Re: Xbox or PS2
Though it's off topic, I have to express my concerns on the matter. the next Xbox looks to be straying from the path, they pretty much announced that the next system would be as such:
1. No Hard-Drive
2. No Custom Soundtracks
3. Needing Memory Cards (supposedly special ones that hold more than you could ever need, but it's still a Memory Card, which doesn't bode well for the Custom Soundtrack features)
4. No Backwards Compatability. They changed the makers of their processors. All the present Xbox games have been created for a different processor completely, they'd be unbelieveably buggy if they added backwards compatibility, and as such they have pretty much abandoned it.
and with these steps, they lost me and many others as a prospective buyer. However, I will NEVER forget what the Box has done for the business in it's short time, and it has done quite a bit. Sony and Nintendo are doing the intelligent thing and picking up the Hard Drives and such. Custom Soundtracks may be in jeopardy for the future, but I'm hopeful that with their at least short lived success on the box that the other companies will pick up on that. I'm willing to bet that in 20 years, if and when Hard Drives on systems are all but nonexistant, there will still be some kind of small hard drive for CS. But yeah, all that Microsoft brought to the plate deserves to be remembered, even if it has been considered "the dark side" for so long. Years from now I'm sure it will be apparent that without the Xbox's development, alot of things in Gaming THEN would not have been. For that I'm thankful, for that I probably won't just throw my Box out the window. That and Star Wars RPGs....Project Gotham....and of course....ASB05....
LET'S ALL GIVE A HAND TO MICROSOFT AS THEIR CONSOLE DIVISION FACES IMMINENT AND UNDENIABLE DEATH!!
Though it's off topic, I have to express my concerns on the matter. the next Xbox looks to be straying from the path, they pretty much announced that the next system would be as such:
1. No Hard-Drive
2. No Custom Soundtracks
3. Needing Memory Cards (supposedly special ones that hold more than you could ever need, but it's still a Memory Card, which doesn't bode well for the Custom Soundtrack features)
4. No Backwards Compatability. They changed the makers of their processors. All the present Xbox games have been created for a different processor completely, they'd be unbelieveably buggy if they added backwards compatibility, and as such they have pretty much abandoned it.
and with these steps, they lost me and many others as a prospective buyer. However, I will NEVER forget what the Box has done for the business in it's short time, and it has done quite a bit. Sony and Nintendo are doing the intelligent thing and picking up the Hard Drives and such. Custom Soundtracks may be in jeopardy for the future, but I'm hopeful that with their at least short lived success on the box that the other companies will pick up on that. I'm willing to bet that in 20 years, if and when Hard Drives on systems are all but nonexistant, there will still be some kind of small hard drive for CS. But yeah, all that Microsoft brought to the plate deserves to be remembered, even if it has been considered "the dark side" for so long. Years from now I'm sure it will be apparent that without the Xbox's development, alot of things in Gaming THEN would not have been. For that I'm thankful, for that I probably won't just throw my Box out the window. That and Star Wars RPGs....Project Gotham....and of course....ASB05....
LET'S ALL GIVE A HAND TO MICROSOFT AS THEIR CONSOLE DIVISION FACES IMMINENT AND UNDENIABLE DEATH!!
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