Microsoft's Rush To Xbox 2 A Danger?

Game Boy writes "Brit games business site Gamesindustry.biz has posted a fascinating editorial asking whether Microsoft is about to shoot itself in the foot over Xbox 2 by rushing to launch the console years ahead of its rivals' next-generation platforms. It's a pretty good analysis of how Microsoft is thinking about this marketplace, and why they could be pretty drastically wrong - I work at a major games publisher, and a lot of people here are worried about exactly the same things, but it's rare to see anyone actually discussing them openly. Xbox has done pretty well so far, but Microsoft could be heading for a disaster that even Bill's billions won't dig them out of..."

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Real Evil

[Anonymous Coward]

For those of us who seem to forget what real evil is, here's a reminder. (warning - graphic)

His crime? Being an American.

Re:Real Evil

[MikeMo]

If you believe in a "supreme being", then good and evil are absolutes. It's only our perceptions that are, as always, relative.

Even within the context of our perceptions, good and evil are established by the beliefs of the society we all live in. Within that definition, what they did was evil. Also within that context, it is exactly "we" who must judge them.

Remember that baby-rapers and all murderers think they are good people, too. There is always a way to justify doing whatever you want to do.

Re:Real Evil

[Anonymous Coward]

If you believe in a "supreme being", then good and evil are absolutes

Well I believe in a Supreme Being and I don't know what you're on about. There is quite a large grey area between good and evil. Thankfully, it's not my job to judge what is good and what is evil. That's the SB's job. So, seems to me you're just talking out of your ass.

Re:Real Evil

[Anonymous Coward]

Nobody said that you socialist hippies were behind the killings, just that you always excuse them, or ignore them to pick apart lesser crimes that happen under the Bush administration.

Kidnapping and beheading = more evil than mind games and humiliating pictures. This is exactly the crowd that needs that reminder. Many of you have forgotten.

Re:Real Evil

[Anonymous Coward]

fuck you bigot

Re:Real Evil

[Anonymous Coward]

This will give the anti-american crowd pause, for about 15 minutes. Then, like the Nick Berg beheading, this will be quickly forgotten and we'll be focusing on Abu Gharib for another two months.

Re:Real Evil

[aichpvee]

Yeah yeah yeah. Fuckers shouldn't have been there, they got what was coming. Period. And someohow the death of a couple of people in countries they shouldn't have been in doesn't seem anywhere near as bad as invading countries and killing tens of thousands while you do it. And REALLY, stop with the "evil" this and that. That's just a bunch of childish theist clickedy clack.

fp

[Anonymous Coward]

nm

First Post!

[Anonymous Coward]

FP

Problem for Microsoft?

[Dynedain]

We can only hope...

mod up

[Anonymous Coward]

the man has a very good point...

The Xbox 2 looks cool

[Anonymous Coward]

But I'll only get it if I can turn it into a Linux box. Xbox Gentoo would let me run my MAME games.

Bush's crime:continuing to treat Saudis as allies

[Ars-Fartsica]

Want a real crime? The crime perpetrated by Bush and US oil and weapons firms. The crime of hiding the facts and lying to the public. The Saudis are our allies? Why, because they sell us oil and buy our F16s? The action on the streets tells us otherwise. You can be damn sure the Saudi royal family could erase this type of activity overnight if they wanted to with their huge US funded secret police...but they won't and can't, because if they do then their public will turn on them.

Lets make it clear for everyone. Major political players from Will Kennard to Frank Carlucci to John Major go to work for the Carlyle Group when they leave office. This group manages weapons sales to the Saudi state. They use their influence in govt to keep the gravy train going. Their corporate backers give the impression that the Saudis our the friends of the US public. Meanwhile the same Saudi family is known to fund terrorism...but hey, whats a little blood between business partners? The US govt is working against its own public here, but remember its who gets paid that counts.

Re:No, no, no

[king-manic]

Quality means a hell of a lot more.
Deep impact vs Armegeddon:

Deep impact:
Thoughtful almost plausible and mostly logically correct if scientifically flawed movies with good actors and a decent script.

Armegeddon:
Schlok. And lots of it. Scientifically garbabge, Acting is not very good. Plot is silly.

One vastly out sell the other.

VHS vs BETA

VHS: looks like garbage but is long

Beta: Look great, but is short originally

VHS wins.

IT's not so much about "Quality" as it is about marketing / reputation / Availability / and receptiveness of the market. Only 2 of the 4 things can be controlled by a producer.

Re:History says this is bad, mmmk.

[Anonymous Coward]

I have to agree, as a GC owner I fully understand the reason its not backword compatible there is not phyiscal room in the device for a cartrige connector but that is the biggest regret I have. I still want to play some of my N64 games, I had to reach back behind the console and swich the cable for awhile and later I went out and sent $22 on a decent switch so I could connect both to my NTSC-VGA pulliup thingy that lets me plug my console into the KVM with my computer. I have purchase a good library of GC titles and I can tell you it will greatly effect how quickly I buy Nintendo's next system. If it is backword compatible I will probably do it right away so I can sprinkle in the new titles, if its not I will wait a year or two until I get completely sick of my old games.

Re:Bush's crime:continuing to treat Saudis as alli

[strictnein]

Did you just get back from Michael Moore's latest fictional documentary?

you can be damn sure the Saudi royal family could erase this type of activity overnight if they wanted

Pretty soon we may see that, since it appears the terrorists are slowly changing their target from the US to the Saudi Royal family. They did, however, have 12,000 police/military/firemen out looking for Paul Johnson.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Re:Bush's crime:continuing to treat Saudis as alli

[xanadu-xtroot.com]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

OK, so, do we still hate Microsoft or not?