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Tom's Hardware Reviews Xbox Live
VividU writes "Tom's Hardware has a review of Xbox Live." Also includes a bit of a summary of the state of networked gaming on the other 2 major consoles (Coleco and Intellivision). A good read if you're looking to see what's going to keep you glued to your couch in 2003.
The article mentions nothing about pricing though. How much is this going to cost? Also it would be nice to know if they were planing any MMORPG stuff. This whole idea of paying a monthly fee to play a game is a tad on the ridiculous side but I guess they do have to support it.
Found out the hard way that old Xboxes don't work with Xbox Live.
We bought an Xbox last Christmas for my younger brother, when they had just came out. In the manual, one of the periferals listed is the Xbox Communicator (a.k.a. Xbox Live).
This Christmas, we got him Xbox Live. Put in the installation disk, but what's this? Needs a hardware upgrade?
Apparently, the hardware upgrade costs $100 from MS. I don't know where the cutoff point for working vs. non-working Xboxes is (as even the non-working ones were advertised as being ready for it!) - but be careful!
Online console gaming is FAR from a big flop. Xbox live has JUST begun and it is selling like HOTCAKES.
I for one probably won't buy ANY games that aren't live enabled in some form or fashion.
The targeted monthly rate has NOT been decided, and even if it is 5-10.00 a month that is NOT a bad price considering that will be a single rate to play over 55+ online games. You can't do that with any other console.
Broadband is the success of Xboxlive. Microsoft can release content that no 56k modem can download, microsoft can create communities, games and environments richly detailed and only limited ot the imagination. As it stands now only roster updates for the NFL games have been out but both Unreal Championship, Mech Assault and Splinter Cell will have downloadable content, maps, addons and fixes. You won't see that on any other console.
XBox live is here to stay folks!
Or the inevitable Joe37337... You see him approach, armed with everything imaginable, just before the XBox BSOD's...
You can have it fast, accurate, or pretty. Pick any 2.
well, why don't you just stick your tongue straight up Billg's arse?
That was classic intercourse!
That's nice. The Xbox lost MS $117 million last quater.
The review was shite, it tried to put forward that since the Xbox's ethernet port is built in, that the Xbox is far superior to the GC and PS2 in terms of connectivity. It doesn't make a shit bit of difference; let's see anyone play online without buying a Live kit first. Having ethernet built in simply ups the price of the overall console.
Microsoft propoganda dressed as an objective review. It's total bollocks.
Looks can be deceiving. Or CAN they?
There is no guarantee your online games will work unless they are 100% decentralized. Any sort of wordstats, etc, doesn't exist. Or if it does, it might have its plug pulled because no one is paying for it (and companies sure don't pay for things for the heck of it).
A lot of Dreamcast online games were never pay for play. Now I can't use very many of them for anything (except PSO, because PSO v2 is pay for play and floats it along with PSO Eps 1&2 for GC). Shenmue's passport disc (which had world stats) stopped working March 2002. When will your PS2 online games stop working?
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