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<blockquote data-quote="Creamsteak" data-source="post: 462010" data-attributes="member: 552"><p>Based on my opinion of your statements, you should buy a PS2. You don't appear to be the kind of person I'd recommend either of the other systems for (and I own all 3 so there!).</p><p></p><p>It "might" be overshadowed... but then again the PS3's processor is in the works as we speak, so in a few years all your PS2 and PSX games will still be playable. It's years off: but your investment will retain value. You'll get all the major games, up until it becomes time for PS3. The Internet service won't match XBox, but it doesn't sound like your going to pay the $ for that anyway, so why bother considering it? It might get out-dated, but trust me when I say your enjoyment for the next two years at the least will be worth the nastalgia of playing your old games on the PS3, and the game system seems to be the easiest to just sit back and play alone. While the game-cube is fun to play around with, and the xbox is a show machine, the playstation is great for sitting back and wasting countless hours.</p><p></p><p>Microsoft will probably be backwords compatable, but Nintendo won't. It's a showy system, and friends like to watch you play. It's an awesome powerhouse, and honestly I recommend it most often. Why? Because I can enjoy the fact that they have it. It builds up our competition with each other, and although I only have 4 games, I probably play each of them 1 time per week when a particular friend is over. It's a game system for guys who don't watch sports... but like their guy time to yell at each other and the television. I love mine, but it doesn't fit your comments.</p><p></p><p>Nintendo's a great company, and they do excellent work, but they always have a flaw in their systems. With the N64, the cartridges saved load time but limited game size to 256 megabytes, severly hindering package size. You sound like a "casual" gamer, and although I like nintendo's game quality/quantity ratio, and there "classicness" you will find a Game boy is a better investment than a Gamecube. The mini-disks won't be the same size on the next installment of Nintendo system, but the game boy works with the game boy color works with the game boy advanced works with teh game boy advanced + works with the next installment as of yet unnamed... ad nauseum. In other words: Great investment for the newly developing gamer or the hardcore gamer, bad investment for the relaxed adult gamer.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and nomatter your decision: wise purchase <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Creamsteak, post: 462010, member: 552"] Based on my opinion of your statements, you should buy a PS2. You don't appear to be the kind of person I'd recommend either of the other systems for (and I own all 3 so there!). It "might" be overshadowed... but then again the PS3's processor is in the works as we speak, so in a few years all your PS2 and PSX games will still be playable. It's years off: but your investment will retain value. You'll get all the major games, up until it becomes time for PS3. The Internet service won't match XBox, but it doesn't sound like your going to pay the $ for that anyway, so why bother considering it? It might get out-dated, but trust me when I say your enjoyment for the next two years at the least will be worth the nastalgia of playing your old games on the PS3, and the game system seems to be the easiest to just sit back and play alone. While the game-cube is fun to play around with, and the xbox is a show machine, the playstation is great for sitting back and wasting countless hours. Microsoft will probably be backwords compatable, but Nintendo won't. It's a showy system, and friends like to watch you play. It's an awesome powerhouse, and honestly I recommend it most often. Why? Because I can enjoy the fact that they have it. It builds up our competition with each other, and although I only have 4 games, I probably play each of them 1 time per week when a particular friend is over. It's a game system for guys who don't watch sports... but like their guy time to yell at each other and the television. I love mine, but it doesn't fit your comments. Nintendo's a great company, and they do excellent work, but they always have a flaw in their systems. With the N64, the cartridges saved load time but limited game size to 256 megabytes, severly hindering package size. You sound like a "casual" gamer, and although I like nintendo's game quality/quantity ratio, and there "classicness" you will find a Game boy is a better investment than a Gamecube. The mini-disks won't be the same size on the next installment of Nintendo system, but the game boy works with the game boy color works with the game boy advanced works with teh game boy advanced + works with the next installment as of yet unnamed... ad nauseum. In other words: Great investment for the newly developing gamer or the hardcore gamer, bad investment for the relaxed adult gamer. Oh, and nomatter your decision: wise purchase :) [/QUOTE]
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