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kai123
09-26-2003, 03:08 PM
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20030926/tgs01_06.htm


What do you think? I read that it is somewhere between GC and 64 in power. Very interesting.
Anonymous
09-26-2003, 03:22 PM
The interesting part is the fact that it plays emulated SNES and N64 games that you put on a 64MB flash cart, and pay 5-6 dollars to download. Why don't they do something like that here? Do we have to generate a multi billion dollar pirate empire before Nintendo will sell us their old games?
chadtower
09-26-2003, 03:23 PM
I see no nintendo logos on that thing. Maybe it IS a pirate console.
kai123
09-26-2003, 03:26 PM
Well if it wasn't at the Tokyo Game show I would agree.
Anonymous
09-26-2003, 03:28 PM
It was also announced on Gamespot

http://www.gamespot.com/gba/news/news_6075768.html

Also, why is it that every Freaking controller being made nowadays is following the Dreamcast / Original Xbox style of controller. I thought it was universally understood that those were BAD controller designs?!??
Raccoon Lad
09-26-2003, 03:45 PM
Dreamcast controller = bad design????


*Kills fluke for Sega blasphemy*
Kid Fenris
09-26-2003, 03:58 PM
It was also announced on Gamespot

http://www.gamespot.com/gba/news/news_6075768.html

Also, why is it that every Freaking controller being made nowadays is following the Dreamcast / Original Xbox style of controller. I thought it was universally understood that those were BAD controller designs?!??

This thing resembles some unlikely pairing of N64 and Xbox controllers, though at least its d-pad looks to be easier on the thumbs than the Dreamcast's directional button. I'm convinced that the designers of the DC controller were laboring under the delusion that everyone would be using the analog stick, and that the d-pad, like parsley, should be little more than decorative.
1bigmig
09-26-2003, 04:52 PM
Dreamcast controller = bad design????


*Kills fluke for Sega blasphemy*

*defiles his corpse*
dan2357
09-26-2003, 05:06 PM
I tried submitting this to the news section last night, but it has not been updated yet. They had a good article on it...... now let me see if I can find that link again.
Anonymous
09-26-2003, 05:43 PM
Dreamcast controller = bad design????


*Kills fluke for Sega blasphemy*

*defiles his corpse*
I will concede that the DC controller is a fine controller if you concede that it is on par with the original Xbox controller :D
geelw
09-27-2003, 11:12 AM
actually, i submitted the story on friday morning, i believe. as soon as i saw the news, i got a laugh at the nintendo spokeperson's quote (he made it seem as if the company has basically given up on the us and european markets, and is looking to china as their new marketplace, lol), and submitted the article... LOL