[ale] OT: ugh, nasty decision

[Eric Webb]

Uh, oh, here come my $0.02... though N.B. that I'm fairly biased.

On Monday 02 December 2002 01:17 am, Mark Walters wrote:
> 2 big draws for me on the xbox is online play and the hard drive in the
> xbox(ps2 also has online play but it mixes broadband and telephone modems
> xbox is broadband only).   

At first read, it sounds like you're trying to bash the PS2 for sporting both 
options and enabling a wider audience to online play.  Maybe I misread 
that..?

> When playing a season of football I don't have
> to worry about how much space I have left on my memory card, and with games

True, the hard drive helps here.  Isn't there an HD option [available | in the 
works] for the PS2?  (See my previous post on this topic -- still awaiting 
responses there.  I know of the linux kit, but heard rumors that the online 
adapter may have an IDE interface as well.)  And there were an HD option, 
would it perform the same way?

> that let you use your own mp3's the xbox really shines because you can put
> gigs of mp3's on it. 

You've got to be kidding?  A game's soundtrack is sometimes half the 
experience.  Are we really so impatient with software these days that we 
can't stand to listen to the given soundtrack?  I hope these are just the 
cheesier games that you speak of (those which may perhaps not have 
soundtracks as impressive as, for example, the FF series).


-E.
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