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They've overtaken Nintendo in their hardware sales, they've become the lowest priced games console/DVD player, and the Microsoft logo is beginning to gain trust and respect by the console gamers. So maybe that's why Microsoft are giving away two free games with every unit sold from the 1st November 2002 (tomorrow). When better to hit hard in the wars when you're beginning to get a grip on things?
So your eyes have just popped out of their sockets and your jaw is being held above ground level by the anti-gravitational force of the floor now you realise Microsoft's secret has been revealed. Ofcourse, some of you already knew about this from the announcements of the same thing happening in the United States of America.
Some of you are completely oblivious to what's been going on in the United States, or just haven't been interested. Whatever it is, you may not have heard that two Sega games, Jet Set Radio Future and the X-box Sega GT game, are to be released on a single disc, as well as many rolling demos of Microsoft's up and coming X-box games. I wouldn't be suprised mind, if you didn't even know these two games existed! Even so, Microsoft have kept this a highly guarded secret (like the fact that Bill Gates is really a robot powered by Windows ME), and so, you shouldn't even know about it until tomorrow.
Is this a blow for Nintendo, the company I love and admire? Possibly, although I would consider it more of a blow for Sony. After all, Nintendo have got their hardcore fanbase. If Nintendo were to release another Mario game on the GameCube next year, there's no doubt it would sell out on release day, but the Playstation 2's fans are mainly those who either had a Playstation or PSOne and wanted something they could play their old games on, and who consider gaming to be cool (despite the stereotype that gamers are geeks - don't give them Shreddies or Frosted Shreddies!), and so, are likely to be swayed by the next new fad, you know, like when yoyos suddenly became popular again. Aren't Pogs due for a comeback?
Anyway, it's bound to effect both sales of the GameCube and Playstation 2 when people realise that for either £20 more or £10 less, they can get a more powerful console and two games whereas the only freebies the GameCube and Playstation 2 offer are the instruction manuals! I enjoy a console war, it brings out the best in companies. Makes them work harder, makes them more desperate to please us, and in most cases benefits the consumer!
What do you think? Great news or hard cheese for those of you already with an X-box?
So your eyes have just popped out of their sockets and your jaw is being held above ground level by the anti-gravitational force of the floor now you realise Microsoft's secret has been revealed. Ofcourse, some of you already knew about this from the announcements of the same thing happening in the United States of America.
Some of you are completely oblivious to what's been going on in the United States, or just haven't been interested. Whatever it is, you may not have heard that two Sega games, Jet Set Radio Future and the X-box Sega GT game, are to be released on a single disc, as well as many rolling demos of Microsoft's up and coming X-box games. I wouldn't be suprised mind, if you didn't even know these two games existed! Even so, Microsoft have kept this a highly guarded secret (like the fact that Bill Gates is really a robot powered by Windows ME), and so, you shouldn't even know about it until tomorrow.
Is this a blow for Nintendo, the company I love and admire? Possibly, although I would consider it more of a blow for Sony. After all, Nintendo have got their hardcore fanbase. If Nintendo were to release another Mario game on the GameCube next year, there's no doubt it would sell out on release day, but the Playstation 2's fans are mainly those who either had a Playstation or PSOne and wanted something they could play their old games on, and who consider gaming to be cool (despite the stereotype that gamers are geeks - don't give them Shreddies or Frosted Shreddies!), and so, are likely to be swayed by the next new fad, you know, like when yoyos suddenly became popular again. Aren't Pogs due for a comeback?
Anyway, it's bound to effect both sales of the GameCube and Playstation 2 when people realise that for either £20 more or £10 less, they can get a more powerful console and two games whereas the only freebies the GameCube and Playstation 2 offer are the instruction manuals! I enjoy a console war, it brings out the best in companies. Makes them work harder, makes them more desperate to please us, and in most cases benefits the consumer!
What do you think? Great news or hard cheese for those of you already with an X-box?
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Cardiff ay? You'll be getting a nice brand new gamestation then. (They are giving the new stores a makeover.
There's a Gamestation opening in Cardiff soon - looks like Special Reserve are one of the last large videogames retailers in the UK to open a store in Wales...sorry SR, it had to be said.
Thats why i shop at Gamestation :)
Game stores are dodgy - as are the adverts for the Platinum Game Boy Advance that they do on ITV2....
Belldandy wrote:
> Er-no's shop sounds dodgy
What you on about? Of course its dodgey, er-no works there!
> Er-no's shop sounds dodgy
What you on about? Of course its dodgey, er-no works there!
Tóm wrote:
> Erm, every shop I've been nosey enough to check at near me have now
> sold out on the Xbox packs. There was also someone on the newsgroups
> who informed me that their local Argos (that they work at) had been
> shipped 60 Xboxes, only for them to be sold out by the end of the day
> (with one person buying two).
Same here, It took me the best part of a day travelling around Nottingham to find somewhere with the console in stock this Monday, got the last one from Comet :)
Er-no's shop sounds dodgy, who sponsors it, Nintendo or Sony :P
~~Belldandy~~
> Erm, every shop I've been nosey enough to check at near me have now
> sold out on the Xbox packs. There was also someone on the newsgroups
> who informed me that their local Argos (that they work at) had been
> shipped 60 Xboxes, only for them to be sold out by the end of the day
> (with one person buying two).
Same here, It took me the best part of a day travelling around Nottingham to find somewhere with the console in stock this Monday, got the last one from Comet :)
Er-no's shop sounds dodgy, who sponsors it, Nintendo or Sony :P
~~Belldandy~~
er-no wrote:
> A lot of customers I asked said they weren't interested in the games
> free with it and still want to call it the new Dreamcast.
Urgh. Its not right to influence someone over their decision of buying a console. Even if you do have a console preference...
> A lot of customers I asked said they weren't interested in the games
> free with it and still want to call it the new Dreamcast.
Urgh. Its not right to influence someone over their decision of buying a console. Even if you do have a console preference...
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