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XBox Released
Gallowglass writes: "Salon has written a review of the Xbox which damns with extremely faint praise." There was a big hoopla in Times Square last night, but apparently no one pied Bill Gates. So, for all you poor souls who lined up to give money to the borg: does it work? Any blue-screens yet? :) Update: 11/15 15:23 GMT by M : Okay, I'm sorry. That's green screen of death, not blue screen.
If the Xbox does not have GTA3 then it is not worth the money.....besides, we all know that it takes MS 3 times to get it right....to bad that in the console market a 3rd time can take you 10 years to get to....by then the Xbox will have been stomped on by PS5
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
Now Gate's will finally understand failure!!!!
-da5id
"So, for all you poor souls who lined up to give money to the borg: does it work? Any blue-screens yet?"
fuck you alright, if you dont like it, get to work on the linbox game console or STFU. oh yea, thats right, linux SUCKS for anything but running apache
It's shit. Completed it in 4 hours. Fuck that.
The Xbox is the only console out there without networking. What's up with that?!
so will this finaly make apple drop its prices since they will not be the only closed home PC system in town anymore :-)
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
It's now the Green Screen of Death. :P
What kills me, is people promoting Sony and Nintendo over MS, for reasons of business ethics! These companies are at least as predatory and monopolistic as MS ever was, in a nation that practically invented the concept.
And where can I get them?
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Yeah, that's right beeyatch.
I can't believe how many response came from you MicroSlaves. You should learn to think for yourselves instead of mindlessly forking over $$$ to Uncle Bill's bank accounts and ego!
NOT!
Slashdot editors are really scraping the bottom of the barrel in their overt attempts to bash Microsoft. They do so at any cost, and by that I mean regardless if it makes them look like biased buffoons or not.
Salon is the last place I go for anything remotely to unbiased reporting. Seems Slashdot wants to follow suit.
The X-Box should be judged for what it is, and that is an attempt to offer flexibility to developers to make the games they could only wish to create for the PC. Microsoft or not, I would love to see some real creativity in the market that didn't involve a regular game company.
Can Ms provide that? I don't know, but I won't slight them based upon a Salon review, in fact if Salon bashes them at all I see it as more of a reason to look at the product.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
Tricky move by MS. All the time I was predicting that people were going to get all excited about the Xbox and then they would be greeted with the blue screen of death, but MS fooled us all, it's now green! Haha!
I beleive an "I told you so" is called for here.
~ now you know
Do you honestly give a fuck if your music is pirated? This is slashdot! We all use Audiogalaxy or Morpheus or whathaveyou to get our music and we don't give a fuck about recording artists.
Really, when you look at it, they get to have lots of fun and tons of free sex. Do they really need money from us, too? Fuck them!
The xbox has no good games and no good developers with the exception of Sega which is making games for every system.
/. and many other sites seem anti-xbox is because they make fun of it because it doesn't have *fun* titles. The game cube games, despite kiddie graphics, are FUN.
The truth is that MS is scared. They screwed up on the xbox. They lose $120 on each console in order to keep the price down to $300 while Nintendo's GC only costs $180 to make and in the end Nintendo only loses $20 on each $200 console. MS spent all this money making the "most powerful console ever" (although they could have made it more powerful for cheaper by choose an alternative CPU than an x86 based one, but that would break compatibility with the thousands of existing Win32 x86 applications), and gave it things like a hd (so you can store music?? Imagine a suspense game like RE, but replace the music the developer uses to build suspense with RAVE/Metal/Rap/Country/whatever you like and see how suspensful the game is...) for no reason, ethernet (although they weren't able to have a game network yet, and broad band has had a ton of trouble catching on in the way MS had planned for), HTDV output (when 99% of the gamers don't get to hook up the system to anything but a regular NTSC/PAL system...), Dolby 5.1 output (when most gamers just use stereo...), etc.
Sony is most likely going to beat the pants of MS and Nintendo because they have best developers writing for their platform, even though they have the least powerful platform. If MS used a PentiumII 500 and a GeForce 2 instead of a PentiumIII 733/"GeForce3" and bought exclusive rights to Gran Tourismo and Metal Gear Solid they'd do much better in the market place. Other than maybe a million geeks worldwide which really care about technology to the point they'll sacrafice getting quality games the rest of the world just wants something they can put a disc in, turn on, and HAVE FUN. ENTERTAINMENT sells to those people, not technology.
A slightly more powerful console produces fancier graphics, but it does not produce more FUN.
The reason
Cirngeley is full of shit.
He has always been full of shit.
What a gas bag. And that graphic on his site. His face between Gates and Jobs.
Geesh. What a has-been 80's idiot.