The PSX 2 is the best system of the 3
& they have the best games out.

Don't care for the XBox or GameCube.

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I'm not sure about the price drop though, I think they will do the same.

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I hope they drop the price... I's like a second PS2 in the living room

Edited by - PL on 4/2/2004 11:39:35 AM

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The XBox controller is too FAT
& awkward looking. It sucks!

Sony all the way!

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"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise." - George Santayana

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.: - T.S. Eliot

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I agree that PS2 is #1, but the X has some cool features. Although you need a special remote, it comes packed with a HDD already. You can also rip games to that HDD and play your own music in games! Also, the X has a built in Ethernet adaptor; PS2 don't..

They all have weaknesses and strengths

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Of course, soon PCs surpassed it, but I haven't actually upgraded my PC since I got my Xbox back in 2001 :-)

No one can deny that the PS2 gets more games and many games ship there first, but I hate the fact that it's such a weak piece of hardware, that any games that makes it to PS2 first or as part of a multiplatform release doesn't get to utilize the full power of the superior platforms due to the developer's lower-common denominator approach. As a result, for example, we get washed-out textures on Xbox/GC even though they're much more superior at handling those.

If you compare games made for the Xbox from the ground up to equivalent ones on the PS2, there simply is NO comparison.
A look at games like Halo, Ninja Gaiden, Brute Force, Splinter Cell, and Dead or Alive 3, etc. should be enough.

However, it terms of gameplay, I have to admit that I like the games made by several Japanese companies, and those usually end up on the PS2 only/first. I'm sure that's partly patriotism in action here :-)

Of course, the PS2 was a good piece of hardware for its time, but the problem is that it came so much earlier than the rest that it can't help show its age. I'm glad the next gen of consoles would probably come out at the same time and thus would likely have similar capabilities. That means that multi-platform games written to the lower-common denominator would still look great on all platforms.

To respond to the original question. I think the PS2 price will drop to match the Xbox, probably by May. It doesn't make any sense for Nintendo to lower the GC price, however, since it can't sell it for less than the GBA SP!

Edited by - Dick Johnson on 4/3/2004 11:46:07 PM

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I have heard though that the PS2 is going to be selling for less than $100.00 by next X-Mas. I will have to put one on my X-Mas list.

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(I'm what they would call a casual gamer, though back in my 'teens, I used to hustle suckers out of cash, as well as jimmy the locks on machines, and basically play for free at the local arcade, and I still had my SNES, long after the new crop of platforms were released.)

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Edited by - BIGmike on 4/5/2004 5:40:40 PM

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