i use a ps2 at my friends place and its just a ps1 on roids the graphics look oddly similar
I can't imagine what "looks similar" about the graphics unless:
- You're looking at badly coded games.
- You're playing PS1 games on it.
- You expected a move to voxel graphics and/or holographic displays
i am sure there are a few rpg's out for the box aren't there?
There's Morrowind. It's a great game by all accounts I've seen, but nobody has suggested that it counts as more than one. There seems to be a significant amount of stuff under development, though, including at least 4 action RPGs.
and as for xbox and ps2 im gald a system like the xbox finaly came out ive always argued about system design with people and my point always was why the F dodnt they just slap a pc into a box and call it a game system - that would kill anything out there and would beable to do somuch more than your average game system limited by its proprieraty hardware
PCs are packed to the gills with proprietary hardware (when was the last time you saw Nvidia giving out HDL source code, or even complete programming information?), and limit programmers by presenting them with an ugly, archaic programming model that doesn't really allow them to decide how to utilize the processor's actual functions.
also theres pleanty of game developers already out there making games for the pc market which should add to the console game market
PC games that actually worked well for consoles (and some that weren't) were already being ported on a regular basis.
but im still waiting for microsoft to live up to its promises of many japanes developed games especialy rpgs common already were are they - microsoft signed those companies too late
Have any major Japanese RPG developers signed on? I know they're getting decent support from Konami, Capcom, and Namco, but I haven't heard a whole lot about which companies have signed more recently.
also does ne1 think that the name microsoft hurts the xbox sales -- theve had so much negative publicity as a bully company
Microsoft seems to think so. Look at any Xbox ad - the MS logo is nowhere in sight. Typically the only mention of Microsoft is in the fine print where they mention that Xbox is a Microsoft trademark.
also does ne1 think the ps2 can be emulated on the xbox
Yes. It would almost certainly not be fast enough to be a viable replacement for a PS2 though. There's more to a console than main CPU clock speed...