Microsoft: No Xbox for You!

Markel writes "According this this story in the Sydney Morning Herald, Microsoft is very concerned about a man having been acquitted after allegedly selling [mod chips for a PlayStation]. So concerned in fact, that they are saying: change the law, or they will have to reconsider selling the Xbox in Australia. Not selling the Xbox is well within their rights, but putting it in a (I paraphrase slightly) "change the law or we'll .." context seems assuming a bit too much. I guess well see how many of our MPs are XBox gameheads."

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Re:Well,

[cioxx]

And pretty much all of them are available on other systems.

Wrong!
Lets see. Here's a list of upcoming Xbox exclusives. Exactly the same count as PS2. Which also has 38. Again, these are EXCLUSIVES.

• Battlefield: 1942
• Brute Force
• Blinx: Time Sweeper
• Buffy The Vampire Slayer
• Crazy Taxi 3
• Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
• Deathrow
• Hunter: The Reckoning
• House of the Dead 3
• Kakuto Chojin
• Kung Fu Chaos
• Loons: Fight for Fame
• MechAssault
• Moto GP
• Midtown Madness 3
• Ninja Gaiden
• NBA Inside Drive 2003
• NFL Fever 2003
• Panzer Dragoon Orta
• Project Ego
• Psychonauts
• Quantum Redshift
• Robotech
• Sega GT 2002
• Sneakers
• Splashdown
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Steel Battalion
• Superman: Man of Steel
• Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus
• The Unseen
• Toe Jam and Earl III: All Funked Up
• Tork
• Totaled!
• Transworld Snowboarding
• Unreal Championship
• Whacked!
• WWF RAW 2

Lets not forget DOA3 and Halo. Halo alone is worth the price of the console right there. If I had to choose between Halo and 50 PS2 games, the choice would be clear.

Again, I'm not defending piracy or Microsoft. I just tried to point out that Xbox is not a bad console as some of the users make it out to be.