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post #1 of 19
8/27/02 at 10:02pm
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Found this on Xengamers.com...

<a href="http://xengamers.com/sections/news/8418/" target="_blank">http://xengamers.com/sections/news/8418/</a>

Here is the article:
"X-box Poised for Strong Sales"

"According to a recently conducted survey by Gigex, more consumers plans to purchase Microsoft's Xbox this holiday season over rival videogame consoles. Over 12,000 gamers were queried, "What console gaming system do you plan to buy in the coming year?" and 39 percent answered they plan to buy a Microsoft Xbox, 27 percent will buy a Sony PlayStation 2, and 17 percent plan to purchase Nintendo's GameCube. The study also showed that game demos have the most influence over game purchase decisions. When asked "Which of these items highly influence your game purchase decisions?" nearly 8 out of 10 respondents (78 percent) ranked game demos as a factor, far ahead of the second most frequent response of game reviews (47 percent). Both television commercials (35 percent) and magazine ads (31 percent) trailed behind as drivers of retail purchase behavior.

"The growing popularity of Gigex's service puts us in the unique position of having our finger on the pulse of our 26 million monthly visitors," said Mark Friedler, CEO of Gigex, Inc. "The power of the demo and trailer experience shows in the strong influence on gamers' purchase decisions. Our own data shows that 66 percent of users who view an online demo or trailer visit a retail website. With strong competition from many quality titles, effective use of game previews is a cost effective method to attract customers to a new title, differentiate it and highlight the product's quality. The survey results clearly show the power of a positive demo/preview experience and its power to drive traffic and purchase activity across the channel."

The survey shows that gamers will be ringing the cash registers at retail stores across the country this year, with 59 percent of gamers purchasing game products from electronic stores, 43 percent from computer superstores, 35 percent from department stores, and 19 percent online. The study also revealed that many Gigex visitors are avid gamers who have been playing video games for 6 years or more (73 percent), play 20 hours or more a week (24 percent), and consider themselves to be advanced gamers (44 percent)."
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post #2 of 19
8/27/02 at 10:09pm
This means precisely dick. Interrogating 12000 gamers to establish a tendency on a market composed of millions of people is far too inacurrate. And it does not take in account the fact that the people being asked may already own one or two of these consoles. For instance if a guy is asked "which console would you buy ?"and already owns the GC and PS2, well, duh, what do you want him to answer?
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post #3 of 19
8/27/02 at 10:19pm
This is my opinion and I don't know what everyone else thinks but I think that the XBOX is a piece of shit. Sure it has good graphics but graphics are not every part of the game, I would rather have a game with bad graphics but be a great game that you could play over and over again instead of a game that has great graphics and is the biggest piece of shit ever. It's not like PS2 doesn't have good graphics anyway, I mean look at MGS2 which has better graphics then some XBOX games. There are not many good game son the XBOX in my opinion anyway and it doesn't have nearly as large of a library of games then the PS2. The only great games I can think of right now for XBOX would be HALO and DOA3 and a few others I can't think of right now. Also, alot of the games for XBOX are sports games which I hate becasue they get boring way to quickly and you can only really have fun when other people or around. Alot of the games XBOX has have also been out already for PS2. This is just my opinion but I'm going to say what Japan said when XBOX first came out and that is that it will fail by the end of this year or the begining of next year.
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post #4 of 19
8/27/02 at 10:26pm
The fact is that I don't think anyone right now can say who's going to win this war (other than PS2, who has already won). The pros and cons of the Gamecube and the X-Box kind of cancel themselves out right now.

