XBOX 360=Dreamcast 2.0?

Tenken writes "1UP has an eye opening article on the many similarities between the XBOX 360 and the Dreamcast. It's actually pretty scary, case in point: both consoles launched a year before their major competitors, and even their logos are incredibly similar. The article also goes on to mention why the 360 will not fail miserably like the Dreamcast. "

Comments

It's ==, not =. :-)

[techmuse]

The slashdot editors were probably not assigning the XBOX 360 to have the same value as the Dreamcast, but rather just doing a comparison. But since they have performed the assignment, the XBOX 360 will fail several years ago, in EXACTLY the same way as the Dreamcast. :-)

I just had the same thought yesterday

[Lord Byron II]

The same thing occurred to me when I saw the white 360 controller in Walmart. "Is the Dreamcast back?" And then I saw the 360 logo. Interesting...

Aimless articles

[Doomstalk]

Has anyone else noticed that 1up excels at taking up 2 or 3 pages of space in their articles, despite never actually saying anything? They read like one of those papers you write in school when you aren't sure what you want to say, but you started writing anyway because it's due the next morning.

Re:Erm...no...

[penguin_asylum]

You can change any gaming console's shell, sure, with liberal amounts of duct tape.

Obviously

[vulcan_pupil]

Of course it's true, that's an assignment statement, not a comparison ;). Sheesh.

Re:Different gamer, different opinion

[Jonny_eh]

Wow, you are sooo interesting! Tell us more!

Let Me Add Reasons #24 and #25

[Comatose51]

24: They both use electricity. 25: They both have the buttons on their controllers.

WTF? The stupid article is more fortune-telling than anything else. There's nothing technical or logical about the article. It's basically looking for signs of omens. If Mars is aligned on Venus' right on the launch date, the XBox 360 is bound to succeed....

No, NO.

[game kid]

They assigned it the value of Dreamcast 2.0. There hasn't been a Dreamcast 2.0 yet, so the XBOX 360 is currently null (Nothing in Visual Basic).

Therefore, it actually doesn't exist. Quod erat demonstratum etc.

(Now, having seen many pictures of the console before this, my head will surely explode in either case.)

Re:Different gamer, different opinion

[shinma]

10% for my broad's vampire games.

Guess she doesn't read Slashdot, huh?

rulr0z

[Anonymous Coward]

/ You seem to try to create a gaming \
\ console. May I help you?           /

        \     ____
         \   / __ \
          \  O|  |O|
             ||  | |
             ||  | |
             ||    |
              |___/

Re:rulr0z

[3770]

Hahaha...

Great comment. It took me a while to figure it out though.

So, to those that don't get it. That's clippy from the office suite.

I'm afraid that you have created a monster though. This will be the new beowulf, natalie portman, hot grits, soviet russia plague.

Re:Different gamer, different opinion

[`Sean]

My Trunkmonkey can beat up your Trunkmonkey. ;)

Re:It's ==, not =. :-)

[Xipher]

Never used Ada have you? = Equality Testing := Assignment

#16 is Utterly Preposterous!

[craXORjack]

Mountain Dew is in no way similar to Pepsi. Drawing a parallel between the two is absolutely ridiculous. Mountain Dew is gathered by hand only from the freshest clover leaves in the unspoiled Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. It was the official drink of the original olympic games. It is versatile. It can substitute for blood plasma during emergencies or natural disasters. Pepsi, however, is nothing but sugar water with brown food coloring.

Re:Erm...no...

[despisethesun]

I've read this article too (I submitted it to /., but I guess he beat me to it).

Don't worry. I'm sure your submission will get posted some time in the next day or two.