Nickname: Deep Blue

Review: Who is the maker of Xbox? It's Microsoft isn't it? With all of the resources at hand is it any wonder that it takes so long to get a new product to market that is solid?

Date reviewed: Dec 26, 2005 6:49 AM

Nickname: Ike

Review: I think they are just having selective memories. This is 1988 all over again. Sound familiar: "Too many new consoles promised, retarding sales of older console games. Slew of copycat games with no truly new entries for the last year. A ton of highly anticipated games constantly being 'delayed' into the next quarter." Time to party like it's 1988! Atari, Coleco, and Mattel can tell you what happened then. It's not going to be pretty.

Date reviewed: Dec 22, 2005 2:43 AM

Nickname: Thanatos the Mighty

Review: To start, Dreamcast did very well until one thing happened--Final Fantasy VII--the one title that destroyed all of Sega's hopes and dreams. Electronic Arts will soon fall under the weight of its own greed. They are now known for more crappy games than anything, and nowadays you have to hope that their games will just rank as acceptable. If not for the Madden team and the Need for Speed guys, EA would be sunk. Idiot consumers who have no probem with repurchasing the same game every year just feed the mighty entity that is EA. But we all get no benefits as gamers for that hardcore audience. Features are tepid at best, and over the last three years they got people to believe that selling hot dogs makes an old game that much better. Blame it on the consumers.

Date reviewed: Dec 22, 2005 1:55 AM

Nickname: Anon E. Mouse

Review: Could it be, could it just possibly be, that the prices of games have gotten ridiculous while the creativity has fallen off a cliff? Who in their right mind is paying $60-$70 for NBA 2006? Is it that much better than NBA 2005? And while the prices have been skyrocketing over the last 12 months, the play-time of most games I've seen has shrunk just as dramatically. Halo 1 for example, easily offered 15-20 hours of game time, Halo 2 only 5-10 -- and cost more. The industry is shooting itself in the foot by getting greedy and the market is responding. I really think that this has very little to do with the Xbox360.

Date reviewed: Dec 21, 2005 7:05 PM

Nickname: SANDLOTKID

Review: If the consumer could get the Xbox 360 sales would be greater. I've been trying to find one for three weeks.

Date reviewed: Dec 21, 2005 3:23 PM

Nickname: Burt Helm

Review: Hi there, this is the author of the story. The Sega Dreamcast did launch in the U.S. about a year before the PlayStation 2 did--and sold pretty well until then. When the PS2, Xbox, and GameCube jumped into the market in 2000 and 2001, however, the competition proved to be too much for Sega. A lot of the best games went to the other systems, and Sega just didn't have the financial resources that Sony and Microsoft did to market their systems. Sega stopped making Dreamcast hardware in 2001 or so.

Date reviewed: Dec 21, 2005 3:16 PM

Nickname: NPC

Review: It's not all blue, for me at least. I have lots of DS games on my Christmas list along with Fire Emblem: POR for GCN. But I have to say something about EA and their earnings will come in "well below analysts' expectations" problem. EA around my firends is now known for glitchy, horrible, generic games. I'm not alone with this thought either. A lot of the EA games that I look at get horrible ratings on many sites that I visit. EA has also swallowed many big licences such as James Bond, and Lord of the Rings. But of course, I can't blame them solely for bad video game sales (even though it might seem they own everything). I think people are waiting quietly for the nextgen consoles, saving up while playing handheld games seems to be the trend.

Date reviewed: Dec 21, 2005 8:37 AM

Nickname: zugy

Review: What happened to the Dreamcast? Sure it wasn't very successful, but it did start the next generation of consoles before the PS--and a year before it at that (going from memory, Not sure exactly).

Date reviewed: Dec 21, 2005 6:48 AM