Give it time, I say in about 4 to 6 months (when Nintendo has released all their main guns and Mircosoft has had tim to counter them) we'll have a much better idea who's going to win. Right now, I think it's too early to tell.
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post #5 of 19
8/27/02 at 11:04pm
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Samurai X:
This is my opinion and I don't know what everyone else thinks but I think that the XBOX is a piece of shit. Sure it has good graphics but graphics are not every part of the game, I would rather have a game with bad graphics but be a great game that you could play over and over again instead of a game that has great graphics and is the biggest piece of shit ever. It's not like PS2 doesn't have good graphics anyway, I mean look at MGS2 which has better graphics then some XBOX games. There are not many good game son the XBOX in my opinion anyway and it doesn't have nearly as large of a library of games then the PS2. The only great games I can think of right now for XBOX would be HALO and DOA3 and a few others I can't think of right now. Also, alot of the games for XBOX are sports games which I hate becasue they get boring way to quickly and you can only really have fun when other people or around. Alot of the games XBOX has have also been out already for PS2. This is just my opinion but I'm going to say what Japan said when XBOX first came out and that is that it will fail by the end of this year or the begining of next year.
Your argument has no merits. You acknowledge that Xbox has better graphics but then call it shit. Good gameplay is not exlclusive to particular system. And sure the PS2 is going to have a bigger library, it's been out longer. And there are no more sports games on the Xbox than on the PS2. If you have a bias against a particular system for some baseless reason that is fine, but don't try to back it up with quasi-facts.
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post #6 of 19
8/27/02 at 11:33pm
Eh eh, Dennis, I knew you would jump at this.

You know, I just love those kind of arguments. "X-box rulez" "Fuck you it sucks, PS2 is the shiznit" "Peh, GC reigns supreme". Kinda reminds me of the Genesis vs SNES time, with huge fights going on between partisans of each system. I missed that during the PS1/N64/Saturn era.

And let it be said that my slagging of the survey was in no way a shot toward the X-box (just covering my back here).
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post #7 of 19
8/28/02 at 12:05am
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Blunt, conjuror of cheap tricks
[QB]You know, I just love those kind of arguments. "X-box rulez" "Fuck you it sucks, PS2 is the shiznit" "Peh, GC reigns supreme". Kinda reminds me of the Genesis vs SNES time, with huge fights going on between partisans of each system. I missed that during the PS1/N64/Saturn era.
QB]
Yeah, I'm getting the same feeling in this console war. I think the reason is that in this war each console has valid and very legit reasons for owning it. This hasn't happened since the 16-bit era with SNES and Genesis. Even the most biased gamer knows that there are great games on all the platforms, they just don't want to admit it, because they want to defend their choice for a console. I think the problem is that almost everyone who owns a particular console is happy with their choice, so when someone else bashes them,(like a big brother defending a little brother), will defend it, baisedly if needed.
Every system has games that everyone is looking forward to...

PS2- Devil May Cry 2, GTA:VC, Tomb Raider: AoD, and countless others.
X-box- Shenmue 2, Project Ego, Halo 2, OddWorld(Series), Sega GT 2003, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Blinks: The Time Sweeper(My pick for game to beat this holiday season), Mortal Kombat: DA(The best version), Steel Batalion, and also countless others.
Gamecube- Resident Evil 0 & 4, Super Mario Sunshine, Star Fox, Legend of Zelda,and Metroid Prime.
I have to give GC alittle curve because, imo, the Nintendo first party titles count as 2x as big titles for other systems.
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post #8 of 19
8/28/02 at 1:23am
Nintendo rulez.
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post #9 of 19
8/28/02 at 1:44am
As much as I despise the thought of ever handing over my cash to MS for ANYthing, the fact they nabbed exclusive rights to the new Molyneux/Lionhead game Project Ego might make my distaste for the company moot. That game looks incredible, like GTAIII incredible and that title pushed me into buying the PS2.

Can someone tell me what the DVD capabilities for the X-Box are? Is it hackable into region free or anything cool like that? Is it noticeably better in features and image quality than say, a PS2?
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post #10 of 19
8/28/02 at 2:40am
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Big Black:
As much as I despise the thought of ever handing over my cash to MS for ANYthing, the fact they nabbed exclusive rights to the new Molyneux/Lionhead game Project Ego might make my distaste for the company moot. That game looks incredible, like GTAIII incredible and that title pushed me into buying the PS2.

Can someone tell me what the DVD capabilities for the X-Box are? Is it hackable into region free or anything cool like that? Is it noticeably better in features and image quality than say, a PS2?
I don't have a DVD remote for my X-box so i wouldnt know first-hand how the DVD looks, but Verbal tells me that it is better picture quality than the PS2 one is. It also allows you to zoom in. I haven't heard of the region stuff, but for my PS2 if you have a gameshark then you can watch movies from other regions, so when the X-box Gameshark is released this fall then I guess it will have the same feature.
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post #11 of 19
8/28/02 at 3:44am
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Samurai X:
The only great games I can think of right now for XBOX would be HALO and DOA3 and a few others I can't think of right now.
Weirdest sentence ever.
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post #12 of 19
8/28/02 at 8:12am
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Blunt, conjuror of cheap tricks:
Eh eh, Dennis, I knew you would jump at this.

