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"I need some help!!"

I am fairly informed about the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox, but if my son wants the very best console, then which do you feel will be the best console/entertainment system out of the following:

(note, I have a very healthy Mega Drive and around 30 games, my son has the Dreamcast, my wife has her books ;)

The Game Cube - it's Nintendo, it's gonna be good right? So will Sonic Team's bandwagon soak up the sales? Will Sonic versus Mario happen? That'd be pretty amazing!! Maybe Nintendo and Sega will venture in joint projects!!

The PS2 - it's not rubbish by any means, but I am not convinced by the football games on the format, and yet I think it will produce some of the best games of the next few years - the highly anticipated GT3 and MGS2?

The XBox - Microsoft's first, and possibly last foray into the console market, can they steal the limelite from Sony, and would this console be the best investment?? Who knows? If the price is right, and the DVD player good quality, I may well get this one.

thanks

if you can add to this thank you ever so much!!
Phil

Yup. Tried that too. Damn installation program tries to contact their servers... which is doomed to failure thanks to our over-restrictive admin (same reason as before).

What I need, is a player that I can download normally, no through some download program, and also plays .mov files without the need for additional software.

Gamecube Grimfish, sources please!

How about Quicktime?

Your Honour wrote:
> Vnombyte, get realplayer.

I;ve got the setup file i can send you
> if you're on MSN, or go to www.real.com (i think) and get it from
> there.

Its free.


Actually, I already have realplayer 8 basic, but it won't play the files. It gives me a message:

"Realplayer needs to download new software in order to play this file"

It then proceeds to fail to contact RealNetworks for the update. This could be to do with my proxy restrictions, or something else, but either way, I still can't play those darn .mov files.

i will be getting a Gamecube before anyone of you

don't ask how because i am not allowed to reveal my sources

Otherwise i can't get it

and alot of my friends have already asked to come over my house to play it

If the X-box ix targeting the same audience as the PS2 then its already dead!

Both Gamecube and X-box will target everyone, from children to adults including PC owners who aresick and tired of having to constantly shell out for the latest Graphic cards.

In my opinion:


Only the on of the Ps2 or the Xbox will survive. This is too hard to tell who will win- they are aimed at the same audience and with the same marketting style... so there's no point buying one of these now

The Gamecube will always be big.. different audience + good games. get thing... gtg

Sonic

Just be careful to make sure Realplayer doesnt try to take all your fileassociations :-)

My Uni is in Reading (close), but my Home in Newport(far away-south wales).

Vnombyte, get realplayer.

I;ve got the setup file i can send you if you're on MSN, or go to www.real.com (i think) and get it from there.

Its free.