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In the past week Microsoft have collapsed onto there knees and seen their plans for the XBox fold in around their own ankles...
Three weeks ago I would have given the XBox a chance in this volatile industry, but oh how the tides and companies have turned against them.
It was before the E3 the hidden trouble started, Microsoft are planning a launch less than six months away, and not one company has a final development pack for the system, without this games can not be tested and put through the 'touch-up' process. I believe this mistake was the simple but a crucial mistake for the company, another was...
...the Japanese mess-up, there the market is cruel, and if a console isn't going to perform a lap of honour in Japan, the chances of success in other parts of the world are low, Japan just don't seem to except anything that isn't homemade, especially if it is electronics.... ah, but maybe the show in LA could save them?...
...E3, the Xbox console was overshadowed by the Nintendo Gamecube and secondly the Playstation 2 (although not having a superb show itself), the system crashed, public interest was not exactly high and the big question was 'where were the games?'
Then maybe the announcement of the launch and price would resurrect a dieing console? Not if Nintendo could help it, with a launch three days after the Gamecube and $100 more, the console that had the specs, no longer had the support of the gamers, and this is where the company began to moan, every gamer in America and Japan will prefere the Gamecube to the XBox, that is what it comes down to.
Maybe Microsoft will have one last go, maybe Sony will stop defaming the Xbox, but one things for sure for Microsoft, for when they made the claim a year back '...the greatest console ever...' they sure weren't talking about the Xbox.
Thanks for reading
er-no
Three weeks ago I would have given the XBox a chance in this volatile industry, but oh how the tides and companies have turned against them.
It was before the E3 the hidden trouble started, Microsoft are planning a launch less than six months away, and not one company has a final development pack for the system, without this games can not be tested and put through the 'touch-up' process. I believe this mistake was the simple but a crucial mistake for the company, another was...
...the Japanese mess-up, there the market is cruel, and if a console isn't going to perform a lap of honour in Japan, the chances of success in other parts of the world are low, Japan just don't seem to except anything that isn't homemade, especially if it is electronics.... ah, but maybe the show in LA could save them?...
...E3, the Xbox console was overshadowed by the Nintendo Gamecube and secondly the Playstation 2 (although not having a superb show itself), the system crashed, public interest was not exactly high and the big question was 'where were the games?'
Then maybe the announcement of the launch and price would resurrect a dieing console? Not if Nintendo could help it, with a launch three days after the Gamecube and $100 more, the console that had the specs, no longer had the support of the gamers, and this is where the company began to moan, every gamer in America and Japan will prefere the Gamecube to the XBox, that is what it comes down to.
Maybe Microsoft will have one last go, maybe Sony will stop defaming the Xbox, but one things for sure for Microsoft, for when they made the claim a year back '...the greatest console ever...' they sure weren't talking about the Xbox.
Thanks for reading
er-no
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Heh, "support the penguin", "Tux Rules", etc..
By the way, can anyone recommend a release of Linux over any other for whatever reason? I've used various ones on my mates boxen, and I like debian...growing to hate Redhat now..
Doesn't really matter until I've paid off these phone bills anyway =/
By the way, can anyone recommend a release of Linux over any other for whatever reason? I've used various ones on my mates boxen, and I like debian...growing to hate Redhat now..
Doesn't really matter until I've paid off these phone bills anyway =/
I love my PC. LINUX, THAT IS!
Nowt wrong with PCs..Never actually got this straight - do you hate PCs as a whole or just Windows?
Reaper[DC] wrote:
> Jess will be back around some time, we're on half term and actually
> venturing outside...hasn't even been in the country for the last 2
> weeks though.
Look, Reaper is back....
.....run for the hills, its a PC lover!!!
arrrgghhhh
> Jess will be back around some time, we're on half term and actually
> venturing outside...hasn't even been in the country for the last 2
> weeks though.
Look, Reaper is back....
.....run for the hills, its a PC lover!!!
arrrgghhhh
BigSally wrote:
> I don't really care about the Microsoft computer - we have bought my
> brother a PlayStation 2 and he's delighted - thanks for all your
> help in making the decision.
Well glad we could help!
> I don't really care about the Microsoft computer - we have bought my
> brother a PlayStation 2 and he's delighted - thanks for all your
> help in making the decision.
Well glad we could help!
Jess will be back around some time, we're on half term and actually venturing outside...hasn't even been in the country for the last 2 weeks though.
Good good.
Well done on winning FAD. You know, Iggy hasn't been around here for s while.
See Tony, bribary never pays. Better luck next time!
Well done on winning FAD. You know, Iggy hasn't been around here for s while.
See Tony, bribary never pays. Better luck next time!
Wookie wrote:
Er-no your comments are a breath of fresh air to my otherwise dusty experiences online. I feel the need to express my hatred towards a company that belittles the little guy and steals his ideas....
Like Sony did to Sega proir to the launch of the DC, remember the launch announcement?
Like Ken thingy did last week to the Xbox?
Er-no your comments are a breath of fresh air to my otherwise dusty experiences online. I feel the need to express my hatred towards a company that belittles the little guy and steals his ideas....
Like Sony did to Sega proir to the launch of the DC, remember the launch announcement?
Like Ken thingy did last week to the Xbox?
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