The State of the Game Console Wars

An anonymous reader writes "Two years after the next-gen game consoles hit the market, the verdict is in. What does the future hold for each of the Big Three? Here is a thoughtful but crude summary of the X-Box vs. GC vs. PS2 ordeal."

Re:Who cares really...

[RTPMatt]

its all about the XGameStation [xgamestation.com]!! I cant wait till this thing comes out, give the market a good kick in the anti DMCA direction! It dosent matter how good the system is, as long as its being pushed to its limits!

Re:Who cares really...

[desenz]

You know, I was sort of considering one of those for my little brother. After all, Must turn him into a geek somehow.

Re:Who cares really...

[AntiOrganic]

You can tell how much they [xgamestation.com]'re against copyrights by how they steal Gamespot [gamespot.com]'s layout without batting an eyelash.

Re:X Box

[Anonymous Coward]

My X-Box wins as it's running X-Box linux. :) And, the article *does* read like a 11-year-old wrote it thinking he was an "3lit3 dewd."

And you're not thinking the same thing by running linux on a goddamned X-box?

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Re:Thoughtful?

[Bradee-oh!]

Within three years it will be a violation of federal law to not own an X-box ?

C'mon now, thats funny.

Yeah, reality is funny... :(

Re:PC vs Console..

[porp]

Oh yeah, here's the requirements for homemade lasagna, courtesy of Emeril Legasse:

2 cups fresh ricotta cheese
8 ounces grated Provolone cheese
8 ounces grated Mozzarella cheese
8 ounces grated Romano cheese
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon chiffonade of fresh basil
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
Salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 recipe of Emeril's Meat Sauce, recipe follows
1/2 pound grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
1 package of dried lasagna noodles

By comparison, here's the requirements for frozen lasagna

porp

Good to see...

[oasis3582]

that everyone else here thinks this article is downright asinine. Since when did some penis-fetishist's *opinion* on the state of the console war start to matter? If this works so well, I'm going to write an article on how I think alien invasion is the cause of the East coast power outages, and see if I can get it posted. Sheesh...

ugh

[Hellasboy]

Did Michael even bother to read what he linked to? This "article", and I use that term loosely, reads as bad as last months Stuff magazine - like a 9 year old boy who can use MSPaint and should be on Ritalin.

There is nothing "thoughtful" about this article.

Re:Thoughtful?

[tealover]

Let me guess:

You own a GameCube.

:)

Re:Uh, editors?

[tm2b]

They knew that.

They just don't seem to have known that it's not funny.

Hell!

[NetNinja]

Collect them all!
Hack them!
Trade them with your friends!

hmmm...

[gimpimp]

i think the Indrema box will win the console wars!

/been under a rock...

Re:Thoughtful?

[Gherald]

> so my friends will think I am "original" and "witty".

You have friends, and you read Slashdot? I am sorry, I thought that was against the rules.

whua?

[Anonymous Coward]

whats an "Xbox" is that like the new master system?
Does it run on minix?

On the money...

[Anonymous Coward]

The GameCube had so much potential, but Nintendo just doesn't market to the right audience. I'm in my mid-twenties, enjoy blood-bathing carnage, and don't want cartoonish looking games. And where's the online play? Madden2K4 just came out... XBox and PS2 have online play, but wheres the online play for the GameCube?

The only reason I bought one was for Metroid, and the previous vision of Zelda (before they butchered the game and turned it into comic book fairy land for 4 year olds).

My PS2 however leads the pack. All the games I want and more. Plus, most of the online play is free (aside from Evercrack). Not much to say except that I'm looking forward to PS3's distributed platform.

The XBox is getting better. The original controllers sucked. They finally introduced controllers for the under 7 foot crowd. The single player of Halo was great, but the online play is something to skip. I simply have a problem with paying for a subcription to online games. I'm already shelling out $50/mo. for DSL. Just one more bill to worry about. I think the XBox might go the same way as the Dreamcast... too many people modding their boxes, not enough people buying games to justify continuing the platform.

Re:Who cares really...

[shepd]

Good lord, you mean they have like menus on the left, content in the middle, and bullshit on the right?

In that cast gamespot actually stole slashdot's layout.

Re:ps3

[mhandlon]

Don't take it personally; sometimes the moderators have the sense of Christopher Lowell on a bad batch of crystal meth.

Slashdot's layout is unique, actually...

[darylp]

Slashdot is bullshit on the left, bullshit in the middle, and bullshit on the right.

Re:Thoughtful?

[optikSmoke]

... read like it had been crapped out of a 12-year-old bored in homeroom ... it doesn't seem like what we would hope to expect from Slashdot.

AHEM

Well, as long as you said hope to expect.

Re:Thoughtful?

[Anonymous Coward]

...things that are marginally funny, like "Friends".

Sorry, we're going to have to revoke your Internet license. Expressing any positive opinion about "Friends" is against Federal obscenity laws.

Re:Editorial...not technical review

[prockcore]

I stopped taking it seriously when I saw the image of the fake testicles attached to the Game Cube.

Considering that that picture came after the penis length chart, I'm to assume you took the penis length chart seriously?

Re:I Own All Three Consoles...

[toriver]

I, too, have all three consoles:

Dreamcast, PS2 and Gamecube.

I don't have the strangely packaged PC. :P

(Of course, calling the XBox a PC is like calling the PS2 a SGI workstation. Nevermind.)

Re:Who cares really...

[Ziviyr]

Any suggestions on what would be some good Cube games to pick up?

Super Monkey Ball (if you like high-altitude monkey death)
TimeSplitters 2 (if you like being chased by flaming monkey death)
Eternal Darkness (no monkeys, fairly easy to finish, coincidence?)
Blast Corps 2 (hard to find, I know it rocks though, a giant monkey robot is a bonus vehicle, this time the truck is actively homing in on the buildings and contains the unexploited plotlines of BC1, having the same result as the nukes if released)

Re:This article doesn't make any sense

[Alan Partridge]

"Microsoft, however, is not made up of a bunch of stupid fuckheads as everyone assumes."

That's true, Microsoft's products are only BOUGHT by stupid fuckheads. We work with MS sometimes and find them quite a bright bunch, we don't use their awful products though.