Personally I want both.

I'd let them be out a while before I make any rash decisions. They also come down 贄 in proce after 6 months so dont be hasty.

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1. Built in DVD player that plays full sized DVD discs.
2. Broadband adapter (let me know if i'm mistaken... good to know now)
3. Specs are better
4. Development is easier, so really quick ports of PC games.
5. How many Pikachu games can you possibly fit in one system?
6. No faggy purple handle

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All that I know there was no God for me
Force that shatters all, absence of mortality

The three reasons why I WILL buy a GameCube

Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
Pikmin

*and*

SUPER MONKEY BALL!!!

edit - I won't be getting an XBox because I already have a computer that can kick several XBoxs' collective asses. And I already have Photoshop.

This message has been edited by ASCIIMan on November 05, 2001 at 06:59 AM

Sorry...off-topic...I'd probably prefer an Xbox after seeing some prelims of the OddWorld (stunning) game for the Xbox and Luigi's Mansion for the Game Cube (queer).

Bottom line is that MS isn't hampered by the self-inflicted "family system" image that Nintendo gave themselves and are now trying to kind of weasel out of. They're trying to have it both ways now, family fun and some teenie-bop gore...but that's not really going to work...

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Give me ambiguity or give me something else...

For now I'm keeping my PS2 for several good reasons:

FFX, GT3, GTA3, MGS2, DMC

Shipment should be here in a week. Funny thing is, my DC isn't exactly gathering dust right now either. I may have to get a DC, PS2, Cube, and XBox. Damn.

why should i bother slagging the DC off when my brother goes and buys a piss cheap one for himself and i reap all the benefits.

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Oh and by the way, if you see your mum this weekend, be sure to tell her SATAN!!! - Orbital

(1) All games run in a minimum of 480(p) mode.
(2) Support for resolution up to 1080(i)

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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer Holder
< Brews and Cues >

If you own or are every considering owning a Wide screen TV or a digital TV, YOU NEED AN XBOX!!!

I had this feeling that only a few games were going to support wide screen mode. So far every game I've bought supports full widescreen progressive mode!

quote:

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Originally posted by jim:
Got my XBox! Love it! Played a game cube, it sucked nuts!

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Good thing you completed that statement with a supporting facts aimed in your favor.

quote:

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Originally posted by ASCIIMan:
I don't see how I can not buy a GameCube. I mean come on! Just look at these reasons to savor some tasty Nintendo goodness:

[b]The three reasons why I WILL buy a GameCube

Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
Pikmin

*and*

SUPER MONKEY BALL!!!

edit - I won't be getting an XBox because I already have a computer that can kick several XBoxs' collective asses. And I already have Photoshop.[/B]

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How dare you leave out Smash brothers melee.

Besides if Im playing a console game, I kind of expect it not to lock up...

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AHHHH cobras ahhh ahhhh ahh cooooobraaaass cooobraass ahh -homer

Also note, Rogue Squadron was the game I played on the Gamecube that made me decide it sucked ass.

I think Nintendo always has, and always will be geared towards kiddies...

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Originally posted by jim:
XBox doesn't lock up. Not sure where you got that load of crap.

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I got that load of crap standing in Toys 'R' Us trying to play a locked up Xbox.

You'd reset it and it would load up halfway and lockup at the menu. One of my buddies complained of the same thing in a local EB. They were playing the 4 player tank game and anytime someone would shoot the graphics would slow then lock the machine.

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AHHHH cobras ahhh ahhhh ahh cooooobraaaass cooobraass ahh -homer

I've put more hours into Halo than any game I've ever played aside from CS. I've watched movies on it because my DVD player died in August. I load some games just to stare at the ground to look at textures. It has so much raw power. I love it.

Has anybody held a Gamecube controller? Does anybody notice that it's really small? It feels like it would fit my hand great if I were Ages 2-7, or, rated G. It's purple! I have a harddrive! I've burned CDs onto my Xbox and listened to them while playing Project Gothem Racing. As soon as I get a long enough Cat-5 cable, I'm going to try to play anything online.

How much of an argument is there here? I've played GamePube and it bores me. It's not meant for us. We're able to watch PG-13 movies. And as for crashing, the reason is well documented. The store demo disks that were shipped were programmed toward reference drivers for an older model of the nvidia chip in there. So, when trying to load that disk, it failed on the final hardware. Any newer disk loads fine. I've had no crashes.

The harddrive owns! When you play Halo, the next level must be cached on the harddrive so that when you walk into the next level, the screen flashes. That's level loading, your screen flashes. I can't get over it. It rules too much. That is all.

Everyone says "XBox is a computer" - hey, dumbass - just because it has a harddrive and an Intel chip don't make it a PC. The Intel chip has been tweaked with a bit, and the GPU 0wnz j00 and j00r m0th3rz. And the harddrive - you're right askheaves, it's used for a lot of precaching. In fact, DOA3 installs 350MB+ of data onto there to eliminate load times.

