Nintendo wii console

[JNJ]

Are you buying the Nintendo wii console?

what do you think of the console?

[Ebony]

Nintendo Weeeeee

Looks quite good :up:

[gypsy]

I've got a 1970s Nintendo game it plays through TV. Tennis etc. Anyone know if it's a valuable collectors item by now?:D

[nami]

I've got a 1970s Nintendo game it plays through TV. Tennis etc. Anyone know if it's a valuable collectors item by now?:D

1970!!!!

That game is older than me then! :p

[Tahiyah]

I've got a 1970s Nintendo game it plays through TV. Tennis etc. Anyone know if it's a valuable collectors item by now?:D

the original atari is for sale again. maybe your game will work?

if its in good working order, i bet it has some value to it

[Ebony]

Master System/Mega Drive anyone? :1popcorn:

[belal1]

I've got a 1970s Nintendo game it plays through TV. Tennis etc. Anyone know if it's a valuable collectors item by now?:D

you mean the NES? but that came out in 1982 no?

anyway if u are talking about the NES, its not that valueable. people can jsut download the nes emulator for pc and then download every single game that ever came out and play it through there. or connect the pc to t.v and play it through there,. heck maybe even connect a controller to the pc and play it. most people have these items laying around the home anyway.


but the real reason is, i dont think anyone wants to keep blowing the cartridges or put alcohol on them to make em work if u know what i mean...

besides, theres this newly released NES on the web. basically its the NES but looks DAMN GOOD cuz its all skinny and small, and the controllers for it are wireless.

[MWarrior]

Are you buying the Nintendo wii console?

what do you think of the console?
allow that.

either get thexobx360 or wait for the PS3.

forget the nintendo wii....its not even that popular. and i bet its rubbish just like the nintendo gamecube

[I don't know]

I'll have to try the thing first - and try it a lot. I won't get a chance to before I'm home in Norway, though.

Hopefully my siblings will get one for christmas :|

I've got a 1970s Nintendo game it plays through TV. Tennis etc. Anyone know if it's a valuable collectors item by now?:D- Seeing that nintendo was founded in 1989, I kind of doubt that :p

edit; dude! I misread! it was founded in 1889! :eek: but they didn't release any consoles until -85.

[MG]

Master System/Mega Drive anyone? :1popcorn:

sega mastersystem II, that was awesome, remember the game that came with it...Alex Kidd!!


i never did get to clock it :(

can we play alex kidd online anywhere i miss it *sad face*

[Salman Al-Farsi]

it was all about SNES and Donkey Kong/Mario karts :D

I remember waiting by the window everyday making dua dad might buy SNES :p

[Aseer]

Woah! i remember SNES! i was in primary school and about 5 of my mates used to come to my house every lunch time to play on it, Street Fighter 2 was the bomb!!!

[MMS]

i still have the first gameboy that ever came out

works perfectly :D

[MalikOne™]

Mega Drive anyone? :1popcorn:

yea my dad ended up smashin it

as lil kids we were very addicted to it

my lil bro peed his pants cos he wanted to stay on it :rubeyes:

[Al Qadr]

:S

Sega mega drive :inlove: I remember playin sonic the hedghog :cool: and streethfighter

[MalikOne™]

:S

Sega mega drive :inlove: I remember playin sonic the hedghog :cool: and streethfighter

yea used to play sonic and streets of rage alot

[Ebony]

Streets of Rage was brilliant.

And Sonic

[MalikOne™]

Streets of Rage was brilliant.

And Sonic

yea axel was my favourite :coolbro:

[Al Qadr]

And WWF I think :S or maybe that was something else.
Ohh, I wanna play on sega mega drive now :torture:

[(WaseeM)]

it luks good i jus saw it on da news

i fink its gona sell more den da ps3 :)

[MG]

i found Alex Kidd!!

awww memories.....

[Ebony]

I keep thinking of Mortal Kombat for some reason...Street Fighter...Tekken (but they werent megadrive i think..)

