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| IF YOU WANT TO DROP A COUPLE OF BENJAMINS ON A DVD PLAYER OR SOME KIND OF INTERNET DEVICE FOR YOUR TV, THEN PLEASE DO. IF YOU WANT A PC, THEN BUY A PC, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. BUT IF YOU WANT TO PLAY GAMES, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN NINTENDO. SINCE THE 80'S NINTENDO HAS BEEN CHANGING THE WAY THE WORLD PLAYS GAMES. THE NINTENDO GAME CUBE CONTINUES IN THAT TRADITION WITH A NEXT GENERATION GAME CONSOLE THAT PUTS THE EMPHASIS ON GAMEPLAY, NOT MEGA-BYTES, AND MEGA-HERTZ.. "ULIKE THE COMMON PHILOSOPHY OF POPULARIZING THE HARDWARE USING GAMES AND THEN TRYING TO DOMINATE IN OTHER FEILDS, NINTENDO'S GOAL IS TO CREATE THE ULTIMATE HARDWARE FOR PLAYING GAMES" SAID GENTO TAKEDA, DIRECTOR OF NINTENDO. NINTENDO HAS MADE NO ANNOUNCEMENT AS TO WHICH GAMES WILL MAKE THE LAUNCH ROSTER, BUT MANY NINTENDO FAVORITES HAVE BEEN SPOTLIGHTED DURING GAME CUBE DEMOS, INCLUDING HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES OF MARIO, LINK FROM THE LEGEND OF ZELDA SERIES, AND METROID. THIRD PARTY DEVELOPERS ARE ALSO ABOARD AND HAVE ANNOUNCED MANY INCREDIBLE GAME FOR THE GAME CUBE. ALL OFF YOUR FAVORITE GAMES AND CHARACTERS WILL BE THERE, INCLUDING MADDEN NFL 2002, SSX, HARRY POTTER, JAMES BOND, AND STAR WARS ROGUE SQAUDRON. "IN MY EXPERIENCE, THERE HAVE OFTEN BEEN THEORETICAL CLAIMS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE FOR GAME HARDWARE, AND ALTHOUGH PEOPLE WERE VERY IMPRESSED BY THE FIGURES, THE ACTUAL PRODUCT HASN'T EVEN DELIVERED ONE TENTH OF THE CLAIMS" SAYS SHIGERO MIYAMOTO, THE MASTER NINTENDO GAME DESIGNER. |
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| IT IS A GIVEN THAT THE NINTENDO GAME CUBE WILL OFFER BETTER GRAPHICS AND HIGHER QUILITY SOUND, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY IT WILL ALLOW DEVELOPERS THE FREEDOM TO CONCENTRATE ON CREATIVITY, WITHOUT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS" THE GAME CUBE RUNS ON A COPPER- WIRE IBM CPU AND AN ATI GRAPHICS CHIP, BACKED BY 40 MB OF MEMORY. IT USES A SPECIAL OPTICAL DISK AND MEASURES ONLY 8 CM'S IN DIAMETER AND CAN PACK IN 1.5 GB OF DATA, WHICH IS ABOUT 190 TIMES MORE DATA THAN YOU'LL FIND ON A SUPER MARIO 64 CARTIDGE. YOU ALSO GET FOUR CONTROLLER PORTS FOR MULTI-PLAYER FUN. THE WHOLE PACKAGE IS A COLORFUL CUBE WITH A CONVEINIENT HANDLE FOR TRANSPORT. THE GAME CUBE CONTROLLER FETURES SEVEN BUTTONS, TWO ANALOG STICKS, A D-PAD, AND A BUILT-IN RUMBLE DEVICE. AN OPTIONAL WIRELESS CONTROLLER CALLED A WAVEBIRD, WILL OFFER GAMER UNTETHERED CONTROL FROM UP TO 10 METERS AWAY. GAMERS WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO USE THEIR GAMEBOY ADVANCE AS A CONTOLLER FOR SUPPORTED GAMES. IN ADDITION TO THE WAVEBIRD, NINTENDO HAS ANNOUNCED SEVERAL OTHER MUST-HAVE ACCESSORIES: A FOUR MEGABIT FLASH MEMORY DIGICARD, A 64 MEGABYTE SD MEMORY CARD, AN SD ADAPTER FOR READING DATA FROM THE 64 MEGABYTE CARD, A DIGITAL VIDEO CABLE, A MODEM ADAPTER, AND A BROADBAND ADAPTER. |
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