JohnE
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It's not a release game, but one title I'm VERY interested in is Enclave. I haven't read or seen a whole lot, but what I have seen sounds and looks very promising.
Does anyone know when Gotham is scheduled for release? Can't remember if I read it was a launch title or not.
Well, if they go by the same release date model as Metroplois Street Racer, it will be delayed so many times your head will spin. However, in the end, MSR is still the best racer I have ever played.
-Dean-
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"I've seen you and you are not cool."
Pride Brian, pride...
What on earth does that have to do with anything? Does this mean your HTF components are all American made? Are all your movies American made, with American production teams?
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Just, all else being equal, that they'd rather have an American product on top.
Like I said: why, though? What does it matter? It doesn't indicate the games will be any better - in fact, if anything, it means they'll be worse as Japanese software houses have been traditionally slow to support non-Japanese machines.
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Just, all else being equal, that they'd rather have an American product on top.
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Like I said: why, though? What does it matter? It doesn't indicate the games will be any better - in fact, if anything, it means they'll be worse as Japanese software houses have been traditionally slow to support non-Japanese machines.
Um, you saw the "all else being equal", right?
I don't know as it matters in any terribly important way. People just tend to root for the home team. A lot of my neighbors could probably save themselves a lot of heartache by deciding to be Lakers fans, but continue to root for the Celtics anyway.
And isn't it kind of paradoxical to say Americans shouldn't care about the system's nationality because the Japanese do?
And isn't it kind of paradoxical to say Americans shouldn't care about the system's nationality because the Japanese do?
Should have explained that in more detail: most Japanese software companies haven't given much support for US machines, not because they're American (though it may be part of it), but because, generally, they've sold anywhere near enough to make it worthwhile for them in Japan or elsewhere.
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All the good games for it will end up on another platform if they aren't successful on the XB, so it's not like the only way to play them will be buying an XB.
That is a legitimate concern, to a point. For that reason, a lot of people do not game on PCs as the good games eventually get ported (where it is possible, of course) - But a lot of people still game on the PC. your's truly being one of them. So that arguement does not hold up well considering similiar models have held the opposite experience. More to the point, as far as ports go, porting from the PC (where RPGs and FPS have yet to be matched on a console) will be done easier and with fewer, if any, compromises.
I do not like the fact that there are no exclusive titles as of yet, but I doubt that fact will remain so.
Microsoft has something Atari did not have, money (!) and and inhouse development (a la Nintendo) that is better tuned with today's gamer and a working knowledge (duh) of their programming for their system, in this case of DirectX and X86 programming. Sony's developers are already complaining about the difficulty associated with programming for the PS2. Most of these companies would have little trouble porting over to the XBox. Many of them will. (Not to mention many companies have long histories of making NVidia based video procs scream!)
Final Fantasy is not exclusive to Sony. Early reports suggest that Project Gotham will not leave the GT3 fan wanting. (So that leaves us with Twisted Metal: Black as the lone killer app for the PS2? - for me.) More important software similarities are inevitable considering Microsoft's clout and established market connections.
Morgan, I'm having trouble making sense of you hardware argument. Are you saying that for the same price, getting more is a problem? Getting more hardware for you dollar is a bad thing? Do not confuse the fact that EVERY facet of the XBox's hardware is superior to the PS2. No disrespect to the 'Emotion Engine' (cute), but it pales next to what Intel, NVidia, and Microsoft have put together.
But all this is premature. We need to wait and let all the premarket hype settle.
Right now, though, it looks like the GameCube, by virtue of Nintendo's rep and pricepoint, and Microsoft XBox, by virtue of it being the meanest testosterone-driven badass this gamer has ever seen and its pricepoint.
Should be fun.
The PS2 also has all of the good PSX games, which means that out of the box you can get good games for it. When you buy a PS2, it's like getting a DVD player, CD player, PS2, and PSX for $75 each.
So why do I have to pay for those features if I don't want them? That is, of course, what your original argument was, wasn't it? Don't you already have a PSX, CD Player (a superior one I'm sure), and a DVD player (a superior one I'm sure)? Would this not also be wasted money by your concern?