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Xbox 360 the next generation Dreamcast?
Lately, after the release of the 360 i have been hesitant on wither it was where my money should go or if i should save up for the Wii or the PS3. I know that the Nintendo might not be the best way to go but the PS3 has a nice rack of a price tag which kinda outgoes my normal budget for a console. I fear that although the 360 is new, nice and the first next-gen out i can still hear a faint voice in my head whenever i grab a 360 box that tells me "Dreamcast 360...Dreamcast 360...PS will rise again..." and out of fear i put down the box almost that instant. Now i am not saying that the 360 is not worth the buy, i mean hell, i want to play PDZ, PGR and GRAW as much as the next guy but i just don't want to spend a large amount of money on the 360 and then it gets destroyed by the PS3 when it makes its debut Q4.
Can someone give me some advice wither their inner gamer has been telling them the same thing? Jam it back in, in the dark. |
The Xbox 360 is a great console. Just get it.
And comparing it to the Dreamcast is laughable at this point. No relevant similarities whatsoever. Most amazing jew boots |
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Dreamcast didn't succeed for two reasons. One, the previous system, Saturn, made Sega lose a lot of money, especially in the US, due to the poor support of the company to back the system. That plus the fact that it invested 500 million dollars, alone, in the US to promote the Dreamcast, didn't help at all.
The final nail in the coffin was the piracy. The fact that you didn't need a mod-chip and it was really easy to copy already copied games which made it so that Sega couldn't counter this fatal blow. The Dreamcast was an awesome system with a lot of great ideas that were a first in the Videogame Console world. I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
Let's not even do this, seriously. The 360 won't vanish to the depths of hell the instant PS3 hits, especially with that launch price. The PS2 may have had enough power to become a missile launching super computer and destroy Dreamcast within a few seconds, but that's because Sega was.. well, Sega. They probably barely had enough money for lunch at that point in time.
Play the waiting game if you want, you'll no doubt save a bundle when all three systems are out and about, fighting with eachother by forcing small rodents crushed into balls to shoot electricity. None of them will be going anywhere anytime soon though. If there are games out there now that you really want to play, and you have the cash, why not just go for it? The waiting game is pretty boring despite the sexy results. I was speaking idiomatically. |