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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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er-no wrote:
> The truth is that the GameCube has the games, it has the potential
> and it has the support.
Your taking a bit of a chance saygin that, when the GC hasnt even been released yet?
:)
> The truth is that the GameCube has the games, it has the potential
> and it has the support.
Your taking a bit of a chance saygin that, when the GC hasnt even been released yet?
:)
"losing support", what the bloody hell are you talking about?
turbonutter wrote:
> Why? It's true.
Go on, prove me wrong, then.
oh... sorry! I thought u said labour were a good thing! All that reversed syntax!
Sonic!
> Why? It's true.
Go on, prove me wrong, then.
oh... sorry! I thought u said labour were a good thing! All that reversed syntax!
Sonic!
turbonutter wrote:
> As does the PS2
No, the PS2 has the potential, it has too many games, and its losing a lot of support.
> As does the PS2
No, the PS2 has the potential, it has too many games, and its losing a lot of support.
As does the PS2
The truth is that the GameCube has the games, it has the potential and it has the support.
These are all it needs.
These are all it needs.
Why? It's true.
Go on, prove me wrong, then.
Go on, prove me wrong, then.
turbonutter wrote:
> Like Labour, Sony are all spin.
Not a bad thing.
Unlike
> Labour.
*Men in white coats escort turbo from the FOG*
Sonic
> Like Labour, Sony are all spin.
Not a bad thing.
Unlike
> Labour.
*Men in white coats escort turbo from the FOG*
Sonic
Like Labour, Sony are all spin.
Not a bad thing.
Unlike Labour.
Not a bad thing.
Unlike Labour.
ISSpro wrote:
> Listen sonic i base my opinion on what i have gathered together from
> various sources. i do not read magazines becasue they are waste of
> money and yes many of them are bias. But from what i can gather the
> x-box will not be a total success. i just cant see it beating the
> gamecube. with the close together release dates and the huge price
> difference the x-box will fail. So u think the x-box can be a
> success hey? well i think you will eat you words.
Clearly you are the kind of person that siad that Sony's PSone would fail against Ninty's N64...
Sonic
> Listen sonic i base my opinion on what i have gathered together from
> various sources. i do not read magazines becasue they are waste of
> money and yes many of them are bias. But from what i can gather the
> x-box will not be a total success. i just cant see it beating the
> gamecube. with the close together release dates and the huge price
> difference the x-box will fail. So u think the x-box can be a
> success hey? well i think you will eat you words.
Clearly you are the kind of person that siad that Sony's PSone would fail against Ninty's N64...
Sonic
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