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Hypothetical Scenario: Your console maker (be it Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft), has just gone bust, no more games are ever going to be made for it, and no more shops are going to sell games for it because by a wierd coincidence all the games that ever existed for your console, including the ones you used to own, vanished overnight. A wad of £10 notes worth £300 in total has generously been left in their place.
So, for example, if you used a PS2 as your main gaming platform, where would you turn for kicks? Nintendo, Microsoft, PC, or even go retro with a Dreamcast, SNES or Megadrive? (PSX is out of the question, if Sony goes, so does all of its back catalogue).
For me, I'd be distraught if the PS2 went. (Mainly because I've built up a collection of 46 games for it and £300 wouldn't cover it). But, fortunately, having kept tabs on the alternatives, I'd have no hesitation in going for the XBox as a replacement. Sure, I'd have to move the subwoofer from its current position to accomodate it, but this is a small price to pay. Being a PS2 owner, I get green with envy not being able to sample the delights of Halo or get lost in the world of Morrowind. These two games alone have nearly made be own two consoles at one time or another, but then Sony managed to grab my money at the last minute.
Amazingly, for my £300 I could get an XBox, one controller, a memory card, Sega GT 2002, Halo, Splinter Cell, Jet Set Radio, Morrowind, XBox Live starter pack and still have £6.04 left over, with which I'd have a couple of pints in a vain effort to say 'Cheerio' to my PS2 gaming days.
In fact, the more I think about it the more tempted I am just to go ahead and buy one anyhow despite already having a PS2 and more games than I could possibly fully complete in what years remain to me.
Why not Gamecube or PC? Well, I've got to think about the future, haven't I? I looked hard at the Gamecube when it was first released, and although graphically I'd say it was better than the PS2 (no jaggies, nice), games like Luigui's Mansion and Super Mario Sunshine don't appeal. Resident Evil I've already played, I know what happens. I'd be missing out on the Zelda series, but long term I think the XBox is going to secure it's 2nd place that it tried to claim last Christmas. Plus I figure that within the next few years, XBox is going to have a much larger installed userbase in the U.S.A. than Nintendo, which will have ramifications for the number of titles that get released or ported to the Gamecube in the future, especially in Europe. This is yet another reason I've been toying with the idea of getting an XBox now rather than later, because the PS2 will be affected by this as well.
As for PC, just too damn fiddly. I like to pick up and play. I don't like to spend half an hour installing, wondering what the install program has just done to my operating system, configuring my PC again, then running down the road to spend another £200 on a graphics card to run the game on.
So, for example, if you used a PS2 as your main gaming platform, where would you turn for kicks? Nintendo, Microsoft, PC, or even go retro with a Dreamcast, SNES or Megadrive? (PSX is out of the question, if Sony goes, so does all of its back catalogue).
For me, I'd be distraught if the PS2 went. (Mainly because I've built up a collection of 46 games for it and £300 wouldn't cover it). But, fortunately, having kept tabs on the alternatives, I'd have no hesitation in going for the XBox as a replacement. Sure, I'd have to move the subwoofer from its current position to accomodate it, but this is a small price to pay. Being a PS2 owner, I get green with envy not being able to sample the delights of Halo or get lost in the world of Morrowind. These two games alone have nearly made be own two consoles at one time or another, but then Sony managed to grab my money at the last minute.
Amazingly, for my £300 I could get an XBox, one controller, a memory card, Sega GT 2002, Halo, Splinter Cell, Jet Set Radio, Morrowind, XBox Live starter pack and still have £6.04 left over, with which I'd have a couple of pints in a vain effort to say 'Cheerio' to my PS2 gaming days.
In fact, the more I think about it the more tempted I am just to go ahead and buy one anyhow despite already having a PS2 and more games than I could possibly fully complete in what years remain to me.
Why not Gamecube or PC? Well, I've got to think about the future, haven't I? I looked hard at the Gamecube when it was first released, and although graphically I'd say it was better than the PS2 (no jaggies, nice), games like Luigui's Mansion and Super Mario Sunshine don't appeal. Resident Evil I've already played, I know what happens. I'd be missing out on the Zelda series, but long term I think the XBox is going to secure it's 2nd place that it tried to claim last Christmas. Plus I figure that within the next few years, XBox is going to have a much larger installed userbase in the U.S.A. than Nintendo, which will have ramifications for the number of titles that get released or ported to the Gamecube in the future, especially in Europe. This is yet another reason I've been toying with the idea of getting an XBox now rather than later, because the PS2 will be affected by this as well.
As for PC, just too damn fiddly. I like to pick up and play. I don't like to spend half an hour installing, wondering what the install program has just done to my operating system, configuring my PC again, then running down the road to spend another £200 on a graphics card to run the game on.
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I'd go for an Xbox. Nothing on the PS2 intrests me enough to make me want the console, it's just seems all rather souless to be honest.
Xbox has great prospects, the future line-up is strong and it's getting great support from Sega and if I ever do come into posession of a broadband connection then i'd most likely make use of Xbox live.
Xbox has great prospects, the future line-up is strong and it's getting great support from Sega and if I ever do come into posession of a broadband connection then i'd most likely make use of Xbox live.
