mookiekong's Full Review: Microsoft Xbox 360 Core System White Console
If you tell me that the Xbox is not just a Windows PC then you are kidding yourself. The thing has a Pentium processor, a harddrive, and even runs Windows. If that's not a Windows PC, then I don't know what is.
Am I going to get an Xbox when it's released this November? No. I'll just wait for the games that are showing up on the Xbox to be ported over to the PC -- should not be a hard thing for developers to do since the Xbox and the PC are essentially the same. Developers will develop games for the Xbox using DirectX, which is the same as the DirectX that is used on Windows based PCs. So, I'm figuring that although there are going to be a lot of games that are exclusive to the Xbox when it launches, the lure of the PC user's wallets will have these same developers opening up the same games to the PC platform because it's easy money.
So, why should I spend an extra $300 on a box that is basically slower than my home PC and plays games at a lower resolution (your TV is not a high resolution display)? And all the types of games that are coming out for the Xbox will be the same types of games for the PS2, so why should I add yet another box to play the same console games that I can get on the PS2? I'd rather pick up a Nintendo GameCube instead and get a whole set of new games.
When you look at the specs for the Xbox, at first they look spectacular. But then you sit and think about it and they already look pretty lowly. The CPU in the thing is going to be an Intel Pentium III running at 733MHz. Why that's under half the speed of the top end Intel P4 chip (running now at 2GHz). The Xbox has a nVIDIA chip that is almost the same as the GeForce3 running at 250MHz. The new Hercules Prophet III card utilizes an nVIDIA GeForce3 chip that runs at 350MHz. The total memory on the Xbox is 64MB. Most machines on the market have at least 128MB of RAM. Yes, if I put together the top of the line machine including all the features I just listed it'll cost more than the $299 asking price of the Xbox. But in a year? Probably not. And in a year, I'll be able to upgrade my PC were-as the Xbox stays the same.
Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick with my PC and PlayStation 2 instead of shelling out more money for getting an Xbox which, in reality when you think about it, is just a low-cost PC that can be hooked up to your TV.
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