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MS Xbox will rule games universe

Punter and retailer deploy crystal ball

How the hell can you say GameCube will outsell Xbox by 2005?

Well, how the hell can you say that, eh? Simeon White gives it to us from the horse's mouth:

I manage a video game store, and i know for a fact Xbox will outsell Gamecube. By and large most hardcore gamers r sick of nintendo. Kid games...spells failure. And please don't give me the Pokemon theory. Most people who bought a n64 won't have anything to do with a new Nintendo machine. They only ask and reserve xbox.

Wishful Thinking my Friend.
U need to get your info from the retailers not hearsay

Ok, that's the retail angle. Dave Johnston, who is yer 100 percent genuine customer, agrees:

I'm no analyst, I do not own some number crunching machine that can spit out statistics to its hearts content and I do not own my own software house or gaming shop.

I am the one thing that matters more than anything else THE CUSTOMER. I am 31 years young and have been playing video games since the days of the Activision (tennis, hockey etc all look the same) and the Atari 2600. Mr Nintendo is coming from the right angle saying that it is the games that are important and not how powerful the system is and whether it will do a million things at once, but this is where they all fall down -

Faults that have been made.
SEGA: This company could have had it all but for one thing they were not loyal to there customers. I purchased a Megadrive on the day of release, I was thoroughly happy with it. So what it did not have as many colours as the SuperNes but the games were significantly better to PLAY with but then they went wrong they had the Megadrive, MegadriveII, Mega CD and the 32X none of these were supported very well and because they were all released in such a short time the money spent purchasing the original console was worth NOTHING on the resale value.

Then they wonder why customers like myself NEVER purchased there next consoles. Which is a shame because that meant that they had to rush the Dreamcast, it had to be released early and with the PS1 doing so well i.e. gaming wise it never stood a chance.

Nintendo: SNES, nothing more to say excellent console and many a happy evening spent playing Mario Cart, but time moves on THEN N64. WHAT A COCK-UP, too frightened to let third party developers make the once in a blue moon bad game (it happens look at some of the early PS1 titles), not enough variety in the games they did make and the cost. I could buy two games for my PS1 for the price of one game on the N64. Quite simply end of story.

Sony: This is the only company that could have made video games trendy, some bad games, loads & loads of extremely good games, the rest they say is history.

What next:
So you are probably thinking that I may agree with what you have printed and that Sony will rule the Video Game wave again as they can seem to do no wrong in the public eye, HOW WRONG CAN YOU BE.

Sega will return to what they do better that anyone else, making very good video games that are fun but now it does not matter what console you own.

SONY, I would not urinate on a Playstation 2 if was it was on fire. The so called DVD play back is a joke because of the STUPID heavily disguised scart cable that will not let you play a game at 60mhz let alone watch a DVD movie in its original glorious format. Finaly they will intend on stiffing the UK market and will not let us have a price drop until it get closer to the launch of the other consoles----STRIKE 1.

Nintendo, Yes they will probably let the reigns go a little as regards to third party development software and YES they have started to turn the corner and realised that the price of the console at release is a big factor ie. $199 at release, but are people going to wait and take the gamble on whether there is going to be any games for it----STRIKE 2

Microsoft, People say there not trendy but so what video games were not trendy at all a few years ago. Games, you do not get much bigger that the development resources and money that this company has, and it is there first time round, everyone deserves a chance in this day and age.

They have a machine that is capable of anything and the resources to make something really big, the support from developers and hardware manufactures and a public audience that is waiting. First indications are that the games are not as good as hoped for but who would have thought that you would be able to play games like Gran Tourisimo on the PS1 when it launched.

1st Microsoft XBOX - Due to resources
2nd PS2 - They got an early start
3rd Nintendo Gamecube - Just bad luck

Time will tell as we all know and aslong as the console prices drop by everyone, us the CUSTOMER are in for a very interesting future.

So, there you have it. MS to dominate world yet again. Strong reaction is, as ever, invited on this prediction.

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