[MalikOne™]

I keep thinking of Mortal Kombat for some reason...Street Fighter...Tekken (but they werent megadrive i think..)

ps1

[MG]

I keep thinking of Mortal Kombat for some reason...Street Fighter...Tekken (but they werent megadrive i think..)

i used to always choose that woman with the biiiggg llooonnng pony tail, she used to kill with that *shock*

[MalikOne™]

i used to always choose that woman with the biiiggg llooonnng pony tail, she used to kill with that *shock*

that was a beast tis all about that chinky one

[Al-Saeed Abdi]

As Salaamu Alaikum,I keep thinking of Mortal Kombat for some reason...Street Fighter...Tekken (but they werent megadrive i think..)Yes, Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter where for the SNES and Tekken for the PS1.

Alex the Kid was good, I had it built in on my console, along with Snail.

But my all time favourite game has to be Crono Trigger for the SNES.

Ma'aSalaama

[MG]

As Salaamu Alaikum,Yes, Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter where for the SNES and Tekken for the PS1.

Alex the Kid was good, I had it built in on my console, along with Snail.

But my all time favourite game has to be Crono Trigger for the SNES.

Ma'aSalaama

wa alaikuma slaam

i used dread fighting Dhalsim in Street Fighter

[(WaseeM)]

salam,

i jus want 2 know wich 1 u like da most :up:

[Al-Saeed Abdi]

wa alaikuma slaam
i used dread fighting Dhalsim in Street Fighter[lol] He was quite hard yes. My family was full with 4 boys, so rarely had a chance to play single player, mostly we was playing 2 player mode/games.

Ma'aSalaama

[-Yassar]

i choose neither.... Xbox 360 is the way to go.

[(WaseeM)]

lol k kool

[MG]

[lol] He was quite hard yes. My family was full with 4 boys, so rarely had a chance to play single player, mostly we was playing 2 player mode/games.

Ma'aSalaama

we was big family but everyone was scared of dhalsim!!

[MalikOne™]

I had MK on ps1 not snes

da sega mega saturn was a hype

[MalikOne™]

i choose neither.... Xbox 360 is the way to go.

ps3 alot more powerful den da 360

[(WaseeM)]

ps3 alot more powerful den da 360

which 1 u lyk beta ps3 or Wii ?:rolleyes:

[MalikOne™]

which 1 u lyk beta ps3 or Wii ?:rolleyes:

ps3 run tings

[Al-Saeed Abdi]

we was big family but everyone was scared of dhalsim!![lol] Now I remember. I confused him for M. Bison. Dhalsim's the reason I cannot take Hindu's/Pagan's seriously [lol]

Ma'aSalaama

[(WaseeM)]

but in wii it feels lyk ur in da game

by da way u play it u dont play wid da joypad get me ?

[Masumah]

boys honestly!!!!

im contented with my little sisters princess max :P

[MG]

[lol] Now I remember. I confused him for M. Bison. Dhalsim's the reason I cannot take Hindu's/Pagan's seriously [lol]

Ma'aSalaama

for M bison i ran out the room!!!

[MalikOne™]

PS3 OWN3S XBOX 360





Depends on what aspect u look at it the ps3 is twice as powerful as the ps2

The xbox 360 has the 3 cores each running at 3.2 ghz the ps3 has 8
so its much faster and can deal with more complex things. also the ps3 has twice as much active memory than the xbox 360. With all the different processors added up, PS3 can perform twice as many raw calculations per second. In practise though, the different chips will need to wait for each other to catch up, so it will never run at full tech speed.


PS3 will be able to output a higher-resolution (i.e., more high definition) signal, but there are not alot of tv's that can handle that resolution at the moment.

Both xbox and ps3 have digital dolby 5.1, but memory wise xbox has a 20gb hard drive

so i think the xbox 360 is for general people and the ps3 for the hardcore gamers


...

[Dante Alighieri]

I recommend the Wii. It's all about the controller - and Zelda. I'll be getting a PS3 eventually, but I'm waiting for certain games to come out.

