Moving the software to disc media generally means lower development costs for the publishers, which, in turn, trickles down to the consumer not only in price, but also in availability and quality, as it’s then easier to try out untested game ideas ( Pikmin, anyone?). The GameCube is the first Nintendo video game system to use a disc-based medium rather than cartridges for its games.
In English: the GameCube is optimized to push speed up while pushing costs down hence its position at the lower end of the price spectrum. New components designed by IBM and MoSys, as well as a large-capacity secondary memory cache, keep instructions moving through the system’s microprocessor (MPU) at peak levels. Nintendo says its engineers have removed traditional bottlenecks that have, in the past, slowed down processing. All the prelaunch titles we’ve seen play smoothly, with bright, fast graphics and great sound. The company has concentrated its efforts on games. It doesn’t try to play your CD collection, run your movies, read your e-mail, or store your MP3 files. In fact, its playful, appealing design and small size (the unit is a not-quite-cubed 6 inches) aren’t the only features that set it apart from the others.įor starters, Nintendo has quite clearly made this a game-only machine. Though it looks like a toy, don’t be fooled: the Nintendo GameCube is a powerful video game console that rightly deserves its place among the other next-generation game systems. While most other systems likewise have their games stored on discs, the GameCube’s 3-inch format is smaller than everyone else’s, and is so designed to fit in a shirt pocket as much as to deter would-be software pirates. Moving the software to disc media generally means lower development costs for the publishers, which, in turn, trickles down to the consumer not only in price, but also in availability and quality, as it’s then easier to try out untested game ideas (Pikmin). Nintendo Other Consoles and Hardware (11).Nintendo Super Famicom / NES Games (23).
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