Comment Re:Why buy an Xbox 360? (Score 1) 374
I'm a long time gamer, have bought nearly every system till now and am not buying the hype of either system yet. I waited a year or so to buy an xbox till it was cheaper and Jet Set Radio Future was out (I loved the Dreamcast verson). I waited to get a PS2 until Final Fantasy X was released. The last system I bought at launch was the Dreamcast because it wasn't badly priced and had something REALLY nice worth playing at launch (Soul Calibur and soon after NBA 2K and Jet Grind Radio).
The Xbox 360 does NOT use proprietary disc formats that can, at the vendor or manufacturers will, brick your box.
How is Blu-Ray propriatary? I see a bunch of recorders coming out and some major studio and vendor support. (http://www.blu-ray.com/) Sure they may try to lock it so you can't burn discs but what developer hasn't tried? If you think hard you'll remember when dvd recorders and discs were expensive, and if you think really hard you'll remember when cd-r's were expensive. I remember buying a 1X cd burner for $200 when the discs were too expensive to buy to really use. This is a silly argument.
WHO NEEDS SEVEN CONTROLLERS ON ONE BOX!?
Perhaps you don't play sports games Mr. FPS. Most sports games I know have at least 10 people on the field/court/rink. I've easily had 4 buddies over playing NBA 2K* or NHL. You can have direct user contribution in a party environment like this. I've also been at a friends house where they were playing Mario Party and we had 6 people but only 4 could play. Sure you could 'pass' the controller in that game, but I'm it's inconvenient, and I'm sure theres more ideas beyond that if you have a big screen hi-def TV, beyond splitting it into 6 mini squares. Maybe you never played Gauntlet? Or any of Konami's classic (6 player) arcade games like X-Men?
One fee. No ten bucks a month here, five bucks a month there... $50 a year.
Like most other people say, I still play Warcraft 3 and other FPS games on my PC for free, no bucks a month here. Most of the games that are online on the PS2 are free too, I've played a few rounds of burnout 3 when it was popular and even though the service isn't as nice as live you can still get going. It would be nice if microsoft 'had' a free option of some sort.
Time. Xbox 360 is here now whereas the PS3 is going to offer comparable hardware and games in a year.
While X360 has maybe 3 good games, 2-3 in the next 3-6 months and nothing ever comes out in the summer. And developers are still working on PS3 and Revolution games so they'll all be ready to ship at launch. X360 is a test development for 2nd gen X360 and 1st gen PS3.
Developer backing. Bungie and Rare are both developing for the Xbox 360, and that's only naming two big name developers.
Rare is releasing nothing but prettied up versions of old games (Kameo=Banjo Kazooie with transformations and particle effects, Perfect Dark Zero=Prettier Perfect Dark, don't even talk about the xbox games) and Bungie hasn't even shown anything yet.
Also Final Fantasy will be coming to Xbox 360 too.
Yea, Final Fantasy XI, a game thats been out on the PS2 and PC for over a year, WHOOPIE! PS2 is getting XII next year. Dragon Quest 7 is sweeter than any RPG that'll be exclusive anyway for awhile.
I know you're trying to justify your $400 purchase. Next year, when it's head to head with real competition 'MAYBE' they'll have real games, but I look at my shelf And I see some 8 xbox games and around 30 PS2 games. This was most of the 39 PS2 games that averaged over 90% on GR, there are 17 for the xbox.
The only XBOX 'exclusives': Halo 2, Ninja Gaiden, Project Gotham Racing 2, Forza Motorsport, Crimson Skies. (So basically Tecmo, Bizarre Creations, other internal MS teams) So like 5/17 exclusive and at the top.
The PS2 'exclusives': Gran Turismo 3, All the Konami Soccer games (Though most are out on the PC too, and 9 is coming to xbox), God of War, Guitar Hero, Devil May Cry, Virtua Fighter 4 Evo, Dragon Quest 8, Ratchet and Clank (3), Shadow of Colossus, MGS 3, FFX, FFX-2, ICO, Jak and Daxter, Tekken 5, Dark Cloud 2. Around 20/39 exclusive and at the top.
