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"Just a fashion statement"

How much do we pay to look good?

How much do console manufacturers pay to make their console look good? Well, in Sony's position, they had the PlayStation - looked a bit dull, but it was exciting and new - something 'cool' in the eyes of the market, so aesthetically, in physical terms, it didn't matter that it looked like a big grey slab.

PS2, on the other hand, despite people saying it looks like a radiator, actually looks quite good - very well branded - everyone wants a PS2, not a Dreamcast these days.

Branding, looks, choice.

You pay your money, you get ripped off, but then we can't all be Japanese.

Many happy returns of the day.

Don't judge a console by it's clothes, judge it by what it can do - thus, GCN - looks like an oversized lego brick, quality, don't worry about it - the games will come, the machine will rock, and aesthetics will only matter when you turn the machine on.

You know what I am saying! So X Box - big, fat and ugly - bothered loads - it's what goes on inside, and if it takes a DVD player sized box to achieve the most incredible game you've never seen before then let it be so.

Thanks for reading, you know who I am.

Don't be daft.

We've proved it's a fashion statement.

People care more about whether it has a handle or not, what colours it's available in, what size it is, what shape it is. Even the names of it, and the shape and style of the games cases are more important.

Look at all of the popluar topics, all of the debate is on the aesthetics, and very few people seem to give a damn about the games anymore.

Amazon2k1 wrote that the Playstation looked like a big grey slab, well i think that the Playstation 2 looks like a big black slab. It doesn't really matter what a console looks like, it is whats inside that counts. My mother taught me that. :)

This word defies all logic.

Good try mate, just replied to your e-mail with the urls. thanx again for all your help, I can't tell you how grateful I am. If I meet you one day, I'll have to shake your hand.

86 POSTS ........... 85 of them not concerning the subject "Just a fashion statement"!

Well, I tried.

The answers to my questions? did you not read my posts? What are the answers? Why do I ask questions. For questions are the way to learn my son.

Oh my god I've gone again.

Robin, mate you'll never be as good as me at talkin cr@p. Thanks for the e-mail. I'll read it now!

Answers to what..........?

I'm lost now!

Well and truly lost!

In games we are, as worlds, thrown about to freedom of the winds and deliver passion as hearts do blood. We are destined to spend eternity in the heightening cycle of icy fire to raise the spirits from within and unleash the power unto the consiouness to be free from the body and fly with the birds. We are dream makers, deliverers, fueling the love for the game, until the ashes dim and the life ends.

Game over.