MikeB said:
ironman said:
MikeB said:
ironman said:
MikeB said:
@ ironman
No, PC games are PC games.a PC is a completely diferant animal than a PC. the Xbox was MS's first stab into the console gaming market
The original XBox was mainly just a low-end PC in a game console casing.
Computing history is full of game consoles which could be expanded into becoming computers and vice versa by cutting out a keyboard and replacing casettes/disks with cartridges.
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Yes, a Console and a PC are very differant. the lines are starting to blurr, but there is a disticntion. You are trying to compair apples to oranges to validate a failed argument. No matter what way you look at it, the xbox was a new console to the market.
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For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Adam
Or for example the Amiga was an ultra high end home computer / desktop computer (with pre-emptive mulit-tasking, 4096 colors and stereo audio at a time when Mac/PC rivals were single-tasking, 2 color, beeping or soundless crappy machinery), which was aimed to be a console at first because of investors, despite developer ambitions to design a full computer. Eventually they quickly turned it into a full computer because of the games market crash at the time.
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That is completely irrelevant! When the xbox entered the market, it was a NEW CONSOLE. I really don't know why you can't admit to that. There is no way around it. It was not a new computer, it was a new console. It was a console that was new to the the consumers. How many other ways do I need to put this?
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I am saying it's nothing remarkable this step from desktop to console (or vice versa). For example the most innovative virtual reality arcade machines had an Amiga 3000 at their core. Also for example Microsoft already had Windows CE (for example also running on PocketPCs) with DirectX running on the Sega Dreamcast as its operating system.
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Yet again, your point is moot. Since when has MS made a PC? To my knowlege, never. MS is in the OS and parphenilia business. Do you honestly think that anybody said "Oh look, a MS PC" when they saw the Xbox? I highly doubt it. Either way, to the consumers, the Xbox was a new console put out by a business that was new to the console market.
