[rescue] XBOX vs PS2

[Big Endian]

>On 22 Jan 2002 at 20:39, rescue-request at sunhelp.org wrote:
>
>>  Something cool like the X-box?  Its nothing more than some overclocked
>>  PeeCee Weenie's wet dream.  Its a Celeron processor with some
>>  whiz-bang 3D Video card that everyone's got wood over because it
>>  *gasp* does 3D acceleration on the video board.
>
>It's not a Celeron, it's a modified P3 IIRC. People like it because
>it has _great games_.
>

its a castrated P3 (128kb cache instead of 256kb) which is about 
equal to a celeron.

>  > I'll stick with my PS2.  A nice R5600/200 or so Mhz MIPS processor,
>>  lots of memory IO...and TWO vector processing engines.
>
>Come on, this is really, really, stupid. MS bashing just for the sake
>of bashing is stupid. Who cares what's inside the console, it's the
>games that matter. If MS can do a stable, nice platform with great
>games on a Intel chip why do you care? Most people I've talked to
>think it's the better system, the PS2 does not have 4x controller
>slots, the PS2 needs $40 memory cards, and the PS2 does not have
>builtin networking. The graphics look to be about the same to me on
>both platforms but PS2 has had much more time to mature.

Ok.  I've seen Xboxes crash.  I've *NEVER* seen a console crash 
before the Xbox that didn't have something go wrong with the 
hardware.  I've seen more xboxes BREAK because of shitty construction 
and design (who the HELL puts an HDD in a damn CONSOLE?).  The xbox 
is neither nice nor stable.  The xbox on the specs is the nicest 
console out there.  However by the playability and quality aspects 
I'd take my Gamecube or a PS2 any day.  Design wise I think that the 
xbox is lacking.  It is just a PC in a box and is priced like one to. 
The PS2 is one *HELL* of a compute engine and the Gamecube is none 
too shabby itself (485mhz ppc?).  The games for the xbox are 
redressed PC games.  PC games are a *TOTALLY* different market, a 
different genre of game.  A console game should be simple to control, 
fun to play and 100% bug free.  PC games don't do this and neither do 
xbox games (they've castrated the controls on halo, I had a hard time 
treating it as a console game).  I had a choice between all three and 
I chose the Gamecube because of the quality of the software for it. 
Check out Pikmin some time and find something *HALF* as addictive, 
fun, brain wracking and down right CUTE on an xbox.

daniel
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