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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave who wrote (63274)	11/23/2001 8:13:01 PM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I've never owned another gaming platform, although my brother has a PSII and it's a pretty good platform. Xbox is obviously better (faster, greater detail and graphics, etc.), but that's not a mystery. Each game platform that Sony and MSFT launch will be better than the last. The hardware will get better and the games will get more detailed and exotic. The hard drive is a great feature that I know Nintendo doesn't have and I'm not sure about PSII. You can save a game in mid progress and then pick up where you left off the next day. This is critical, because games like HALO and Munch's Oddysee can be played for literally hundreds of hours and you'll never see the end of the "world" they reside in. These things are practically infinite. Starting over from ground zero would be silly with games as complex as they've developed these days. In Nascar Thunder I've set up a "Career" and am racing every Nascar track that exists and the thing logs my results. I'm now ranked 16th overall in my first season of my "career", but I have the settings at a fairly moderate difficulty level. If you master one level, there's an endless number of realistic options to challenge yourself further. I have it hooked up to my surround sound system and when you play, it's like being in the actual car with the vibrating controller going nuts when you scrap the wall or bump another car, sounds rushing from your front to the rear as you pull past someone. Only Xbox lets developers put surround sound into the games. PSII lets them put it into the intro movie, but that's it. Xbox is superior to PSII in many ways. My interest in this thing will taper off, but I can see some serious couch potatoes getting hooked like you can't even imagine. Dave