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"Convince Playstation 2 is worth buying"

Bear in mind I have a dreamcast + 40 top games, a multi region DVD player and prefer multiplayer gaming and online capabilities.

Shanks! I remembered what your name means!

It is the first song on the Greenday albumn Insomniac!

Am I right?

POWER OF THE SHEEP

SNIPER wrote:
> You can;t keep upgrading your PC's every year, that's a good thing
> about consoles though you don't need to upgrade your machine,
> besides that N64 ram pack it does well.

Thats what I mean though... you can buy a PC with current console specs... and keep yje machine (without updating) for the same length of time as you would a console...

The down side is that in a couple of years time you wont be able to use the highest game settings... but you will consistantly have the same graphical quality as the current consoles crop...

To explain what I mean... you could have brought a (then) current spec PC at the time the Playstation was rleeased... which would still play most games... unfrotunatly those specs would'nt be able to take advantsage of 1200x1600 res with 130fps... ut you will still get the same performance that you would from the equivelent Playstation game...

You can;t keep upgrading your PC's every year, that's a good thing about consoles though you don't need to upgrade your machine, besides that N64 ram pack it does well.

I have a PS2. He, he, err, he.

I will explain my thoughts et al in a new topic - stay tuned!

HAHAHAHAHA, do you think Microsoft the lord of the SCUM is going to release at that price.

Nelson: HAHA

650 will get you a 64MB 1GigHz P3 with a 10GB HD and GeForce2 graphics card...

Which thinking about it... if they can sell a system of this spec for 650 today... and stilll make a profit... means they should be able to sell the X-Box for at the most 299... probably 250... in a years time when it gets released?

Armitage Shanks has a point, PCs are quite cheap for their specs at present...£500 can gat you a great PC. It may cost you more but the games are cheaper!

Once the games get going then the PS2 will be a good buy, but personally I'd stick the money in the bank to earn interest until the PS2 comes down in price. That way you've got some interest and a cheaper PS2 too!

As for the Gamecube, I have every faith in Nintendo to pull off a stunner, but by the time it comes out you might be able to afford it anyway!

I'd suggest waiting on buying a PS2. Nothing against it really, just wait so the price can go down a bit and also so it can build a library of some fairly reputable games. At the moment, you've got what? SSX, for the most part? People are always saying, "Well, it'll get better in the future," but they've no way to know that. How many times have you read on here about PS2 owners who are freaking out because the 2nd Generation PS2 games haven't arrived yet?

Just wait. Don't buy it right now, unless you've just seriously lacking in games to play. With you DC around, I don't see that that's a problem. Me, personally, I may eventually buy one, but definitely not right now. I've got a PC to tide me over till the prices go down, new games are out, and/or the Gamecube convinces me to spend my money the Nintendo way. No matter what, in the end, I'm saving money and getting access to things I WANT, not things I expect to want one day.

***[email protected]*** wrote:
> don't get a PS2 cos they suck, i know cos i've got one.

The DVD
> player is crap and i play on my Dreamcast more because it is a lot
> better.

STICK WITH YOUR DC.

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