

 #21715  by SineSwiper
 Sat Feb 17, 2001 3:03 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>I beg to differ. Everybody was bitching about it when they first heard about it.</div>

 #21716  by SineSwiper
 Sat Feb 17, 2001 3:04 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>I argee on that WonderSwan part, but again, they really had to try in order to beat Dreamcast.</div>

 #21717  by Eric
 Sat Feb 17, 2001 3:20 pm
<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Yeah but people stopped bitching, Wonderswan has been and is still being bitched about. :)</div>

 #21719  by Kupek
 Sat Feb 17, 2001 4:48 pm
<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Dreamcast sounds fine to me.</div>

 #21725  by Sephy
 Sat Feb 17, 2001 10:20 pm
<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman", Modern; text-align: left; '>Nah...but we sure bitched about Nintendo calling it the "Star Cube"</div>

 #21728  by WooJin
 Sun Feb 18, 2001 12:49 pm
<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Hey, I happen to like my WonderSwanColor alot :P</div>

 #21731  by Gentz
 Sun Feb 18, 2001 7:15 pm
<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>I thought the name Dreamcast sucked ass when I first heard it and so did pretty much everyone else...now it's so commonplace that no one really cares anymore though</div>

 #21733  by New and Improved Zeus
 Sun Feb 18, 2001 8:18 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold", Modern; text-align: left; '>From what I gather, FF did great, but overall, it's being crushed. Good system, just can't crack the market. Kinda like the TurboGrafx here</div>

 #21739  by Kupek
 Mon Feb 19, 2001 12:09 am
<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>It sounded pretty iff when I first heard it, but it sounds fine now. The thing with WonderSwan is that I can't figure out where swan came from. Not that dream is a natural name for a system, but makes more sense than swan.</div>

 #21761  by Dragonfly
 Tue Feb 20, 2001 10:13 am
<div style='font: 12pt "Tempus Sans ITC", Modern; text-align: left; '>WonderSwan sounds stupid . . . Red Jade sounds cool, though. Of course, Gameboy sounds pretty stupid too.</div>

 #21802  by Gentz
 Wed Feb 21, 2001 3:54 pm
<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Right on. TurboGrafx ruled</div>

 #21823  by SineSwiper
 Thu Feb 22, 2001 1:17 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>Hence the name change.</div>