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XBOX 360=Dreamcast 2.0?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

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. "

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  1. I don't see the paralel at all ... by cg0def · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There may be quite a few similarities betweeen xbox360 and dreamcast however the same would apply to any 2 products if you look hard enough. The bottom line is that while Dreamcast tried to be an inovator there is absolutelly not a single inovative bone in xbox360.

    1. The CPU idea was largelly borrowed from IBM/the cell team.
    2. GPU is nothing ground breaking .... samo pretty much applies to the rest of the hardware as well (oh and I really hope that MS paid Logitech for the "borrowed" design of the controller )

    3. XBOX Live only build on top of the existing online playing experiences which are borrowed from pc online games.
    4. DVD-9 is just plain old and I really think that MS should have pushed for HD-DVD. After all someone said that MS will do everything possible to make xbox360 a success.

    On the other had Dreamcast while a failior did try to break new ground. The modem is a really stupid idea when you think about it today but it was quite a thing back then. The media while not that great is unique to Sega and they did move away from the cartriges that every thing else was using at the time. The controller is very much like nothing else ( good or bad ... )and the appearance of the console is pretty unique too. Heck even the logo has it's personality. As far as xbox360 goes, frankly, I don't know what to think of a stupid design like that. It looks like someone accidentally came up with it and it actually doesn't look like any logo at all ( this is not a good thing and I am not talking about the X logo on the controller ).

    So the bottom line is that I really don't see how exactly xbox360 is viewed as dreamcast 2.0. As far as the destiny of xbox360 goes and I am not so sure that it would be so much more successful than the original. After all the only part of the market that MS really has a chance of capturing are the owners of Nintendo. Come to think about it, I don't think that more of ~40% of the Nintendo owners are going to go for an xbox360. There are good 20% that will wait for Revolution ( it's called company loyalty and MS should really learn that ) and the other 40% are much more likelly to get a ps3 because of the game titles and the fact that the game orientation is much closer to that of nintendo than MS. The biggest problem that I have with xbox360 and MS is that treat the console market just like they treat the PC one and those are 2 very different ball fields. All that said I do own an XBOX ( with XBMC and all that jazz ) and I'm proud of it. However, this time arround I am thinking of getting a ps3 ( after all it's all about the games and NOT the hardware when you are talking about a console ).