I'm buying an Xbox for one reason!
MUNCH'S ODDYSEE!!! If Munch were exclusive to another system I'd get that. I am like Eibu's signature ... $361.95 for one game!!!
Although I do hope to play some other great games on it also... so in the long run it won't only be for Munch.
Regarding the Xbox failing and going down in cost as a result... firstly I can't see the Xbox failing with the games it has (refer also when Sony were the outsider before bringing out the PSX). Secondly, consoles always drop in price. The PS2 was over $700 when it first came out here in Australia. Now it has dropped to $499 and a friend told me he saw it for $399 the other day.
Although I do see where you're coming from Oddworld Master. When I was a kid/teenager I never could have got an Xbox either. I used to get a measly $2 a week allowance (my parents would buy me some stuff if I wanted it, but not expensive stuff), and for Christmas/Birthday we'd get about $150-$200Au spent on us. I never worked as study took up too much time. We were never up-to-date with consoles. We got our Nintendo when they had been out for a few years, the same with our Super Nintendo.
So if I were a kid now, I doubt I'd be able to get an Xbox... unless I gave up 2 birthday's and 2 Christmases for it. Or unless my brothers wanted to share.
I guess that's where PC games are an advantage, most families have a PC now, so if it's a PC game you don't have to get anything extra to play it.
Abe Babe...
[ November 15, 2001: Message edited by: Abe Babe ]