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Re: Xbox Kinect the latest tech? Nah Amiga did it 20 years age
« on: November 10, 2010, 09:26:44 PM »
So the Amiga had gamers flailing around like idiots 20 years before the XBox? That's a badge of pride if ever there was one... :|
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Re: Xbox Kinect the latest tech? Nah Amiga did it 20 years age
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2010, 11:13:23 PM »
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You mean in your personal opinion about future gaming, one that Nintendo would have ignored at their financial peril via the Wii after PS2 wiped the floor with Gamecube? ;)
Eh, the Wii didn't take off because it had gimmicky controls, it took off because it was cheaper than the (increasingly expensive) competition, was designed to work with ordinary TVs by default instead of providing it as a smushed-down version of the high-def output, and positioned itself as the machine for ordinary people and oldschool retro-gamers (both groups that had been feeling left out with Sony and Microsoft's graphics-driven polygonal arms-race.) All of which are things I'm totally on board with, and all of which Sony and Microsoft completely missed in their transparent efforts to copy-cat the Wii's success.

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but the point is what people call cutting edge was yet again pioneered via an A1000 motherboard...just like friendly multi-tasking GUI OS, photo realistic displays and multimedia :)
Well, that's true enough, it just seems to me that I'd rather point out the worthwhile things the Amiga pioneered ;)
« Last Edit: November 10, 2010, 11:25:13 PM by commodorejohn »
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