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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?

gerrid wrote:
>
> this is what you were arguing with. From this you launched some sort
> of "A PC and the Xbox 360 are not the same thing!" attack
> on me, when I never said they were.

and then my suspicions were confirmed:

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

I think Hedfix's key problem is that we are dealing with the concept of "similarity", whereas he seems to believe we are suggesting they are "identical".

Hedfix wrote:
> FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> You take the printer, and the WP software away from a PC and ... it
> won't print my word document!
>
> Well, must be a console then.
>
> That would be the scientific way to do it.
>
> It would be wrong however.

Why's that then?
Your logic, surely.

Spot the difference

gerrid wrote:
> a PC in console form

> gerrid wrote:
> to box
> up a PC and sell it as a console,

Oh wait there isn't one! My mistake, doi.

Do you remember when we were all talking about the Xbox 360 vs Nintendo DS? Man, those were great times...

Anyone can see that initial comments was a passing graze to the whole issue.
Stop being such a bellhat.

and by packaging and selling it as a console, it is a console, is it not?

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.

this is what you were arguing with. From this you launched some sort of "A PC and the Xbox 360 are not the same thing!" attack on me, when I never said they were.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> You take the printer, and the WP software away from a PC and ... it
> won't print my word document!
>
> Well, must be a console then.

That would be the scientific way to do it.

It would be wrong however.

gerrid wrote:
> and a PC packaged as a console isn't a PC, I never said it was, I said
> it was a PC in console form which makes it a console but with
> the elements of a PC. We're not arguing about anything here. I never
> said the Xbox 360 was identical to a PC. Stop trying to argue with
> something that was never said.

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