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After reading the shocking and pleasantly surprising news yesterday of the X-box's sudden price drop, you'd probably expect me to continue the post with a long and endless rant about the good and the bad points to this.
WRONG! Instead, I will prove to you that the frequently critisised Microsoft X-box games console has the edge over it's 2 main rivals in more ways than one. And also show you how Bill Gates and co. are putting Sony and Nintendo back where they started by showing them the right way to do things!
The first thing I must comment on the is the use of Memory Cards, or the lack of any real need to buy one. Thanks to the X-box's massive PC-like 8 gig Hard Drive, you can save your games just like you would on a PC, and no longer have to worry about having enough space left on a small £30 block as you venture on in your games. Unless of course you buy a PS2 or GameCube, which still require Memory Cards for storing data!
No-one really took to liking the idea of spending more just to save games, especially when some games required one whole £20's-worth just to store you data! And i'm sure every Nintendo fan has been wondering why exactly some N64 games required Memory Cards to save when others didn't.
But thanks to 'the big M', with an X-box your troubles are over. And when compared to the price of a PC for gaming, £300 actually seemed like a great price for 8Gb's worth of saving!
Nintendo, Sony, and maybe even Sega and others will have to take note on this for their future consoles. But without the experience that MS have had with PC's, would they know how exactly to adapt a massive HD into their systems?? It'd require a lot of research before hand, and they'd probably soon figure out why their first console was originally priced so high!
Now I know that graphics aren't exactly 'everything' gaming these days, and they should never be considered as every developers' no.1 priority. But the truth remains that no-one can ignore the sight of a game with glorius graphics. Once again I could bring up the Zelda GC topic, but no-one wants that. Cell-shading is still a style of graphical desing in gaming these days, and is also still very new to us gamers. I can only think of Jet Set Radio, Cel Damage, and JSR Future aside from the new Zelda as the only gamers to use this effect.
If you've played a Dreamcast then you'll know that you'll need a powerfull console with a good graphics processor to pull-off this look correctly. Otherwise you could end up with something colourfull, but not as effectve as it should be. Now a 250Mhz graphics chip is impressive, and therefore the X-box leads the way graphically.
And being able to produce ALL games developed for the console in their full-potential means that it's appearence will out-shadow both the PS2 and GameCube taking Microsoft one-step-closer to the top - in the console region this time.
Going back to the 8gig Hard Drive, how on Earth would you fill that or at least make good use of it???
Surely many many games won't exactly do the trick, and you'd probably be lucky to fill even half of it with around 40-50 big adventures!
If the X-box DOES succesfully achieve on-line connections then you will have the chances to download your favourite tunes and movies to help reduce all that 'wasted space'. And what's more, with that all those MP3's, you'll even be able to load them into your favourite games - possibly including the Tony Hawk's series!
So, just like the Hard Drive, good graphics cards-proccesors should be included with all consoles of the future. Not just so that you get the best from the games, but also so you get your fair-share of your money's worth - even if it costs you £3/400 to begin with!
Memory Cards shouldn't be a required periphal for the future. All they have to do is research into Hard Drives - maybe ask Apple!
Ans with all this and maybe more, we should see a lot more consoles worthy of 'real gaming'!!
So the future could be even brighter.
And it's all thanks to that big dork guided by the green X in the sky!
WRONG! Instead, I will prove to you that the frequently critisised Microsoft X-box games console has the edge over it's 2 main rivals in more ways than one. And also show you how Bill Gates and co. are putting Sony and Nintendo back where they started by showing them the right way to do things!
The first thing I must comment on the is the use of Memory Cards, or the lack of any real need to buy one. Thanks to the X-box's massive PC-like 8 gig Hard Drive, you can save your games just like you would on a PC, and no longer have to worry about having enough space left on a small £30 block as you venture on in your games. Unless of course you buy a PS2 or GameCube, which still require Memory Cards for storing data!
No-one really took to liking the idea of spending more just to save games, especially when some games required one whole £20's-worth just to store you data! And i'm sure every Nintendo fan has been wondering why exactly some N64 games required Memory Cards to save when others didn't.
But thanks to 'the big M', with an X-box your troubles are over. And when compared to the price of a PC for gaming, £300 actually seemed like a great price for 8Gb's worth of saving!
