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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: rastalant on October 01, 2002, 08:06:00 PM
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http://www.evilavatar.com/EA/News/M40734/
Hmmmmmmm...........sounds awesome to me.........2 games and an xbox for only $199. Check it out the games are sega gt and JSRF..........................
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I\'m still waiting for that "Buy 6 Xbox games, get the unit for free" deal someone brought up awhile ago. It\'s gotta be any games tho.. cause I\'m not gonna waste my money on a bunch of crap titles just for a free console. On the other hand, I\'ll end up buying 6 titles at the very least anyhow so that\'s an extra 200 bucks I get to pocket and put forward to buying more PS2 & NGC games.
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Makes a change to see that the free games given are actually quite good.
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desperation
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Sega has to be happy. In an attempt to sell games and become financially stable, they develope for the least most popular console, their games sell like crap, and now their games are being bundled FREE with the console?
Ahh well, I want Sega GT2002.. woulda been good to wait (assuming this deal came out down here) for this.. :)
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Reminds me a lot of that get three games and a Saturn deal, right before Sega shut down production for the system...
Desperation, yes. Decent marketing idea? Yeah.
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Desperation, yes! But it just may get me to buy one.
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soon it will be including the dvd kit, online kit, extra controller, and 2 games, now thats a deal!
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Desperation? doubtful. I think they are just trying to counteract the Gamecube Mario bundle, but instead, you get 2 free games, instead of a game and a small memory card for 40 bucks more.
It isn\'t like Sega is giving these copies away. MS most likely bought the copies from Sega at a lowered price, since JSRF probably has alot of copies sitting around, and Sega GT 2002 will never sell huge without decent advertising. Well, this way, the bundle gets advertised, more people play both games, and both MS and Sega look good the press.
btw, when Sega included the three games in with Saturn, it\'s sales rose 500%, software sales rose 400%, this was to the point of outpacing PSX for a few months (N64 was rampaging both), but after, the exclusive titles on PSX really made the difference. This bundle will help to sell quite a few XBoxes, since you get 2 games to try out when you buy the system.
Eric Jacob
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This is a good deal. You not only get one game but two games with the xbox. It\'s like buying your xbox for only $100.
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well, look what happened to the saturn afterwards
shouldnt m$ learn from history? all there doing is pissing more revenue away
might as well give those two titles away
noone else paid 50$ for them
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what do you mean by that, mm? The Saturn saw the decline afterwards because third parties weren\'t making the big games on it. XBox sees nearly every multi-platform release and even has a few of it\'s own big exclusives. Saturn never had the fanbase, in fact, XBox\'s US userbase is already bigger than Saturn\'s ever was.
Eric Jacob
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well, look what happened to the saturn afterwards
This isn\'t the saturn, if you have not noticed!
Go "XBOX" GO...... "SEGA" RIP DC
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Saturn never had the fanbase, in fact, XBox\'s US userbase is already bigger than Saturn\'s ever was. - Altered
Of course, the Saturn had a much higher fanbase in Japan where the Xbox has an even more pitiful fanbase than the Saturn did here. It was an importers paradice, and hence.. it went down as one of the most "hardcore" gamer systems ever.
It\'s pretty much the same situation, but with the territories reversed.
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Danm now i got to go buy an XBOX! such BS iI have no time for all this gamming, my pc gamming takes enough of my free time up???????????
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When is this bundle going to be available? I might have to get the xbox now...:eek: This seems like a good deal for me to just pass up!
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Dont get me started on the Saturn.
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Wow.....dont they know when to give up? Let this one keep losing money and focus on making the next one a little cheaper and a little better.
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Crap I remember the Saturn,
I\'m glad I forgot about it too!
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Avoiding the awful post above mine...this guy is a mod?
Wow.....dont they know when to give up? Let this one keep losing money and focus on making the next one a little cheaper and a little better.
Chances are they won\'t have much luck next time around if they can\'t grab a decent and loyal userbase this time around. Also, they\'ve stated they are prepared to lose 20 billion on Xbox before they pull out, hope that isn\'t a disappointment to you.
