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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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The Game wrote:
.....what makes you think a
> company with twice as much money is any different!
ITS MICROSOFT!!!
:P
P.S Be back on later....
.....what makes you think a
> company with twice as much money is any different!
ITS MICROSOFT!!!
:P
P.S Be back on later....
**er-no sticks his head in a cereal box**
HA!
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Lol.....:D
HA!
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Lol.....:D
er-no wrote:
Gamecubes launch games: CLASSIC, EXCELLENT GAMING!
XBox Launch games: ummmmm, Raven?
Get my point.
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Yes, but it is completely flawed....Nintendo may have good games but X-Box games inlcude, Raven, Halo, Amped and no doubt Abe's Oddesy or whatever it's called....
I am not questioning your knowledge of gaming Er-No, you obviously know a thing or two (at most...:D) But, you can't count Microsoft out...
Between now and thier launch date games will come and come and come....Microsoft will use their marketing funds to get the word out and if the Americans think they can use the X-Box with their PC's or that they'll be more reliable, made in the US...WHATEVER...Microsoft will sell X-Boxes and hey....Americans ARE that stupid!!!!
I wan't Nintendo to rule/win/come out on top as much as the next Ninty fan but to count MS out because of early hitches is absurd...the PS2 launch was dire and now people are saying it is a market leader contender.....what makes you think a company with twice as much money is any different!
Game
Gamecubes launch games: CLASSIC, EXCELLENT GAMING!
XBox Launch games: ummmmm, Raven?
Get my point.
*******************8
Yes, but it is completely flawed....Nintendo may have good games but X-Box games inlcude, Raven, Halo, Amped and no doubt Abe's Oddesy or whatever it's called....
I am not questioning your knowledge of gaming Er-No, you obviously know a thing or two (at most...:D) But, you can't count Microsoft out...
Between now and thier launch date games will come and come and come....Microsoft will use their marketing funds to get the word out and if the Americans think they can use the X-Box with their PC's or that they'll be more reliable, made in the US...WHATEVER...Microsoft will sell X-Boxes and hey....Americans ARE that stupid!!!!
I wan't Nintendo to rule/win/come out on top as much as the next Ninty fan but to count MS out because of early hitches is absurd...the PS2 launch was dire and now people are saying it is a market leader contender.....what makes you think a company with twice as much money is any different!
Game
Grix Thraves wrote:
> And there's no point in pretending to be intelligent either, only
> Goatboy can pull that off convincingly. :0)
Yeah but Goatboy can't do this:
**er-no sticks his head in a cereal box**
HA!
> And there's no point in pretending to be intelligent either, only
> Goatboy can pull that off convincingly. :0)
Yeah but Goatboy can't do this:
**er-no sticks his head in a cereal box**
HA!
And there's no point in pretending to be intelligent either, only Goatboy can pull that off convincingly. :0)
Yeah most posts aren't but at least they have something to say other than 'access refused' etc...
Just trying to warn you, and be nice!
Just trying to warn you, and be nice!
Now thats spamming, nothing to do with the subject or topic!
Be careful, Tony might not have been feed today!
Be careful, Tony might not have been feed today!
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