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I loathe and despise the fundamental thinking behind the microsoft xbox. Not because it's an MS product, but because they just dont care about the gaming community. Their business model is all fucked, and does not suite the average gamer well. That machine is all about getting something of theirs into your house and taking up the most space (mental and phyiscal) thay you will allow them to. The majority of games for the Xbox are either cancelled dreamcast games, rehases of old 16bit games/PC conversions, crappy 3rd party games, and a few gems (though for the life of me i cant think of one besides jetset radio future and phantasy star online) The online component of the Xbox is a great idea, and they have the money to support it, but how many of the games that use it are really worth the extra cash? Halo? Football? Capcom vs Snk? Tony Hawk? PSO? Are they worth 20.00 a month to play? Are they worth buying a 5 dollar headset and memebership to their service? Do they push the envelop of current games, or offer unlimited replay value?
The Xbox is a modified computer. No matter what they tell us, and hope we believe.. that is what it is. Remember the whole "no it's not a computer.. no there will never be a keyboard for the xbox" speech? Liars. Opportunists. Culture stealers. gluttons.. I jate Sony and MS for what they have done to modern console gaming. Where is the innovation? The "meat and potatos" of games? Why wont these companies and their cohorts take risks? Offer something we haventy seen before. Don't go with the safe bet and rehash the same shit year after year? Because the gaming industry is a BILLION DOLLAR industry. It has surpassed the motion picture industry as far as revenue maker for a few years now. They are in it for the cash? If you think not.. then why force you to by the console in bundles upon release? Why put out a new machine every 2-3 years or multiple colors/ model numbers?
It's very upsetting.
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