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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: rastalant on January 08, 2002, 02:02:37 PM
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020108/sftu025_1.html
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Xbox Launch One Of Most Successful In Video Game History
Xbox to Launch in Japan, Europe and Australia in Coming Months
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) announced today at the 2002 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that the Xbox(TM) video game system had one of the most successful launches in video game history. Microsoft sold 1.5 million units in North America between the Nov. 15 launch and the end of calendar year 2001. In addition, the NPD Group Inc. has reported that gamers bought more than three games with every Xbox system, the highest-ever game attach rate for a video game console launch.
``It feels great to kick off the global rollout of Xbox with a record-breaking launch in North America,\'\' said Robbie Bach, senior vice president and chief Xbox officer at Microsoft. ``In 2002, we\'re excited to bring Xbox to the world with our upcoming launches in Japan, Europe and Australia. We\'ll also be offering more great games and exciting online experiences like never before.\'\'
The success of the North American launch has fueled worldwide excitement for Xbox, which is on track to launch in Japan on Feb. 22, and in Europe and Australia on March 14. In Monday\'s CES keynote address, Bach discussed the company\'s commitment to making Xbox a global success and showed new, cutting-edge Xbox game titles, including ``JSRF - Jet Set Radio Future\'\' from Sega and ``RalliSport Challenge\'\' from Microsoft® Game Studios.
Hmmmmmmmmmm........Microsoft is doing pretty good for there first try. Not to bad.:p
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over 45 days?
what took so long? good thing they werent completly sold out.
oh well, ill play amped then till mm comes home
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Originally posted by Clyde
over 45 days?
what took so long? good thing they werent completly sold out.
oh well, ill play amped then till mm comes home
Actually I thought that was pretty fast Clyde. Xbox were pretty hard to find around christmas time.
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This is great news! I can\'t wait to hear how UK and Japan launch will turn out. ;)
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pretty hard to find, but not impossible eh?
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Originally posted by Clyde
pretty hard to find, but not impossible eh?
Welcome canadian chimp
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Originally posted by Clyde
pretty hard to find, but not impossible eh?
True..........:)
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Rastalant your all over the X-box man. Your title should be, "Microsoft Correspondent"
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Originally posted by Vapor Snake
Rastalant your all over the X-box man. Your title should be, "Microsoft Correspondent"
lol!!!!!!Xbox is a great system. :)
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I went to Best Buy today and they had one PS2 left and a couple Xbox\'s and a few game cubes, looks like consoles are on the top of peoples list
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dont let the number of systems on shelves fool you. At my store we have 70-some on the shelve (another 150 are in the back...no joke), 20-some XBoxs (another 6 in the back), and 12 GC.
One could assume that we sell more GCs than the others, but to tell you the truth, we havent sold a GC in 4 days. We sold 4 XBoxs today and 7 PS2s.
Eric Jacob
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Originally posted by Vapor Snake
Rastalant your all over the X-box man. Your title should be, "Microsoft Correspondent"
I think he works for them :)
But who cares? He loves the xbox. Good on him.
He\'s cool
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xbox\'s where pretty hard to find here too if you did not hurry and get one. And Halo, or Doa3 is never on shelves. I am glad xbox is doing great 1.5million that\'s good.
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In my area (well, San Jose) Xbox the system itself was a little hard to find during the week prior to Christmas, but I found plenty of games for it. From Halo to DOA3. And after Christmas, if I really wanted an Xbox then and there, I could still go up in some stores (KB Toy Stores, Electronic Botique) and they would have plenty of Xboxes in stock. So getting an Xbox isn\'t a problem in my area at least after the Christmas holiday (and if worse comes to worse, even ordering online could recieve results. In fact, my cousin who had her credit card stolen recieved two Xboxes through the mail thanks to the culprit buying two on her card [apparently they couldn\'t get the delivered Xboxes to themselves...too bad]. She is in the process of returning at least one of them [if she hasn\'t returned it already]. Probably the other one too since she isn\'t much of a gamer [though there is room for intervention if someone decides to buy one off her]).
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Yeah well done M$ :rolleyes: 1.5 million sales in just 45 days :rolleyes:
when compaired to the PS2 where it was over 1 million in just a few hours :rolleyes:
looks like Sonys Screwed :rolleyes:
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wow...i bet everyone was real impressed over at http://www.teamxbox.com ........hmm...i bet posting this sort of information would be much more appreciated over there....than at a PS2 forum...hmm...HMMM.....gee Rastalant...look at where im pointing ----->>> http://www.teamxbox.com wow, like...like some sort of oasis in the distance...its like....almost TOO easy, you can see this small...rich and furtile XBox lands after all these years of walking through the PSX2Central desert...hmm...that oasis sure does look good...doesnt it?? getting any ideas? maybe...ya wanna check it out??? hmmm.....HMMM??
