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1 - NES
2 - SNES
3 - N64
4 - Gamecube
5 - Wii

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You guys are stupid, why do you care about that kind of stuff?]]>Feb 22nd 2007 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/Feb 22nd 2007 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/Feb 22nd 2007 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/Feb 22nd 2007 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/Feb 22nd 2007 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/Feb 22nd 2007 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/
Just because there's no glitzy "next gen" graphics you decide to bag on the hardware? People buy consoles to play games, and judging from the way the Wii is selling like hotcakes, people like the games available on the Wii.]]>Feb 22nd 2007 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/Feb 22nd 2007 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/
A new Wii might come with the ability to play DVD or an HD format, but Nintendo will not release a more power system from a game standpoint and abandon current Wii owners within a 2 year window, it would be PR suicide.]]>Feb 24th 2007 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/Feb 22nd 2007 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/Feb 23rd 2007 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/Feb 22nd 2007 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/
I would like that but I suppose some wouldn't... PS3/360 quality graphics in Metroid would dominate anything on the other consoles.]]>Feb 22nd 2007 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/Feb 22nd 2007 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/
I quote 'The 3DO cost more than the SNES and Genesis combined, and the Jaguar was extremely difficult to program for, leading to a lack of games that used its extra power'.

Does this not sound like the PS3? The 3DO bombed because it tried too hard to beat the competition with the most powerful console, and it was very hard to develop games for.

I quote again 'Atari Corp.'s Jaguar was released to combat the dominance that Nintendo and Sega were fighting for. Atari's hope was that by designing a more powerful console, they would be able to leapfrog all of the released systems of the day and give gamers a technologically superior system. The Jaguar eventually faded into the twilight due to a number of reasons. For example, it was difficult to program for the Jaguar, thus making it too problematic to have good third party support'.

Again, this sounds like the PS3, the Jaguar also bombed.

I'm not saying that it will happen with the PS3, because of the Blu-Ray drive and that it's got Sony behind it, but it is strange that the consoles which try to beat the others purely with processing power don't usually win.]]>Feb 23rd 2007 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/gamecube-calls-it-quits-youre-on-your-own-now-wii/
Yes, the architecture it almost identical, but at the very least the Wii's processor and GPU are clocked at much higher speeds than those of the GCN, making the idea that they can just pop the ones from the GCNs into the Wii absurd. As well, the Wii versions have some extensions to them that add some new capabilities. So it really is a different system, just with a similar architecture.

But enjoy your anti-Nintendo sentiments all you want, while I enjoy my Wii.]]>Feb 23rd 2007 12:18PM