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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shapermc" data-source="post: 536549" data-attributes="member: 9007">Than why did Dreamcast fail?  It was out way before PS2 and had a quite a large ammount of games out for it.  (BTW M$ is trying to land a few more exclusive contracts <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )Ok I never said it would be a buying spree, considering that if 2 to 3 times more people started buying Xbox's in Japan it would stll be quite a low number <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />.  Also the second part is not true either.  Lots of people buy just one system (like you stated) and then wait for the other that they want to drop in price and have something that they really want.   Especially if Xbox2 is involved it would not be a detering factor in buy, it would be the exact oposite.  Xbox2 would be backwards compatable and if the price warented then the consume would know that if they got the Xbox 2 all the games that they are buying now would also work in the future <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Actually it is becasue Sony has taken the back seat that PS2 online has been doing so bad.  They left it up to the software company to develop the servers and how their online services will work.  If Sony really wanted it to work (like SEGA and M$) they would have taken over where everyone was connecting to instead of just leaving it up in the air.  I sincerly doubt that PS2 will ever succeed in the online gaming market (unless FF XI pulls their servers out of the crapper).</blockquote>

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