Man it sure is great to be a cube owner, nintendo has given us gobs of great games for the past two years haven't they? It's like impossible to keep up with all the new stuff they have been throwing at us.
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Yes, it's been great. I've enjoyed it tremendously!
Man it sure is great to be a cube owner, nintendo has given us gobs of great games for the past two years haven't they? It's like impossible to keep up with all the new stuff they have been throwing at us.
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Yes, it's been great. I've enjoyed it tremendously!
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It's complimented really well by their spectacular online system.
It's complimented really well by their spectacular online system.
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Quite spectacular for me, given that in general I couldn't give two shakes of an empty salt bottle for online gameplay.
I am hoping that maybe my opinion will change soon. I did enjoy playing Time Pilot against random gamers and whooping on their respective @$$3$. But it wasn't enough to make me want to play online games regularly. I would like to actually show real interest when my friends ask me to play something with them on XBOX Live, instead of just doing it to appease them.
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That great, but the couple of million people on x box live seem to show it's very important.
[QUOTE=sega saturn x]That great, but the couple of million people on x box live seem to show it's very important.[/QUOTE]
Just how much of the original XBOX's online capabilities were subscribed to by XBOX gamers, in percentage terms?
It wasn't even 50%.
I am not suggesting that online isn't important, especially now where it's gaining much more ground than it ever had, but it was never the driving force behind XBOX sales like it is for the 360. Even more pronounced, the pitiful online connectivity the PS2 supported wasn't a driving force behind its sales either.
It's funny how the Xbox gets off the hook in this discussion. That system died about the same time the Gamecube did. And with no "killer app" like Twilight Princess in December, either.
Does anyone think that Xbox owners got jobbed? After all, there is no gaurantee that you can play any of your games for the 360, since even the supported backwards compatible games sometimes aren't emulated correctly.
You also can't use your Xbox controllers on the 360.
The Wii has true backwards compatibility and you can use all your Gamecube controllers to play Cube and VC games.
So, as an Xbox and Xbox 360 owner, do I endlessly whine about the Xbox getting jobbed? No. And you can make the case that I have even more of case than mad Gamecube owners.
I don't whine because I understand that the system's life cycle is over. It happens. It had a nice run, but it's done. Ditto with Gamecube. I don't hold it against the company. Especially when a system had a variety of excellent games, which an unbiased, objective review would reveal the Gamecube AND Xbox had.
If you really want to expand your library, buy a GBA player for your system, it'll expand your library to about twenty gazillion games. Most of which can be had for less then $15 bucks at the local Gamestop.
-Rob
That x box to game cube comparison has never and will never work. The x box got at least 4 times the number of games the cube did in that time spand. One zelda game doesn't really even that fact. Plus the reality is the 360 was ALREADY out so the x box could die if it wanted to. It's replacement was on the shelf. The game cube had nothing for close to two years with no replacement or support. And about the x box online, it wasn't half but it was something like 40% which is a huge chunk anyway. Plus it's clearly more important than ever and is a huge part of the 360 selling so well.
Your numbers are false yet again. There is roughly 37-40 million xbox brand consoles in currently in households. The most recent numbers of xbox live accounts is just over 5 million (those numbers include silver and gold memberships). So the numbers are nowhere near 50%. When you take the whole xbox brand into account it really is a small number. Even if you say that 2 million accounts are strictly 360 users the number is still only around 20%.
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