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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Creamsteak" data-source="post: 462033" data-attributes="member: 552">Re: AdviceActually, GameCube does have great graphics overall... but not the best. Technically, the XBox, as stated before by myself, is the show machine. That's the system to have if you like to dazzle others with eye candy and show of your intimidating abilities. It doesn't fit the original poster's chosen style, but it is definitely the system if your a graphics junkie (or your friends are, as in my case).The comment about the quantity of X-Box games isn't very valid. I thought so as well, until I noticed the ratio of games I want compared to games I'd buy. The X box weakness is that they don't produce enough 7/10 games. They produced a good 3 9/10 games, that I won't directly name because someone always chooses to disagree based on something that I think is console bashing, and I end up in a flame war... Anyway, I buy about 1 game a month, and I either buy a "favored 7" or a "9" game, and three nines and a seven is pretty consistent so far. If I only owned an Xbox, I wouldn't have a game to buy next month, because they don't have a broad enough range of "7-8" games to make up for their lack of another solid 9. Meanwhile the other two systems have the same number of 9-10s, but they have such a broad selection of 7-8s that it makes up for that...Oh, and there are larger controls for sure: Ever seen that one that comes with the 300 dollar mech game that requires an entire table to play with? It's for the playstation! Jesus that thing is huge... not to mention: Microsoft accomodated the people that don't like the controller. They now sell the system with a completely different controller set up from what your used to. Also, the large controller is actually good for my above outlined purpose: Guys who don't watch sports, but act the same way on game night! We like heavy controllers because we are playing those games with a heavy hand. The Xbox isn't for the lone gamer, it's for the party gamer.Oh, and Microsoft service is cheaper with MSN the same way that Playstation service is cheaper with AOL, but the original poster doesn't sound like an online gamer. Basically if you are an internet gamer, XBox is the better bet since you probably have DSL already, and your willing to shell out the cash. However, most people are not online gamers as I once was (Tribes/Half Life Baby!) So if your new into that field... get DSL anyway and go with the playstation. The online competitive environment on X-Box will be the same as joining a "l337" server all the time. Extremely good, cheap, hyperactive, trashtalking, rat bastards to fight. If you can handle them, then get the Xbox just to beat those idiots senseless...Oh, and there is a way to "bypass" the 30 dollar remote... but I don't think it is legal. I'll leave it at that. And I didn't do that, I bought the remote.... and it is a slightly better DVD player than the PS2 (better options with the remote basically, no big deal honestly)....Hope that helps... <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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