Topic: Alternative Consoles (Consoles not made by the big 3)

[Pfil]

I don't know about calling EA shallow. They're a business. And a big one. Just like Nintendo, they're about what will give them the biggest bottom line. Nintendo swells their bottom line by pandering to their fanboys, EA swells theirs by catering to the Battlefield and Madden markets. *shrugs* Guess I don't see a difference.

Metroid + Mario + Zelda + many more VS. sports games and whatever. That's how I see it.
I don't mean it in an offensive way, I just believe Nintendo's quality can't be matched when it comes to games.
I hope all Konami games were like the good CV's, but they aren't. And that applies to all companies. Except Nintendo, you have a base quality assured, even in their worst games.

[KaZudra]

EA is shit, Every IP in their possession, every developer under them has went so down-hill that I doubt anyone else would take em.



uPlay is so fucking retarded, I have to get uplay and register for it just to play a DEMO, a FUCKING DEMO, so I have steam running, the uplay, so I have to login to login, run not one but two DRM services to run a DEMO, I love Ubisoft, but their PC division is beyond retarded.

[Johnny]

I don't know about calling EA shallow. They're a business. And a big one. Just like Nintendo, they're about what will give them the biggest bottom line. Nintendo swells their bottom line by pandering to their fanboys, EA swells theirs by catering to the Battlefield and Madden markets. *shrugs* Guess I don't see a difference.

Still EA does what Nintendo and a couple of other companies don't do which is if you buy a used game, you have to pay to use the online features or you get punished in some way or another.

[Lelygax]

Still EA does what Nintendo and a couple of other companies don't do which is if you buy a used game, you have to pay to use the online features or you get punished in some way or another.

Remember when that old story, when a company called Microsoft said that Xbox One wont would accept used games, so you would need to pay a tax that costs almost the value of a new game? That story makes me laug everytime.

Bad thing about it is that it was a real story and wasnt even old.

[Pfil]

I really don't care about that, 90% of what I play are downloaded roms from the internet.
Where I live, if you aren't millionaire, if you want to play and have a good life at the same time, you have to rely on piracy.
Consoles cost more than a monthly salary, and games are sometimes like a quarter or a third part of a monthly income. And that's if you have a decent job (in money terms).

[Lelygax]

I really don't care about that, 90% of what I play are downloaded roms from the internet.
Where I live, if you aren't millionaire, if you want to play and have a good life at the same time, you have to rely on piracy.
Consoles cost more than a monthly salary, and games are sometimes like a quarter or a third part of a monthly income. And that's if you have a decent job (in money terms).

Described Brazil at the same time with this.

[Pfil]

I know. It's really difficult to buy original games, and more difficult to buy consoles when they are new.

[Johnny]

Remember when that old story, when a company called Microsoft said that Xbox One wont would accept used games, so you would need to pay a tax that costs almost the value of a new game? That story makes me laug everytime.

Bad thing about it is that it was a real story and wasnt even old.

True and I'm sure EA and Microsoft aren't the only companies either out there with an abundance of stupid ideas. Its just those two companies in particular don't seem to learn from their mistakes. If they do learn, they just make bigger ones later on along the way.

[Lelygax]

Yes, its seems that these new consoles will cost almost if not more than R$2,000 here. This can sound a low price for some americans, but think about a country where a standard work pays R$800 monthly and more or less R$100 is used to pay bills (Im only counting water and energy in that).

[Pfil]

In my country a good salary is about 500 euros. Imagine my surprise when I learned what PS4 will cost.

[Neobelmont]

Has any one mentioned wonderswan? I'm more interested in the crystal and color more than anything and I want dat Final Fantasy edition. 

[Pfil]

You can find Wonderswan in e-bay these days.