Quote Originally Posted by ReaXan View Post
my problem with the XBox is that it took forever to go down in price, I know it had a hardrive yet I can remember a brand new Gamecube was 99 dollars while the XBox was 150 used and discontinued. I know Memory Cards were expensive but i seem to remember getting a basic one for like 10-15 bucks. I would play one game, beat it, then erase over the old data except for sports rosters. I didn't need massive amount of storage space compared to some who used their XBox as a media center for music and what not. I am beginning to finally see why it didn't go down in price but I still contest it was too high for too long.
I think if you took the best aspects from

PS2-The Library and 3rd party support(Games/Periphials)
Gamecube-The cost effective cube design and controller(Graphics/Controller)
XBox-Online capability and the Hardrive(Online Multiplayer/Media)

You would have the perfect system
I think Xbox went down to $149.99 new after 2+ years? I know it was in Spring '04. You had to have the hard drive for XBOX Live, and yes, it was very handy for game saves, not having to worry about memory cards (which I loathe). Unless you were way into game mods or complex sims, the Xbox was the PC plus console experience all in one. The library and DVD-play and online play really outshown the Gamecube (PS2 did as well). Plus people want the next new thing. That was not the Gamecube.

PS: Bojay, Rob is just making the point that the Xbox was graphically superior because they it used much more advanced and expensive components. That Nintendo used a less powerful, less expensive architecture, and the result was pretty close to Microsoft's. Microsoft did what it knew best, it worked with PC-like components.