OMG The 360 and the PS3 have more PoWER then the Wii!>?!$ There's NO qAY THE Wii can win!
Oh wait, not if history has anything to say about this topic. The original Xbox had a 733 MHz CPU and 64MB unified 128-bit DDR SDRAM, and came in second to a system with specs half that, the Playstation 2. The N64 was a 64-bit console with a 93.75 MHz CPU and lost to a 32-bit console with a 33.8688 MHz CPU.
The Neo Geo had cutting-edge graphics and sound and still only managed to sell a million units in a war against two less powerful systems: Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. The Sega Master System had 8KB main RAM and could display 32 simultaneous colors from its 64-color palette, and the NES outsold it even though it only had a 2KB main RAM and could display 25 colors out of a 53-color palette. Even the Atari 2600 continued to outsell a string of more powerful competitors, lasting 15 years when it was finally, officially retired in 1992 by Atari.
Heck even the Sony PSP which has capable of rendering 33 million flat-shaded polygons per second, with a 664 million pixel per second fill rate
where as the Nintendo DS has pixel fill rate is 30 million pixels per second and yet the DS has vastly outsold the PSP in both units and games.
Originally posted by Zen2nd
A guy left a comment regarding that square-enix thingy "but what my computer cant do is no mater how much i point at the screen with my finger i cant move the curser. So now whats next gen."Well its been proven that you can actually use the Wii-mote on your PC.
Just wanted to mention that 😄
It appears MS is finally finding a solution to overheating 360s
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7667
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New Xbox 360 Cooling Hardware Found in Europe
Marcus Yam (Blog) - June 13, 2007 1:39 PMWill a revised Xbox 360 heatsink and heatpipe fix the dreaded Red Ring of Death?
With the growing number of complaints surrounding the failures of Xbox 360 hardware, both owners and prospective buyers of the games console often wonder if Microsoft is doing anything to improve the reliability of the hardware.
Reports coming in from Europe indicate that Microsoft is adding some additional cooling measures to the Xbox 360. First seen on French website Logic-Sunrise are pictures of a revised heatsink that sits below the DVD-ROM drive.
The new heatsink, complete with a heatpipe to another heatsink, sits on top of the Xbox 360’s Xenos GPU. The same hardware cooling changes were also found on MaxConsole in a Microsoft-repaired console in the Czech Republic.
It’s still unclear if these revised Xbox 360 units also incorporate epoxy to bond the CPU and GPU onto the console’s motherboard. It is suspected that when the console internals heat up, the connection between the BGA part and the motherboard may disconnect when the PCB warps.
Microsoft has attempted to address this problem by surrounding the CPU and GPU with epoxy on the Xbox 360 Elite, though it has yet to be seen on the Premium or Core packages.
Aside from more aggressive heatsinks, the Xbox 360’s best way to cool down would be by way of a die shrink. Reports from 2006 originally targeted for the shrink from 90nm to 65nm to arrive by this time, though new information points to the new chip version to arrive later this year.
Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
It appears MS is finally finding a solution to overheating 360s
And this couldn't come at a better time, because just today my second 360 went down.
Oh yeah, totally.
How many times do people jam that cartridge in that slot, and then move it an inch here and there to see if it works.
The best is when the screen starts black, and then the next time, it would be all lines and shit, and then the title screen but without music, and then finally you get it working. It was awesome.
I'm pretty sure the NES would just work randomly and blowing in the games had no way of actually working. We just thought it worked.
Originally posted by Smasandian
Oh yeah, totally.How many times do people jam that cartridge in that slot, and then move it an inch here and there to see if it works.
The best is when the screen starts black, and then the next time, it would be all lines and shit, and then the title screen but without music, and then finally you get it working. It was awesome.
I'm pretty sure the NES would just work randomly and blowing in the games had no way of actually working. We just thought it worked.
Hehe. I remember that very well...
18 and a half years after we got our NES, my first attempt at getting a non-working game to work is still always to blow on it. Even if it's a PS2 game or something.
Yeah.
When I was a kid, I went to my dad's every two weeks. My NES was only allowed there so during Christmas one year, I had a huge amount of lifesavers. I was eating one and I decided to blow into my NES, but by mistake, I accidently blew the lifesaver into it, smashing it into a million of pieces. It was all sticky and shit.
So what did I do?
Just jammed that ****ing thing into the slot, and voila!! It worked.
My Gameboy still works to this day and its been under my bed at my parents house for years.