If you could improve any console...

[Treble]

...what would you add? Pick any console you own, and think which aspect you like to be better: more RAM? Faster processor? Bigger HDD? Different standard controller?

[jcee]

...what would you add? Pick any console you own, and think which aspect you like to be better: more RAM? Faster processor? Bigger HDD? Different standard controller?

I'd love to bung a Hard drive into my Gamecube as it'd let me to get rid of those annoying memory cards and allow larger gaming environments.

Plus the bonus of having your own music banging away in the background during a tense FZero race would be very welcomed...very.

[JRMacumber]

I'd put BACK the Xbox's progressive scan DVD playback ability. Dammit!! >_<

[Chief H]

PlayStation2. Four controller ports as standard, please.

It's a simple request but such a small change makes such a large difference in how the console is percieved by both players and developers.

[beecee]

snes.
include the sfx2 chip as standard.

PS2 - maybe change the case, make it square, bring it out in indigo at first, then maybe a spice colour and then other colours.

[ZeroRisk]

Remote control or pad button to put the console in standby mode.

Reset buttons on all controllers.

Digital front panel for all consoles that also play DVDs for track/time/name info.

HDDs on all for gamesaves music etc.

Multi region

Ability to play all types of media.

That should just about do it for me. lol

[Papercut]

Dreamcast -

- stop the vmu beeping when the battery was dead
- make the vmu batteries rechargable too
- stop the internal psu connector oxidising (random resets).
- 6 digital buttons as standard
- widen the controller 'fins'

[MonkeyWrench]

I'd change the L2 and R2 buttons on the Dual Shock pads to true analog triggers.

[Ady]

Excellent thread idea. I'll pick a few of the consoels I own:

PS 2 : A less noisy fan would be nice. That thing makes a racket. ft:

Dreamcast : Rumble facility built in to the controller and a more streamlined controller design.

As for PS2 colours, I always thought burgandy and black would be nice. That or cream and terra cotta.

[Jakeway]

A stand by button the the DVD remote for Xbox.. So I dont have to get out of bed, and every console should have 20blocks for saving.
I know the Xbox took it the the next level but I doubt nintendo will ever use a HD.

[Fire]

I'd like a temote control with simple on, off and reset buttons for all consoles.

Or even just gamecube power on and off buttons on the wavebird.

Yes, I'm lazy

Not so much of a console change as they already have it to an extend, but a widescreen 16:9 option which actually means the console will ONLY output in 16:9, hopefully this would makewidescreen a standard feature in all games.

Every game should have 16:9 these days. It's so annoying having to play with reduced screen size or stretched out.

[MD]

I would have improved the Dreamcast (and the Saturn) by adding in a marketing department that knew how to organise a piss up in a brewery.

Would have dumped the second SH-2 processer in the Saturn and just have put in a faster SH-2 to compensate.

Would have stuck a proper 16 Bit chip in the Super Famicom, rather then the laughable 65SC816 they used. 3Mhz? What are you on? Before anyone goes on about the SFC had some brilliant games, a lot of them required DSP and other hardware in the carts. The Megadrive had on game Virtua Racing that had a DSP!

Would have put in a better Yamaha sound chip in the Megadrive (YM2612), like the YM3438 and stuck in a proper DAC chip like a NEC pd7759. Just so the Z80 wouldn't have made the Speech sound like it was going through a 4 bit DAC and a high pass filter. Maybe have increased the speed of the 68000 from 8Mhz to 10Mhz.

I would have released the Super Famicom / Sony Playstation CD-ROM, that would have killed the Playstation off for a while, while Sega dominated with the Sega Saturn.

Would have made the FM Towns Marty floppy diskless and used AMD chips to bring the cost down.

[tankplanker]

I'd put BACK the Xbox's progressive scan DVD playback ability. Dammit!! >_<

They could do this with a simple dashboard update, why won't they?

Q mark 2, 240 GB HD for PVR and a separate 40 GB HD for games/music. Add in progressive DVD, built in broadband adapter and gb player. Oh, and an optical audio output and input. What about a DVD burner built in as well?

[Madbury]

I'd like to see the DC with more power. Oh and DVD playback as well.

<segafanboy>If I could actually go back in time and change history then I'd probably rip out the 3D capabilities of the Playstation. Install a crappy sound chip. Give it only one joystick port and make it cart based.

That should make things just peachy in 2003.</segafanboy>

[geldra]

I'd like to see the DC with more power. Oh and DVD playback as well.

<segafanboy>If I could actually go back in time and change history then I'd probably rip out the 3D capabilities of the Playstation. Install a crappy sound chip. Give it only one joystick port and make it cart based.

That should make things just peachy in 2003.</segafanboy>

<realist> you still know that sega would have monkeyed up somewhere along the line </realist>