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$15,000 for a PS2 is crazy and i did not believe it. Not surprised that the guy never recieved the money for it. I wonder what one can buy with that amount of money. If someone offered me that much money for my PS2 i think i will have to say yes.
Sony claim that the reason they are having problems is that they are reducing the size of the PS2 chip from 0.25 microns to 0.18 microns. A micron (hope i spelt that right) is a 1000th of a mm (i think). Any way the reason for this is to free up space for the harddrive bay that US and European PS2 have. However if u believe that story is another matter.
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Not that I can afford it, but I'll wait until they're all out, and then make a decision. The Gamecube may be better (I still prfered the name "Dolphin" though), but having better specs doesn't mean you'll have the machine with the best support or games. Can you say N64, which, for the last year, has been almost completely reliant on Pokemon to sell?
As long as they release Final Fantasy X on the PC though, I'll be happy. But damn Visual Arts (or whoever) for releasing Grandia II on the Dreamcast. Damn them all to hell. Raaa!
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Uh, GameCube does NOT use cartridges. It uses new mini-DVDs that will be unique to GameCube.
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Ach, give me a PC any day. What's the fun of having a game if you can't hack it to pieces?
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For "Mini-DVD's unique to the gamecube" read "non mass-market product" = "higher price".
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Aye, but the PSOne is being raped by software a pirates in the Far East. Sony are losing a packet thanks to some dubious hoers in China with a CD burner and a truck. Same thing happened Nintendo with the NES and the SNES years ago - still does, now that I think about it.
Sure, they'll crack Nintendo's new "proprietary DVD", but it won't be for a good year after it's release, I'd imagine.
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In eBay-related news, someone has apparently tried to auction the presidency. It was removed from the listings, but I heard that it got up to $100,000,000.
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GameCube will actually be one of the cheapest systems ever launched, with projected retail price at launch being only $200. Those mini-DVDs are being developed by a Japanese company which will launch it's own version of the GameCube, under a different name, which will run DVD Movies only, not games.
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Sure, the PC's great, but only if you want to shell out $2000 to play the same games you can play on a $99 system (From personal experience, FF7 runs smoothly on a Pentium II, but FF8 needed a Pentium III.). Besides, PCs don't have cool Japanese RPGs. If Sony doesn't make future Final Fantasy games for the GameCube, I'll probably have to get a PS2, but I'll wait 'til it comes down to $200. In the mean time, I might get a PSOne if I can get away with it (from my parents). I think the PSOne's pretty worth it for me since Playstation has more RPG titles than the number of N64 games I own.
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