Inline_guy
Dockboy
I just beat Metriod Prime for my Nintendo Gamecube. Great game. I highly recommend it. Anyways, after finishing this game I got a thought that I have had several times before.
Wouldn't it be smart for Apple to pair with Nintendo. Hear me out. The Gamecube is already made with a modified G3 IBM processor (called gekko). It also has a graphic chip from ATI (originally designed by ART X a break off group from SGI. ART X was later bought by ATI. This ART X/ATI processor is called flipper).
At least the systems are some what alike... More so than a Playstaion or an XBox. If Nintendo and Apple teamed up on the next system and used a similar architecture (as Nintendo has already stated they wanted to do, so that you can play all your Gamecube games on the next system) so that you could run games on Nintendo's next system and Apple computers. Apple would loss the stigma of not having games and Nintendo's software could reach an even larger audience. Nintendo already takes a loss on the hardware they make. They make all their money on software. So it would be great for Nintendo. Apple would have more games (and some of the best games produced exclusive from Nintendo). It would be very helpful to both parties. And really not to much of a risk for either.
Pipe dream yes. But I still think it would be great.
Downside. There are many reasons it will not happen. First and for most Nintendo would never allow it. Nintendo is crazy about Piracy. And they would never let a computer play their games for the fear of having games easily reproduced. Much of their decision to go with a proprietary DVD format was to stop the possibility of piracy. Which has done well.
Matthew
Wouldn't it be smart for Apple to pair with Nintendo. Hear me out. The Gamecube is already made with a modified G3 IBM processor (called gekko). It also has a graphic chip from ATI (originally designed by ART X a break off group from SGI. ART X was later bought by ATI. This ART X/ATI processor is called flipper).
At least the systems are some what alike... More so than a Playstaion or an XBox. If Nintendo and Apple teamed up on the next system and used a similar architecture (as Nintendo has already stated they wanted to do, so that you can play all your Gamecube games on the next system) so that you could run games on Nintendo's next system and Apple computers. Apple would loss the stigma of not having games and Nintendo's software could reach an even larger audience. Nintendo already takes a loss on the hardware they make. They make all their money on software. So it would be great for Nintendo. Apple would have more games (and some of the best games produced exclusive from Nintendo). It would be very helpful to both parties. And really not to much of a risk for either.
Pipe dream yes. But I still think it would be great.
Downside. There are many reasons it will not happen. First and for most Nintendo would never allow it. Nintendo is crazy about Piracy. And they would never let a computer play their games for the fear of having games easily reproduced. Much of their decision to go with a proprietary DVD format was to stop the possibility of piracy. Which has done well.
Matthew