Hey, less of the idiot bashing thank-you. Perhaps you got the wrong idea with my contempt for Rare, (whose recent output has been mediocre at best)
but I didn't mention Microsoft at all, or inclined that Rare were the worse off for being with them. I am no great romantic for Microsoft, but I believe that the X-Box, (Yes, I couldn't care less wether you think of it as being spelt Xbox or whatever, it smacks of pedantry, a most dehabilitating condition.) is their best product, well, ever. So enraptured with it that I'm on the verge of buying one, so bias and the cry of 'fanboyism' are hardly appropriate, esspecialy when I have made no direct or even vaugley indirect attack on Microsoft in this thread, for once.
Okay, so perhaps my remarks on Rare in my first post were a little too snideand vauge, but I'm not going to ignore the derision of my opinion that Rare is a has-been developer, and for it to be linked, with absolutly no supporting evidence, to a supposed blind aversion on my part to the merits of the X-Box, then I really have nothing to state but my shock that these recent 'fanboy' witch hunts have come to such endemic levels.......IMO
Now lets, get on with our lives and be happy in whatever ways we choose to lead them, and whatever brand allegiance we hold. Phew, now thats out of my way, I feel much happier.......