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Bob, why the asshole act? There are many people here that can enjoy more than one console. Perhaps you should be a little more tolerant. This post obviously bothers you, but my question is why? Give your head a shake and grow up man.
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Originally posted by Watchdog
Bob, why the asshole act? There are many people here that can enjoy more than one console. Perhaps you should be a little more tolerant. This post obviously bothers you, but my question is why? Give your head a shake and grow up man.
Don\'t mind Bob. He has been doing this for the past few weeks. He claims he\'s "trying to make the forums more interesting."
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If he finds them decidedly uninteresting then he should leave rather than posting that kind of garbage.
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His posts arent garbage. I quite enjoy them
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Originally posted by Watchdog
If he finds them decidedly uninteresting then he should leave rather than posting that kind of garbage.
its console debate
so debate with him
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
wow...i bet everyone was real impressed over at http://www.teamxbox.com ........hmm...i bet posting this sort of information would be much more appreciated over there....than at a PS2 forum...hmm...HMMM.....gee Rastalant...look at where im pointing ----->>> http://www.teamxbox.com wow, like...like some sort of oasis in the distance...its like....almost TOO easy, you can see this small...rich and furtile XBox lands after all these years of walking through the PSX2Central desert...hmm...that oasis sure does look good...doesnt it?? getting any ideas? maybe...ya wanna check it out??? hmmm.....HMMM??
Hmmmmmmmmm........so whats your point? I post there too........I happen to like xbox and ps2 there nothing wrong with that. I happen to enjoy both of them maybe just cause your pro-sony or a fanboy that offended you but oh well.......Just cause this is a ps2 forum doesn\'t mean I have to pro-ps2 or pro-xbox. I like both of the consoles........I also like dc too I have one of those as well.
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wow...i bet everyone was real impressed over at http://www.teamxbox.com ........hmm...i bet posting this sort of information would be much more appreciated over there....than at a PS2 forum...hmm...HMMM.....gee Rastalant...look at where im pointing ----->>> http://www.teamxbox.com wow, like...like some sort of oasis in the distance...its like....almost TOO easy, you can see this small...rich and furtile XBox lands after all these years of walking through the PSX2Central desert...hmm...that oasis sure does look good...doesnt it?? getting any ideas? maybe...ya wanna check it out??? hmmm.....HMMM??
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What\'s there to debate here? This is mindless flaming.
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yes, i have always promoted a multi-console environment here, including *shudder* nintendo [sorry Eik :)].
1.5 million is impressive, but reassurring to my predictions that it will NEVER match the PS2\'s installed user base
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Bobs Hardware, Rastalant isn\'t doing anywrong in posting it here, this is a multiconsole forum and if you can\'t handle talking about how well xbox is doing then don\'t post in the thread
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While I am a huge Xbox fan, I also doubt it will be able to top PS2 sales. I think it will get pretty close in the U.S., give or take a couple million. But the year lead and the lineup of games will keep the PS2 at number for quite some time.
"Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that it shipped a whopping 1.46 million PlayStation 2s in North America by the end of the 2000 calendar year. This means that the company shipped to retail approximately 160,000 more PlayStation 2 units than its target of 1.3 million by the end of the year.
Despite the reduction of units available at launch from one million to 500,000, this also means that there were more PlayStation 2s available during the holiday shopping season than were ever promised by the company. This is based on the fact that when the company first announced that it would ship one million units for the system\'s launch, it also claimed that it would have 1.3 million units on the market by the end of the year. So, despite the halving of the number of available units at launch, the company met and even exceeded all of its expectations for the 2000 holiday season. "
Anyway, Xbox managed to sell 1.5 million in about the same time frame ( both had 35-45 days ) PS2 sold approx. 1.3 million.
With an amazing 2002 lineup of games, Xbox could be heading right up there with the U.S. PS2 numbers.
Worldwide sales is a different story. I see Xbox topping out at around 25-30 million in it\'s lifespan. I predict PS2 will top out at around 50 million.
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Originally posted by Bozco
Bobs Hardware, Rastalant isn\'t doing anywrong in posting it here, this is a multiconsole forum and if you can\'t handle talking about how well xbox is doing then don\'t post in the thread
Bob seems to have a problem with xbox......thats all I guess he a typical fanboy.......