Nintendo, Sony, and maybe even Sega and others will have to take note on this for their future consoles. But without the experience that MS have had with PC's, would they know how exactly to adapt a massive HD into their systems?? It'd require a lot of research before hand, and they'd probably soon figure out why their first console was originally priced so high!
Now I know that graphics aren't exactly 'everything' gaming these days, and they should never be considered as every developers' no.1 priority. But the truth remains that no-one can ignore the sight of a game with glorius graphics. Once again I could bring up the Zelda GC topic, but no-one wants that. Cell-shading is still a style of graphical desing in gaming these days, and is also still very new to us gamers. I can only think of Jet Set Radio, Cel Damage, and JSR Future aside from the new Zelda as the only gamers to use this effect.
If you've played a Dreamcast then you'll know that you'll need a powerfull console with a good graphics processor to pull-off this look correctly. Otherwise you could end up with something colourfull, but not as effectve as it should be. Now a 250Mhz graphics chip is impressive, and therefore the X-box leads the way graphically.
And being able to produce ALL games developed for the console in their full-potential means that it's appearence will out-shadow both the PS2 and GameCube taking Microsoft one-step-closer to the top - in the console region this time.
Going back to the 8gig Hard Drive, how on Earth would you fill that or at least make good use of it???
Surely many many games won't exactly do the trick, and you'd probably be lucky to fill even half of it with around 40-50 big adventures!
If the X-box DOES succesfully achieve on-line connections then you will have the chances to download your favourite tunes and movies to help reduce all that 'wasted space'. And what's more, with that all those MP3's, you'll even be able to load them into your favourite games - possibly including the Tony Hawk's series!
So, just like the Hard Drive, good graphics cards-proccesors should be included with all consoles of the future. Not just so that you get the best from the games, but also so you get your fair-share of your money's worth - even if it costs you £3/400 to begin with!
Memory Cards shouldn't be a required periphal for the future. All they have to do is research into Hard Drives - maybe ask Apple!
Ans with all this and maybe more, we should see a lot more consoles worthy of 'real gaming'!!
So the future could be even brighter.
And it's all thanks to that big dork guided by the green X in the sky!
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Muahaha... Mine's got a 2000+, GeForce 3 Ti500 and 80gb. Plus 512mb DDR RAM. Ha.
However... does that make it gaming at its best? No. I look at my 5 top-ten all time games and none of them appear on the black box under my keyboard. Food for thought.
However... does that make it gaming at its best? No. I look at my 5 top-ten all time games and none of them appear on the black box under my keyboard. Food for thought.
Processor
Pentium 733 mhz CPU
Graphics
Custom designed Nvidia card 250 Mhz, 3x more than any other console
Memory
8GB Hard drive
Interenet
Optional broadband
No take a look at those specs, your thinking of a games console, now think PC, look at those specs, yes it is designed for games, and it is currently the most powerfull, 8GB, so? the PS2 will have a 60gb USB hardrive soon available and a modem expanion pack.
See that Athlon xp 1800+ in my PC, see that Geforce, that 60gb hardrive, that is power, that is gaming at its best, not a cheap PC painted black and named the x-box.
I am not in any way mocking someo of the brilliant games on colsoles such as GTA3, GT3, MGS2 etc, but still you can take a black marker pen and wite on the case of your pc "x-box mark 2, available in different colours"
In my view the price drop was a good move
Pentium 733 mhz CPU
Graphics
Custom designed Nvidia card 250 Mhz, 3x more than any other console
Memory
8GB Hard drive
Interenet
Optional broadband
No take a look at those specs, your thinking of a games console, now think PC, look at those specs, yes it is designed for games, and it is currently the most powerfull, 8GB, so? the PS2 will have a 60gb USB hardrive soon available and a modem expanion pack.
See that Athlon xp 1800+ in my PC, see that Geforce, that 60gb hardrive, that is power, that is gaming at its best, not a cheap PC painted black and named the x-box.
I am not in any way mocking someo of the brilliant games on colsoles such as GTA3, GT3, MGS2 etc, but still you can take a black marker pen and wite on the case of your pc "x-box mark 2, available in different colours"
In my view the price drop was a good move
Just three pages, asking for your address, serial number, where and when you bought it, what games you want and in what language.
