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"Money Talks as the X-Box Stalks"

Seems to me that more and more developers and production companies are jumping onto the X-Box band wagon. In the next year or so the situation for other console owners could get quite precarious as they bite their nails, watching developer after developer start to concentrate on this new super-console, neglecting the other 3 main contenders.
Maybe it's time that Sony, Nintendo and Sega started to put aside some money to start tempting these big names back to their formats.
That's something Microsoft don't really have to worry too much about as a company. I used to believe that Bill Gates' dominance over the software industry was a good thing, with everyone getting the same software interface thereby making computer communication on a worldwide scale 'a good thing', but now that it has come to games I am not so sure. I think I prefer the competitiveness of the market as it stands now.

yeah very intrested ewt to get away from the wife more info please

yer i would be interested anymre details

does anyone have any idea if there are trips are the 24hour or just day ticket?

Jimmy,

Any chance of some more details please? So we can advertise it on the Website.

Cheers

yes i am interested and i know 3 other people who would aswell.More details please.

yeah am up for that anymore details would be nice

Yes i would be interested and i also know some guys who fish Bluebell a lot, there wouldn't be a problem us getting on there. In fact from the 4th till the 6th July there is a massive social on Bluebell being organised by Andy James of Bang On Baits, if anyone is up for this just drop me a pm and i'll get you on it. I think the cost is approx £55, loads of comps,raffles,bbq, and some famous carp anglers are going to attend, it promises to be a mega weekend

Yes i would be interested and i also know some guys who fish Bluebell a lot, there wouldn't be a problem us getting on there.

Would any carp anglers be interested in weekend trips away?
The club is thinking of running a few weekendend breaks to carp fisheries, and would like to know if anyone would be interested before any plans are made!!

I'm not biased towards the X-Box, although I do admire the current set of specifications that are available for it (this doesn't mean that the X-Box will actually meet these specs. in the final production version). I'm actually a PS fan, used to have a Saturn before that, and a Megadrive before that. I also dabble with the Gameboy now and again.
When the SNES was around, I wasn't impressed with its games as much as I was with the Megadrive, so am more partial to SEGA than Nintendo. Having said this, with PS mucking about so much recently, I was looking at the DC as a replacement, until I got my hands on the PS2. I am now totally biased towards the PS2, but I try very hard not to let it show in my posts.
My point is, Microsoft have enough money to bring lots of developers under its wing, and although it doesn't make sense for a company to develop exclusively for one console, old Billy Gates can make it financially worthwhile should he wish to do so, whereas the other 3 manufacturers can't. In the future, I see Nintendo being the biggest rival to the X-Box, it has the advantage in that it is exclusively a Games console manufacturer (so does Sega, but they just haven't got the clout, in my humble opinion, not yet anyway.) Sony is too diversified now, they did a great job with the original PS, but seem to have brought out a hybrid in the PS2, a kind of conglomeration of all its other products in one item. The PS2 is excellent for playing games on, the games are the best I've ever seen to date, but 5 years down the line I can see an X-Box in its place, if not sooner.