Nintendo owner Hiroshi Yamaushi owns MS CEO!

[Peerzy]

and............how many great new games do I benefit from this new advance in technology?

2 or 3....maybe?

half Life 2, Doom 3, Far Cry, Unreal Tourny 2004 to name the big ones.

[TheDave]

10-15 i'd say

say you spend $200 a year upgrading teh pc, thats only 55 cents a day

[Busyman]

10-15 i'd say

say you spend $200 a year upgrading teh pc, thats only 55 cents a day

I agree with Peerzy but 10-15 is bullshit.

Equating how much one spends in a day to a one time cost is crap as well.

My washer and dryer cost $2200. So what,

[TheDave]

last year:

bf:vietnam
rct3
half life 2
doom 3
ut 2004
rome


thats one year i'll let you work out 2 :

edit: i forgot we're in 2005

[Busyman]

last year:

bf:vietnam
rct3
half life 2
doom 3
ut 2004
rome


thats one year i'll let you work out 2 :

edit: i forgot we're in 2005

Don't know all those games but let's double it to 12.

12 games for $300.

[TheDave]

its not really comparable to consoles though, if you count everything else a pc does.

[Busyman]

its not really comparable to consoles though, if you count everything else a pc does.

The $300 price tag is directly comparable since it's for games.

[Snee]

And rendering software, if you are so inclined.

[ready1]

....And getting back to the original thread topic

An Interview with Hiroshi Yamauchi
An interview with Hiroshi Yamauchi, former president of Nintendo, has been doing the rounds. It's supposedly published in the February issue of Wired. The interview is quite colorful, to say the least. For instance, at one point Yamauchi claims that during a meeting with Microsoft's Steve Ballmer he said to him, 'hey, Ballmer, why don't you suck my tiny yellow balls.' This was his response to Microsoft's offer to buy Nintendo. The quotation is offered up in bold letters in the sidebar, so there's no chance you'll miss it. There's also some other equally outrageous stuff. Is any of it real? No. It's a fake interview and a fake Wired magazine mock-up. Digit magazine has an article debunking it.

Update: Inquirer.net apparently thought the article was real.

Update 2: According to this article, Nintendo has officially confirmed that the interview is a hoax.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/w...oshi_yamauchi/

http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4653

[3RA1N1AC]

the ps2 is linux based I think

nah. sony did release a version of linux for ps2 as a hobby item, but ps2 games do not run on linux. it's just that linux is (relatively) easy to convert to all sorts of computer platforms, including game consoles. ps2 games are written in the traditional console fashion: directly "to the metal," with no operating system. in contrast, xbox actually deviates from the traditional console formula because it uses microsoft's pc-style directx software (acting as a "hardware abstraction layer") to make the system easier for game-developers to understand & control.