New PSP announced

[SignOfZeta]

No company with any sense of self preservation would take the NES acronym. Nintendo still makes major money off that system and would sue the shit out of them. NGP on the other hand...gets no respect. Not from Sony, not from SNK, nobody.

It was a great system with the best ratio of good/bad games since...since the original Neo Geo (probably better, really) and it lived a DC-sized lifespan.

Actually, I should mention that the one example I can think of that seems to indicate respect for the NGP on a corporate level is actually the original Warioware for GBA. Not only is it a lot like Ganbare NeoPoke-kun, but one of the characters (a big dog) seems to be wearing a hat with the NGP's "P" logo on it.

As for GCN: this...perplexes me. In a case that is exactly the opposite of the "PSX" thing, this actually is official Nintendo cannon (outside of Japan only, to my knowledge) and its really f*cking dorky. I can't believe people actually use the term "GCN" when they talk about the Cube. The acronym was actually chosen specifically to avoid confusion with the NGP (true story) which was still semi-current at the time.

[Joe Redifer]

I always just said GC.  No need for the N.  But everybody kept saying GCN, GCN.  So whenever I reviewed a GameCube game over at the-magicbox, I always made sure to have a special box cover in the review, like so:



Subtle, but that was my method of doing battle against the GCN people.  

What's funny is that I wrote to Nintendo asking about this (yes, I am an ass) and was wondering if they could provide reasoning.  They just basically said that was the official acronym.  They also let on that the GameBoy advance was NOT GBA like most people believe, but in fact it was really called AGS.  I had my own acronym for that... WTF?

[SignOfZeta]

At one time I actually had an internal Nintendo PDF explaining exactly the terminology for talking about the GC in a professional sense. They always wrote NINTENDO GAMECUBE in full caps. The only other official way to refer to it was GCN. I'll see if I can find that.

Its similar to how every f*cking time you save in a PS2 game you see "Now Checking Memory Card (8MB) PS2 ™" or something else verbatim.

EDIT: A friend found it for me!

[ParanoiaDragon]

Meh, I always think of the NGPC when it comes to SNK's system personally.

[Joe Redifer]

Good thing that Nintendo took steps to spell that out.  I don't think the GameCube would have been the RAGING SUCCESS it was if not for the steps provided by that memo.  All caps?  Dumbasses.

[SignOfZeta]

The NINTENDO GAMECUBE might not have seemed like a success on our end, but it was actually rather profitable.



Massively profitable, really, compared to the Xbox, which to this day hasn't turned dime one.

Rather than developing unreliable bleeding edge hardware and basically paying the customer to take it so they can be #1 in sales, they would rather just be profitable.

[Necromancer]

AvP engine running on a PSP2.

Pretty impressive horsepower, though at half the pixels that the consoles are running at (720p+).  "Last gen", eh?  I wonder if the 3DS could manage the same feat, even with less than half the pixels of a PSP2.

[Phades]

I think it looks pretty great, but I'm concerned about hand cramps. I can't play any of the portables for more than 20-30 minutes without my hands turning into claws.

[nectarsis]

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/03/ngp-games-will-come-on-2gb-and-4gb-cards-with-room-for-save-dat/

new info

[Necromancer]

link

It's purportedly slated for release on 11/11/11.  How cute.