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jefforange89 on 20 March 2009

So, I was bored at work tonight, and I was thinking - why is the expression "two GameCubes duct taped together" used derogatorily to describe the Wii?  The GameCube was a fantastic piece of hardware in it's day, so technically, if someone says that a Wii is two GameCubes duct taped together, then that should mean that the Wii is two times fantastic, no? :)

 

Okay, that was really lame.  But I was bored. >_>



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.jayderyu on 20 March 2009

There was a developers during GDC rant who complained that the Wii was 2 GC ducted taped together.

I always liked the GDC Rant. Often they complain about the failing parts of the industry. Why Trends negative ones continue. This includes increased budgets, increased daily hours, increased focused on graphics being flamed at.

Then out of the blue a guy or two rant on the whole idea of not pushing all of these values and should. I always believe that it's less a slam against the machine specificly but the the pain in the but it will be from a dev point of view that they will need to split developement time between very distinct powered platforms.



Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.