Kimath:i have carefully researched both consoles to MY satisfaction and i believe i am making an informed decision based on what appeals to me.
Well then, you are not a casual gamer; you\'re an informed consumer. Seriously, if casual gamers didn\'t buy into hype, then why in the world is the PS2 doing so well when the Dreamcast has a better library? I\'ll tell you why: recognition. Besides that, you seem to be making an informed decision
based on power. PS2 hasn\'t shown you anything that interests you yet. Have you looked at future releases? By the time XBox launches, the PS2 will have over 150 titles... the XBox, maybe 40. Besides, you have no idea what the XBox launch holds. Hell, for all you know, the PS2 may have 20 games you want by Fall 2001.
Dwarrior:why haven\'t they released any titles before Christmas. If you haven\'t noticed there is a drought of PS2 games until March of 2001.
Right now there\'s over 40 titles. They are delaying titles until March because, well,
nobody has a PS2. There\'s a shortage. Why release all the titles now so they can be forgotten by the time the new systems arrive? They won\'t make money over Christmas. Nintendo pulls the same trick.
All gamers care about games and thats what they care about. If another platform has better games then thats where they will go along with advertising.
This argument bugs me for two reasons. 1: you don\'t know what games XBox will have. Sony has 350 developers and you have no idea what XBox\'s finalized launch list is. Not only that, but by the time XBox arrives, the PS2 will pull a Dreamcast and have a library of over 150 games.
How can you argue games are all that matters when you are passing up on both the Dreamcast (175 games) and PS2 (40+ games, 350 developers) because of the XBox\'s specs? Hell, we don\'t even know what XBox will cost.
The PSX sold 40 million over six years and after prices dropped and because there were no other good choices, that doesn\'t mean that the PS2 will sell nearly as well, lots of competition this time unlike last time and games sell consoles
See my response above about games. I\'m not saying that PS2 will dominate. It won\'t, plain and simple. And, there is no way in HELL that the XBox will dominate. PERIOD. This is Microsoft\'s first console. Your first entry into the industry is a chance to make yourself - and your franchises - visible to gamers. But you\'re not going to step in and dominate. NES did it, but what was their competition? SMS? PSX did it, but again, NO COMPETITION. XBox won\'t fail, and they won\'t dominate. As far as the 40 million: that\'s 40 million people that KNOW Sony, that KNOW/previously played Sony\'s exclusive titles. They are not guaranteed sales, but they\'ve all heard of Sony and enjoyed their titles. You don\'t get consumer trust with $500 million in marketing and 100 million polygons. You earn it.
the console with the best games and the best advertising wins, end of story
Again, you ASSUME that the XBox will have better games. Why? How do you know? You don\'t. PS2 may have the best games. Dreamcast may have the best games. Gamecube\'s launch may kick XBox\'s list squarely in the nards. Hell, Gamecube may win. Out of all 4 consoles, Sony has the biggest advantage with those 40 million consumers. I get so frustrated when people who know nothing of XBox\'s games (which haven\'t been finalized) come in here and assume XBox has won. Um, no. PS2 has a tremendous headstart to build up a library, to build up a userbase, and to market their machine. (Dreamcast has a 2 year headstart) Not to mention the fact that 40 million people already have a Sony machine - you can\'t say that counts for nothing. XBox is NOT guaranteed to win. They ARE guaranteed NOT to dominate. But the winner of the war is still up for grabs. You just don\'t give a company like Sony a headstart.
