Ken Lobb, the guy who left Nintendo for Microsoft, had some interesting words to say. He talked about how Splinter Cell was hif favorite game for Xbox in the last year, he likes the live capabilities, and he said Rare is going to have cool shit at E3.
Also tried to figure out what was going down with Nintendo. Spoke nicely about it, saying how the GC crowd was a smaller, select group, but also how Nintendo might fail to recognize the ages. That is certainly true, seeing as how a lot of people grew up with NES or SMS and are in their mid 20s and older. He said Retro nailed Metroid. Liked that a lot.
If I bought another console, it would have to be the Xbox, because I spotted something he mentioned... it dealt with the enhanced feel over there, trying to put together dreams teams and just come out on top. Compared it to Nintendo's hayday.
Rare's games, accompanied by some superior capabilities, make Xbox cool. I remember how they shelled out the money for those two Kraven levels in Spiderman. Also might buy Sega, which gives them added punch.
Problem is, the life of systems. Everything lives for 5 years now. Gamecube is just a little over year old, but I hear about the next-generation console already. So what's up with Xbox and Sony? Figure they will have systems that allow the older games to be played (how PSX2 plays PSX games). No reason to change the current format.
So, it becomes WHEN to buy. It's still an investment, and I hate the prospect of having an old system collect dust after a year or two.
