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DisneyCube will probably sell faster then X-Box for the first month, but then when people figure out that they want to play DVD's in dolby digital and find out a DVD player is £150, which takes up that extra space that the GC was supposed to allow you by being so small, they will spend on n X-Box. Also, when people want to play online, X-box has an internet port installed, but you have to pay extra for the one on the GC and so far, we're looking at a big sum of your hard earned cash if you want the most out of your console. Well, X-box seems to already have it and a backbone to play these games called a world wide high speed internet gaming service called "MSN Gamin Zone", which could be ported to X-Box in about a week with full support. Of course, Nintendo will finally push online gaming, in the two more years it takes them to put together a gaming network that will work similar to Dreamarena. Well, at least Nintendo has better games, right? Wrong! Microsoft has the money to buy game companies and could devastate the market with that. Microsoft has no experience in the console market, none at all, they just have a past record of come behind victories that people said were not possible in Windows over Mac, Office over Lotis Word Perfect. You see Microsoft are not dumb. When's the last time you saw MS make a company threating move.
There are some counter arguments to this though, that could make the deciding factor. Gamecube does have decent games. Not that many people will care about a DVD/CD player, as PS2 is already equipped with that. I buy consoles to play games, not to enjoy a stupid gimic that a company just put in it to lure people into its clutches of "doom". Just because Microsoft has money, that does not mean everything. I may have seemed to imply that the developers have no self-control and will instantly give in to Microsoft's bribes, but actually, on the other hand, I find it funny that Microsoft would even have to resort to that pathetic tactic just to get some decent developers working for it. We can't compare the success of Microsoft's Windows OS to the console industry. it is much more complicated.
From a neutral point I think that the DVD/CD player situation is actually simple marketing, while an OS likes to see who will stand behind you software wise and hardware wise. The internet could be a problem, as Broadband isn't entirely available yet. About the DVD, it may be a cool gimmick and heck, it may even be a reason to GET the X-Box if you're a child, but I know if I want to watch DVD's, I'll get a damn DVD Player, not a low end DVD-ROM drive connected to a chopped up PC. I call the Gamecube the DisneyCube not because of its looks, I could care less about what it looks like and infact it in my opinion looks better then the X-Box and frankly I could care less about color. I refer to the GameCube to DisneyCube because of its known for cartoon-ish looking games with cartoon figures like something disney would make, but I have a nunch that that's all about to change. Mind you, I never said that the games were simple.
Thanks for reading.
Firebalt.
There are some counter arguments to this though, that could make the deciding factor. Gamecube does have decent games. Not that many people will care about a DVD/CD player, as PS2 is already equipped with that. I buy consoles to play games, not to enjoy a stupid gimic that a company just put in it to lure people into its clutches of "doom". Just because Microsoft has money, that does not mean everything. I may have seemed to imply that the developers have no self-control and will instantly give in to Microsoft's bribes, but actually, on the other hand, I find it funny that Microsoft would even have to resort to that pathetic tactic just to get some decent developers working for it. We can't compare the success of Microsoft's Windows OS to the console industry. it is much more complicated.
From a neutral point I think that the DVD/CD player situation is actually simple marketing, while an OS likes to see who will stand behind you software wise and hardware wise. The internet could be a problem, as Broadband isn't entirely available yet. About the DVD, it may be a cool gimmick and heck, it may even be a reason to GET the X-Box if you're a child, but I know if I want to watch DVD's, I'll get a damn DVD Player, not a low end DVD-ROM drive connected to a chopped up PC. I call the Gamecube the DisneyCube not because of its looks, I could care less about what it looks like and infact it in my opinion looks better then the X-Box and frankly I could care less about color. I refer to the GameCube to DisneyCube because of its known for cartoon-ish looking games with cartoon figures like something disney would make, but I have a nunch that that's all about to change. Mind you, I never said that the games were simple.
Thanks for reading.
Firebalt.
