>Actually, it appears to be shaping up to be the other way 'round- some >PC
>developers are jumping ship to the console.  And some of the bad >console 
>PC ports that are out there should be a warning against trying it with
>every game.

Yeah, well theres more than enough bad pc to console & visaversa ports out 
there to match each other...
Bleugh.

>And NVidia's video card for the X-Box
>(http://www.nvidia.com/products.nsf/xbox.html) is totally brand new, so
>*nobody* has had a chance to push its limits. And since it puts the
>processors of every current console to shame, you can only make a guess >as
>to how great it will be.
Yeah well as we all know ( SOOO ESPECIALLY where pc's are concerned )
'technically superior' doesn't always acheive better results, and in the 
case of pc games can -sometimes- just lead programmers to become lazy and 
make higher system demands than is truly nessicary....

Guess is right. It sure -sounds- powerful. But so do many pcs compared to a 
dreamcast, and dead as it may be, 'ooh-pretty!' wise it certainly can scare 
some high end pcs with some of the things it shows off.
Sometimes.


>Not that I'm getting one... it's still a console, after all.

Yeah, well I'm a console weenie, and I'm still hesitent.
It DOES have appeal to the unwashed masses as a cheap PC however....
Me, I sadly caved and finally bough an old hunk of junk pc for about the 
equiv of ... $70 us, and basically got a starcraft playin' box with enough 
space for all of those -classic- old pc games like ufo and starcon2.....
Ah well, the classics -were- kinda worthwhile, even worth the stigma I give 
myself for owning a PC *grin*

> >A lack of Japanese developers is a disturbing portend... but time will 
>tell.
>
>Microsoft has readily acknowledged that breaking into the Japanese >market
>is going to be their biggest hurdle, due to the intense (fanatical) 
> >loyalty
>to Sony and Nintendo.  They'll probably have to learn how to make RPGs

Intersting point for reference....the N64 was theoretically MUCH more 
powerful than the PSX, and look who won...
And the gameboy inferior to the psx, and it beat that and the 64 
combined.....
Who can really predict the trends till they happen, eh?

>that
>rival Square, and I doubt they have the ability right now...
>

If I see it, I -will- be wowed...

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