The innovation still lies with Nintendo, no other company released Bongo drums this year. Punching away at bosses with those things is so fun. ;)
The Xbox 360 does NOT use proprietary disc formats that can, at the vendor or manufacturers will, brick your box.
How is Blu-Ray propriatary? I see a bunch of recorders coming out and some major studio and vendor support. (http://www.blu-ray.com/) Sure they may try to lock it so you can't burn discs but what developer hasn't tried? If you think hard you'll remember when dvd recorders and discs were expensive, and if you think really hard you'll remember when cd-r's were expensive. I remember buying a 1X cd burner for $200 when the discs were too expensive to buy to really use. This is a silly argument.
WHO NEEDS SEVEN CONTROLLERS ON ONE BOX!?
Perhaps you don't play sports games Mr. FPS. Most sports games I know have at least 10 people on the field/court/rink. I've easily had 4 buddies over playing NBA 2K* or NHL. You can have direct user contribution in a party environment like this. I've also been at a friends house where they were playing Mario Party and we had 6 people but only 4 could play. Sure you could 'pass' the controller in that game, but I'm it's inconvenient, and I'm sure theres more ideas beyond that if you have a big screen hi-def TV, beyond splitting it into 6 mini squares. Maybe you never played Gauntlet? Or any of Konami's classic (6 player) arcade games like X-Men?
One fee. No ten bucks a month here, five bucks a month there... $50 a year.
Like most other people say, I still play Warcraft 3 and other FPS games on my PC for free, no bucks a month here. Most of the games that are online on the PS2 are free too, I've played a few rounds of burnout 3 when it was popular and even though the service isn't as nice as live you can still get going. It would be nice if microsoft 'had' a free option of some sort.
Time. Xbox 360 is here now whereas the PS3 is going to offer comparable hardware and games in a year.
While X360 has maybe 3 good games, 2-3 in the next 3-6 months and nothing ever comes out in the summer. And developers are still working on PS3 and Revolution games so they'll all be ready to ship at launch. X360 is a test development for 2nd gen X360 and 1st gen PS3.
Developer backing. Bungie and Rare are both developing for the Xbox 360, and that's only naming two big name developers.
Rare is releasing nothing but prettied up versions of old games (Kameo=Banjo Kazooie with transformations and particle effects, Perfect Dark Zero=Prettier Perfect Dark, don't even talk about the xbox games) and Bungie hasn't even shown anything yet.
Also Final Fantasy will be coming to Xbox 360 too.
Yea, Final Fantasy XI, a game thats been out on the PS2 and PC for over a year, WHOOPIE! PS2 is getting XII next year. Dragon Quest 7 is sweeter than any RPG that'll be exclusive anyway for awhile.
I know you're trying to justify your $400 purchase. Next year, when it's head to head with real competition 'MAYBE' they'll have real games, but I look at my shelf And I see some 8 xbox games and around 30 PS2 games. This was most of the 39 PS2 games that averaged over 90% on GR, there are 17 for the xbox.
The only XBOX 'exclusives': Halo 2, Ninja Gaiden, Project Gotham Racing 2, Forza Motorsport, Crimson Skies. (So basically Tecmo, Bizarre Creations, other internal MS teams) So like 5/17 exclusive and at the top.
The PS2 'exclusives': Gran Turismo 3, All the Konami Soccer games (Though most are out on the PC too, and 9 is coming to xbox), God of War, Guitar Hero, Devil May Cry, Virtua Fighter 4 Evo, Dragon Quest 8, Ratchet and Clank (3), Shadow of Colossus, MGS 3, FFX, FFX-2, ICO, Jak and Daxter, Tekken 5, Dark Cloud 2. Around 20/39 exclusive and at the top.
The innovation still lies with Nintendo, no other company released Bongo drums this year. Punching away at bosses with those things is so fun.
