[Cyrax9]

OK, honestly, some of you need ot WAKE UP!!

This is NOT a Game CONSOLE. This is a TiVo/VCR/DVD Player/ PS2 rolled into one box for Tech Geeks, I can honestly see it not even appealing to someone such as myself, a self-proclaimed "Tech Geek".

I remember whn I got my first MIDI-System Stereo. It had a Seperate Record Player (Sold Seperatly), Dual_Cassette Decks, an Am?FM Radio, and a new invention calld a CD Player, I still have it but over the years somethng happened. First the Record Player Broke, than the CD player, and then the Radio started to go and so did the left speaker.

Now I have to buy a whole new system or ge this hunk of junk repaired.

Sadly thats what the PSX is, it's a "MIDI-System" for a TV where the V is the "Record Player", sold seperatly.

I'm not agianst SOny COnsoles, I'm not even against M$ consoles, I'm against the idea of consoles that do everything short of make your breakfeast and wipe your @$$!
This thing isn't evena console, it's a COMPUTER.

China is gonna have a field day with it because they dn't even knwo weaher or not to classify the REGULAR PS2 as a Gaming Machine or a Computer, they'd have to classify tis thing as a military weapon!

I have to agree with gekko, this is NOT a good idea, and I'd like it to go down thecrapper STAT.

I HAVE a DVD Writer, a matsu****a/Panasonic DMR-HS2 Set-Top DVD Writer that cost me $850.00 last November, a GCN, a SONY VCR and a SONY DVD as well as an N64 all connect to my TV. If the GCN 2 is Backwards Compatible, I'll probably Disconnect the GCN 1 and connect the GCN 2, now what if my DVD Writer was part fo my GCN?Seems like a ight waste to upgrade something that doesn't need upgrading.

Also I ca just see parts of the PSX Breaking in "Sections" first your DVD Writer goes, than your Game Playing piece, and finally, your CD Player. Basically it's a money hog, a black hole for your wallet and I hate those dang things!

I don't want a "Digital Media Lifestyle" I want compnetns that I can swap in/out of my se up when I FEEL like it, NOT when SONY says I should.

As good as this thing is it's not worth the probable cost, which will most likely be $600 or more, I'd wait AT LEAST until the PS3 Xbox 2 and GC2 come out before I added a DVD Writer to a game console and I'd only add it then because it would be cheap.

The advantage to a Console over a PC is GAMES. I bought my SNES because I was sick of typing "Edit Autoexec.bat" every time I wanted to change my DOS settings.

It was a pain in the @$$ to play a game on early PC's, it still is at times, on a Console I plug the game in, hit power and play it, simple as 1, 2, 3.

Also, it's getting tot he point where you need a PHD in electronics to fix your PC, and I don't want my game console like that, tweaking a PC adn tweaking a console are two differnt things and I like tweaking PC's the diea of going intoa game console chunrs my stomach as something that shouldn't ever be a requiremnt for repairs/upgrades.

Now, I'll leave you with this, Micro$oft is developing a second Behemoth, Sony is calling this... THING a game console, and I'm hoping my next NIntendo Console is NAMED GCN II and plays my old GCN games as wellas new Games, and really doesn't do anything else, if they thorw a GCN intoa new Panasonic/Matsu****a DVD Writer, fine but only if it was an "Extra device" and not a new console.

The Console wars are about to start again and this match may be pivotal.