Ps2 DVD quality is crap. I personally owned a ps2 and I hate it, all sony equipment with a laser lens is poorly made. The Xbox has fairly decent DVD Quality, plus its online out of the box if you have gamespy, PLUS it already comes with a 10 gig hard drive and a better processor than the ps2, all for the asme price as a ps2 now. Halo is the best fps hands down for any CONSOLE system, just too much you can actually do with the game, not to mentions networking Xbox units together and even taking them online to play other xbox users.
Dont get me wrong, I still hate microsoft, but they do have a quality console, you have to admit. The innards of the system are nice and powerful (by console standards), and it has a not bad design to it. Most of you bitch about how big the thing is and how heavy it is, maybe you havent seen just whats inside it. Some hard rives arent that light you know. In essence the system is a scaled down computer, a micro tower if you will. I do agree with you that the systems controller is a tad bothersome with the size and shape, but the console is a powerhouse.
With sega supporting the system, quality games are being released, not low quality games, I mean high up there powersellers. I imagine as soon as PD Orta is released that may prompt some console gamers to jump ship and buy a box, hell even if gta 3 is released.
I was one of the Higher Microsoft haters out there, but after actually spending time with the unit and seeing the games that are out for the system already and are going to be released, I wanted one. Who cares if the ps2 is dvd capable right out of the box anyways? if its a shit dvd its not worth using it. my 60 dollar asus 6x dvd for computer hooked to my tv looks better than the ps2 quality.
With the current release of mame for the box, i expect there to be a lot more releases for the box simply becasue it would be easy to get shit working on the system, imagine, a box full of old arcade classics, even sega classics on the HD with emulator run from the cd. Its a good combination.
Dont get me wrong but the only reason that the box isnt doing good over in japan is because its an american made system, No american made system has ever done well overseas in japan. Plus the box is doing good on the american market, just like the dreamcast, it was doing well over here. but sega didnt have the money to keep it going over here, microsoft onthe other hand has more than enough money to keep the box going here.
Ah well, enough of me rambling, these are just some of my thoughts (also its this long becasue of my lack of responses
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