old comments by Shigeru Miyamoto on [Gamecube] graphics

Sir Chewbury Gubbins wrote:
> Zomoniac the Monkey was never naughty:
>> Sir Chewbury Gubbins wrote:
>>> Zomoniac the Monkey was never naughty:
>>>> Who said I didn't like it?
>>> You. On this group. Over and over and over again.
>> I think you overrate it and it has its flaws, and it's not really my
>> type of machine. It's not that I don't like it, it's that I think it's
>> completely failed to live up to the revolution tag. It's a fun novelty,
>> and a decent machine when you take it for what it is. But it's not going
>> to change gaming forever.
>
> First of all, we're talking about you not me. But we'll play along. I've
> played about 3 hours of games on ANY platform over the past months or so.
> I doubt that's an indication that I overrate the console. Secondly, it
> ALREADY HAS changed gaming forever because it's introduced a whole new
> demographic to gaming. You can handwave and fluff all you like - it's
> a simple fact.

It has, but the games aren't selling, and until the games sell in decent
quantities, irrespective of the hardware's installed userbase,
developers won't be jumping around desperate to make exclusives for it.
And if it ends up being the case that nobody other than Nintendo is
making games for it, it'll end up like all the others, nice, with a
great game or two every year, but with little longevity.

>>> Ad hominem attacks do nothing except make you look childish, Zo.
>> I'm sure that's true, but how is you saying (literal translation) "you
>> are teh ghey for not liking the Wii" any different to me saying (literal
>> translation) "you are teh ghey for not liking the others"?
>
> Erm, do you want to point at the part of the thread where I said that? Or
> is this more Zo hallucinations.

Probably the latter, although I take it to be implied.

>>> WHOOOOOSH
>> Clearly. I'm too tired to decipher sarcasm today.
>
> No, I don't think that's it at all. I think you just skip over the bits
> you don't want to read. As we all do to an extent.

No, you confused me. I said the cheap DVD players could upscale to an
acceptable level, and you said there was a difference between expensive
tech and cheap tech, which I thought was you implying the Wii was
expensive tech and a £2 upscaler chip wouldn't do the job. That's still
how it appears to me!

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Zo

Zomoniac the Monkey was never naughty:
>
> It has, but the games aren't selling, and until the games sell in decent

Look, Zo, you KEEP SAYING THAT, but the fact is that the top 40
has consistantly been 30-50% Wii games since launch.
Yeah, I know you're going to start babbling on about attach rates
now, but that has bugger all to do with it. There are games already
selling in decent amounts. Otherwise they wouldn't be showing up in
the charts.


>> No, I don't think that's it at all. I think you just skip over the bits
>> you don't want to read. As we all do to an extent.
>
> No, you confused me. I said the cheap DVD players could upscale to an
> acceptable level, and you said there was a difference between expensive
> tech and cheap tech, which I thought was you implying the Wii was
> expensive tech and a £2 upscaler chip wouldn't do the job. That's still
> how it appears to me!

Oh I give up. I have this horrible vision of me and you sitting opposite
each other in a nursing home and gumming abuse at each other, before
finally falling into the passionate clinch that we've been denying for
so long.

Or something.

Choobs

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