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Originally posted by theburner
Lasereth.. Do you work for Sony? Everyone else came and stated their preference and moved on, yet you feel the need to rebut every Xbox claim? Not starting a flame war here, just interested in why you seem so gung ho to sell Johnnyrock a PS2 platform. For Sports games PS2 is better. However, Jan 01/04 EA Sports is going to start providing every PS2 Sports title on Xbox with Live support. So that is going to level the playing field there. Basically EA was in bed with Sony, that is why MS had to produce sports games of their own (Topspin, Fever, NHL...). However, now that MS is hitting HUGE numbers on Live, ALL of the game companies are starting to work with Xbox.
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It just seems that not one single damned person is reading his wants from a console. Take the previous post, for example. JOHNNY stated that he wanted sports games, NO INTERNET support, and action/fantasy games. He does NOT want a modded console, NES games, SNES games, or an PS1 emulator. All of those reasons are useless to him!
This isn't a simple matter of "which console is better." No, it's a matter of "which console should Johnny buy for his wants." He wants the three things I mentioned above, and those are the only three reasons that should be taken into consideration when buying his console.
Yes, XBox Live is doing great, and it's fabulous that EA is going to release games on XBox as well now, but Johnny does NOT want Internet console games. He said it himself! He's not interested. So why should he buy a console for the fact that it has Internet gaming?
The PS2 has sports games. It has the same sports games as XBox, and most of the time they're a bit better than the XBox games. He's not interested in Internet gaming, so he doesn't need an XBox (since XBox Live is kicking ass right now). He wants action and fantasy games as well, both of which the PS2 have to offer.
I'm telling him the console he needs to buy based on his OWN criteria.
I'll say it again: this is NOT a console war! This is not a matter of which is best! This is a matter of which console is best for JohnnyRock. He gave criteria he wants, and I'm telling him which console meets those criteria the best.
Half of the replies on this thread are mentioning how awesome XBox Live is, how awesome the modding is on XBox, how cool Metroid Prime is, how cool ripping songs is...but HE DID NOT say he wanted that, nor did he say that was what he'd buy a console for. Those are all great reasons to buy a console...if he said "which is best." But he didn't. He asked which has the best sports games, doesn't concern Internet gaming heavily, and has the most/best action/fantasy games.
If someone started a Console WarsŪ thread (please don't) then everyone's reasons would work. But they don't here. The only three things that matter is if the console has lots of good sports games, action games, and fantasy games. The PS2 suits these three criteria the best. It's not any simpler than that.
I'm just trying to prevent Johnny from buying a system because of something he doesn't want -- i.e. modding, hard drives, ripping, emulation, internet gaming, and better graphics with poorer control.
-Lasereth