Anyone feel any frustration with people jumping on the Xbox 360 bandwagon...

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: angrymaxx
I agree with you. Nobody should be looking forward to a new console with a new design, lots of horsepower and functionality in new areas. We should all just keep our current consoles/PCs and not jump on the bandwagon.. That's a great idea.

Same can be said of PCs. Difference is they're upgradeable; they won't hold game quality in check for five years.

It's not a PC vs console issue. Some ppl like one, some ppl like the other. I was a PC gamer for a long time but rather than drop $300 on a videcard alone, I'd rather get a new console and not have to worry about upgrading it for 5 years.

I've never spent $300 on a video card.

I can see Joe Schmoe getting excited about it. For someone who thinks Alienware, with their $3k+ systems, are the only way to play PC games, doesn't know a thing about PC maintenance and thinks of AOL as high-tech & hard to use, it makes perfect sense. What I don't understand is people on a tech board getting wet panties over it.

 

[vladgur]

What I dont understand is where do you guys get your pricing information when Microsoft refused to announce it AFAIK. For all we know, this thing could be $500, $800, $10E6

in any case, im pretty impressed with xbox as a XboxMediaCenter platform -- it already supports HDTV resolutions(it currently drives my projector with 720P signal). But i paid $150 for it, I aint paying $500+ for it which it sounds it will cost due to multiple CPUs and a higher end videocard. Im sure MS will subsidize it in order to make $$ on game royalties, but by how much?

 

[Rogue]

Don't forget who essentially owns PC gaming, Microsoft. Remember that without that OS running underneath it all, PC gaming would pretty much suck. Anyone here game 100% on Linux or Apple? I think not. Microsoft will become powerful enough in the gaming market to realize that software profit (the business they're REALLY in) is better on a console than on a PC. Look for diminished returns in PC gaming development on behalf of Microsoft if they overtake Sony in the market and gain a massive market share from the Xbox 360. Death of PC gaming? Nah. Chokehold at the hands of Microsoft, could be....

 

[UNCjigga]

Meh, Xbox 360 will be better than 99% of PCs when it debuts, and 99% of new PCs will be better than Xbox 360 four years later.