In the mean time, chew on this article (http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/11/a_console_to_make_you_wiip.php).

[Ebony]

Dhaalsim was hilarious. Proper stretchy :rubeyes:

[Nusayba bint Ka'b]

Spend your money on sadaqa, buying that for so much money, you could've fed an entire village in a third world country!

[MG]

Dhaalsim was hilarious. Proper stretchy :rubeyes:

yey stretchy and annnooyyinnnggg

[seven]

anybody remember spectrum? and commadore 64? :p :embar:

[Salman Al-Farsi]

commodore 64 :D space invaders was about the best thing on it :p

amiga 500 was the best gaming console before mega drive and snes revoluton :up:

I was hooked to outrun and prince of persia

[MalikOne™]

amiga 500 was the best gaming console before mega drive and snes revoluton :up:

yup used to play sum golf game on dat me and my lil bro stuck a badge down da disk drive and broke it :up:

[Salman Al-Farsi]

yup used to play sum golf game on dat me and my lil bro stuck a badge down da disk drive and broke it :up:

lol.. it was too easy to get bored of those things and start damaging, but those things were solid though.

[belal1]

ps3 alot more powerful den da 360

someone told you wrong brotha...

to anyone else saying ps3 is more powerful, bring your proof.

[belal1]

anybody remember spectrum? and commadore 64? :p :embar:

spectrum, odyssey, intellivision, msx, commodore 64, atari... yeah good ol' days.

check out MAME, you can play ALL those systems and games

www.mame.net
and then get the roms at rom world, or romhustler.net :coolbro:

[I don't know]

someone told you wrong brotha...

to anyone else saying ps3 is more powerful, bring your proof.

ps3:
PlayStation 3's Cell CPU achieves 204 GFLOPS single precision float and 15 GFLOPS double precision. The PS3 will ship with 256 MiB of Rambus XDR DRAM, clocked at CPU die speed.

The Graphics Processing Unit is based on the NVIDIA G70 (previously known as NV47) architecture, which focuses on maximizing per-pixel computation in favor of raw pixel output. The GPU will make use of 256 MiB GDDR3 VRAM clocked at 700 MHz. The GPU has access to the XDR main memory as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ps3


360:
It has a theoretical peak performance of 115.2 gigaflops

The console features 512 MB of 700 megahertz GDDR3 RAM on a 128-bit bus. The memory is shared by the CPU and the GPU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox360


It'd be kind of weird of Sony to release a less powerful console than the 360 almost a year later and at that price.

[belal1]

ps3:
PlayStation 3's Cell CPU achieves 204 GFLOPS single precision float and 15 GFLOPS double precision. The PS3 will ship with 256 MiB of Rambus XDR DRAM, clocked at CPU die speed.

The Graphics Processing Unit is based on the NVIDIA G70 (previously known as NV47) architecture, which focuses on maximizing per-pixel computation in favor of raw pixel output. The GPU will make use of 256 MiB GDDR3 VRAM clocked at 700 MHz. The GPU has access to the XDR main memory as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ps3


360:
It has a theoretical peak performance of 115.2 gigaflops

The console features 512 MB of 700 megahertz GDDR3 RAM on a 128-bit bus. The memory is shared by the CPU and the GPU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox360


It'd be kind of weird of Sony to release a less powerful console than the 360 almost a year later and at that price.

hahahahaahhaaha

what big numbers.... now lets talk about ACTUAL performance. Not THEORETICAL. How many Pipelines does the ps3 and 360 have? What are the bottlenecks of each? In actuality, which system can pump more through the pipelines? ps3 or 360?

all of SONY's hype was squashed...they tried to pull the same crap with the ps2 and the emotion engine. SONY is nothing but a joke.

edit: oh yeah and about sony releasing something less powerful. it's very very possible. afterall, once they complete a design that took years to put together, they cannot change it within a few months before launch. Thats what happened with the sega saturn which resulted in more complications for the developers and that "theoretical" performance did NOT help the devs for $h!7.

