I must admit, knowing the issues that the game had, I am sort of surprised that they are not, for lack of a better term, whoring out the 'You can be a Jedi!' or 'You can be a Sith!' aspect of the game just to sell copies.
It adds some integrity to their vision of the Star Wars universe. Kudos.
It's not like this is a surprise. Klipsch was the first to market with THX certified speakers specifically for home PCs, and that was almost two years ago.
Of course, you could argue that they were intended for those that used their PCs as a media centre (movies, music, etc...) but anyone who uses a PC for those purposes more than likely plays a few games.
Regardless, would this actually make a game more attractive to me? Not freakin' likely.
It might fly if they did something like the old NeoGeo SNK cabinets. They were great machines, four-player, multiple ROMs, and.25 a play. I got hooked on Ninja Combat and Metal Slug X on those things. Imagine an XBox based system with a DVD changer, and a simple time-limited play system (.25c a minute or so) installed right next to your DDR/BeatMania machines.
I think they could really bring people to the XBox, if they could see a vareity of titles on display. You won't make money, but you'll get people mentioning the games.
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Yeah, but if the carrot wasn't there, why even bother trying? A universe with no Jedi wouldn't be Star Wars...
I must admit, knowing the issues that the game had, I am sort of surprised that they are not, for lack of a better term, whoring out the 'You can be a Jedi!' or 'You can be a Sith!' aspect of the game just to sell copies. It adds some integrity to their vision of the Star Wars universe. Kudos.
It's not like this is a surprise. Klipsch was the first to market with THX certified speakers specifically for home PCs, and that was almost two years ago. Of course, you could argue that they were intended for those that used their PCs as a media centre (movies, music, etc...) but anyone who uses a PC for those purposes more than likely plays a few games. Regardless, would this actually make a game more attractive to me? Not freakin' likely.
Damn! I forget to login and I finally get a post modded up to 5! I hardly ever post too... I am saddened...
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It might fly if they did something like the old NeoGeo SNK cabinets. They were great machines, four-player, multiple ROMs, and .25 a play. I got hooked on Ninja Combat and Metal Slug X on those things. Imagine an XBox based system with a DVD changer, and a simple time-limited play system (.25c a minute or so) installed right next to your DDR/BeatMania machines.
I think they could really bring people to the XBox, if they could see a vareity of titles on display. You won't make money, but you'll get people mentioning the games.