-=> Quoting Jonathan Fingas to Dave Morrow <=-
 DM> We are talking consoles here! The PSX wasn't at the 
 DM> *magic* $200 price either, the price was lowered on it 
 DM> and it's 199.99$$. 
 JF> But that "magic price" is what companies tend to shoot 
 JF> for NOW.  That's Sega's goal, and I'm sure that Nintendo 
 JF> and Sony will try to keep it at $200 whenever they release 
 JF> their new systems (not anytime soon, I imagine).
 I thought I read that the Katana, was going to have a DVD
 drive? (You said it would be 4x cd drive)
 JF> For goodness' sake, it's a portable game machine, not a
 JF> small Pentium!  Quake consumes considerably more space and 
 JF> CPU effort than something like Duke 3D, even on a small 
 JF> black-and-white screen.
 JF> As for the originality, I suspect it's because they want 
 JF> to show off its relatively powerful (compared to other 
 JF> portables) hardware, and what better way to do so than by 
 JF> using existing games which one would think off-limits for 
 JF> such a machine?
 I was joking about Quake. I meant it like why not just put
 more games on game com that we are getting tired of! Isn't
 Mortal Kombat 3 on there? Couldn't they think up a better
 name for it too? Game.com|Gameboy? They could have put color
 too. That's can't be too expensive now, GameGear did it
 almost six years ago.
 Who wants a GAMECOM anyway? It's exactly what we don't need.
 Sure you can play duke 3d, but duke 3d is also on 64, psx,
 Saturn, and PC? Anyone who would buy a GAMEBOY probably
 already has one of these.
 DM> it's going to end up in the bottom of everyone's closet 
 DM> along with their virtual boys!
 JF> Maybe, but at least it has some merits of its own.
 
 Wasn't there a cutting edge portable 5 years ago, I think it
 was called LYNX. It had color and all that. Who bought one?
 Better yet, I'll look for it.....in that closet where
 consoles go when they die.
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