No Nintendo? Ha! Then SEGA would rule, there would be no PSX (was add on for SNES) or PS2 and Microsoft wouldn't have entered the market because there would be no market. SEGA would rule, and so I'd have to pick up one of them.
I'd go PC every time.
A nice new Radeon 9700.
A nice new Radeon 9700.
Hypothetical Scenario: Your console maker (be it Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft), has just gone bust, no more games are ever going to be made for it, and no more shops are going to sell games for it because by a wierd coincidence all the games that ever existed for your console, including the ones you used to own, vanished overnight. A wad of £10 notes worth £300 in total has generously been left in their place.
So, for example, if you used a PS2 as your main gaming platform, where would you turn for kicks? Nintendo, Microsoft, PC, or even go retro with a Dreamcast, SNES or Megadrive? (PSX is out of the question, if Sony goes, so does all of its back catalogue).
For me, I'd be distraught if the PS2 went. (Mainly because I've built up a collection of 46 games for it and £300 wouldn't cover it). But, fortunately, having kept tabs on the alternatives, I'd have no hesitation in going for the XBox as a replacement. Sure, I'd have to move the subwoofer from its current position to accomodate it, but this is a small price to pay. Being a PS2 owner, I get green with envy not being able to sample the delights of Halo or get lost in the world of Morrowind. These two games alone have nearly made be own two consoles at one time or another, but then Sony managed to grab my money at the last minute.
Amazingly, for my £300 I could get an XBox, one controller, a memory card, Sega GT 2002, Halo, Splinter Cell, Jet Set Radio, Morrowind, XBox Live starter pack and still have £6.04 left over, with which I'd have a couple of pints in a vain effort to say 'Cheerio' to my PS2 gaming days.
In fact, the more I think about it the more tempted I am just to go ahead and buy one anyhow despite already having a PS2 and more games than I could possibly fully complete in what years remain to me.
Why not Gamecube or PC? Well, I've got to think about the future, haven't I? I looked hard at the Gamecube when it was first released, and although graphically I'd say it was better than the PS2 (no jaggies, nice), games like Luigui's Mansion and Super Mario Sunshine don't appeal. Resident Evil I've already played, I know what happens. I'd be missing out on the Zelda series, but long term I think the XBox is going to secure it's 2nd place that it tried to claim last Christmas. Plus I figure that within the next few years, XBox is going to have a much larger installed userbase in the U.S.A. than Nintendo, which will have ramifications for the number of titles that get released or ported to the Gamecube in the future, especially in Europe. This is yet another reason I've been toying with the idea of getting an XBox now rather than later, because the PS2 will be affected by this as well.
As for PC, just too damn fiddly. I like to pick up and play. I don't like to spend half an hour installing, wondering what the install program has just done to my operating system, configuring my PC again, then running down the road to spend another £200 on a graphics card to run the game on.
So, for example, if you used a PS2 as your main gaming platform, where would you turn for kicks? Nintendo, Microsoft, PC, or even go retro with a Dreamcast, SNES or Megadrive? (PSX is out of the question, if Sony goes, so does all of its back catalogue).
For me, I'd be distraught if the PS2 went. (Mainly because I've built up a collection of 46 games for it and £300 wouldn't cover it). But, fortunately, having kept tabs on the alternatives, I'd have no hesitation in going for the XBox as a replacement. Sure, I'd have to move the subwoofer from its current position to accomodate it, but this is a small price to pay. Being a PS2 owner, I get green with envy not being able to sample the delights of Halo or get lost in the world of Morrowind. These two games alone have nearly made be own two consoles at one time or another, but then Sony managed to grab my money at the last minute.
Amazingly, for my £300 I could get an XBox, one controller, a memory card, Sega GT 2002, Halo, Splinter Cell, Jet Set Radio, Morrowind, XBox Live starter pack and still have £6.04 left over, with which I'd have a couple of pints in a vain effort to say 'Cheerio' to my PS2 gaming days.
In fact, the more I think about it the more tempted I am just to go ahead and buy one anyhow despite already having a PS2 and more games than I could possibly fully complete in what years remain to me.
Why not Gamecube or PC? Well, I've got to think about the future, haven't I? I looked hard at the Gamecube when it was first released, and although graphically I'd say it was better than the PS2 (no jaggies, nice), games like Luigui's Mansion and Super Mario Sunshine don't appeal. Resident Evil I've already played, I know what happens. I'd be missing out on the Zelda series, but long term I think the XBox is going to secure it's 2nd place that it tried to claim last Christmas. Plus I figure that within the next few years, XBox is going to have a much larger installed userbase in the U.S.A. than Nintendo, which will have ramifications for the number of titles that get released or ported to the Gamecube in the future, especially in Europe. This is yet another reason I've been toying with the idea of getting an XBox now rather than later, because the PS2 will be affected by this as well.
As for PC, just too damn fiddly. I like to pick up and play. I don't like to spend half an hour installing, wondering what the install program has just done to my operating system, configuring my PC again, then running down the road to spend another £200 on a graphics card to run the game on.
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