Europe and the USA have always been kind of fascinated
with *some* japanese products. Everyone wants a SONY TV; everyone knows about
SEGA and NINTENDO; MITSUBISHI has the GDI fuel system for regular cars...
and games such as Bust a Move, are so different, that you have to
love them. On the other hand, other oriental software toys are much less
interesting and it is even a mistery why they ever get to be successful over
there!
One of the greatest and most controversial thing now
happening in Japan is that the superb SEGA
DREAMCAST is dying slowly... just because SONY announced the
PLAYSTATION 2, should it be name that simple. It was expected that some european
software developers would NOT bet on DREAMCAST, but it was never predicted
that japanese authors would also jump out of the wagon and just wait for
the 2nd PSX... while learning the new SDK, already being distributed.
Should I remember you that the DREAMCAST is the world's
current TOP gaming console? With an internal modem for Internet play? And
the *only* console designed to allow a 1GB HD as a future add on? Plus with
*100% perfect* conversions of top selling arcades, such as SEGA Rally
2? Damn impressive!, yet, misteriously being ignored by the western public,
and now by the japanese... that is wrong!
All because of a December 1999 machine, yet unnamed,
known as the PSX2, with more FP horsepower than a P3 @ 500 and better 3D
performance than the Voodoo 3! These number seem impressive, and THEY ARE
IMPRESSIVE. However, the PSX2 will NOT hold the crown of the hardware for
more than a few weeks, as current rythm of PC hardware development is going
to catch it by January 2000, with the advent of the P3 @ 1 GHz (that is MICROWAVE
frequency!!!), much better 3D hardware (probably not just polygon oriented),
and new gaming peripherals, such as steering wheels + pedals, ***with clutch***.
PC will reign. DREAMCAST will have a hard time. PSX2 will get a name.
The
Gameboy Color, meanwhile, keeps trucking on as the originator
of this whole movement. If Pokemon and similar collecting/card
games hadn't been so successful, then SNK and Bandai probably wouldn't
have bothered coming along to challenge, and so the franchises already
set up will continue on for the foreseeable future. Nintendo also has
by far the most third-party support, with plenty of games being released
in Europe and America as well as many developers in Japan. So the Gameboy
still has the advantage. But can the company keep it? I suspect so,
but the market is going to be getting much more competitive in the
future.
The collection of previously released Super Nintendo Final
Fantasy titles tops the chart — would this title sell 200,000
copies in its first week on release in the States? I guess the answer would
be no, as outside Japan, it was really only FF7 that turned the
mass market on to Square. Again, another title that probably won't get
a release outside Japan.
Uma das mais abomináveis pragas sociais -
os ladrões de casas - estão a ficar perigosamente organizados, já recorrendo
a caneta & papel, ainda antes do século XXI...
Este dramático progresso tecnológico dos gatunos, é motivo
de preocupação para todos os que são honestos e trabalham uma vida
para assegurar conforto a si & aos seus.
Esta imagem consta de um fax que a PSP portuguesa
tem feito distribuir junto das instituições públicas e refere um conjunto
de imagens que supostamente serão afixadas, na forma de autocolantes,
em lares sob vigilância dos alarves.
Todo este assunto carece de confirmação. A parte
dos autocolantes é particularmente estranha, uma vez que seria fácil
contactar as fábricas dos referidos, para investigar quem requisitou
a impressão das gravuras. Todavia, nunca é demais prevenir.
