I'm sorry, did Jonbo say something abou the XBox? All I heard was a high pitched whine...
Lets face it, gaming only consoles are very quickly becoming a thing of the past. The gaming industry is going mainstream. It has overtaken Hollywood as the top moneymaking form of entyertainment in America and the gaming industry wants to make sure that it stays that way. They want two cars in every garage and a gaming system in every entertainment center. They will better be able to do this by consolidating all the hardware that people have now-a-days in their livingrooms. Consolidation equals less wires, less hassle, fewer remotes and less confusion. Plus, as I will repeat, it will give parents an affordable alternbative to updating the entertainment hardware while keeping their kids happy. Its a Christmas present for the whole family. The additon of gaming into the famiy entertainment lexicon is GOOD for gaming.
As for loading times, I couldn't care less and I doubt any casual gamers care. Load times are a minor inconvenience that are expected in any game. Morrowind takes three days to load and loads everytime you enter a building and its still one of the best games I've ever played. The fact that Metroid Prime doesn't load, which it does by the way, isn't what makes it a great game even though if you read reviews you'd think it was. Its gameplay.
So Nintendo didn't put in a DVD player only so it would load faster? i highly doubt thats the main reason and even if it is, I'd rather have the DVD player than faster load times.
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