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Bob seems to have a problem with xbox......thats all I guess he a typical fanboy.......
ohh deary me...there we go again assuming i have a problem with XBox...
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Originally posted by ooseven
Yeah well done M$ :rolleyes: 1.5 million sales in just 45 days :rolleyes:
when compaired to the PS2 where it was over 1 million in just a few hours :rolleyes:
looks like Sonys Screwed :rolleyes:
I don\'t see how you concluded that from what rastalant posted or anyone else who responded.
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
ohh deary me...there we go again assuming i have a problem with XBox...
You wonder why hes assuming you don\'t like xbox, maybe because you lash out whenever anything posted is pro-xbox
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im not lashing out at the news, im lashing out at Rasta..
:)
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
im not lashing out at the news, im lashing out at Rasta..
:)
Ahhhhhhhh.......its seems your getting desfenseful again.........what? ? Oh getting defenseful........
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hahah *thumbs up*
but thats not being defensive? i think your mis-interpretting the definition... as you did in the other thread in which you claimed to beat me, and did no such thing
no toot :fro:
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Originally posted by ooseven
Yeah well done M$ :rolleyes: 1.5 million sales in just 45 days :rolleyes:
when compaired to the PS2 where it was over 1 million in just a few hours :rolleyes:
looks like Sonys Screwed :rolleyes:
wtf Is with that? Don\'t you want to see other console do well? And ps2 did not sell 1 Million console in a few hours in the usa.
M&M does it matter if it will catch ps2 this generation? I am sure microsoft is aware of the huge 1 year lead sony had on them. And they no they probably will not catch them this generation.
But it looks like they are going to be the number 2 console maker rite behind sony and that sets them up to overtake sony for the number 1 spot next generation. I mean don\'t we all want to see this kind of competition?
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Quddus, its not just the fact that Sony have a 1 year lead...its the fact that Sony are still outselling XBox...by a great margin...
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QuDDus old boy..
/me (IRC syndrome) thinks developers this generations sees how powerful Sony are and will continue to support them in the next generation.. Plus people will see the Playstation brand and remember "ah yes.. PSX and PS2 were two of the greatest consoles.. Ill invest my money in a PS3"
But of course.. Xbox could grow really strong this generation and people will take note.
The Next generation will be tougher.. No doubt.. But Sony has the edge..
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Originally posted by Bran Muffin
Quddus, its not just the fact that Sony have a 1 year lead...its the fact that Sony are still outselling XBox...by a great margin...
What does that have to do with 1.5million xbox\'s sold? That\'s a great a number and it is growing. Nobody is saying it is going to outsell ps2 it has been out longer and it is the number 1 console for the past 6 years.
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Originally posted by fastson
QuDDus old boy..
/me (IRC syndrome) thinks developers this generations sees how powerful Sony are and will continue to support them in the next generation.. Plus people will see the Playstation brand and remember "ah yes.. PSX and PS2 were two of the greatest consoles.. Ill invest my money in a PS3"
But of course.. Xbox could grow really strong this generation and people will take note.
The Next generation will be tougher.. No doubt.. But Sony has the edge..
BUT developers are supporting ps2,xbox, and gcn. Only big company that has ps2 on lock is square. Next generation will be much tougher. But thats another subject. My point of rage was how negative ppl are towards other consoles.
I like having three consoles in the business and wish dc was still around so we could have had four. I just get pissed off sometimes when I see someone always throwing a monkey wrench into something when another company does good.
I hated when dreamcast came out and all the ppl firing backlash at sega. But soon as they go belly up and start making games for your precious consoles. PPl want to start kissing sega\'s ass. And jump on the dc bandwaggon.
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Originally posted by QuDDus
What does that have to do with 1.5million xbox\'s sold? That\'s a great a number and it is growing. Nobody is saying it is going to outsell ps2 it has been out longer and it is the number 1 console for the past 6 years.
i was making referrence to your post, not the topic of the thread...
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Originally posted by Bran Muffin
hahah *thumbs up*
but thats not being defensive? i think your mis-interpretting the definition... as you did in the other thread in which you claimed to beat me, and did no such thing
no toot :fro:
Uhhhhhhhh......what other thread and btw, are you new here or something?
