Wii vs PS3

The GoldenEye video game pretty much followed the plot of the movie- I think Bond did bungee-jump down a dam.

I have an Oblivion capable computer. Heck, I’ve even got the collector DVD edition of Oblivion, so I know it works beautifully. Of course, the entire computer was assembled before I even thought about buying Oblivion. It’s an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processor using the 939 socket ($350), with 1 gig of RAM (2x512, but I don’t remember the price or manufacturer), a NVidia GeForce 6600 GT (AGP connector) manufactured by PNY ($130), all on a Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra-939 motherboard (don’t remember the price, probably $150+) and in an Antec Sonata case (I think $100.) This, as I’ve mentioned before, was a homebrew using some older parts I already had (good DVD-ROM and CD-RW drives, two hard drives, software, etc.) and I can get Dolby Digital 4.1 (the difference between 4.1 and 5.1 is small if you can position the left and right speakers properly) with the speakers and sound card from my old Dell. The monitor is an older Dell Triniton 17" CRT monitor, so it’s only got VGA-in but it’s pretty sharp none-the-less (would using the DVI to VGA adaptor give any better a picture?) It may not be able to handle the very highest settings but it still looks (and sounds) really good. Something a little older (like NWN) can be played on the highest settings easily. I’d much rather spend the same amount of cash that I’d have to spend on a PS3 on a Wii and several hundred dollars of computer upgrades (though at this point I’m pretty much stuck with adding more RAM if I don’t change out the basic components of the system.)

You must’ve purchased this a long time ago. :slight_smile: I put together my current system at the beginning of this last summer, and I paid $235 for an Athlon64 3700+. Now they’re down to about $100. 3500’s are now $88 on NewEgg. The price dropped pretty rapidly right after I bought mine, which kind of annoyed me, but oh well, that’s how it goes sometimes…

But that really cool one for Super Nintendo was developed by Rare. That’s my point.

Purchased May of 2005, so yeah about 17 months. An enternity in computer technology, I know. But it’s still not a bad processor. I might stick a new CPU in there sometime, probably one of the new dual-cores. However, most of the time I don’t do really heavy-duty gaming or other things where I need even more power than I have right now. What would probably help more right now would be another gig or so of RAM.

I should have been more specific when I originally said “No Rare games-” as I elaborated earlier, Nintendo owns the rights to all Rare-developed games featuring characters originally created by Nintendo, such as Donkey Kong Country, whereas Rare owns the rights to all Rare-developed games featuring original characters, as well as GoldenEye.

Difference duly noted, Cap’n.

Newest quasi-firm news is that the Wii Virtual Console will also feature Commodore 64 games. I was an Atari 800 guy myself, but wouldn’t mind seeing a few cross-platform titles on the C64 side of the VC fence.

Yes, that was my point. I was saying if you removed all the licensed material from the game, you’d still be left with the “jumping off the Arkangelsk Dam” cutscene.