swerve said:
And discounting that we know nothing about the system. The notion that there could be plenty of reasons for the machine to eschew HDD offends him greatly.
It doesn't offend me... it amuses me. Since there are no legitimate reasons put forward to date (and I've deconstructed them all about ten times) and the comically reaching ones that are being put forward - "NINTENDO FEEL" and "NOISE REDUCTION" - are all massacred by the added expense, the added inconvenience of having to shuttle around files and the added inconvenience of having to do so with inferior read/write speeds, that it's just hilarious to see people try to come up with new ways to defend Nintendo on absolutely any grounds. This 8GB flash memory rumour is the worst possible scenario. A doomsday scenario, if you would, no matter what SD cards the system ends up supporting.
Of course, the people who are in this camp are like you, who think cartridge over CD was a smart decision. So it makes logical sense that all their defense of this move would be completely hilarious. That's the only thing that makes logical sense here.
swerve said:
Then again, they've made a new handheld with terrible battery life just to keep up with the other guys and please 3rd parties, so I expect the new machine to be similarly disappointingly similar to the other guys.
Nintendo released a platform that is still horrendously outdated tech wise for 2011 and the reason why it saps battery so hard is because it's utilizing a technology its competitors aren't even touching - autostereoscopic 3D. Without the 3D, it holds a fairly respective five hour charge which unless battery technology improves is always what we're going to get out of the system unless you make it bigger or further reduce chip sizes so you have more space for battery (which will come with the next 3DS revision, certainly).
But yeah... you can't blame Sony for Nintendo going down
that road. NGP is blessedly free of that terrible 3D feature.
Bisnic said:
But it's also because of Nintendo(correct me if im wrong) that DKCR had stupid gameplay design like shaking to blow or to roll.
Yup. The worst feature in DKCR is Nintendo's fault.
This idea that Retro would somehow be less great were they not under Nintendo's magical wing is just hero worship. It's not something that could seriously be argued without a sparkle in your gigantic doe-eyed face and a Miyamoto poster on your wall.
beezlebozo said:
There is more color this gen than last gen, on all platforms.
I'm about to fucking make a topic with the veritable mountain of orgasmically colorful titles to finally put to bed the lie that this color somehow sapped color from game development.
Gameboy said:
Let's argue to death over these rumors, shall we?
This is a Project Cafe rumour topic. If you're not going to discuss the rumours, then do not enter the topic.
People who post shit like this will be banned
Syferz said:
In closing, Nintendo will be stupid to use 8GB internal flash, it's too small to insure that every game developer will be able to release a game for the console, it's something I really hope Nintendo has the insight to avoid, I still think 16GB is a bit to small from a consumer's point of view and will defiantly effect DLC sales, but we should be able to get every game and have the ability to use SDXCs for large capacity storage (up to 2TB is huge) I'd be completely satisfied with 32GB of flash memory, but I don't think Nintendo will go that far to please the minority since it will drive up the prices of the console. Heck even as an avid gamer, my 20gb 360 is still fine, though I do delete demos and videos off the system periodically.
Your essential argument is that all the things I am saying are true but they might not be true and some undefined point in the future, so this is the reason to build an inferior console with features we know for a fact are better at the moment? I mean I read over all your points but that's what it reads like.
"Faster speeds? Sure but they're improving soon it'll be par plus it just takes tech design."
"More expansive? Sure but in 4 years that won't be necessarily the case. HDDs will stay the same price, right? $30 or $40 minimum!" (of course, this is ignoring the fact I can get a 1TB HDD for under a hundred bucks, or that no matter how price competitive it gets, HDDs will always have substantially more space at the same dollar value. So again, what purpose is this but to be backwards?)
I mean I am a little concerned at the lengths people are willing to go just to avoid settling on the common sense decision that almost everyone unanimously agrees is the right one for our gaming purposes.