Like many rational people above mentioned, no one is going to hold a gun to your head and make you go to EB to buy an Xbox Bundle. Buy one wherever you want, it won't be that hard. Christ...
This is why I gloss over nearly everything in the gaming forums anymore. Rumor comes around, talking heads take it as fact and run around saying, "Oh my god the new systems are gonna cost a MILLION dollars?!?! Holy fuck!!! I smell a gaming crash."
The industry is more healthy that it's ever been regardles of what JoeSlashdotUser thinks. Try to think of someone you know that hasn't at least played the with the big 3 systems or PC, much less owns them, hard eh? Plus, think about the technology you're actually getting in these little boxes, and what they used to cost with inflation figured in and all, and it's not THAT bad. Christ. Again. Calm down people.
People bark about "playing the same damn game over and over", well hell, think about it. Has there ever been a time in gaming history that you can really look back on and see the absolute flood of games for multiple systems and platforms that's around currently? There really is something for everyone, really. Don't play Madden 0x, or GTA:IX Bagdhad if you don't want to...given the variety and creativity that's really out there if you just look, everyone can find something they like. And they will. Come release day for all these systems, people will be buying them, playing games...unlike you Curmudgeon Gamer hearkening for the old days of Pong.
"I like my Xbox because it has the biggest selection of adventure games even made for a console."
I'm curious as to what adventure games you mean. I'm genuinely curious, not being snide. Now, I don't have anything against the Xbox, as it's never come and kicked my cat or anything, heh..but I have a PS2 and GC. THe Xbox has never interested me though. Most anything worth playing on it would be better played on the PC, and that seems so with it's most popular games being the FPS's (I'm not a mouse/keybaord freak either, I don't kind dual sticks).
This may be a result of my disinterest in Xbox, it seems there is a far wider range of games adequately filling *most* every genre, on other consoles. I own 1 FPS (was burned out on them a few years ago when I burned out on FPS's). Okay the Xbox does have a couple good RPG's, Fable and Jade Empire, KOTOR. Though, I'm not much into Fantasy RPG in the vein of Baldur's Gate, Fable.
I'll give Xbox credit, they've made thier footprint, it just seems that it was made stepping where the PC has already been and does better, FPSland. Well, and they get the multi-platform games too.
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Like many rational people above mentioned, no one is going to hold a gun to your head and make you go to EB to buy an Xbox Bundle. Buy one wherever you want, it won't be that hard. Christ...
This is why I gloss over nearly everything in the gaming forums anymore. Rumor comes around, talking heads take it as fact and run around saying, "Oh my god the new systems are gonna cost a MILLION dollars?!?! Holy fuck!!! I smell a gaming crash."
The industry is more healthy that it's ever been regardles of what JoeSlashdotUser thinks. Try to think of someone you know that hasn't at least played the with the big 3 systems or PC, much less owns them, hard eh? Plus, think about the technology you're actually getting in these little boxes, and what they used to cost with inflation figured in and all, and it's not THAT bad. Christ. Again. Calm down people.
People bark about "playing the same damn game over and over", well hell, think about it. Has there ever been a time in gaming history that you can really look back on and see the absolute flood of games for multiple systems and platforms that's around currently? There really is something for everyone, really. Don't play Madden 0x, or GTA:IX Bagdhad if you don't want to...given the variety and creativity that's really out there if you just look, everyone can find something they like. And they will. Come release day for all these systems, people will be buying them, playing games...unlike you Curmudgeon Gamer hearkening for the old days of Pong.
"I like my Xbox because it has the biggest selection of adventure games even made for a console." I'm curious as to what adventure games you mean. I'm genuinely curious, not being snide. Now, I don't have anything against the Xbox, as it's never come and kicked my cat or anything, heh..but I have a PS2 and GC. THe Xbox has never interested me though. Most anything worth playing on it would be better played on the PC, and that seems so with it's most popular games being the FPS's (I'm not a mouse/keybaord freak either, I don't kind dual sticks). This may be a result of my disinterest in Xbox, it seems there is a far wider range of games adequately filling *most* every genre, on other consoles. I own 1 FPS (was burned out on them a few years ago when I burned out on FPS's). Okay the Xbox does have a couple good RPG's, Fable and Jade Empire, KOTOR. Though, I'm not much into Fantasy RPG in the vein of Baldur's Gate, Fable. I'll give Xbox credit, they've made thier footprint, it just seems that it was made stepping where the PC has already been and does better, FPSland. Well, and they get the multi-platform games too.
Not meant to be cheap stab at MS. By golly. Another FPS. On the Xbox. Inconceivable.