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Playstation 3 In the Works
Kredal writes "The Independent is running a story about Sony's work on a new console, being built around online games, such as Everquest Adventures and Final Fantasy 11. No word on backwards compatability, but expect it to be the X-Box killer if it is."
FF11 already has me lusting.
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does the xbox really need any help with that?
It all really depends on where you're posting from. In the US its not done too badly, but here in the UK we've already seen the price slashed by a third in order to get some momentum behind the thing, and the last time I saw Japanese figures it was only outselling the fecking DREAMCAST by 20%, and getting beaten by the Wonderswan Color. Sorry to swear, but in that territory at least, suggesting that it isn't dead is laughable.
Also, note that this statement of poor sales isn't a value judgement on the quality - Halo is indeed a very good game.
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That was an odd comment but not for the reason you imply. The PS2 was an XBox killer. The thing's a piece of shit. Support is awful. And they're trying to appeal to a market that probably has the highest total percentage of MS haters. There aren't many people who WANT the XBOX to succeed. And there are, I'm sure, a significant number of people who won't buy an Xbox no matter how good it gets. I personally wouldn't. I have a PS2 for the few console games I want to play and a computer for the more in depth games.
I'm the big fish in the big pond bitch.
Ha!
The only reason that backwards compatibility is of any use for the PS2 is because the original playstation broke after about a few years of use. Nintendo never had to do such a thing because their systems are always made to last.
Infact, the PS3 better also be backwards compatible because the first PS2s released are now starting to fail aswell.
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All I have to say is Luigi's Castle... oh wait, that really sucked. (Especially compared to Halo)
/., home of the RIAA/MPAA/Adobe/GPL/XBOX/European hypocrites.
And I wouldn't hold my breathe for the new Mario (Mario walks around with a water cannon trying to remove graffiti (??)) or the new Super Cartoony Zelda, or the first person Metroid (that is just capitalizing on Halo and the FPS craze.)
I'm sorry, I'd rather be playing the new World Series Baseball, Halo, Spiderman (on the best of the multi-console translations), the new Toe Jam & Earl game (how many of you remember that old Genesis game,) NFL Fever, Midtown Madness 3, Max Payne (I'm sorry, the game is DESIGNED for a control pad, not keyboard+mouse,) Morrowind, Project Ego, POW, etc etc etc.
Yes Yes, the PS2 has great games too (although it has games like Britney's Dance Beat too) and so does the gamecube (currently, all three of them.) But the only reason everyone is trashin the xbox is because it's from microsoft.
I mean, come on... I'm hearing comments like "It's too fucking big." WHO THE FUCK CARES? If it plays games better than any other system than who cares if it's about 15% bigger than the PS2? My tivo is fucking huge but I don't complain about it's size when I talk about functionality. A comment like that has no basis other than resentment and bias against Microsoft (oh, and the US too since apparently that's a US-only design trait.)
The XBox is a great system with great games. So is the PS2 and so is the GC. Less anti-microsoft, anti-us rhetoric... oh wait, this is