Re: Scary aint it?? (two more cents in here)


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Posted by Howard Casto on 26, 2001 at 5:46 PM:

In Reply to: Re: Not hype....Wow! Howard and I agree on something :) posted by RandyT on 26, 2001 at 9:33 AM:

It's like I said on a previous post... You have to respect sony for making game development "cheap", but now microsoft is using it's communist-like ways to bring quality back to the "pc-like" console market. Sony went overboard and let everybody and their brother develop games. Now that M$ has a box that's seemingly just as easy, if not easier to develop for and has a bunch of high quality games to go with it. If sony dosen't get their butt in gear and chop off the dead weight, they're gonna loose this battle. Nintendo is a bit on it's own, they'll do just fine because they have a very specialized niche, but x-box will dominate if they keep it up.

As for emulation.. it's gonna be a while, but once somebody figures out the new filesystem for the x-box it will be as easy as cake to write for. It already supports common pc file types -mp3, wav, dvdrom ect. So it has to be somewhat pc like. (of course linux is "somewhat pc-like" and it's pretty had to write for)

Man I've gotta get halo....

Oh I noticed that capcom is doinga system of your choice give-away where you can win an x-box or a ps2, but you have to tell them in advance what you want when you enter. Guys this is good news!! This is a common marketing ploy to get a free survey as to which system everybody wants. If enough people sing up fo rthe x-box, then it will get their attention, and they may possibly move into high-gear in terms of x-box development. Can you imagine a SF EX series with DOA 3 graphics.

Sweet!


: I just finished Halo (got the Xbox on 11/15). If MS can get developers to keep cranking out games like this one, they will OWN the market. All this crap about it being a "PC in a box" would be a good thing, even if it were true (which it isn't completely). I just spent half of my Xmas day trying to get games given as gifts to run on my father's and sister's computer, without much luck on either (needed new hardware, etc...) MS has standardized a computer system that is optimized to play games and it does it to a tee. Now if we could just get MAME ported over and optimized for the Xbox, it would be a great solution for a dedicated Arcade machine, plus play the latest and greatest titles.

: You have to respect what the MS is doing with the Xbox. If Sony didn't have any competition (and the Cube is no competion IMHO) we would be suffering through a few more years of shovelware like the PS1 has been offering. MS has raised the bar and it only benefits us, the gamers.

: My $.02
: RandyT




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