Nintendo would be "embarrassed" if they were Sony or Microsoft?

[chaospluto]

Viper1 said:

chaospluto said:

Viper1 said:

chaospluto said:

Nintendo are always using Old Tech

You must be new to gaming.  The Wii is the first Nintendo home console to be underpowered compared to the competition.  And many times they've been the most powerful.

Cartridges were Old Tech.  Small Discs were Old Tech.  DvDs are becoming old Tech.  Now do you get what I'm saying?

N64 was technically more powerful, but there was no way they could show what the PS1 could, having Nintendo using cartridges.

I know the Gamecube was more powerful than the PS2, Gamecube also came out a year later. 

 

Either way, I'm not saying them using older tech is bad or anything.  If it works for them, well then it works for them.  Look at the Wii old hardware with new type of Wiimote (lol).

Nintendo was forced to use carts for the N64 because thier deals with both Sony and Phillips to provide the optical disc drive fell through.  And they most could show what the PS could.  Even RE2, which required 2 discs on the PS, was released on the N64 with all the pre-rendered CGI intact, though heavily compressed.   And there was plenty of titles on N64 that graphically would not have been possible on PS without heavy sacrifices.  One could also argue that the catridge was more advanced than the disc on some factors such as reading and writing.  You can't write to a disc and read times were painfully slow by comparison.  Durability was another problem with discs that made cartridges were more advanced.  They also protected against piracy much better.  

The Mini-DVD's of the GC were actually more advanced technology than the DVD's used in the PS2 and Xbox because the special disc drive and the encryption standard used.

The Wii uses DVD because Blu-ray and HD-DVD would have been too expensive and with BRD they'd have to pay a royalty to their bigest competitor.  Nor was it really needed given the SD graphics and texture resolution.  Few Wii titles even need to be dual layer discs.

But you seem to be fixated on the game medium as it means to call Nintendo old tech while ignoring all the high tech stuff they've been using since the NES.

You're making things sound way more glorified then they should be.  

Cartridges couldn't hold much media, nor could it push FMVs like the PS1, sure RE2 showed FMV in N64 but how many games came out on N64 that could actually do it?  Not many, most of the FMVs were stripped from the game in order to release on the N64.  Sure later on they released an Addon RAM Pak, that allowed more detail, but unfortunately it was a little too late.  Also, the sound quality was no where near CD quality the PS1 could push out.

and Cartridges protected against piracy?  Yeah, OK, because my brother had every N64 game that came out, it required a simple Mod.  He definitely wasn't the only person to do this, since he was showed by a friend.  I'm not saying PS1 was protected, it was rather easy to pirate PS1 games.  But it was equally as easy on both systems.  I'm not one to pirate any games, I just gave my input on it.

Oh and my bad on the Mini-DvDs.  What I meant to say, it was a tech that just didn't catch on.  MiniDvD was nothing more than just that, a miniature sized DvD.   It held more, read/write faster, but other than that, it was still a DvD.

 

Yes I know the Wii is using DvD because well BluRay no one knew it would be big as it is today.  DvD is still fine, I'm just saying, by Next-Gen it will be old.  I would expect Nintendo to use something different by that point anyways.

I wouldn't call what Nintendo used "High-Tech".  High tech is something that is Vastly superior, not minimal.