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---I still hate windows--
alazar:
1) XBOX freezes, you call this QUALITY?
--NONE of my fried's Xboxes have EVER frozen, or overheated or anything like that, maby you should check the conditions your brother puts his sytem under? it should be in an open place, and cleaned(the air vents on sides) so it doesn't overheat or anything. Take proper care of your HW and you wont have a problem with it.
2) Halo was in development for the ps2 for over a year. Then m$ bought bunige, just like they buy everthing else.
--Wrong, it was in development for the PC for 2 years then switched to Xbox.
And colum I know that my purchaseing and supporting an Xbox helps the M$ empire, but my purchase of a gameing console is for the joy it brings me; not for my feelings about the company behind it.
About "could the other systems work for me?" yes in fact I still play my PS2 regulary but do not plan on purchaseing any more games for it unless I am sure they will not move to the Xbox... and GC was just not my way of haveing fun with games. but if the Xbox fails I will just wait for the PS3 which I will sell both my PS2 and Xbox in order to get(most likely the future PS will be VERY high-priced)
In reply to a post about Xbox being the most expensive? where do you get that? the PS2 dropped their price to 199$ and at about the same time so did the Xbox(and the GC dropped to about 145$)
And about the developers quiting the Xbox for the GC, maybe but the only company developing games for the Xbox that I am looking forward to buying games from is M$ Gameing Studios(lol) because they have the best looking games so far.
\\If in fact GC makes up for its current lack of my kind of games I may decide to purchase one again, by then it will be lowered to around 99$//
Peace...
Oh yeah I may hate windows but I cannot use Linux for anything pleaseing(besides learning a little bit about the OS) so I have not yet replaced windows with it... I am not some super knowledgable person who can make windows games work in Linux; personally I could never get wine to work at all!
voidmain:
The only problem I have with this post is that the same thing could happen in the Gaming world that happened in the Desktop OS world. That is: Indulging in short term pleasure could cause another long term expensive bloody monopoly. Now Sony and Nintendo have a good head start and have a lot of money so hopefully having the M$ Crock-Pot will only cause Sony and Nintendo to put out better products rather than go out of the gaming business. We can only hope that history will not repeat itself in the gaming arena.
Kintaro:
Microsoft soft make the X-BOX, Next thing apple and sun will make consoles!!!
Ahhh COnsole Overload
PLAYSTATION II THE THIRD PLACE!
Calum:
voidmain, while sony have a lot of other interests to fall back on, i don't think they will allow an upstart like Microsoft to triumph over them. Unless Microsoft bows out after the xbox is done with, i think it may be a bloody battle.
Sony chose to contend in the console arena fairly recently, having waited for it to 'mature' before dipping their toe. Sony's strategy was clever enough to actually force Sega out of hardware development sompletely, to only develop software for other platforms! They will not just step back gracefully now Microsoft have introduced their own chaotic element into the proceedings.
badkarma:
quote:Originally posted by BanzaiTvirus:
In reply to a post about Xbox being the most expensive? where do you get that? the PS2 dropped their price to 199$ and at about the same time so did the Xbox(and the GC dropped to about 145$)
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not if you live in europe ....
xbox = 299 euros (which was 400+ euros !!!!)
gc = 219 euros
ps2 = i forgot
quote:
And about the developers quiting the Xbox for the GC, maybe but the only company developing games for the Xbox that I am looking forward to buying games from is M$ Gameing Studios(lol) because they have the best looking games so far.
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yeah ... I prefer gameplay over graphics though (and gameplay is strangely lacking in most xbox titles, the ones with good gameplay are certainly not made by M$, hell M$ doesn't even make games, they just buy out companies which do)
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