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I have a worrying suspicion that the XBox will go the same way as the DC. Why is this?
Well, many people on here have said that they won't be buying one. If you scale that up to cover the entire console buying population, you get quite a few people who won't be buying Microsoft's box of tricks.
So what if they haven't released a console before? As has been mentioned many times before, the same was said of Sony before they launched the PSX and we all know how well that sold. MS have got all the ingredients of a great console in the making.
Firstly, the hardware, as this seems to be what most people quote when they talk about consoles. I'm not going to bore you with figures of polygons per second etc. What i will point out is that MS are using tried and trusted companies to make the components. The nVidia graphics chip should have no problems working with the processor, which was originally going to be an AMD chip but has now been changed to Intel. Along with it's RAM, which is the most a console has ever had the XBox hardware is spectacular.
As the hardware is so similar to a PC, developers should have no worries getting to grips with it. The "warming up" period, the time the developer have to spend getting the most out of the hardware, should be minimal. The likeness with a PC should mean that ports are going to be easy, and with the quality of PC games at the moment, B&W , Operation Flashpoint, Deus Ex etc, that can only be a good thing.
The XBox looks like it may have a strong launch as well. With Halo, Project Gotham (essentially M: SR with an extra city, tarted up graphics and AI and also destructible cars!) and another Abe's Odyssey game supposedly available at launch, along with a number of games that Sega have in development as well, the XBox will have a good line up.
But i still feel that the XBox will not do as well as it deserves, as did the DC. By the time it is released the PS2 will have established a large user base, and the 'Cube will have been out for a little while as well. I feel that a lack of established games like a Mario or a Sonic will also discourage people to buy the console. Although games like Halo and Project Gotham could well be classics, as not many people have heard of them, it may put them off slightly. Sony doesn't really have a mascot character, but they have the MGS and GT series which people recognize.
The DC didn't take off because of people remembered the Saturn and that put them off. Sony had also announced the PS2 and a large number of games were still being released for the PSX. The same sorts of things may put people off an XBox. Some people still relate Microsoft only with Windows and the problems they have experienced with that. The PS2 will probably be at it's peak of games releases and as i've mentioned before, the 'Cube will have only just been out.
I'm hoping people think of Microsoft as the company that made the first force feedback joystick and now the whole range of quality peripherals. The company that released classic games such as the Age Of Empires series.
But only time will tell whether Microsoft and the XBox can become a success.
Well, many people on here have said that they won't be buying one. If you scale that up to cover the entire console buying population, you get quite a few people who won't be buying Microsoft's box of tricks.
So what if they haven't released a console before? As has been mentioned many times before, the same was said of Sony before they launched the PSX and we all know how well that sold. MS have got all the ingredients of a great console in the making.
Firstly, the hardware, as this seems to be what most people quote when they talk about consoles. I'm not going to bore you with figures of polygons per second etc. What i will point out is that MS are using tried and trusted companies to make the components. The nVidia graphics chip should have no problems working with the processor, which was originally going to be an AMD chip but has now been changed to Intel. Along with it's RAM, which is the most a console has ever had the XBox hardware is spectacular.
As the hardware is so similar to a PC, developers should have no worries getting to grips with it. The "warming up" period, the time the developer have to spend getting the most out of the hardware, should be minimal. The likeness with a PC should mean that ports are going to be easy, and with the quality of PC games at the moment, B&W , Operation Flashpoint, Deus Ex etc, that can only be a good thing.
The XBox looks like it may have a strong launch as well. With Halo, Project Gotham (essentially M: SR with an extra city, tarted up graphics and AI and also destructible cars!) and another Abe's Odyssey game supposedly available at launch, along with a number of games that Sega have in development as well, the XBox will have a good line up.
But i still feel that the XBox will not do as well as it deserves, as did the DC. By the time it is released the PS2 will have established a large user base, and the 'Cube will have been out for a little while as well. I feel that a lack of established games like a Mario or a Sonic will also discourage people to buy the console. Although games like Halo and Project Gotham could well be classics, as not many people have heard of them, it may put them off slightly. Sony doesn't really have a mascot character, but they have the MGS and GT series which people recognize.
The DC didn't take off because of people remembered the Saturn and that put them off. Sony had also announced the PS2 and a large number of games were still being released for the PSX. The same sorts of things may put people off an XBox. Some people still relate Microsoft only with Windows and the problems they have experienced with that. The PS2 will probably be at it's peak of games releases and as i've mentioned before, the 'Cube will have only just been out.
I'm hoping people think of Microsoft as the company that made the first force feedback joystick and now the whole range of quality peripherals. The company that released classic games such as the Age Of Empires series.
But only time will tell whether Microsoft and the XBox can become a success.
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Dan2K1 wrote:
> X Box will do alright. How can £500m on advertising fail?
Ummm, by spending too much on advertising?????
> X Box will do alright. How can £500m on advertising fail?
Ummm, by spending too much on advertising?????
Dan2K1 wrote:
> X Box will do alright. How can £500m on advertising fail?
It just will...>x-box advert appears<...Must buy X-box and get strange hair cut and build shrine to Microsoft.
Damn Advertising!
> X Box will do alright. How can £500m on advertising fail?
It just will...>x-box advert appears<...Must buy X-box and get strange hair cut and build shrine to Microsoft.
Damn Advertising!
Sadly the biggest ever console virus has not yet taken place, this virus is something which will destroy all good games as we know them it will wipe out great classic games and replace them for horrible repetitive titles.
The virus will become so expensive that in the end people will have to pay for it to actually stop it from affecting them, the virus is big, the virus is actually an object, in the shape of no ordinary virus, as this virus is X shaped. This virus is the XBox.
The virus will become so expensive that in the end people will have to pay for it to actually stop it from affecting them, the virus is big, the virus is actually an object, in the shape of no ordinary virus, as this virus is X shaped. This virus is the XBox.
I don't think that the X-box will do as good as it could because of current gamer's loyalties. Years back, if you played games you were either a Sega or Nintendo fan. I myself had a Master System and a Mega Drive and when the new generation of consoles came out I would have had a Saturn based on past experiences. Instead I played on my friend's Playstation and was converted. Had this not happened I would have undoubtably bought a Saturn.
The X-box would have stood a chance if it had been released before the established names just like the Playstation was released first. If it had been it would have had a chance to draw gamers away from their favoured brand of console. Now I beleive that the X-box will only have a chance to capture the Sega/Dreamcast fan base as well as those Sony and Nintendo fans who will not have already purchased their console. As the Cube is released before the X-box hardcore Nintendo fans will already have their consoles leaving the X-box to scrap over discontented Sega fans, people without next-gen consoles and newcomers to gaming. This is not a good thing for the X-box to face and may be the main reason why it may not sell as well as it should.
The X-box would have stood a chance if it had been released before the established names just like the Playstation was released first. If it had been it would have had a chance to draw gamers away from their favoured brand of console. Now I beleive that the X-box will only have a chance to capture the Sega/Dreamcast fan base as well as those Sony and Nintendo fans who will not have already purchased their console. As the Cube is released before the X-box hardcore Nintendo fans will already have their consoles leaving the X-box to scrap over discontented Sega fans, people without next-gen consoles and newcomers to gaming. This is not a good thing for the X-box to face and may be the main reason why it may not sell as well as it should.
I've got to go now bye!
JOKE! JOKE! It was a joke my last message not the comparson!
NICE ONE! Says Ninty's Little Spy!
Damn!
I now officially hate the XBXO
I now officially hate the XBXO
I don't think you can play the X-Box games on the PC but you can play the PC games on the X-Box! Backwards compatable!
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