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€249 "roughly equates to a Special reserve price of £165"?? b******s...the price it should launch at in the UK is £150...it will be 249 euros here in Holland so stop cheating...
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Mr. Chainsaw wrote:
> we should be rejoicing at £165 not poo pooing it! About
> £200 quid cheaper than the X-Box launch! c'mon, who needs a DVD
> player, hasnt everyone got one anyway.
You got your maths a bit wrong there mate. £300 - £165 = £135 cheaper than the XBox at launch, not £200 as you so inaccurately stated. A slight exaggeration there don't you think? Oh, and what about the memory cards you'll need to buy for Gamecube? Not such good value after all, when a HALF MEG card costs £15!!! That's actually £240 worth to get 8Mb of storage for your games. The OPTIONAL 8Mb memory card for XBox costs just £30, which is £210 cheaper than for Gamecube, meaning owners of the XBox can afford to get a Gamecube simply with the money they save on memory cards (no flaming please, I know this is a stupid argument, but it is in response to an equally daft post).
Also, people go on about the fact that we don't need DVD etc. What most of you don't know is that with the XBox, DVD playback is FREE in the hardware. It uses a standard DVD drive, and so can play DVDs with a small video driver on the hard drive. It's not as though it's an added extra that costs £135. The only cost is the DVD drive itself, which is CHEAPER than the proprietory drive that Nintendo use. The only reason you pay for the DVD remote for the XBox is because Microsoft chose to leave the DVD logo off the console (it costs money to include it) and simply passed the cost onto the people who want to play DVD (i.e. if you want DVD, you pay for it, if not, you don't)
If Nintendo had used a normal size DVD drive and included DVD playback capability at its current price, you would all be falling over yourselves in excitement. Instead, because it can't play DVDs (and admit it, most of you would welcome the option) you have to slate the XBox for costing £300 just because it can play DVDs and GC can't. I for one like, and am getting a Gamecube, but I also know that the XBox happens to offer a lot more to gamers wanting the whole picture.
Just get over it and enjoy the console(s) you choose to get for what they are - games machines.
Lecture over.
> we should be rejoicing at £165 not poo pooing it! About
> £200 quid cheaper than the X-Box launch! c'mon, who needs a DVD
> player, hasnt everyone got one anyway.
You got your maths a bit wrong there mate. £300 - £165 = £135 cheaper than the XBox at launch, not £200 as you so inaccurately stated. A slight exaggeration there don't you think? Oh, and what about the memory cards you'll need to buy for Gamecube? Not such good value after all, when a HALF MEG card costs £15!!! That's actually £240 worth to get 8Mb of storage for your games. The OPTIONAL 8Mb memory card for XBox costs just £30, which is £210 cheaper than for Gamecube, meaning owners of the XBox can afford to get a Gamecube simply with the money they save on memory cards (no flaming please, I know this is a stupid argument, but it is in response to an equally daft post).
Also, people go on about the fact that we don't need DVD etc. What most of you don't know is that with the XBox, DVD playback is FREE in the hardware. It uses a standard DVD drive, and so can play DVDs with a small video driver on the hard drive. It's not as though it's an added extra that costs £135. The only cost is the DVD drive itself, which is CHEAPER than the proprietory drive that Nintendo use. The only reason you pay for the DVD remote for the XBox is because Microsoft chose to leave the DVD logo off the console (it costs money to include it) and simply passed the cost onto the people who want to play DVD (i.e. if you want DVD, you pay for it, if not, you don't)
If Nintendo had used a normal size DVD drive and included DVD playback capability at its current price, you would all be falling over yourselves in excitement. Instead, because it can't play DVDs (and admit it, most of you would welcome the option) you have to slate the XBox for costing £300 just because it can play DVDs and GC can't. I for one like, and am getting a Gamecube, but I also know that the XBox happens to offer a lot more to gamers wanting the whole picture.
Just get over it and enjoy the console(s) you choose to get for what they are - games machines.
Lecture over.
orrelljet wrote:
> €249 "roughly equates to a Special reserve price of
> £165"?? b******s...
I'm suprised you weren't banned for that.
> €249 "roughly equates to a Special reserve price of
> £165"?? b******s...
I'm suprised you weren't banned for that.
Definately. Have you seen the size of the Xbox? It's like an 80's VCR! And there are loads of decent games coming up for the GC. Mario Sunshine, Super Smash Melee, SW: Rogue Leader, Luigi's Mansion... I'll stop now before you think I'm trying to raise my word count to become a regualr by shamelessly just listing loads of Game Cube games. ;-)
TPHI
and then of course there's pokemon... *shudders in disgust* ;-)
TPHI
and then of course there's pokemon... *shudders in disgust* ;-)
Oh yeah, and the Pokemon mini. (WHYYYYEEEE??) oh well, at least its another addition to the nintendo family.:)j
Totally. I am very happy with what nintendo have done, they must be so busy, with GBA a year ago and now the gamecube. :)
Mr. Chainsaw wrote:
> we should be rejoicing at £165 not poo pooing it! About £200 quid
> cheaper than the X-Box launch! c'mon, who needs a DVD player, hasnt everyone
> got one anyway.
Its true! Why pay all that money for a DVD on X-box? If I wanted to play DVDs I'd buy a DVD player, consoles are for games.
> we should be rejoicing at £165 not poo pooing it! About £200 quid
> cheaper than the X-Box launch! c'mon, who needs a DVD player, hasnt everyone
> got one anyway.
Its true! Why pay all that money for a DVD on X-box? If I wanted to play DVDs I'd buy a DVD player, consoles are for games.
No problems for me, £15 extra wont kill me but its not really on considering when i payed, it was £150, then they put it up a notch :)j
we should be rejoicing at £165 not poo pooing it! About £200 quid cheaper than the X-Box launch! c'mon, who needs a DVD player, hasnt everyone got one anyway.
Beanz is NOT lying, i heard exactly the same thing!! some magazine mentioned it a year or so back!! :)j
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