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Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose?
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TheVISS 
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Registered: Nov 01
| Date Posted: 1/11 5:51pm Subject: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? - Date Edited: 1/14 9:26am (1 edits total) Edited By: madchad |
One think that bothered me about Nintendo this generation is that they got greedy and got money out of me by thinking I was a fool.
They released the Memory card in phazes instead of just releasing ONE big one.
They made link play, and locked feature unless I went out and got a GBA, a game and a wire.
I was just hooking up My CUBE to play RE4....I just noticed how ridiculously short the wires on the Cube controllers are. I happen to have a SNES and an N64 near by and compared...WAY shorter wires on the CUBE.
Do you think Nintendo Did this to get people to bite on the WaveBird that would be released in due time?
oh fine. here
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scavms 
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| Date Posted: 1/11 5:53pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
Not sure but it initally irked me as well too.
Now that I have the Wavebird though, it's all good.
ANY next gen system that doesn't have wireless controllers out of the box is automatically not getting my $$. Wires are just so inconvenient now.
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trank31337
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| Date Posted: 1/11 5:55pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
one word, two syllables: WAVEBIRD
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TheVISS
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| Date Posted: 1/11 5:58pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
^^^^
Thats what I mean. Do you think they made short wires to make people WANT Wavebird....
Sort of pulling wool over our eyes. Make the Wires short then sell a wirless controller.
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metroid_omega
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| Date Posted: 1/11 5:58pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
its so you'll buy a Wavebird
its genius
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OgreBattle1111111111
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| Date Posted: 1/11 5:58pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
Even if they did do it on purpose, I would have still bought my beloved WaveBird. Also, they did not swindle any money out of me either. I only payed for 4 (well, technicly 3) controllers. I did not buy too many corded ones. I have nothing to regret. 
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nintendofreak17
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:00pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
Ofcourse, just like they didn't put a headphone jack on the GBASP. So you had to spend more money to get a gosh darn adapter. 
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guitarman101
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:01pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
well i dont know, but the power cord and Video outputs are pretty long compared to xboxs. i Pull my gamecube out to play so cord length doesnt bother me, but my xbox has trouble making it to the wall becuase the power cord is like a foot and a half.
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Kapisi 
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:01pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
Why is everything a friggin conspiracy with you?
You never seem to be satisfied.
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big_z
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:02pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
The memory cards were purposely made small because the profits nintendo would be making were huge. As for the cords they cut off the extra foot or two to save $0.0001 on each controller. Matt talked about the cords before in a mail bag. Nintendo is a very cheap company.
As for the wavebird, they're nice but i wish logitech would make a wireless controller with rumble for the cube. I have a ps2 one and it destroys the wavebird.
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grap3fruitman 
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:06pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
No, I think Shiggy was just running around with scissors one day and accidently snipped off 4 feet.
"Miyamoto, wasn't this cord longer before?"
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wiley12 
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:23pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
Yeah probably, but I don't really care. You're going to need more than one controller and the Wavebird is only 5 bucks more.
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iznogoud2
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:28pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
Since my cube is right next to my SNES,I too have noticed that the wires are very short...not sure what they did that though...
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OmnuNero
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:31pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
I guess you just had some random Urge to complain... But yes... I agree...cords... short... No big deal... don't drink the wine if you're going to drive...
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Chefgon
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:31pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
I'm not sure where you got your SNES and N64 wires from, but mine are the EXACT same length as the GCN cables.
Besides, you're a damn fool if you're not playing with the Wavebird, and that has nothing to do with cord length. The cords could be fifty feet long and I'd feel exactly the same way about it.
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eightbitguy
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:33pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
Yeah VISS Nintendo made short wires to get you to buy a Wavebird.
And Microsoft made a huge ass gargantuan controller that no one in their right mind would ever want to play with in order to get everyone to buy the S.
And Sony only added 2 controller ports on their console in order to get everyone to buy the multitap.
It's one huge controller conspiracy, and EVERYONE is in on it, except YOU.
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blackbag99
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:33pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
Run out of things to complain about, huh Viss?
You have got to be kidding me with this garbage. Every post you make has a little negative tinge to it.
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Chefgon
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:50pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
At this point I'm thankful that Nintendo launched with the MC59. The 251 was an unneccessary step, but by launching with the small card most games were forced to be developed with small saves. Thanks to that, I have over 50 games on my MC1019 (8mb) and its only 2/3 full. Conversely, I have six games on my PS2 8mb card and its half full.
By giving developers plenty of space, Sony let them get lazy. If I wanted to save 50 PS2 games I would need an entire stack of memory cards, and I guarentee that would cost more than the one MC59, one MC251, and one MC1019 that I've bought for my GameCube.
Its deceptive, but Nintendo actually had the better value on Memory Cards this gen. Of course nobody can beat Microsoft's hard drive, but thats another discussion all together.
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wratih9
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:52pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
They aren't bad but they are no where near as long as almost every other console. I got the wavebird and it works fine and I picked up 2 additional extension cords so when I want rumble I can have it. Yeah it's a pain.
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mark9112
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:52pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
They didn't need any tricks to get people to buy the wavebird. It's the best wireless controller ever made.
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EricR1983
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:55pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? - Date Edited: 1/11 7:03pm (1 edits total) Edited By: EricR1983 |
You know, if the Wavebird launched at like $70 like many other wireless controllers at that time, I would've had the same thought you did. As it stands, $35 is a fantastic price for such a functionally flawless controller (the need for rumble is subjective, IMO). If it had been priced higher, I would have thought about it a little longer, and probably not gotten one. The way it actually happened, however, had me buy 4 of them and trade in all my corded controllers (3 at the time). I think of it as an optional upgrade, as the cord length never really bothered me. The system isn't exactly difficult to pull out further if the controllers are too short.
And Chefgon makes an excellent point about the memory cards. It still amazes me that the save files on most games are so small (Metroid Prime - 1 block, Rebel Strike - 3 blocks for 5 save slots I think). Not counting custom game saves (like create-a-skater that my little brother uses, or custom maps in TS2), I could fit all my games on one MC 251. I can't fit all my saves from my PS2 games on one card, and I have about 1/4 as many as I do for the Cube. The hard drive in the Xbox created the opposite effect, I think, as many save files won't even fit on a memory card (KOtOR, Morrowind, most DLC). But, the end-user doesn't really notice that if they only ever use their one system.
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squallface
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| Date Posted: 1/11 6:59pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
they cut the cords down because in japan they were way too long so many complaints of Long controller cords were sent to Nintendo and sony. Nintendo answered this, but sony just changed the color.as for short wires, i pull the cube out in the middle of my room and can sit back to play. the cables for the wall, and the A/V cables are about 3 feet longer than Sony's.
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norrin000
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| Date Posted: 1/11 7:01pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
This is one of the most inane topics I've ever seen.
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big_z
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| Date Posted: 1/11 7:02pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
I'm not sure where you got your SNES and N64 wires from, but mine are the EXACT same length as the GCN cables
The GCN and n64 cords are the same length but the snes cords are much longer.
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| Date Posted: 1/11 7:05pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
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squallface
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| Date Posted: 1/11 7:05pm Subject: RE: Did They Make Short Wires on Purpose? |
but the real question is "Why is there a handle on the GCN?"
do people carry it around by holding that thing?
this and more on the next...
Ridicoluous GCN questions!
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