Micro$oft has learned from Sony...

[tha_con]

windows xp just moderately better than me? dude you do know that its entirely different structure dont you? 16bit vs 32bit example...

plus windows me was forced into production because of gamer company influence, after the massive success of windows 2k, microsoft never wanted a 16bit system again, but gamers loved the 16bit code at the era, made things very simple in terms. Windows even stated that after so many months they would no longer support ME.

ME was a hugely successfull gaming OS, but was horrible for anything else.

and yes i know that apple had the first gui, did you know that Mercedes had the first car? who gives a crap, ford makes more than Merc. Thats just like apple vs microsoft....but in the end in current day microsoft supports apple!, they actually give apple millions a year for them not to go under so microsoft doesnt get hit with antitrust lawsuits.

point being you cannot fault a company that takes many ideas and puts it in one product.

during the DOS days, i gamers had to code and support select hardware, opengl and directx changed the way games were made, just like windows changed the way OS were designed. Cant fault them on that. Of course you will find holes in the most widely used system! thats only natural, but when a indepent contracted hacker was released on OSX and XP Pro and Redhat, XP had the least holes out of all the systems designed!!!! people use it the most and hence will report more bugs! just like a bug report from a honda or ford compared to a merc bug report.

you migh not like microsoft for being so, money flamboyant, but then again has $ony done any better? They had a monopoly on the console department and many other departments for that matter, but no one faults them. Guess because their products dont affect a household like windows system would. And $ony has used many bad tatics to get their way just like microsoft uses money. Which is worse money or trash talk its up to you either way they are not saints!

as for ps2 games ps1 thing. Actually i have a list of 34 out of 900, so yea still not 10%, but you guys are thinking that of that other percent that worked many did occasionally have errors when playing with the texture smoothing and fast loading enabled. But you guys also are thinking that xbox will only have a handfull of games that will work, when its quite opposite. MS has stated that their goal is to have complete compatibility, whether this be live downloads or out of the box, either way they are working on it. and considering they are supporting the most widely played games what is so wrong with that. How many of you actually play GT1 as much as you play GT4? or do you still play 20hrs a day playing mario brothers? Its nice for when a system launches but halfway threw its life it really doesnt matter.

but we can agree on this i hope, Sony has learned more from MS in consoles this round than MS from Sony. All MS had to learn was promoting its system better, and they found that having a first launch is very key if you have good PR to follow. Granted their PR needs work they in no way looked at sony and said oh man our console is week how can we fix it, they said instead our sales our dropping with the most powerfull system how can we PR it more

At 6pm central time I am going to respond to this, I don't have time right now. This post will be edited, but again, your post is full of incorrect information and overstatements.

 

[Swift]

At 6pm central time I am going to respond to this, I don't have time right now. This post will be edited, but again, your post is full of incorrect information and overstatements.

Looking forward to it.

 

[code_kev]

TBH I found win xp alot better then older ones, but it's still quite poor. I only keep it for games.

 

[svtsnake]

Who plays PS1 games on their PS2 console when they could be playing PS2 games? Backwards compatibility isn't all it's cracked up to be. I can easily live without it.

i play ff7, gt1 & 2.
so im one of the "probable" few.

 

[svtsnake]

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Thats just like apple vs microsoft....but in the end in current day microsoft supports apple!, they actually give apple millions a year for them not to go under so microsoft doesnt get hit with antitrust lawsuits.

where did you get this bs from?

and ive worked at 3 tech companies (1 of them being Apple based) all of which use win XP pro, to say win 2000 is better is like saying elitewolverine knows anything about the tech industry.

 

[McLaren]

I, too Swift, and looking forward to tha_con posting another informal post on today's technology.

 

[the_undrtaker89]

undo

 

[Dave A]

Ripping things off the PS2????? , sorry I don't get you're logic here, or are you going to say Sony ripped off SEGA for using disk's. And there you go again, Bill Gates, Bill bloody Gates, wtf does he have to do with what features the XB360 has?

 

[Driftster]

IT's a bunch of Sony fan boys..

Why MS would go Vertical? IT saves space, people like smaller slimmer things..they sell

Why MS would have BAckwards compatability? Halo 2.....Forza Motorsports....THAT'S why...So they don't leave the people who just play those games in the dark. Because chances are if you only want to play Halo 2 nd Forza and their sequalls, you'll have to wait quite a while before they're out on 360...So what are you going to play in the mean time?

as for PS2 backwards compatability.

ALONG with the PS2's ****TY optical drive, they forgot to take disk mass into consideration, which is why ALOT of Ps1 games don't work....they're too light, and can't spin up in the required boot time..

 

[code_kev]

he's ripping things off the ps2 just like he ripped off of apple. Bill gates is pathetic.

 

[the_undrtaker89]

For the record that wasn't me, I left my gtp screen open. That was my brother being an idiot. As you can see by my sig I'm only slightly in favour of the ps3, but i still like all the other consoles...kinda. But I do hate bill gates.

 

[Swift]

where did you get this bs from?

and ive worked at 3 tech companies (1 of them being Apple based) all of which use win XP pro, to say win 2000 is better is like saying elitewolverine knows anything about the tech industry.

I'm sorry, but with his current track record, that's an incredibly true statment.