[I don't know]

hahahahaahhaaha- o...kay... this is really a big deal to you, isn't it?

what big numbers.... now lets talk about ACTUAL performance. Not THEORETICAL. How many Pipelines does the ps3 and 360 have? What are the bottlenecks of each? In actuality, which system can pump more through the pipelines? ps3 or 360? - Dunno, don't much care - it's the games that matter. But if you know, do post it.

all of SONY's hype was squashed...they tried to pull the same crap with the ps2 and the emotion engine. SONY is nothing but a joke.- A wildly successful and profitable joke :l

edit: oh yeah and about sony releasing something less powerful. it's very very possible. afterall, once they complete a design that took years to put together, they cannot change it within a few months before launch. Thats what happened with the sega saturn which resulted in more complications for the developers and that "theoretical" performance did NOT help the devs for $h!7.- That's a good point - but selling a bunch of consoles at a loss somehow doesn't seem as clever as throwing in the towel and starting the development on PS4.

That might be bad for the brand, though.

[belal1]

- o...kay... this is really a big deal to you, isn't it?

damn right. I don't like being suckered like the rest :coolbro:

- Dunno, don't much care - it's the games that matter. But if you know, do post it.

see bottom

- A wildly successful and profitable joke :l

unfortuneately ::sigh::

- That's a good point - but selling a bunch of consoles at a loss somehow doesn't seem as clever as throwing in the towel and starting the development on PS4.

That might be bad for the brand, though.

yep

Although we reported yesterday on potential availability issues with ATIs R520 flagship boards, it seems that there will be no such problems with the company's Xenos chip for the XBox 360.

With a worldwide XBox 360 launch rumored to take place around Thanksgiving, plans for the console's components and their production are already well in place. ATI has made certain that it has done everything right on its side and it is expected to have plenty of boards ready for X360.

The latest news from the console wars front suggests that ATIs X360 chip may have an advantage on performance over its nVidia PS3 counterpart and 4X anti aliasing, for example, is something that it will be able to deliver smoothly while the PS3 component will not.

Xbox 360 will feature 48-pipelines compared to PS3s rumored 24 and its graphics processor will have 10 MB of EDRAM so we are guessing that graphically it may be able to produce much more than MS has let on so far. One reservation regarding the X360 however is how well ATI will pull off the unified Shader Architecture that combines pixel and vertex pipelines. If that works, than nVidia's dedicated extra 6 vertex pipes will not cause X360 much concern. Microsoft is already urging developers to take advantage of Xenos' high-specs by asking them to create native FSAA 2X and 4X games.

Microsoft knows that it will have to make the most of its head start and the possible graphics advantages as quickly as possible since developers will slowly become more familiar with PS3s 7-processor architecture and will soon catch-up to, if not overtake, X360 performance wise. Initial plans for Microsoft call for a 50 per cent market share with X360 although a 35 per cent figure would seem more sensible. If Microsoft does make it with its console, it will owe a big thanks to ATI and its component which the company has produced in a responsible and timely fashion, unlike its current generation PC components.

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/console/x360andps3gpu-comparisonnews.shtml

I believe IGN aswell as a couple of pc hardware (that is, non-console gaming sites) sites verified it aswell.

[I don't know]

- o...kay... this is really a big deal to you, isn't it?

damn right. I don't like being suckered like the rest :coolbro: - Good point - I guess I don't care because that price means that a PS3 simply isn't an option :p

- A wildly successful and profitable joke :l

unfortuneately ::sigh::- I dunno, I kind of like the walkmans... or is that "walkmen"? I won't buy one of those.


http://www.megagames.com/news/html/console/x360andps3gpu-comparisonnews.shtml

I believe IGN aswell as a couple of pc hardware (that is, non-console gaming sites) sites verified it aswell.- That's an old article about an old rumor - you got something more recent?