I bought a GameCube. To resell it for a profit to some desperate Nintendo fanboy. You think I'm gonna play that escapee from a Teletubbies episode? Thought Tinky-Winky was supposed to be hauling one of those things around.

The chip is a mobile celeron with a 133mhz fsb. The motherboard is a nVidia nForce made to work with an intel chip. It's got a hard drive (it's even a freaking SEAGATE for chrissakes!), DVD Rom (with a different connector, oooh). The one big difference that I can see is that the ram is soldered onto the board as chips.

Just take a look at those pictures from hardocp... You can see pretty clearly...

And, whether it's a computer or not, it's a hell of a lot less of a pain in the ass than a computer. I can turn it off and on at will. I won't need to reinstall. It just works, and the games are developed for a stable platform... so, no minimum requirements bullshit. And, regardless of the arguments against it, it still brings me happiness... which is all that matters

Edit: i tried to overclock my PSX couldnt get at anything important anyone know how?

This message has been edited by Dark Knight Bob on November 22, 2001 at 04:07 AM

Harddrives in consoles ARE EVIL! Think about it. You know the problems computer games have? Patches. Why? Because a game developer can halfass a game, release it, then just let patches out. With a broadband ready box with a harddrive, they can do the same fucking thing. Give it 2-3 months. Then everyone is gonna have different versions of the games, and you won't be able to play network games or use your friend's saved game to see how to get around that one really hard part or anything.

And if you truely believe the xbox isn't a computer, you're a fucking dumbass. The xbox is just a emachine with a little more mombo-builtin shit and a prettier box, and a different operating system. So yeah. Fuck the xbox, fuck the gamecube or whatever, and just shut the hell up.

I'm watching comedy central all day so I can win a xbox, sell it on ebay for 2000 dollars, buy a ps2 and new equipment for my LINUX computer. Then, I'm gonna write an article about the whole thing, publish it in a few newspapers or magazines, and send it to M$ just to piss them off. That's right, bitch, I'm an asshole and I'm fucking proud of it.

edit - my english teachers are so proud of me

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Catch The Sickness

This message has been edited by Spydir on November 22, 2001 at 09:34 AM

Is it similar to Tribes 2?

Then back to good old Sony I go.

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All that I know there was no God for me
Force that shatters all, absence of mortality

"Once upon a time, Stomper bought an XBox.
It r0x0r3d.
Stomper went out and bought the high-def video cables.
Stomper rigged his 32" HDTV up to his XBox.
Stomper fired up Halo.
Stomper's jaw promptly dropped and hung around his pasty white ankles."

Moral of this story? If you do have an XBox and a TV that can cope: GET OFF YOUR ASS AND BUY THE HD PACK NOW!

you M$ probably programmed in some hardware failure to make sure you can't do that with the xbox. the moment anything with "linux" in it is processed, the CPU shorts out

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Woman has choked. Buy new woman.

As a sidenote, has anybody found the equivalent of the CG gallery that's in DOA2:Hardcore in DOA3? I was looking for it and found nothing.

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All that I know there was no God for me
Force that shatters all, absence of mortality

This message has been edited by pengu1nn on November 23, 2001 at 09:41 AM

thing is its like with the n64, they brought it out too late. it was better but it didnt have a big enought hold on the market. we shall see whether microsoft will do any good.

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Woman has choked. Buy new woman.

Hey here's one more thing I love about the X-Box: all the extra different controllers you can buy and stuff.. you don't usually get 3rd party hardware support that's actually approved by the company that makes the console.

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Net Syndrome - < www.netsyndrome.net >
Catch The Sickness

"Why do these stores suck uberdonkey dick?" one may ask. Well, none of the fuckers have x-boxs in stock. I should know, considering I spent half my day driving around looking through all of them. The only contender for sucking minimal amounts of donkey dick would have to be Best Buy, because they're getting another shipment on monday.

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Catch The Sickness

quote:

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Originally posted by afropik:
I'd just like to point out that the following stores suck uberdonkey dick
- EB
- EBX (Yes, I know they're the same store, yet there's two in my mall, so eat it)
- KB Toys
- Toys "R" Us
- Circuit City
- Wal-Mart
- Best Buy

"Why do these stores suck uberdonkey dick?" one may ask. Well, [b]none of the fuckers have x-boxs in stock. I should know, considering I spent half my day driving around looking through all of them. The only contender for sucking minimal amounts of donkey dick would have to be Best Buy, because they're getting another shipment on monday.[/B]

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EB wants you to prepurchase everything. If you dont they get pissed!!

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All that I know there was no God for me
Force that shatters all, absence of mortality

All I recommend is don't buy a memory card. It's pretty unnecessary.

DAMN YOU TO HELL, EBX!

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Net Syndrome - < www.netsyndrome.net >
Catch The Sickness