Its hard to expain what I get when I open it up. There is text on the third page or somthing saying basiclly wheat is on the web site. There are around 20 pages of it aswell and most of the pages are all filled with small boxes and random letters. It doesnt make sence!
I think it is because im using a old version of word.
What do you get when you open it up. Is there colour? Is there pictures? Is there ACTUAL boxes beside the games that you just click?
I just want to knw so I can compare.
I think it is because im using a old version of word.
What do you get when you open it up. Is there colour? Is there pictures? Is there ACTUAL boxes beside the games that you just click?
I just want to knw so I can compare.
Mantis wrote:
> You got caught up in the PS2 hype. Those games were all supposed to be
> amazing. Looking back, those games are nothing special and really
> quite disapointing when you realise how next gen they were supposed to
> be.
Nope, I knew exactly what I was getting, and they were all brilliant. Comparing them to current PS2 games, yes, they're not as good - but they were such a leap from PS1 that it was astounding.
Xbox just doesn't fill me with the sense of awe that PS2 did, because quite honestly, it's nowhere near as big a leap from PS2 as PS2 was from PS1.
> You got caught up in the PS2 hype. Those games were all supposed to be
> amazing. Looking back, those games are nothing special and really
> quite disapointing when you realise how next gen they were supposed to
> be.
Nope, I knew exactly what I was getting, and they were all brilliant. Comparing them to current PS2 games, yes, they're not as good - but they were such a leap from PS1 that it was astounding.
Xbox just doesn't fill me with the sense of awe that PS2 did, because quite honestly, it's nowhere near as big a leap from PS2 as PS2 was from PS1.
Mantis wrote:
> And also wookie you said in the xbox forum about people having
> problems downloading the claim form. I am one of those people. Aload
> of boxs appaer and its very hard to fill in. What can I do?
Is that all you get? No text? What software are you opening it with?
It's a Microsoft Word document, so you might have trouble opening it in other software.
I can send you an HTML version to open in your browser, print off and fill in, or a plain text version you can open in Notepad.
> And also wookie you said in the xbox forum about people having
> problems downloading the claim form. I am one of those people. Aload
> of boxs appaer and its very hard to fill in. What can I do?
Is that all you get? No text? What software are you opening it with?
It's a Microsoft Word document, so you might have trouble opening it in other software.
I can send you an HTML version to open in your browser, print off and fill in, or a plain text version you can open in Notepad.
Wookie wrote:
> When PS2 launched, there were four games I simply had to buy. Tekken Tag, TimeSplitters, Ridge Racer V and NHL 2001. Within a month, there were a few more.
You got caught up in the PS2 hype. Those games were all supposed to be amazing. Looking back, those games are nothing special and really quite disapointing when you realise how next gen they were supposed to be.
> When PS2 launched, there were four games I simply had to buy. Tekken Tag, TimeSplitters, Ridge Racer V and NHL 2001. Within a month, there were a few more.
You got caught up in the PS2 hype. Those games were all supposed to be amazing. Looking back, those games are nothing special and really quite disapointing when you realise how next gen they were supposed to be.
Quake 3 Revolution better than Halo? That is a joke, right?
The xbox is setting the standards in every way. 3 times as powerful as PS2 (according to Tecmo) built in hard drive(pay extra on PS2), better hardware, great sound, abillity to store music, built in broadband(pay extra on PS2), no multitaps, no need for memory card, no extras needed bar DVD remote. etc
What this translates to is, with Xbox you are getting a hell of a lot for £200. Now placing it side by side with the PS2 its easy to see which is better value.
And thinking of the future, xbox looks promicing. I read that the infrostructure for xbox LIVE ie xbox online is in place and Unreal Championship will on of the games that will launch the service along with Rainbow 6 Raven shield. 32 player online Unreal Championship on a console,mmm, Very next gen!
The games for Xbox are great too. Best launch in history by far.
Wookie you say there are no 2 games that interst you at the moment but wait untill 26th when MS well release a full list of games you can choose from.
And also wookie you said in the xbox forum about people having problems downloading the claim form. I am one of those people. Aload of boxs appaer and its very hard to fill in. What can I do?
The xbox is setting the standards in every way. 3 times as powerful as PS2 (according to Tecmo) built in hard drive(pay extra on PS2), better hardware, great sound, abillity to store music, built in broadband(pay extra on PS2), no multitaps, no need for memory card, no extras needed bar DVD remote. etc
What this translates to is, with Xbox you are getting a hell of a lot for £200. Now placing it side by side with the PS2 its easy to see which is better value.