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ahhhhh, rasta rasta rasta....your still just a big ol\' twit :)
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
ahhhhh, rasta rasta rasta....your still just a big ol\' twit :)
hmmmm, me wonders why you got banned, hmmmmmmm
I have nothing against you but you can be an asshole at times
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ugh! you still dont get it! i was just joking around whenever i was being mean to someone :D good ol\' fashioned fun :) and everyone who knew what i was doing found it rather funny :) no real harm done..
but im over it :) back to normal
(that up there was just a friendly little comment, otherwise i would have called him worse than that :D)
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I don\'t mind the whole being an ass thing, joking or not, but you must realise that you cause hell for the mods
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I sure did.. :D
but i dont care, there are only a couple of mods who actually do any work here regularly, and Ryu liked to have a good laugh over it all :D Evisceration was the only one wo ever really had a big problem with it from my understanding :)
anyhoo...i \'tink wesa are a bitsa offsa topic
so...yunno... :)
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Originally posted by Bozco
I don\'t mind the whole being an ass thing, joking or not, but you must realise that you cause hell for the mods
to be honest it never bothered me
I have a tolerance level for regulars who I know are just screwing around
compared to those who are geniuinly and asshole from the get go
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Originally posted by ddaryl
to be honest it never bothered me
I have a tolerance level for regulars who I know are just screwing around
compared to those who are geniuinly and asshole from the get go
That suprises me, then why did you ban him, well atleast I thought you were the one that did
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
ahhhhh, rasta rasta rasta....your still just a big ol\' twit :)
Hmmmmmmmm...........at least I\'m not an insure fanboy......;)
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heh
you want me to set up a poll asking the forum who the bigger fanboy is? ;)
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
heh
you want me to set up a poll asking the forum who the bigger fanboy is? ;)
Sure go head I"m up for it.............I don\'t get pissed when someone talks about Microsoft or Sony unlike you........
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But ras, just look at the topic, "1.5 million xbox sold!!!"
It\'s like, "Nanny, nanna, boo boo, X-box is kicking ass!!!!"
It seems as if your trying to rub something in our faces.
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Originally posted by Vapor Snake
But ras, just look at the topic, "1.5 million xbox sold!!!"
It\'s like, "Nanny, nanna, boo boo, X-box is kicking ass!!!!"
It seems as if your trying to rub something in our faces.
Uhhhhhhh..........no its good news for xbox thats all. I have a 2 ps2, dc, 2 ps1, xbox, and 2 pcs. I\'m not trying to rub it in no ones face I\'m just saying xbox is doing well and there nothing wrong with that........
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rastalant, I it says mailbox is full. It says this:
vBulletin Message
This user\'s mailbox is currently full, and cannot be sent any messages until it is cleaned out. An email has been sent notifying the user of this. Please try your request at a later time.
I\'ll just post it here.
hehe I\'m not the best poster you\'re the best poster. You\'re getting a new game? Cool!! I think SH2 or Gun Valiekrie are great games. I\'m picking up NBA Inside Drive and Gun Valiekrie, Wreckless when it\'s out. I was working on my Porsche, the main and con-rods bearings went out. The crank-shaft had to come out. I also have to change the clutch too. Parts alone is 1,100. I only need to buy the cluch set that is about $415. These cars cost alot to fix. :D
Pals,
pstwo
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Originally posted by pstwo
rastalant, I it says mailbox is full. It says this:
vBulletin Message
This user\'s mailbox is currently full, and cannot be sent any messages until it is cleaned out. An email has been sent notifying the user of this. Please try your request at a later time.
I\'ll just post it here.
hehe I\'m not the best poster you\'re the best poster. You\'re getting a new game? Cool!! I think SH2 or Gun Valiekrie are great games. I\'m picking up NBA Inside Drive and Gun Valiekrie, Wreckless when it\'s out. I was working on my Porsche, the main and con-rods bearings went out. The crank-shaft had to come out. I also have to change the clutch too. Parts alone is 1,100. I only need to buy the cluch set that is about $415. These cars cost alot to fix. :D
Pals,
pstwo
hmmmmmmm.......strange I cleaned out my mailbox? Thanks......you are a great poster. Yes SH2 and GV both look awesome. Sweet!!!!!! You have a porsche!!!!! Your the first person I\'ve ever met with a porsche. Hmmmmmmm......those cars seem to cost alot. Cool..........I hope you fix your car soon. Thanks again pstwo.......:)
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hehe my pictures of my 944 porsche is in my signature. Click it and see it. :D
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
wow...i bet everyone was real impressed over at http://www.teamxbox.com ........hmm...i bet posting this sort of information would be much more appreciated over there....than at a PS2 forum...hmm...HMMM.....gee Rastalant...look at where im pointing ----->>> http://www.teamxbox.com wow, like...like some sort of oasis in the distance...its like....almost TOO easy, you can see this small...rich and furtile XBox lands after all these years of walking through the PSX2Central desert...hmm...that oasis sure does look good...doesnt it?? getting any ideas? maybe...ya wanna check it out??? hmmm.....HMMM??
hmmmm, Last time I checked this forum was console debate, not Sony Masturbate. Looks like you got the wrong channel Bob.
