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"Nintendo DS Vs. X-box 360"

It is safe to say I am REALLY looking forward to Zelda and Pokemon XD this year (and Geist to a smaller but otherwise essential degree), 2 Christmas treats.

But as a Christmas present I WAS planning on getting a Nintendo DS. Already there are some games I'd like, Pac-Pix, Mario 64 DS, Wario Ware, Touch! Kirby and Yoshi's Touch and Go. But the Christmas line up looks immense. Nintendogs appears a good laugh, Snowboard Kids is back and I am truly looking forward to Goeman. Don't get me started on Mario and Luigi 2 (Dances) and Metroid Prime. It is also online and I have wi-fi (yay).

I have no intention on getting a PSP (even if I do love Medievil) but Microsoft's new system looks the nuts!

A few good games at E3 could easily sway me.

So what do you think?

Stuff that.

Answer the points.

Hedfix, do you actually know what it is you're trying to argue about?

Memorandum! wrote:
>
> He didn't say it WAS a PC, he said it was LIKE a PC.

gerrid wrote:
> It was inevitable really. I think Microsoft's plan was always to box
> up a PC and sell it as a console,

dear hedfix,

My points in summary:

Xbox 360 looks like a PC
Xbox 360 is like a PC packaged into console form - it does things a PC does but more simply

There you go. Stop thinking I've insulted your precious Xbox by saying that the PC is better. I haven't.

gerrid wrote:
> the description of the 360 makes it
> sound like a PC:
>
> share photos, videos, interface with digital cameras, operating
> system designed by Microsoft, stands upright, files and folders - I
> can do all that on my PC right now. Even the controllers remind me of
> the old Microsoft Sidewinder


erm, all of what he said was true.
It's only when you decided to get all uppity that the argument started.

He didn't say it WAS a PC, he said it was LIKE a PC.

I know that you idiot.

Gerrid still hasn't answered my points to any satisfaction however much he goes on about 'standardised PC's'.

I think you're missing the point, ballface.

The XBox 360 is a 'standardised, simplified PC' in the sense that it allows people to get some of the benefits of PC gaming without the complexities that a lot of people find off-putting.

gerrid wrote:
> ok if you're too simple to understand:

As we shall see, further down, the opposite is quite clearly the case.
>
> Gamespy, Xfire - offer the exact same service as Live - your oh so
> precious "friends list".

And I can transfer this over easily like Xbox to 360? Oh that'd be a no then. Plus would some of my american friends go out and buy a PC because I felt like changing format? I don't think so. Please think about things a little more.

>
> As for the whole keyboard mouse thing - STANDARDISED INPUTS. And
> what's to sto Microsoft releasing a keyboard and mouse for the 360?
> THen you have the exact same problem, don't you?

Because we have PC's for that and they're trying to gain casual gamers not alienate them. Do you understand nothing?

>
> And what on earth are you on about convincing your friends to get a
> PC? Think about how stupid and petty that point is.

Think about how true it is. I may ask them tomorrow and post their responses although I doubt the filter will let most of them through.

Convincing your
> friends to buy a £200 PC is exactly the same as convincing them
> to buy a £200 console.

Yeah, try converting your average playstation owner over to a PC.

>
> Good enough for you?

you missed the exclusives

But...well...erm...nevermind.

Mozzy wrote:
> With the Xbox 360 you can also lie down and play it, thats a good
> point if you're like me and can't be bothered to sit up and play a
> game and would rather just lie down and play it.
>
> With a PC you can't do that, you have to sit on a chair damaging your
> back and imo it isn't very comfortable.

..........

plug in a controller, start up your game, lie down.
Difficult, wasn't it?