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RE: XBOX360... will it be the next Dreamcast?
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Microsoft is screwing themselves over by releasing the 360 without support for either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray.
What this means is that Blu-Ray gains a foothold that will be harder for the HD-DVD to bypass. And IIRC the Blu-Ray has a bigger support base than the HD-DVD, so it looks like M$ loses doubly.

How? Xbox games are xbox games. The size of the disc makes no difference. maybe it would be good to play dvds, but bluray disc games are simply pointless. What, is everyone going to use X console because it has bluray discs? No! they wouldn't even care/notice I bet.
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11-10-2005 10:54 PM
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RE: XBOX360... will it be the next Dreamcast?
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Microsoft is screwing themselves over by releasing the 360 without support for either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray.
What this means is that Blu-Ray gains a foothold that will be harder for the HD-DVD to bypass. And IIRC the Blu-Ray has a bigger support base than the HD-DVD, so it looks like M$ loses doubly.

How? Xbox games are xbox games. The size of the disc makes no difference. maybe it would be good to play dvds, but bluray disc games are simply pointless. What, is everyone going to use X console because it has bluray discs? No! they wouldn't even care/notice I bet.
I think it's wrong to call a next-gen console a "media center" if it can't even play the next-gen media.
And since it's not gonna support Blu-Ray OR HD-DVD, I fail to see why you are ONLY mentioning Blu-Ray discs in your post.
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RE: RE: XBOX360... will it be the next Dreamcast?

Actually, sony originally started making a Disc addon for the SNES, but then Nintendo screwed them nd did a deal with Phillips instead.  The Sont people turned the addon into a lone console called......The Playstation!!!!


no it was sony that screwed  over nintendo adn so nintendo said no and left the partnership

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Well, where do you think the console department at M$ started from, anyway? To the best of my knowledge, Sega was bought out by Microsoft. Thats why you see so many games labeled with Sega on the Box
Why has no-one responded to this? Sega are still an independent company; they just stopped making hardware.
True, some XBox games have Sega on them. So do some on GameCube and PS2. Super Money Ball, anyone? Sonic Mega Collection? Just a couple of examples.
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well im excited about the Xbox 360 anyways :DD
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Indeed I had a fiddle on a 360 in a shop.  The graphics were amazing and impressed me even though I'm not a great games fan.

Just makes you wonder what games will look like in 10 years time :D
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yea, im looking forward to all the next gen itds going to be awesome.....:P


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RE: XBOX360... will it be the next Dreamcast?
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yea, im looking forward to all the next gen itds going to be awesome.....:P

That's my general point... Who cares about the specs, the specs are amazing, even if they aren't as good as the PS3 specs... It is a next-gen console, the physics/graphics etc. are going to be amazing!!!

What are the main games you're looking forward to playing?

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