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Sun 14/10/01 at 15:22
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Who here is worried they might pick the wrong console in the next year or so? I am. And i'm sure anyone who wasted good money on a dreamcast will be very careful about what they buy ANYWHERE.
I have a PS2 but frankly the games (except GT3) have been pants. Sony think they can mess about because the playstation (original) was so good, but we will be the ones who suffer. Original PSX launch games : Destruction derby, Ridge racer, Wipeout. All excellent quality titles, that made their mark.
PS2 launch titles: Timesplitters (mediocre shooter) ridge racer 5 (crap update of ridge racer) tekken tag (tekken 3) and so on. And how dare sony only give PS2 two controller ports!
Crap really. Hopefully they will get it together in the next few months, but who knows? What if Xbox wins because Bill gates buys out the market? What if Nintendo release Pokemon + and wipe out everyone else? we will be sitting at home with £300 coasters, crying our eyes out. In the past console wars were just as bad. Anyone with a saturn or jaguar?
We can only lose out if companies remain so complacent
about the future market and what will happen. Who have thought sony would have made it to the top? or that nintendo would have been humbled into second place by a sony? No one can predict the future so be careful.
Thu 18/10/01 at 18:53
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"Death to the Infide"
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Well, im sorry but 2 ports is cheap...and makes my room unessarily meesy with all the wires.

The n64 never 'died' like the saturn. It just wasnt as popular. They still make games 4 it ya know.

I know u and i will never be bought out by Microsoft, but sony breed a new type of gamer - the casual gamer. You know the type. Will buy ANY football game over ff7 or ffx.
Will make any licenced movie game (no matter how crap) no one for 3 months and will always be fooled by dumb 'censored by Ukcf' advertising. Their is a war a brewin, so brace urself.....
Thu 18/10/01 at 09:33
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Edwin25 wrote:

> I have a PS2 but frankly the games (except GT3) have been pants.

SSX, MTV/MG2, DOA2, Resident Evil, there is loads, and loads to come.


PS2 launch titles:
Timesplitters - better than most other formats have to offer
ridge racer 5 - admittedlt pants, rushed for launch
tekken tag - superior grapics and gameplay over tekken 3
SSX? Smugglers Run?

> And how dare sony only give PS2 two controller ports!

4 controleers and a multitap works out cheaper than 4 DC pads and 4 rumble packs with SR's prices.

> Hopefully they will get it together in the next few months, but who knows?

There is loads to look forward to in the next few months. Check the release dates

> What if Xbox wins because Bill gates buys out the market?

Gamers arent that shallow. I consider myself to have more brains than just buying a machine because money is thrown at it.

> What if Nintendo release Pokemon + and wipe out everyone else?

The majority of people who can afford a next gen machine arent interested in Pokemon.

> we will be sitting at home with £300 coasters, crying our eyes out.

I certainly won't be, with Jak and Daxter, MGS2, GT4, Getaway, Kingdom, Final Fantasy......

> In the past console wars were just as bad. Anyone with a saturn or jaguar?

How about the DC or the N64? Machines with more power and sonic/mario on them, losing out to a 32 bit machine?

> No one can predict the future so be careful.

And you're predicting that the PS2 will flop because nintendo will re-release Pokemon?
Thu 18/10/01 at 08:45
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The PS2 games to be released before Christmas will definitely be worth buying. I now have a Dreamcast and there are still good games for that too. If you want to wait, pick up a second hand Dreamcast and enjoy it until you can go in a shop and try all three together. See, it is simple really. Either that or buy all of them like so many on this site will do !
Wed 17/10/01 at 21:57
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News just in... MAX PAYNE FOR PS2! IT IS THE LITERAL SECOND COMING!
Sun 14/10/01 at 18:17
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"Death to the Infide"
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oh yes and vottanator, i have had loads of fun with dvd's and quake 3, so i dont feel completlly cheated.
Sun 14/10/01 at 18:16
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"Death to the Infide"
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i got timesplitters, quake 3, ZOE, SSX, dead or alive 2 and monkey island.
Sun 14/10/01 at 17:10
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"360: swfcman"
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LOL, i did that, luckily for me though my parents paid half.

Though i like lots of the games currently out.
Sun 14/10/01 at 17:03
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"Rong Xion Tong"
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That's because you bought yours when there were no decent games out for 100 quid more than a lot of other people did.

Now who's laughing?

:-)
Sun 14/10/01 at 16:57
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Muahaha, I don't have to wait for my PS2...
Sun 14/10/01 at 16:54
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