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Originally posted by Docwiz
hmmmm, Last time I checked this forum was console debate, not Sony Masturbate. Looks like you got the wrong channel Bob.
if i wanna whack off to Sony...ill damn well do it if i please!
and besides, i havent really bashed X-Box or praised Sony in this thread buddy ol\' pal
That suprises me, then why did you ban him, well atleast I thought you were the one that did
evisc is a whiny *****, and Ddaryl was prolly smoking pot at the time and it seemed like a good idea
But ras, just look at the topic, "1.5 million xbox sold!!!"
It\'s like, "Nanny, nanna, boo boo, X-box is kicking ass!!!!"
It seems as if your trying to rub something in our faces.
well...its not really rubbing it in anyones faces...cos...PS2 has by far outsold XBox...he was just sharing the good news of XBox selling mildly well when a lot of us were expected it/wanted it to flop
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Originally posted by Docwiz
hmmmm, Last time I checked this forum was console debate, not Sony Masturbate. Looks like you got the wrong channel Bob.
True, but that doesn\'t change the fact that your an ignorant xbox fanboy
Oh and Rastalant isn\'t a xbox fanboy, he may post a lot of pro xbox stuff but he\'s still a big PS2 fan, I see him post pro PS2 stuff all the time at Teamxbox, the only thing I can accuse him of is being anti-nintendo and a graphics whore at times
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Why hasn\'t this thread been locked yet?
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/me shrugs
feels like im the only mod here lately
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and might i add...your an extremely beautiful and well groomed moderator at that...
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mm well groomed?
hah, he only baths every sunday whether he needs it or not
you must have meant me :)
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well...maybe i was mis-informed on the grooming part, but...god damn he\'s GORGEOUS! his gorgosity factor is through the roof!
im surprised your well groomed, seeing as your in a lab with no other Chimps to pic the lice out of your hair...
note: i have a giant penis
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I think the only way you can tell if xbox is doing any good, is to give it the same amount of time as the ps2 has been out, then we will know BUT...I couldn\'t give a damn which console sells more, as long as consoles are being brought, and games too,
which means that the gaming industry keeps growing which means better things for us guys and gals the games, bigger and even better games.
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Just thought i should share this article:
Well, it has been one heck of a year for Sony, in fact, the entire gaming industry. With the Xbox and GameCube launching in middle November, the Playstation 2 was faced with some heavy competition, right? Well, sort of. As reported, the Xbox was able to sell 1.5 million units before the end of 2001, with the GameCube selling a respectable 1.2 units. And then there was this one-year old, out of date console with graphics that have been apparently outdone and games that just couldn\'t save such an ancient product. But wait; what\'s this? Hmmm..."The Playstation 2 sells 3 million units in two months". Wow, I guess something went wrong over at Microsoft and Nintendo if they can\'t beat such a worthless console with inferior graphics. Specifically, more than 988,700 PlayStation 2 computer entertainment systems were sold during November 2001 and nearly two million additional units during December 2001. These positive sales numbers shot the PlayStation 2 installed base to about eight million units in North America since it\'s launch 14 months ago.
Interesting, eh?
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Originally posted by Bozco
True, but that doesn\'t change the fact that your an ignorant xbox fanboy
Oh and Rastalant isn\'t a xbox fanboy, he may post a lot of pro xbox stuff but he\'s still a big PS2 fan, I see him post pro PS2 stuff all the time at Teamxbox, the only thing I can accuse him of is being anti-nintendo and a graphics whore at times
Thanks bozco......for the compliments. Pstwo cool website........I like that porsche you have.
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Maybe Soulgrind should remove the "Sexy Admininstrator" from his name and mm should add it to his.
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Why can\'t there be 2 "Sexy Administrators?"
Everyone will be happy this way. :D
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Originally posted by Soul Reaver
Why can\'t there be 2 "Sexy Administrators?"
Everyone will be happy this way. :D
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!
:fro: :fro: :fro:
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Is it true that if you brought a Xbox you had to buy 3 software tit
les at the same time?
You could not buy the xbox console without software ??
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I bought mine without a bundle at toys \'r us..