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The reasons we give and gave for buying a console are very different. Now, with so many extra features being included with the 'new generation' of consoles it seems that the day we bought a games console for games, and games alone has well and truly gone.
With Sony's PS2 just around the corner (if U can get one) offering DVD playback technology; albeit not very high quality, and XBox from Microsoft is set to have a modem, and DVD functions, and with Dreamcast having the internet and being in a pcakage with a DVD standalone player, times have changed since the era of NES and Master system.
Could this be a good thing? Well, I own a DC (I obviously cannot own the other two mentioned) and I although I get little time to use it I have to say that I rarely use the internet on it. Why? because I believe it isn't that good, but mainly because I simply prefer to play games on a games console; and the standards of games recently has risen greatly so I'm currently playing my way through some real classics (in my opinion).
So. Are you getting a console - be it a PS2 a PSone a 64 or Game cube, a Dreamcast or even an Xbox because they have extra USPs? Or is it because of the games?
Please tell me, I really want to know. Could it come down to games companies actually being forced to throw in every single gadget to a console just so it seems better than the competition? Could Nintendo's 'purely for games' policy be threatened, as it happens they are putting in a modem and a=some sort of DVD possibly.
With Sony's PS2 just around the corner (if U can get one) offering DVD playback technology; albeit not very high quality, and XBox from Microsoft is set to have a modem, and DVD functions, and with Dreamcast having the internet and being in a pcakage with a DVD standalone player, times have changed since the era of NES and Master system.
Could this be a good thing? Well, I own a DC (I obviously cannot own the other two mentioned) and I although I get little time to use it I have to say that I rarely use the internet on it. Why? because I believe it isn't that good, but mainly because I simply prefer to play games on a games console; and the standards of games recently has risen greatly so I'm currently playing my way through some real classics (in my opinion).
So. Are you getting a console - be it a PS2 a PSone a 64 or Game cube, a Dreamcast or even an Xbox because they have extra USPs? Or is it because of the games?
Please tell me, I really want to know. Could it come down to games companies actually being forced to throw in every single gadget to a console just so it seems better than the competition? Could Nintendo's 'purely for games' policy be threatened, as it happens they are putting in a modem and a=some sort of DVD possibly.
I've pointed this out before, the Japanese love being able to watch their DVD's on, we like consoles for games, not to play DVD's. Most people i know what to get one, because of the many things it can do, and all the games you can get. They must not know that it's hard to make games on! The £65 loss shows it all.
A big number of games doesn't help them a bit.
A big number of games doesn't help them a bit.
As I'm sure I've mentioned elsewhere on this forum, I buy a console for games, and use my PC for all the other extras. I just wanna play games, so looks like the X-Box will offer something pretty radical in that way of things, and I'm looking forward to its release.
Some extra gadget enhance the gaming experience and are worthwhile as long as it doesn't make the console too expensive.
Internet and DVD is all very well but I wouldn't pay more than £50 extra for them both, let alone each!
Internet and DVD is all very well but I wouldn't pay more than £50 extra for them both, let alone each!
The reasons we give and gave for buying a console are very different. Now, with so many extra features being included with the 'new generation' of consoles it seems that the day we bought a games console for games, and games alone has well and truly gone.
With Sony's PS2 just around the corner (if U can get one) offering DVD playback technology; albeit not very high quality, and XBox from Microsoft is set to have a modem, and DVD functions, and with Dreamcast having the internet and being in a pcakage with a DVD standalone player, times have changed since the era of NES and Master system.
Could this be a good thing? Well, I own a DC (I obviously cannot own the other two mentioned) and I although I get little time to use it I have to say that I rarely use the internet on it. Why? because I believe it isn't that good, but mainly because I simply prefer to play games on a games console; and the standards of games recently has risen greatly so I'm currently playing my way through some real classics (in my opinion).
So. Are you getting a console - be it a PS2 a PSone a 64 or Game cube, a Dreamcast or even an Xbox because they have extra USPs? Or is it because of the games?
Please tell me, I really want to know. Could it come down to games companies actually being forced to throw in every single gadget to a console just so it seems better than the competition? Could Nintendo's 'purely for games' policy be threatened, as it happens they are putting in a modem and a=some sort of DVD possibly.
With Sony's PS2 just around the corner (if U can get one) offering DVD playback technology; albeit not very high quality, and XBox from Microsoft is set to have a modem, and DVD functions, and with Dreamcast having the internet and being in a pcakage with a DVD standalone player, times have changed since the era of NES and Master system.
Could this be a good thing? Well, I own a DC (I obviously cannot own the other two mentioned) and I although I get little time to use it I have to say that I rarely use the internet on it. Why? because I believe it isn't that good, but mainly because I simply prefer to play games on a games console; and the standards of games recently has risen greatly so I'm currently playing my way through some real classics (in my opinion).
So. Are you getting a console - be it a PS2 a PSone a 64 or Game cube, a Dreamcast or even an Xbox because they have extra USPs? Or is it because of the games?
Please tell me, I really want to know. Could it come down to games companies actually being forced to throw in every single gadget to a console just so it seems better than the competition? Could Nintendo's 'purely for games' policy be threatened, as it happens they are putting in a modem and a=some sort of DVD possibly.