Will all the videogamers please stand up?

[The Whole F/N Show]

I have my doubts about the X-Box. I can't help but think it's gonna be another 3DO.

 

[Latimer]

Let's not forget who's making the X-Box either. Billy boy doesn't like to lose.

 

[manny78]

Im frwak espcecially with Flight Sims like F-18 and USAF WWII and Rogue Spear.... 2 hours a day

 

[The Whole F/N Show]

Yup Big Poppa Gates hates losing but lets face facts. The last successful American videogame system was Collecovision. I would like to see the X-Box box succeed.

 

[Latimer]

The hard drive on the X-Box has some serious potential. Patches, updates, and roster changes for sports games just to name a few possibilities.

 

[Burning_Inside]

PS2 is getting hard drive and online support as well. See the new Electronig Gaming Monthly.

 

[Latimer]

The Xbox also features an 8 gigabyte hard disk, a first in console machines. Sony is planning a PlayStation 2 hard drive add-on, but since all PS2 owners won't buy this device, PS2 developers can't count on it for game development. The inclusion of a hard drive in every single Xbox machine, however, means that game makers can utilize massive writable storage in game creation. Imaginative developers will no doubt find some interesting uses for this extra space.

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/misc/platforms/xbox/

 

[The Whole F/N Show]

There one thing though Burning_Inside. Americans have never really supported console add-ons. Probably the most sucessful one was the Ram Pak for the N64 and that thing was only $20.

 

[danielson]

what sega didnt relise over here is that marjeting sells ganmes, and so does getting game developers on your side. the saturn got alost no publicity over here, and dreamcast were always slow to release games, and didnt even convert sdome of the jap games. as a result while the saturn did well in japan it bombed here, even though its vastly superior to the playstation, which really isnt all that but was well marketed.

so over in europe, no one bought dreamcasts and waited for the PS2.....so much so that they started offeruing a dreamcast/multioreigon DVD combo! an no one bought that either....sheesh! at leat the head of sega europe got sacked....loser. my mate bought a sega saturn and boy was he pissed, the playstauion was the worst console out at the time yet it did the best!

i really dont trust bill gates....

 

[TC]

The Xbox definitely has the most potential as far as games go, the included hard drive will make a huge impact on the games. There will be NO patches what so ever for the xbox, Microsoft has stated this many times.

Sony shot themselves in the foot by rushing out the ps2, They screwed themselves by not including a hard drive and an Ethernet card.