And thinking of the future, xbox looks promicing. I read that the infrostructure for xbox LIVE ie xbox online is in place and Unreal Championship will on of the games that will launch the service along with Rainbow 6 Raven shield. 32 player online Unreal Championship on a console,mmm, Very next gen!
The games for Xbox are great too. Best launch in history by far.
Wookie you say there are no 2 games that interst you at the moment but wait untill 26th when MS well release a full list of games you can choose from.
And also wookie you said in the xbox forum about people having problems downloading the claim form. I am one of those people. Aload of boxs appaer and its very hard to fill in. What can I do?
Solskjær wrote:
> From what i've read in the reviews and heard in the news, Halo is
> sposed to be one of the greatest games ever created!
It's very good, but it is over-rated in my opinion. Yes, I've played it - I own it.
People talk about the "amazing" Xbox launch line-up, but it's all down to personal preference.
When PS2 launched, there were four games I simply had to buy. Tekken Tag, TimeSplitters, Ridge Racer V and NHL 2001. Within a month, there were a few more.
I've had my Xbox a month now. There was one game I absolutely wanted, and that was Halo, which while an excellent game, has been a bit of a let-down from what I was expected.
On the other hand, Project Gotham - which I bought solely as a 'filler' so that I didn't just have one game - turned out far better than I expected.
I bought DoA3, but as it's practically identical to DoA2 and I found the size of the controller gave me cramps, I took it back and exchanged it for Munch's Oddysee. Which is a very good game.
I recently won GAD here on the SR site, and I'm still undecided on which game to claim. Having looked down the list of forthcoming Xbox releases, there are few titles that interest me; those that do are already out on PS2. I was struggling to find a fourth game I was interested in, the only real option being the Buffy game.
Now, of course, I have two free games to come from Microsoft too, which makes the choice twice as difficult as I really don't know what to choose.
But the GAD claim will now almost certainly be a PS2 (there are more than tendue this year that I want) or PC game (there are two that I want), because finding another three Xbox titles at the moment - for me at least - will be almost impossible.
The console may be great, but at the moment, the games aren't. Now that they've resolve the pricing, they need to concentrate on the software.
> From what i've read in the reviews and heard in the news, Halo is
> sposed to be one of the greatest games ever created!
It's very good, but it is over-rated in my opinion. Yes, I've played it - I own it.
People talk about the "amazing" Xbox launch line-up, but it's all down to personal preference.
When PS2 launched, there were four games I simply had to buy. Tekken Tag, TimeSplitters, Ridge Racer V and NHL 2001. Within a month, there were a few more.
I've had my Xbox a month now. There was one game I absolutely wanted, and that was Halo, which while an excellent game, has been a bit of a let-down from what I was expected.
On the other hand, Project Gotham - which I bought solely as a 'filler' so that I didn't just have one game - turned out far better than I expected.
I bought DoA3, but as it's practically identical to DoA2 and I found the size of the controller gave me cramps, I took it back and exchanged it for Munch's Oddysee. Which is a very good game.
I recently won GAD here on the SR site, and I'm still undecided on which game to claim. Having looked down the list of forthcoming Xbox releases, there are few titles that interest me; those that do are already out on PS2. I was struggling to find a fourth game I was interested in, the only real option being the Buffy game.
Now, of course, I have two free games to come from Microsoft too, which makes the choice twice as difficult as I really don't know what to choose.
But the GAD claim will now almost certainly be a PS2 (there are more than tendue this year that I want) or PC game (there are two that I want), because finding another three Xbox titles at the moment - for me at least - will be almost impossible.
The console may be great, but at the moment, the games aren't. Now that they've resolve the pricing, they need to concentrate on the software.
I could produce a topic just like this about how the Dreamcast will dominate the console world...
Just look at the original games...
The excellent first party developers...
An ease of game development.
Likewise I could explain why the PS2 will never sell...
Poorest launch games...
High initial development costs...
Less graphical power than GC and Xbox...
etc
Just look at the original games...
The excellent first party developers...
An ease of game development.
Likewise I could explain why the PS2 will never sell...
Poorest launch games...
High initial development costs...
Less graphical power than GC and Xbox...
etc
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