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Originally posted by Jonbo298
Why do we all of a sudden associate the console with the most power as geared towards the hard-core gamer? Im a hard-core gamer and I don't feel urged to buy the most powerful thing around. Damn Microsoft and their brainwashing of people.
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Every manufacturer ever in the history of the industry has basically said "buy our system because its the most powerful on the market blah blah blah" MS is the latest to do it.
I'm basically speechless. I mean at least Indrema and Nuon had some valid ideas: Indrema was to be built on Linux, be open-source for small developers, and make money back on hardware licensing. Nuon had a similar strategy, but was backed by the fact that Nuon was more than just a way to play some ****ty Jaguar sequels on a custom DVD player. It was actually an entirely new compression technology that's still used today... and it was open source too.
I don't see anybody jumping onto this. If, say, I were a small development house I'd make one of my 32,000 retail games for a royalty free PC or go through Microsoft's Incubator program. Or transplant to Japan, tell Microsoft I want to make an Xbox game then have them subsidize me. But mostly I'd do PC. Indrema and Nuon at least promised some sort of open source to the loons that wanted to port Shogo Mobile Armor Division.
Is this even really a game machine? It sounds like it
could if Broadband was in wider use, or functioned like a Digital Cable Box, or it was some sort of set-top box you plug your Xbox or PS2 in and download an Xbox or PS2 game to your system. Or something. But I would think Microsoft will or would just do that with XboxNext.
That said I'll gladly take over the Phantom section of Gametavern.
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