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Salon Goes Inside the X-Box

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the after-the-fact dept.

Romancer writes "According to this article, Recent X-box "Sales have been disappointing, and the co-creator of Microsoft's game console just quit his job -- a day before a book portraying him as a hero hit the bookstores." " The article itself is allright, but it has a lot of good links.

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  1. Quality vs Quantity by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I think that something Microsoft didn't realise is that in the games console market quantity is better than quality. Look at the N64 for instance.


    Most of its games were very high quality, but there really weren't very many games.PlayStation on the other hand had some very high quality games and hundreds (if not thousands) of middling to poor games. Just walking into a games store and seeing rows upon rows of PSOne games versus a couple of shelves worth of N64 games was enough for most people to decide which console they wanted.

    I live in Europe and now it's £199 it becomes quite attractive but what I have noticed is that in the States there's an add on disc for DOA3 coming out in June. I know that it's only enhancements but how long will it be before a developer decides to release a game to make their deadline with the intention of releasing an patch for it poorly diguised as an add on?

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  2. Strike One by zandermander · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It takes MS three tries to get something right (IF they get it right)....

    The X-Box is strike #1.