If i had a dollar for every time i ran out of hair in the middle of a spoon making contest id only eat your children with a side of slaw and THOSE ARENT PILLOWS!!
If that's released at $300, then I just found myself a new house/shuttle launch pad.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Seriously, buying something like that for $300 is a SWEET deal! It IS a frickin' house! Plus, at any time you can go outside and play a game, or take the controllers (the controller S for this system anyway), and the TV, inside.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
I've got it! I now know what MS could do to win the console war! Get into the videogame/retail estate hybrid business! How could anyone pass up a video-game-console-house for only $300??!!
Leave it to nick to come up with one power packed comeback.
Seriously though nickdaddy. Even you, the X-Box fanboy, have to admit the X-Box is pretty gargantuan, it completely fills the kiosk at my local Target with nary a quarter inch on either side of it. It's so gigantic, I'd rather take the nice approximately 6x7 inch GameCube over something that could easily stand in as a coffee table.
House? That thing is bigger than many sizable apartment buildings... and it moves, too! On tracks... and very slow... but it does. Now, the X-Box is portable! Wow! :) If it used batteries, it might compare with long-lasting systems like the Sega Nomad... :)
Oh it's not that overweight. It still fits fine in any entertainment center I've used, and I've been on safari.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Look at a real X-Box. Then look at a NGC. A PS2. a Dreamcast. a PS1/PSOne. A N64. A VCR, even. Or most laptop PCs. It is bigger and heavier than any of those... unlike a NGC (or PS2, I'm sure) it is not easy to transport... I bet it wouldn't fit in my backpack, and I can fit my NGC, N64, several controllers, and most of my games in there if I want...
Of course I know its because of the PC components and HDD in it, but still...
I know that I haven't taken it to my friends' house on numerous occasions based purely on the sheer size of the thing.
And the lack of good games.
:)
If i had a dollar for every time i ran out of hair in the middle of a spoon making contest id only eat your children with a side of slaw and THOSE ARENT PILLOWS!!
Before Nick Burns got his own GameCube (Platinum, the little bastard), I'd bring my Cube over for some Melee with ease in a fairly small carrying bag, and I know from looking at it that the X-Box would never fit in there, let alone the equally immense controller and games.
I understand there must be reasoning for it's mammoth size, but technology is getting smaller and smaller, the X-Box looks like a laptop from the early nineties.
My VCRis bigger and hevier than my XBox, but it is also very VERY old. They sell a suitcase-like carrying case for the box, but why bother moving it? if your friends wantto play, they'll go to your house. Duh.
Quote:Originally posted by He Who Annoys All if your friends wantto play, they'll go to your house. Duh.
Excuse me but who use to ask me to bring over either an N64, PS2 or GameCube every other weekend
When I use to carry my PS2 in my backpack I could carrey it, 4 PS2 games, 20 PSX games, A Gameboy Advance, and cloths for the next day. The PS2 is still smaller even if you have a Japanese one with an external HD
The controllers being large isn't a problem any more. MS even publically admitted including the large ones at launch was a mistake. Nintendo would have said something like "The people were so overwhelmed with the amazing power of the controller that they couldn't figure out how to use it properly". Yeah, that's probably an exxageration, but remember how they suger coated the problem with the N64 being hard to develop for?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Microsoft has money to burn and waste on such mistakes, and while Nintendos coffers are by no means light, they do still need to watch how much money they make. The controller setback was just one less solid gold house for Bill Gates.
That doesn't change the fact that they admitted it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
I'm not sure if ALL the bundles come with it, but all the new XBox boxes I've seen have a "includes Controller S" graphic on it, flap style, like the "only on N64" graphics on a lot of N64 games. If you see that on the box, you are good to go.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Hell just go to Cost Co. Every bundle I've seen there have an S. and the bundle godraven got came with 2 I think and he bought a third one. Or he got one and bouth 2. Either way...
Low-end components (lots of RAM, but slow processor and, I'm sure, a not very good integrated video card)... but still, that size? And that price? Thats cool... the X-Box certainly has a better video card (because the #1 thing that cheap PCs skimp on is a decent video card), but the rest of the parts in that PC are better than the X-Box... not surprising, given the X-Box is a year old and PCs have advanced as fast as ever.
.....woah! That's an amazing cube-like PC there LL! Just hook a moniter and a keyboard on there and you have the world's greatest laptop. *suddenly, the top flips up and both of those are reveiled*
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)