- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: waba225
it wouldnt be a "gift", and i feel you are vasty undestmating what the DS could do, the point isnt if microsoft would do, the point is that it would be very kool if it did, and nice to dream of
metroid is all ready turning out to look like a great game (yes i know halo is a bit more complex)
and yes i have made my own halo maps for CE (none that you can d\l), not great maps, but arent that bad.
Dream on, then. I've made my points already.
Metroid is (admittedly) a good game, but Halo is far more complex, though. Think about it. You've got different reactions for each character in the game. You've got immense maps to play on. I'm not underestimating the DS (I'm no fanboy), but the DS is simply not powerful enough to run Halo. I've played a DS before. Even if M$ agreed to give Halo over to Nintendo for its DS, it wouldn't be worth the cost.
Firstoff, the specially designed cartridges would be pretty expensive. Especially if partnered with Panasonic. Those cards don't come cheap. Let's make the standard price for a 1GB SD card fifty dollars (It's actually much more expensive, but lets say they worked out a "deal"). Add on the fact that its a MODIFIED card that can be used for Nintendo...that's about another ten dollars added on. Then take royalties due to Bungie and to M$ for generously handing over their game. About 15-20 dollars? Then add on the 15-20 dollars for the third party to port the game.
At cheapest, in other words, HaloDS would be a whopping ninety dollars.
Now, would you rather buy about two high-quality games you can play on your TV/high-end PC, or would you spend ninety dollars for a game that you already have on your console/PC, would likely have a lot of bugs, would lag like he11, and would offer nothing outstanding (and likely worse gameplay) from its console/PC counterparts?
[Edited on 8/31/2005]