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Originally posted by Shadow Fox
There is no debate. Gamers don't buy games because of hardware features, or timing. Pricing isn't even as important considering most will buy a high-quality game for $45 than a crappy one for $15.

I bought my Xbox for Halo, the promise of XboxLive, and Malice, truthfully. All of which are related to games themselves (more or less the XboxLive title I want is Halo 2, and maybe CVS2, but eh). I didn't buy my Xbox just to buy a seperate remote to play DVD's, and I didn't even buy my PS2 for that. While the DVD features are great (even on the Panasonic Q), media playback is really a SECONDARY function of a console, and will always be that way.

Hell, I bought a GCN for damn-good Nintendo games, and KI3 (which I'll now have to get on Xbox if it resurfaces). True, all three consoles have their own advantages over one another hardwarewise, but think about it- PS2 having a very rough ISA isn't going to stop me from playing Metal Gear Solid 2, or GTA VC. GCN having smaller disc capacity isn't gonna stop me from playing thru Resident Evil 4. And Xbox's weaker texture layering damn-sure isn't gonna stop me from buying Halo 2 or Perfect Dark 2/0.

I dunno how you see it, but that's how I see it- and it's been that way since the beginning of the industry itself. If not, people would've never gotten pre-32 bit consoles, and just spent all their quarters on [insert more advanced arcade machine here].

And that's all I've got to say on that subject.

-Official Ninja of [coming soon]...

Yea but it's sad to say the market is not made up of only Gamers like you! Many people did buy the Xbox cuss it has more power now that may not be right but they did it and they are still doing it. If power really was nothing no one would have got a PS2 over the Dreamcast (lets face it Dreamcast had far better games then PS2).

Power = Hype = Sales.