Redesigns don't have to be smaller, that's not a requirement. They need to be better (which the Pana Q is) or cheaper to manufacture. It did come out only three months later than the original Cube, but considering it's design is based on the Gamecube (that is, a cube, and not something completely else), I'd say it's a redesign.
whoah wait there. A brief history lesson: The Panasonic Q is not made by nintendo. When Nintendo were developing the dolphin, they had a cross-agreement with Panasonic to provide their tech for implimentation, in part or in whole, inside one or more Panasonic products. It's not as if nintendo wanted the Q, they didn't, it was Panasonic's request to have access to the GC's technology in the spirit of promoting their DVD players a la PS2. Furthermore, unlike the GC which was internally designed at nintendo, the Q was designed by Panasonic. There's no issue of redesign or bad/better here, it's just a DVD player that happens to include a gamecube inside - you even have to use different A/V cables as although the GC part supports 480p the DVD player side does not!!!! Vice versa, digital audio output, although natively possible on the GC's motherboard is not supported on the Q. It is evident that Panasonic wanted an edge against other DVD manufacturers vis-a-vis the first generation PS2, and in many ways they made a better product. Regarding the whole issue of the GC playing DVDs the initial decision was to have DVD support, then they suggested the use of an add-on and then they abandonded the idea completely - Panasonic's deal was irrelevant and would occur at any rate. For the record, the Q is one of the sexiest/oddest looking consoles ever made, it just looks class and unlike anything else in the living room.
Nope. Nintendo had to license their system techology BECAUSE OF the optical hardware Panasonic/Matsushita provided Nintendo for the Gamecube. Just the same as Sega licensed the Saturn out to Victor and Hitachi.
we're saying the exact same thing buddy, no need to disagree. Obviously the word cross-agreement implies a bilateral deal, the previous post just centered around Panasonic's side of things and how they came about to make the Q. It's understood that it was one of Panasonic's demands on their side of the deal since, surprise surprise, Matsushita is the one providing the optical disk technology. I don't see why else they would have any dealings, especially sharing proprietary information, with Panasonic in the first place if it wasn't about an integral part of their next console.
That's the 21" version, they also did a 14". I remember playing on one years ago and thinking it was the most awesome thing ever. I was very concerned however (at the time) as to how you'd attach the Super Famicom CD-Rom . Considering all the various iterations of the Megadrive, including the Aiwa unit, I'm surprised there was never a MD/MCD TV combo. Oh, and prior to this Sharp made a Famicom TV combo. As for the Panasonic Q, I personally think it's gorgeous. It may be bigger than a GC but it really looks incredible. It's a shame they couldn't come up with an equally impressive GB Player for the system instead of the one that was released.
There were indeed Super Famicom Box hotel units, but they were secured stand-alone machines. I assume they contained multiple games too? These Sharp TV combo units were sold at retail to the general public.
I d be all over this AIWA unit provided I could find a sealed one. I m really sold to the Disk-Drive-like mega drive kit that plugs underneath it, although I wonder if I d like it more had the whole unit been mat black like the original megadrive, controller included.
Sooooo, this topic hasn't gone off topic at all ;-) Just stumbled across this.... yeah, late to the party I know! Looks butt ugly, but if it was genuine then of course it would as it's pre-production and take a look at the design ideas that floated around for the 360, some of them were basically utter sh!t. I'm surprised that Sony would slim down so swiftly and have to go to the expensive of re-tooling their manufacturing plants, yet who the hell knows with Sony. Logic need not apply! ...I bet 2 or 3 pages ago it was deemed a fake and I have just 'failed!'
Shouldn't be THAT much money to bust out some custom PCB, reprogram a robut, make some molds, and inject some plastic. Then again, I dropped out of the college of engineering and landed in fine arts. Naw, I don't think it's fake yet. Then again I haven't been paying much attention either. Photos look pretty legit.
I don't think Sony will be revealing this at E3 now, although I still think it's very real. The reason being is that they just unveiled at least one brand new Playstation 3 SKU (old model) for $399 with two new pack-in games. I think the reveal will be at TGS in September just as it was with the slim PS2, with the unit going on sale later that winter.
You can always use a wiimote and the wiibrator homebrew to satisfy your needs (or girl) you dont have to spend so much money on a cuccumber shaped ps3 Now back on the topic.. My guess is that the pros and cons of ps3 slim will be the folowing: Pros: *Slim line *No Spiderman Font on ps3 logo *Maybe some BC through emulation ?? Cons: *Huge power brick which will probably look like a cobra (loool) like that: -------------[POWER SUPPLY]--- *Crappy looks *Maybe a bit more difficult to case-mod for amateurs *Totally unhackable due to firmware/hardware changes
About the Spiderman font, many developers have started using the "new" PS3 font, for example, if you look at the bottom of the Modern Warfare 2 website you'll see the new logo. Here is the website: http://modernwarfare2.infinityward.com/
