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Its my honest opinion that the XBox should fail. If it succeeds then we as a group of gamers, and gamers as a world grouping. Can say goodbye to Nintendo's hardware. Its obvious that the massive conglomerate of Sony will never be crushed away, as its profits are too high in the console and entertainment world. Its vital that Nintendo stay healthy, because without them we would have gaming halted for Microsoft and Sony to dominate and cash in on pointless and sellable games.

I have changed my mind. I don't often do. However, recent events have shown me some light. Sony aren't that bad a company, sure, they use their synergies and completely over advertise the market. They maybe even guilty of premature releases, and just wanting (like any company really) to earn a solid profit.

Sony. They, are now the good guys. Microsoft. They, are now the permanently disgusting bad guys. Why? Why couldn't they leave the gaming market alone? What do they think they are doing?

Remember that court case? Yeap. That Microsoft, 'split up or melt down' one. Well, they were scared, Bill soiled every pair of boxers that month because of that case, this was when they knew they had to move dominance. What could they have? Excellent. The console world, the profit centre of the industries bar films.

With this, and Bill's stains, they decided to make a console, centered around the shape of the reviews they get back from every decent magazine on their operating system.
It was not long before it was made, released and marketed as 'the best of the consoles'.

ITS NOT.

Reasons... well my list wouldn't end, and no these would not be 'its crap' or 'Nintendo rule' arguments. I would basically review the XBox just like most american 'decent' magazines.

'Its a low end market PC, without the screen, but more expensive'.

That is the er-box. We don't need it. Because we have Sony and Nintendo.

I just pray with all my gaming soul. That the GameCube is a success, it has to be, for gaming to get better for us all.

This is my honest and 'fair' opinion. Yet again the XBox crashed on me today.

'WELCOME TO WINDOWS. WELCOME TO XLAND. WELCOME TO HELL'.

:(

er-non wrote:
> er-no he wouldnt xbox sucks#

Very true - i hate that monopolising idiot Gill Bates!

er-no he wouldnt xbox sucks

er-no,

i would have thought a notable like yyou would take a slightly better approach than the 'anything made by Microsoft is rubbish' point of view...

I think it will succeed, 'but that doesn't mean you have to like it' (great line from Indiana Jones)

yes thats right take all the stress out on er-no, ok maybe not, but i seriosly don't think ms should join the console competition *you've seen how the company monopolises* if ms some how do come out on top in the end, you know what that will mean over priced, consoles, games, accesories *like the pc software industry* money can buy talent initially but not create new talent, like for example nintendo make good playable games but what will ms make just games that will sell but not inspire, so far there has not been one original game on the xbox or pc *that ms has made or released that has been orginal, don't say halo as thats just a beefed up version of quake* most of the games have been bought from other consoles like the ps2 *ie gta3*. take again gotham racing and compare with gt3, you can clearly tell effort has been put into gt3 while gotham is just a hardware display containing a very few tracks. ok it has a hardware advantage but its all about the games in the end.

Er-no, i have to strongly disagree with you on this one, i think the only way we can move forward is to encourage new companies such as microsoft into the gaming arena, the results of xbox have already been seen in the fact that Sony have started to produce better quality games for ps2 since xbox was released/become a serious threat.

The knock on effect has also imporved the software linup of gamecube and i would think had a big influence on the fact that nintendo is launching gamecube with the biggest ever nintendo software lineup, and apart from waverace they all look like quality.

Iam a xbox supporter, but hope that Nintendo do well with gamecube as i by far prefer Nintendo to Sony.

I intend to eventually buy all three, but those who only buy one console will prob get a ps2, leaving xbox and gamecube as close contenters for second place in this console war

I'm not an Xbox 'fan', I am not very likely to buy one (at least, not until after the price cuts in about 6 months time anyway)... but...

Competition is everything.

What if we only had Skoda's and Lada's as the only choice for cars, because, well, why do you need more choice? What if we could only musicaly choose between Britney or Enrique Iglesias??? What if we only had PCs and Unix machines, but not Macs, that would really screw the designers' up!

My point is, whether you like it or not, the Xbox is going to stimulate the gameing market and help lift it out of the doldrums. The Xbox will take the image of gaming beyond what the original Playstation did, because the PS2 sure as hell aint' doing that.

As for Nintendo, they are not a games company, you think they are, but they are not. They own brands, they own Mario and Pokemon, from these they sell cartoons and films, duvet covers and Pokemon shaped breakfast cereal, mmmm, crispy... They own the Gameboy brand, the most successfull console, ever.

Nintendo are not stupid enough to be drawn into a hardware focused war, they can lose lots of money on hardware, and still rake it in from the merchandising.

Bill Gates is not Satan. I know it's fashionable to hate him, but he's just building on his business, we all know this is about a set-top box in disguise, that's what Sony and MS will be fighting for, who has control over the family living room. Nintendo will carry on as usual, in the background, making money from the brands that they build.

if a notable has said this i stand by his opinion and support it fully.

*was my opinion before just using er-no as a shield from xbox fans*

Or†ega wrote:
> God damn...

What?

God damn...