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However i cant condone all this talk about PS2 being a better system than the X-box. Dont get me wrong its a good bit of kit. But you cant judge a console by the games on it, the x-box has higher spec hardware, youve only got to play a game like timesplitters or bunout on it and then compare to the ps2 version to see the very obvious graphics and speed difference. I admit whoever designed the controller on the box was a blind monkey on acid but who cares, you can use ps2 controller's on x'box with a $6:00 adapter. Can anyone argue this point
However i cant condone all this talk about PS2 being a better system than the X-box. Dont get me wrong its a good bit of kit. But you cant judge a console by the games on it, the x-box has higher spec hardware, youve only got to play a game like timesplitters or bunout on it and then compare to the ps2 version to see the very obvious graphics and speed difference. I admit whoever designed the controller on the box was a blind monkey on acid but who cares, you can use ps2 controller's on x'box with a $6:00 adapter. Can anyone argue this point
> But you cant judge a console by the games on it
Hmmmm, most people would think otherwise.
I don't think the "my console is better than yours" debate can be concluded until the next generation of each console comes out. Even then everyone has an opinion and peoples opion's vary.
As long as your happy, why give a t*ss what anyone else thinks ??
You shouldn't need reassuring.
(he says sitting here with his pink and yellow shirt on) NOT.
Like everyone's said it's the games that make a console not how many polys it can push. Sure the XBox has more raw power, but the difference isn't as pronounced as you might think - see Burnout2 and TS2 for proof.
If you're happy with your XBox or PS2 then what does it matter what we think??
As for good games, both consoles have excellent titles, but for me, as I have a PS2, there hasn't been a title strong enough to make me want to buy Bill's 'Box. That doesn't mean to say that I think a PS2 is better, but I simply prefer it and the games that are on it.
> come out since the spectrum 48K (which i still have)
> But you cant judge a console by the games on it, the x-box has higher spec hardware, youve only got to play a game like timesplitters or bunout
> on it and then compare to the ps2 version to see the very obvious
> graphics and speed difference point
One of the above statements is a lie, because *anyone* who was a gamer in the Speccy/VIC20/C64 era would *never* say that one computer/console is better than another because it has more (graphical) power.
If you were a gamer back when the very best and latest computer games were programmed by guys in their bedrooms, the very thought of saying that the power and performance of a machine is more important than good games and top notch gameplay, is quite simple unthinkable.
And judging by your ability to string a sentence together, I would be willing to wager that when the Speccy 48k was released, you were no more than a glint in the milkman's eye.
Other than that, you seem quite level-headed, which is more than can be said more most gamers of your generation.
> But you cant judge a console by the games on it
Surely we can, given that this is the reason that we have the console in the first place?
> But you cant judge a console by the games on it
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Thats the very thing you should judge a console on i feel. Theres no point a console having all the powers in the world if the damn thing cant play any decent games on it is there?
Id rather have a poorer console with lesser specs but superb games over a console with brilliant specs but below par games ect.
You get my drift.
> skineddy wrote:
> But you cant judge a console by the games on it
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>
> Thats the very thing you should judge a console on i feel. Theres no
> point a console having all the powers in the world if the damn thing
> cant play any decent games on it is there?
>
> Id rather have a poorer console with lesser specs but superb games
> over a console with brilliant specs but below par games ect.
>
> You get my drift.
Obviously it's based on the games the X-box just doesn't have any good quality games. I mean if i were to name a list of quality games on either console i could say GTA 3, Pro Evolution you know...