[Ebony]

I just want to be able to play Tekken 3 - without having the joypad snatched out my hand

[belal1]

- Good point - I guess I don't care because that price means that a PS3 simply isn't an option :p

- I dunno, I kind of like the walkmans... or is that "walkmen"? I won't buy one of those.

well, the walkman was done right. not the CD walkman's, but the OLD cassette one. that one defined portable audio. similiarly the original playstation did the same with gaming in the 32bit era, and ps2 in the then current era. ps3.... i donno. i am really really angry at sony....that's all i'll say.

- That's an old article about an old rumor - you got something more recent?

not really. all the hardware scrutinizing was done months ago. theres some IGN articles somewhere on the web but i'm too lazy to search for them. basically besides the normal hardware gurus, a couple of devs also confirmed that the ps3 isn't all that its cracked up to be and programming on it is nowhere near as easy as 360's XNA platform. there is however the bigger studios like konami, polytechnic and insomnia (some more too) who sony spoke to directly while making the ps3. so these studios have no problem since sony basically tailored the system to their likings. so they can program without much difficulty. if u look at for example, "resistance: fall of man" that game is very very nice looking. same with MGS4, like wow.

overall, the point is, the ps3 is not better than the 360. they are about equally the same. the 360 is SLIGHTLY more powerful than the ps3 but it is so small that its insignificant.

[I don't know]

I just want to be able to play Tekken 3 - without having the joypad snatched out my hand- Then get a ps1 with a wireless joypad - or get this: http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/psx/epsxe.html and a wireless joypad for your pc.

[belal1]

- Then get a ps1 with a wireless joypad - or get this: http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/psx/epsxe.html and a wireless joypad for your pc.

i highly recommend epsxe. cuz not only is it FREE but also you can make the games look soo much better than the original ps graphics by upping the resolution and turning on AA =]

[I don't know]

not really. all the hardware scrutinizing was done months ago. theres some IGN articles somewhere on the web but i'm too lazy to search for them. basically besides the normal hardware gurus, a couple of devs also confirmed that the ps3 isn't all that its cracked up to be and programming on it is nowhere near as easy as 360's XNA platform. there is however the bigger studios like konami, polytechnic and insomnia (some more too) who sony spoke to directly while making the ps3. so these studios have no problem since sony basically tailored the system to their likings. so they can program without much difficulty. if u look at for example, "resistance: fall of man" that game is very very nice looking. same with MGS4, like wow.- I think MGS, Tekken and FF are reason enough to buy the PS3 for some people. Sony won't fail miserably as long as they have those on board.

overall, the point is, the ps3 is not better than the 360. they are about equally the same. the 360 is SLIGHTLY more powerful than the ps3 but it is so small that its insignificant.- Seems the point is that the PS3 is more powerful, but it's harder to take advantage of the power than with the 360. It's all a matter of phrasing I guess.

But as I said, what system comes up on top will depend mostly on the games.

[belal1]

- I think MGS, Tekken and FF are reason enough to buy the PS3 for some people. Sony won't fail miserably as long as they have those on board.

definitely, that's a given.

- Seems the point is that the PS3 is more powerful, but it's harder to take advantage of the power than with the 360. It's all a matter of phrasing I guess.

still wrong brotha. see you can have the highest clockrates in the world, however if you don't have enough pipes to pump those GBs of data at a speed to match gpu to cpu, then you reach a peak. sony conveniently doesn't reveal that piece of info. later on we find out that ps3 has how many? last time i read was like 32 combined. the 360 has 48. this means that every bit of juice on the 360 can be used without much bottlenecks like on the ps3. furthermore, the cell processor is misleading. only the main cpu can actually function like a true cpu like the other SPEs only "assist". You'd have to read one of those articles them hardware gurus put up. they explain it much much better and in greater detail with numbers. something you may want.

