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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
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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
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Who cares, each to thier own...
Does it have Word 2000 for the text messaging system.
Microsoft would be better not to release the X-box.
Xerox gave let Microsoft in on their ideas also, MS only adapted their plans after they saw apple's. Guess what my Sony mobile has MS Mobile explorer on it!!
If i remember the history correctly it was Gates who stole the ideas from Macintosh, who had preciously stole it from Xerox.
Gates may be a thief but he is also an excellent business man.
Why people whinge about Windows is beyond me. Linux has as many problems and even the mighty Mac has problems.
The reason why people hate Microsoft is because we all know its shortcomings because we all use it. Maybe if we all tried using the other operating systems then we would realise that "Hey Microsoft software is not all that bad".
Gates may be a thief but he is also an excellent business man.
Why people whinge about Windows is beyond me. Linux has as many problems and even the mighty Mac has problems.
The reason why people hate Microsoft is because we all know its shortcomings because we all use it. Maybe if we all tried using the other operating systems then we would realise that "Hey Microsoft software is not all that bad".
Bonus wrote:
> I wondered where the idea for antitrust came from...
...so did I...
> I wondered where the idea for antitrust came from...
...so did I...
I wondered where the idea for antitrust came from...
I have forgiven him....
Quazimodo might be posting here in a bit, just see what he has to say and don't give him any trouble just for being a Newbie...he MIGHT have something decent to say....
Thanks Lads....
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Thanks Lads....
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