Nice topic Firebalt... even though I don’t have a lot to say on the subject well done.
DisneyCube will probably sell faster then X-Box for the first month, but then when people figure out that they want to play DVD's in dolby digital and find out a DVD player is £150, which takes up that extra space that the GC was supposed to allow you by being so small, they will spend on n X-Box. Also, when people want to play online, X-box has an internet port installed, but you have to pay extra for the one on the GC and so far, we're looking at a big sum of your hard earned cash if you want the most out of your console. Well, X-box seems to already have it and a backbone to play these games called a world wide high speed internet gaming service called "MSN Gamin Zone", which could be ported to X-Box in about a week with full support. Of course, Nintendo will finally push online gaming, in the two more years it takes them to put together a gaming network that will work similar to Dreamarena. Well, at least Nintendo has better games, right? Wrong! Microsoft has the money to buy game companies and could devastate the market with that. Microsoft has no experience in the console market, none at all, they just have a past record of come behind victories that people said were not possible in Windows over Mac, Office over Lotis Word Perfect. You see Microsoft are not dumb. When's the last time you saw MS make a company threating move.
There are some counter arguments to this though, that could make the deciding factor. Gamecube does have decent games. Not that many people will care about a DVD/CD player, as PS2 is already equipped with that. I buy consoles to play games, not to enjoy a stupid gimic that a company just put in it to lure people into its clutches of "doom". Just because Microsoft has money, that does not mean everything. I may have seemed to imply that the developers have no self-control and will instantly give in to Microsoft's bribes, but actually, on the other hand, I find it funny that Microsoft would even have to resort to that pathetic tactic just to get some decent developers working for it. We can't compare the success of Microsoft's Windows OS to the console industry. it is much more complicated.
From a neutral point I think that the DVD/CD player situation is actually simple marketing, while an OS likes to see who will stand behind you software wise and hardware wise. The internet could be a problem, as Broadband isn't entirely available yet. About the DVD, it may be a cool gimmick and heck, it may even be a reason to GET the X-Box if you're a child, but I know if I want to watch DVD's, I'll get a damn DVD Player, not a low end DVD-ROM drive connected to a chopped up PC. I call the Gamecube the DisneyCube not because of its looks, I could care less about what it looks like and infact it in my opinion looks better then the X-Box and frankly I could care less about color. I refer to the GameCube to DisneyCube because of its known for cartoon-ish looking games with cartoon figures like something disney would make, but I have a nunch that that's all about to change. Mind you, I never said that the games were simple.
Thanks for reading.
Firebalt.
There are some counter arguments to this though, that could make the deciding factor. Gamecube does have decent games. Not that many people will care about a DVD/CD player, as PS2 is already equipped with that. I buy consoles to play games, not to enjoy a stupid gimic that a company just put in it to lure people into its clutches of "doom". Just because Microsoft has money, that does not mean everything. I may have seemed to imply that the developers have no self-control and will instantly give in to Microsoft's bribes, but actually, on the other hand, I find it funny that Microsoft would even have to resort to that pathetic tactic just to get some decent developers working for it. We can't compare the success of Microsoft's Windows OS to the console industry. it is much more complicated.
From a neutral point I think that the DVD/CD player situation is actually simple marketing, while an OS likes to see who will stand behind you software wise and hardware wise. The internet could be a problem, as Broadband isn't entirely available yet. About the DVD, it may be a cool gimmick and heck, it may even be a reason to GET the X-Box if you're a child, but I know if I want to watch DVD's, I'll get a damn DVD Player, not a low end DVD-ROM drive connected to a chopped up PC. I call the Gamecube the DisneyCube not because of its looks, I could care less about what it looks like and infact it in my opinion looks better then the X-Box and frankly I could care less about color. I refer to the GameCube to DisneyCube because of its known for cartoon-ish looking games with cartoon figures like something disney would make, but I have a nunch that that's all about to change. Mind you, I never said that the games were simple.
Thanks for reading.
Firebalt.