You know, I just love those kind of arguments. "X-box rulez" "Fuck you it sucks, PS2 is the shiznit" "Peh, GC reigns supreme". Kinda reminds me of the Genesis vs SNES time, with huge fights going on between partisans of each system. I missed that during the PS1/N64/Saturn era.

And let it be said that my slagging of the survey was in no way a shot toward the X-box (just covering my back here).
I didn't "jump" at this because it attacked the Xbox but rather because I don't see how you can call any of the three systems shit.

My current (what they offer right now) rankings of the systems (of which I own them all) is as follows:

Cube
PS2
Xbox

Just because you own one doesn't mean you have to hate the others. You PS2 hardliners should be glad the other systems exist because it resulted in lower prices for you.
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post #13 of 19
8/28/02 at 10:02am
Matter of fact is, I'm hardly a PS2 nut myself. I also own a GBA and plan to buy the Cube soon. I even witheld buying PS2 for one year because it had no games that interested me for a long while. Only when GTA3, Silent Hill 2 and Devil May Cry were released that I bought it. Same problem I currently have with the X-box.
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post #14 of 19
8/28/02 at 10:23am
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Blunt, conjuror of cheap tricks:
Matter of fact is, I'm hardly a PS2 nut myself. I also own a GBA and plan to buy the Cube soon. I even witheld buying PS2 for one year because it had no games that interested me for a long while. Only when GTA3, Silent Hill 2 and Devil May Cry were released that I bought it. Same problem I currently have with the X-box.
That's exactly what I did as well, with the PS2, and am doing now, with Xbox. I never buy a console until there are at least three exclusive games that I absolutely must own.

Of course, this doesn't explain why I've got a GameCube.
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post #15 of 19
8/28/02 at 10:47am
I plan to buy Xbox this fall. Funny how no one has mentioned Xbox live as a reason for wanting it. I have faith in MS building a good network and feel that the Xbox is a better online machine. At the Halo tournament, there was much excitement about online play, but now i'm realizing that it's a hardcore gamers niche. I haven't touched my PS2 in months, but I'll probably get the online adapters for it as well. To me, whoever has the better network will be the better console.
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post #16 of 19
8/28/02 at 12:00pm
I disagree, Imperator. I have zero interest in console online gaming. That's what PCs are for, somewhat it doesn't feel right playing online on a console. Plus, it adds the extra cost of a buying an adapter, a keyboard, whatever. A console must stand on its own games, not some online ability. And judging by the results of online console games so far (such as PSO or FFXI), the majority of the public feels that way.
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post #17 of 19
8/28/02 at 12:27pm
It's true that the public has yet to catch onto online consoles, but that might be because most console gamers have never tried it. I think that people will catch onto it. Even casual gamers will find that playing against others is more fun than destroying the same group of friends over and over again in a game. It will take time, but I think it might happen.

As to the adapters, I'm surprised that it's so cheap. I pay $15 a month for a MMORPG and that's just one game. For $50, you get everything MS or Sony has to offer for an entire year.

This holiday season will be a great one either way though.
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post #18 of 19
8/28/02 at 4:10pm
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Blunt, conjuror of cheap tricks:
And judging by the results of online console games so far (such as PSO or FFXI), the majority of the public feels that way.
Actually, PSO had about the same and sometimes even more suscribers than Everquest at one point. An FFXI in Japan hs a pretty strong following, and is on target to get 400,000 suscribers by years end, and the game isnt even being released in America yet.
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post #19 of 19
8/28/02 at 4:26pm
I think thats just the market. Computer gaming isn't big in Japan, so online console games would have a much larger draw.

I don't know if online console gaming will ever take off in the states. Making the services broadband only will get rid of lag, but it also cuts out the casual gamer. Anyone with broadband already is likely to be a pc gamer and won't be interested in console gaming, and a lot of the people without broadband probably won't get it just to play a handful of console games.
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