But as I said, what system comes up on top will depend mostly on the games.

that would make 360 and ps3 in the same footing. almost every industry analyst admits that the 360 has the best game lineup for this holiday season and the coming year.

but theres alot of things that affect who wins the battle. i mean games are important yeah, but so are markets. the 360 has the best lineup, but its doing terrible in japan. and japan is basically the center of gaming. if you make it japan, then you are a profitable company. look at the wonderswan. its a system only released in japan and is very profitable. the original xbox did much better than the gamecube in the u.s, but it lagged far behind it in japan, so in japan, the gamecube was number 2. that made the gamecube a better machine there. i think the japs have a anti-american philosophy or something. american cars dont sell there, american electronics dont sell there. nothing american does good there. even now the 360 is not doing all that great there. the wii is the hottest thing in japan right now. second is nintendo DS and ps3.

then ofcourse theres the other factor of cost of production per unit. microsoft learned a big lesson from the first xbox and understood that you have to design a system where in the future you can redesign the system without hurting compatibility and bring down cost of production per unit. sony was making profit on the ps2 as was nintendo with gamecube (though not much profit) while microsoft was shooting itself in the foot with every xbox sold.

so theres alot of factors. ultimately though i think the sony brand will buy the ps3 alot of cred and some people will buy sony products no matter what. but i see the market dividing. i'm gonna observe the next 6 months very closely and i'm guessing that there won't be any clear winner between sony and microsoft, and nintendo is not gonna be a loser, but instead it will win in another area: the gray area. the area where non-casual gamers will begin to spur up.

[I don't know]

that would make 360 and ps3 in the same footing. almost every industry analyst admits that the 360 has the best game lineup for this holiday season and the coming year.- Exactly - which is why I think the PS3 will be the loser of this round. Especially if you're right in that it's actually less powerful than the PS3.

but theres alot of things that affect who wins the battle. i mean games are important yeah, but so are markets. the 360 has the best lineup, but its doing terrible in japan. and japan is basically the center of gaming.- Well, the center of asian gaming anyway; and as chinese grow more prosperous - that'll become a very profitable market I think. The chinese hate the japanese, though :p

if you make it japan, then you are a profitable company. look at the wonderswan. its a system only released in japan and is very profitable. the original xbox did much better than the gamecube in the u.s, but it lagged far behind it in japan, so in japan, the gamecube was number 2. that made the gamecube a better machine there. i think the japs have a anti-american philosophy or something. american cars dont sell there, american electronics dont sell there. nothing american does good there.- It might just be patriotism and familiarity (and the fact that American cars suck) - I don't imagine european or chinese products fare much better than the American ones. I think the asian gaming culture is slightly different than the european/north american ones. Extravagant rpgs, social life simulators and other weird stuff.

even now the 360 is not doing all that great there. the wii is the hottest thing in japan right now. second is nintendo DS and ps3. - Reminds me that nintendo should definitely have hired a european company to do their marketing in europe and north america - their whole campaign has a slight scent of engrish, if you know what I mean.

then ofcourse theres the other factor of cost of production per unit. microsoft learned a big lesson from the first xbox and understood that you have to design a system where in the future you can redesign the system without hurting compatibility and bring down cost of production per unit. sony was making profit on the ps2 as was nintendo with gamecube (though not much profit) while microsoft was shooting itself in the foot with every xbox sold. - Not shooting themselves in the foot; securing a foothold - which is what I think the console wars are about now. Heck, I even heard someone say that he was sure the 360 would be more powerful than the PS3 - cause the xbox was more powerful than the PS2 :p Remember that both the PS3 and the 360 are being sold at a loss now.

so theres alot of factors. ultimately though i think the sony brand will buy the ps3 alot of cred and some people will buy sony products no matter what. but i see the market dividing. i'm gonna observe the next 6 months very closely and i'm guessing that there won't be any clear winner between sony and microsoft, and nintendo is not gonna be a loser, but instead it will win in another area: the gray area. the area where non-casual gamers will begin to spur up.- Nintendo is a wild card, I think. It will get good reviews because reviewers love variation in their work - and if it really works as well done as it could - it could do very well. But that depends on the games - i.e. the developers.