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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Epinephrine who wrote (96053)	3/1/2000 2:40:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570760

Epinephrine, <If the XBox is set up correctly then it simply becomes just one more PC configuration to be debugged> Hmmm. Good point. On the other hand, the games will have to be primarily aimed at X-Box and its target markets. Games on the consoles have a different feel than games on the PC. Console games are more arcade-like, while PC games are more "strategic" (for lack of a better term). There is a lot of overlap, to be sure, but in general those are the differences. That's another reason why I have a hard time seeing any possible success for X-Box. Game developers who make console games, like Konami, Capcom, and Square won't see any reason to develop for X-Box and the PC, because they're not going to find too many PC gamers who want to buy those types of "arcade" games. And PC game developers will have a hard time trying to make their "strategic" games more console-friendly. Ever try playing an RTS game like Command & Conquer on a console? But hey, if Microsoft can successfully pull it off and reconcile the two genres into one X-Box, more power to them. At least MS has their work cut out for them, especially as Playstation 2 gets set to launch in Japan soon with a few million units in sales in the first month alone. (That's more than the number of Athlons sold in all of Q4.) Imagine the successes PS2 will have once it arrives in America, possibly in September. Tenchusatsu