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Ok, I'll assume you are correct on the no online billing part of the post as I don't keep totally up to date on sony press releases... Though I have come to notice a rather un-nerving trend of Sony saying whatever they need to to build hype and then changing plans later on down the road. I guess we will see when early october rolls around.
As for the whole Xbox live thing, Microsoft will be earning no money on it whatsoever. They are definately going to be taking a huge loss on the xbox live project no matter what way you look at it. MS is trying to get nation wide upgrades accomplished via the xbox. MS probably feels that houses should have broadband at this point in time because it will be necessary in the future (I agree with this). So by xbox live being broadband that is probably going to increase the number of people investing in cable and dsl hookups. A little further down the road MS is releasing a bit of equipment to interface your xbox to your computer via a home-LAN system and will let the xbox access MP3s, video files, etc. and play them through your living room. So in essence MS is trying to push the masses to network their house. Personally I think all these things are inevitable (broadband, networks) and I think it is really cool that MS is pushing people to do it and offering us that have broadband and home networks cool products to use.
Oh, if the PS2s graphics are so much superior to the xbox, why is it that ever game on the ps2 that makes its way to the box ends up looking so much better and never has to deal with nearly as many jaggy and framerate issues? BO2 saw this, so did THPS2 and 3. NHL2002 had no framerate probs on the box. I could go on for a while. Im glad that MGS2 is a pretty game, as I would hope it is being a hallmark ps2 game. But mg:substance is coming out soon for ps2 and xbox. Both versions will look better than mgs2, and I would put good money down that the xbox version looks better. (p.s. personally I think morrowind is absolutely beautiful, though you are correct in there being the occasional framerate stutter and bugs here and there, this hasn't kept me from dumping at least 100 hours into this game and Im still loving it.)
Cube, the best advice I've ever heard anyone give on selecting a console is to try them. Rent each one, usually doesn't cost a whole lot. Or play a friends and rent some games you'd be interested in. Me and 3 friends did this back in january, each of us rented a different system on each weekend and each of us rented one game we really wanted to play. After all was said and done 2 of us bought xboxs and one bought a gc. Not to say that ps2 is a bad system, but sometimes it just doesn't have the appeal to certain people. You honestly do need to try them first before you decide.
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