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siaapointment doesnt begin to describe my feelings
hey, any day m$ loses money is a good thiing
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Well, if we lose the Xbox I hope there will be someone else up to bat with a new console. Although, if MS can\'t do it with thier cash flow then I would imagine other companies might think twice before they give it a shot.
Ace
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Originally posted by mm
siaapointment doesnt begin to describe my feelings
hey, any day m$ loses money is a good thiing
I can figure where you\'re coming from. After having lived through the first year of PS2\'s crap releases then having to do it again on Xbox...I\'m not to happy either. Then what the hell is up with this year? Sure, we saw a few price drops but how about some games? Seriously, I don\'t know how anyone could be satisfied at this point in the game.
Regarding the next sentence, I see you haven\'t changed a bit.
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lol, i need to stop posting so early in the morning. holy typo\'s batman!
you must be more jaded then I cause i quite enjoyed the PS2\'s 1st year titles
m$ is the evil empire, im sorry you dont acknowledge this
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Evil empire? I\'m sorry, when did we step onto the star wars set?
I could care less what they do besides Xbox. It doesn\'t concern me, at least not at a level I can do anything about.
you must be more jaded then I cause i quite enjoyed the PS2\'s 1st year titles
If you settled for that mediorcrity, then you shouldn\'t have any problems with the current Xbox lineup.
Then again, I see you\'re holding a grudge since they\'re so evil.
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yer showing yer age (or lack there of) by not understanding the "evil empire" analogy
how can u call titles like SSX and timesplitters mediochre? and those are launch titles. i dont care enough to dig thru the realease lists to see what actually came out in that time span. and how can u compare what happened years ago to now?
no grudge, i just comprehend thier tactics and will call them on it every chance i get. i havent touched my xbox is 6 months. because m$ made it? nope, no A titles, thats all
nothing you can do about it? load linux, but then again, it requires a certain level of intelligence.
go to http://www.dictionary.com and type in microsoft
amazing, isnt it?
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How do you know it has no A titles if you havent touched it in 6 months?
:)
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Originally posted by mm
yer showing yer age (or lack there of) by not understanding the "evil empire" analogy
Not understanding...or not caring?
how can u call titles like SSX and timesplitters mediochre? and those are launch titles. i dont care enough to dig thru the realease lists to see what actually came out in that time span. and how can u compare what happened years ago to now?
SSX is a snowboarding game...hardly something to rave about, or buy a system for. Timesplitters, I\'ll give you that. Too bad you won\'t be able to come up with anything else to it\'s likes.
no grudge, i just comprehend thier tactics and will call them on it every chance i get. i havent touched my xbox is 6 months. because m$ made it? nope, no A titles, thats all
Why do you even care? Anything they\'ve done can only be better for the consumer. I haven\'t touched mine in 8 months, however I don\'t go around reminding everyone.
nothing you can do about it? load linux, but then again, it requires a certain level of intelligence.
What is that going to help? I\'d rather not deal with incompatability thank you.
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incompatibility? what is this 1998?
have u even used a linux box, ever?
ignorance is bliss bro, it truly is
like i said, i could easily go thru the release list for the PS2 and pick out dozens of A titles for the 1st year, but i dont care to.
i really dont have to prove anything to you regarding the matter. its in the past. its like arguing whether the SNES or genesis had better launch titles.
bob, what kind of gamer would i be if i didnt even acknowledge whats out there? plus, rast and pstwo keep me more than aware of that shitty xbox titles are out, or soon to be out
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Just checking :)
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I\'ll take that as a bow out...you never were very good at this.
like i said, i could easily go thru the release list for the PS2 and pick out dozens of A titles for the 1st year, but i dont care to.
You couldn\'t. Not A titles anyway.
i really dont have to prove anything to you regarding the matter. its in the past. its like arguing whether the SNES or genesis had better launch titles.
True.
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no, not a bow out
lets say i do waste the time picking A titles out of the PS2\'s 1st year
youll rebute every single one of them as mediochre because YOU percieve them that way
we could even go as far as to say how many million+ titles did the PS2 have? that doesnt necesarrily make them A titles, but noone can think a million+ people bought that title cause of the name alone
either way, its entirely futile to argue you with, as usual
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It\'s all in fun, mm.
Did you miss me?
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yeah, we cool man
hang around this time
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