Posted by Howard Casto on 17, 2001 at 12:24 AM:
In Reply to: Why its this way posted by Tom61 on 16, 2001 at 8:35 PM:
it's #2 that I have trouble with.... too many development company's... it's what killed atari and it's what'll kill sony if they keep it up
If you let just anyone make a game for your system and they make a bad one, then it cheapens the system and people switch to another one where arguably, every released game is a winner
it's the formula that has kept nintendo alive all this time.... "we decide who lives and who dies"
as for the emu status....
ps2 is only marginably more complicated than ps1
and maybe some particular component is holding everything up, but there was a ps1 emu
(the beginnings of one anyway)
out at this point in it's life-span...
i know about the hardware requirements, but i've got a beast of a machine and personally i'd rather spend my 300$ on a new mb/processor/more ram than a ps2... then i can use it for other emulation goodness
;)
as for the sue crazy thing... very true, but that's never stopped anyone before
>:)
-fight the system!!
: Why more games are coming out for PS2 than other consoles:
: 1. Established user base, more users=more sales
: 2. Programmers for the console are easier to come by, more programmers avaible=more departments that can have them (meaning more games that *can* be made)
: 3. Game development takes time, that time factor isn't there for X-Box and Game Cube.
: 4. You can really show off with second gen games, whereas first gen games you're still 'feeling out' what the console can and can't do.
: 5. Sony 0wnz j00! (or at least the game maker houses)
: Why there isn't a PS2 emulator:
: 1. It takes quite a bit of power emulate nextgen game systems, not sure that kind of hardware is out there for the average user
: 2. The hardware inside the PS2 is fairly complicated
: 3. There's properitary harware inside that will have to be reverse engineered
: 4. Sony is sue crazy