Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!macsuppor From: macsuppor@a1.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Consoles are dead! Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 04:18:07 +0200 Organization: Debri Productions Lines: 33 Message-ID: <1df4g7h.1bq67u41dtpv5uN@a1-88-140.a1.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: a1-88-140.a1.nl X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 2.3 (unregistered for 34 days) Jeff Hannan wrote: > To me the most hilarious thing about ETCS is the people who are touting > the end of the console era. Want to hear one of their other toutings? What about the death of Apple a few years ago? As far as I know Apple is more a live than ever! > There was Datamonitor, who reckon that over the next few years PC Game > sales will outstrip that of consoles. And Intel, who are proclaiming that > games consoles are history, and that PCs are the future. As far as I saw, Sony had the biggest stand (Playstation) and the biggest party and the biggest gains.. > That makes me laugh. Ha ha ha ha ha ha, oh, ha ha ha ha ha, oh god, ha ha > ha ha ha ha , or dearie me, oh dear, oh. Sorry. It makes me puke, but Intel always makes me puke...puke, puke!! > I've played most of these PC games. Most are a bit short on gameplay, > they just say 'Missing DLL, would you like us to overwrite your system > files - Quit Y/Y?' I also wander if the Dreamcast will have a "control-alt-delete" combo on it's joypad for the WindowsCE. > I don't know whether they are saying it to wind us up, or whether they are > so full of themselves they actually believe it. It's Intel, that explains a lot. DEnnis..