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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy" data-source="post: 536555" data-attributes="member: 4036">My personal opinion:I have played atari 2600, nes, sega ms, genesis, snes, psx, n64, dc, ps2, and xbox.Of the three currently competing consoles, the PS2 is the most worth the money.  It's game library is second to none and allows for a variety and selection that outweighs any perk I've seen of the other systems.Towards the end of the SNES Nintendo began marketing more and more to really young children.  The N64 was even worse, selling it's system on Goldeneye until it died.  Unless you liked playing Pokemon spin offs, you had to have a playstation.  The gamecube has followed this trend leaving you with zelda/metroid/mario or kids titles.  Often of the cross platform titles, the game cube version is added as an afterthought.The xbox has halo.  I'd say it has splinter cell too, but that is cross platform.  Given the number of ps2's out there in the market vs the number of xbox's, and given the game titles coming out on all three platforms, I only see the gap widening.  If you go into a blockbuster you see 8-20 panels of psx and ps2 games and 4-8 panels of xbox games.  I anticipate this will not change prior to the next gen consoles arrivals.Free online play vs. subscription online pay with a player finder?  No contest.  I have enough bills as it is.MGS came out on PS2, Xbox got an expanded version, PS2 is getting an expanded version of that.No, game analysis isn't going to work because a post will list 5 games a person likes and any system can list that.  I can't emphasize the importance of selection and library.  If anything, get the xbox and ps2 as it adds even more choices.  But before the next gen boxes are out, I see the ps2 having an extraordinarily larger library of games than the game cube and the xbox combined.And in owning a console, that's the most important detail.Anyone who was stuck still playing Shadows of the Empire and GoldenEye on the N64 two years after it was released can tell you that.</blockquote>

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