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"Trying to buy our way into success, are we?"

It won't work. XBox has too much of a geeky image.

*I am not a fanboy. I have no views on XBox as a console, I played Spiderman once on it and didn't know the buttons. Dying followed*

Daveus wrote:
> i agree. i'm not going there. not gonna keep throwing back comments.
> i'm gonna ignore the people who stab at the Xbox, worthless comments
> that mean nothing to me

this is from the guy who posed 12 'gamecube sucks' topics in the nintendo forum. time for revenge methinks...

And seeing as you've bought Mario, that makes you a 5 year old too! :-P

Baaa, I say.

Well if I'm a geek, hopefully I'll have have as much success as a cetain other one. ;-)

Every console has it's own personalised stereotype.

The PS2 is for sheep.
Little kids like the Gamecube.
And only geeks buy into Microsoft's Xbox.

So I'm a 5 year old and Savatt's a geek.

It could be worse... some people like Er-no and Wookiee are all 3 at the same time! ;-D

whatever, you're intitled to your opinion. even though it means sod all in here and to me

Daveus wrote:
> and how do cartoon games have more sucess? Halo's not cartoon. and
> it's won heaps of awards. as will Halo 2...and more

Yeah, great isn't it? It's a crying shame a crap cartoony games called Super Mario Sunshine is vastly outselling it...

Well, I've lost your respect, my confidence, dignity, self-respect and lost the ability to get you all to be nice to me.

Well, at least I still have my dignity.

Its like the price drop. One minute it wouldn't sell because its too expensive, the next once it came down in price, it wouldn't sell because that means its failing.

For some reason, some attitudes seem to come accross that only companies that make games themselves can be in the games industry. Personally, the fact that Microsoft are delivering the games I want to play is enough to warrant them being around.
Some people also seem to think that Microsoft are dictating to developers what types of games they make for the X-Box. One amusing comment was about Rare - how Microsoft would make them create realistic games and another Halo. ;-))

Yeah I can really see that - spend all that money on a developer, throw away the characters and games they're famous for and give them orders to make games that plenty of other developers are already creating. ;-))

I wouldn't say Rare are the final piece of the puzzle, but they are certainly an important piece as far as it goes with bringing variety to the X-Box.

So far I think Microsoft are doing a great job and there are more and more excellent titles being announced all the time. The fact I want around 80 games for the console so far shows how much I'm enjoying the console. I've never wanted so many games on a console before - and thats within its first year of release over here !

Asher wrote:
> This topic is saying that XBox cannot try and buy companies to get good.

A console needs good games to be considered good, yes?

MS buy rights for good games then you criticise them for doing so. Sony bought rights for GTA3, its the same thing.

Some people are backward, no matter what Xbox does it'll never be enough.