OT: Playstation 2 opinion? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Oct 2001

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  From: Mike Ford &lt;mikeford(a)socal.rr.com&gt; 
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  PS2 is last year, by Xmas all his friends will be
talking about Xbox and
 GameCube. We have N64, and I resisted forever getting one, and relented
 only as the price dropped to about $150 with a game (he just HAD to have
 Zelda). Keep in mind this is a razor blade industry, regardless of the high
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  price of the console, the real money and costs will be
in games etc.
 My recommendation is to forget the console, and put together a gaming PC.
 Better intelligence to the games, and immensely greater selection and
 usefullness. 
Are you talking about a MS Windows box here???  As a PC builder I must say
that if I were into serious gaming I would absolutely buy a game console.
Say you buy 3 pricey, high-quality games for your PC.  Chances are one of
them won't like your video card.  Or the version of DirectX you're running.
 Or the gamepad you're using.  Or the motherboard's chipset.  Or it'll step
on another game by replacing DLLs.  Or it'll change the sound settings so
the other games have problems.
Not my idea of *fun*.
On the other hand I suppose you could consider the "real" game to be
getting more than 3 high-quality games to run on the same Wintel box ;>)
Glen
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