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So, for example, if you used a PS2 as your main gaming platform, where would you turn for kicks? Nintendo, Microsoft, PC, or even go retro with a Dreamcast, SNES or Megadrive? (PSX is out of the question, if Sony goes, so does all of its back catalogue).
For me, I'd be distraught if the PS2 went. (Mainly because I've built up a collection of 46 games for it and £300 wouldn't cover it). But, fortunately, having kept tabs on the alternatives, I'd have no hesitation in going for the XBox as a replacement. Sure, I'd have to move the subwoofer from its current position to accomodate it, but this is a small price to pay. Being a PS2 owner, I get green with envy not being able to sample the delights of Halo or get lost in the world of Morrowind. These two games alone have nearly made be own two consoles at one time or another, but then Sony managed to grab my money at the last minute.
Amazingly, for my £300 I could get an XBox, one controller, a memory card, Sega GT 2002, Halo, Splinter Cell, Jet Set Radio, Morrowind, XBox Live starter pack and still have £6.04 left over, with which I'd have a couple of pints in a vain effort to say 'Cheerio' to my PS2 gaming days.
In fact, the more I think about it the more tempted I am just to go ahead and buy one anyhow despite already having a PS2 and more games than I could possibly fully complete in what years remain to me.
Why not Gamecube or PC? Well, I've got to think about the future, haven't I? I looked hard at the Gamecube when it was first released, and although graphically I'd say it was better than the PS2 (no jaggies, nice), games like Luigui's Mansion and Super Mario Sunshine don't appeal. Resident Evil I've already played, I know what happens. I'd be missing out on the Zelda series, but long term I think the XBox is going to secure it's 2nd place that it tried to claim last Christmas. Plus I figure that within the next few years, XBox is going to have a much larger installed userbase in the U.S.A. than Nintendo, which will have ramifications for the number of titles that get released or ported to the Gamecube in the future, especially in Europe. This is yet another reason I've been toying with the idea of getting an XBox now rather than later, because the PS2 will be affected by this as well.
As for PC, just too damn fiddly. I like to pick up and play. I don't like to spend half an hour installing, wondering what the install program has just done to my operating system, configuring my PC again, then running down the road to spend another £200 on a graphics card to run the game on.
> Jet Set Radio will never be on the X-BOX, only Jet Set
> Radio Future. Difference? Worse skate design on the X-BOX.
Don't you mean arcadey free-flowing skate design. JSRF is an impovement on JSR - basically bigger & better.
If'd I'd actually got the seemingly large amount of £10 notes, totalling £300 pounds, (actually, they would have given you a better figure, because evil, evil, evil schemes only work in thousands, but lets predent they haven't this time), then I would have gone out and bought some new games... Lovely games. Far more important than the console... Right? No. Guess not. The DC had the best games ever seen on any console, Jet Set Radio, Shenmue, PSO, PSOII, DOA etc... And Dreamcast is forgotten now, al it's games have moved.
Oh and FM, Jet Set Radio will never be on the X-BOX, only Jet Set Radio Future. Difference? Worse skate design on the X-BOX.
Just to clarify things, I currently own N64, SNES, and GB as far as console are concerned. I'm an ex-Ninty.
With the GC not being an option (not that I'd choose it anyway in all honesty), I'd have to take the XBox over the PS2. There are some great PS2 games around, but I there are far more I'd like to own on the XBox. Additionally, I have an anti-Sony bias influencing my decisions.
I generally play two types of games. Single player strategy/RPG/adventure games, or multiplayer action based games. The XBox's extra ports clinch it for me.