Watching DVD's on a videogame system?!? How stoopid!

[Glockstar]

NOT!

Not according to "Johnny Spends-his-money" or a recent poll, anyways. Check it...

"... DVD-enabled game consoles have come to represent a large percentage—about one-third-- of the entire installed base of DVD players."

"The Centris poll results also suggest that DVD capability has the potential to drive game software activity, since respondents that used their game consoles to watch DVD movies were also the heaviest purchasers and renters of games."

http://www.gamemarketwatch.com/news/item.asp?nid=2753
Nintendo just doesn't get it any more do they?
Are they stupid?!? Or merely imcompetent?

I mean, why do I get the feeling that if they were in the music stereo business, instead of vg consoles, they would still have us buying 8-tracks?

Gawd, I'm as nostalgic as anybody, but I am so over Nintendo - like The Brady Bunch and parachure pants - they suck! They strike me as a company that is not going anyhwere anymore. Well... 'cept maybe, backwards.

The XBox is the wave of the future.
And the best system that money can buy, today!

[Fragmastar]

<div class=\"smallfont\">NOT!

Nintendo just doesn't get it any more do they?
Are they stupid?!? Or merely imcompetent?</div>

Let's just say both

<div class=\"smallfont\">The XBox is the wave of the future.
And the best system that money can buy, today!</div>

You're being sarcastic, I hope.

[trebor]

<div class=\"smallfont\">NOT!

Not according to &quot;Johnny Spends-his-money&quot; or a recent poll, anyways. Check it...

&quot;... DVD-enabled game consoles have come to represent a large percentage—about one-third-- of the entire installed base of DVD players.&quot;

&quot;The Centris poll results also suggest that DVD capability has the potential to drive game software activity, since respondents that used their game consoles to watch DVD movies were also the heaviest purchasers and renters of games.&quot;

http://www.gamemarketwatch.com/news/item.asp?nid=2753
Nintendo just doesn't get it any more do they?
Are they stupid?!? Or merely imcompetent?

I mean, why do I get the feeling that if they were in the music stereo business, instead of vg consoles, they would still have us buying 8-tracks?

Gawd, I'm as nostalgic as anybody, but I am so over Nintendo - like The Brady Bunch and parachure pants - they suck! They strike me as a company that is not going anyhwere anymore. Well... 'cept maybe, backwards.

The XBox is the wave of the future.
And the best system that money can buy, today!</div>


Yeah, the DVD playback in the PS2 and the Xbox is so....wonderful...that there is a huge list of incompatible DVD's for both systems...

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/315/315957p1.html

Once again PS2 trounces the Xbox by having a incompatible list that is almost three times as long.

Yup. Nintendo is SO stupid for releasing a gaming console that just plays games, while all the Xboyz and PS2-girlz can watch your favorite DVD's skip over and over and over and over and over and over and over...

[Whaxx]

LOL, ha huh? no.
I've watched many of DVDs on my Xbox,and they played perfectly, no skipping or nothing.

[stevedperkins]

Ehh, I personally like Ninendo's philosophy of devices "doing one thing and doing it well". That's why I have to shake my head in disbelief at Nokia pumping millions into their N-Gage sh*tbox... for a hundred dollars more than you would spend on a great cell phone and a great portable game player (GBA SP), you get a single device that acts as a crappy phone and crappy game player. What a deal!

Same thing with DVD functionality at the console level. I mean, don't get me wrong... if Nintendo <b><i>could</i></b> have included standalone DVD playing functionality in the Cube without it increasing the production costs, I wouldn't have complained. I doubt that I would have cared, or used it as a DVD player... but it would certainly be a nice-to-have. However, I wouldn't pay an additional DIME for them to bundle the DVD playing functionality of a PS2... and the XBox functionality isn't really good for my needs. I'm a movie nut... I get alot of non-Region 1 imports, and burn VCD's from the Internet. The PS2 doesn't support VCD's or any other extra formats, and neither of them have region-free hacks available worth a damn.

I got my Gamecube for $150 and my multi-region DVD player for $75. This brings my total cost of ownership to $225, which is almost exactly the amount of money that you would need to buy a PS2 or XBox with DVD remote. The difference being that I have two devices that do two things extremely well, rather than a single device that doesn't do a good job with either of my needs.

Standalone DVD player functionality in the PS2 and XBox is only important to people who can't affort a DVD player after buying their PS2 or XBox. If you buy a Cube, you can still get the same functionality with the same budget. HOWEVER, if you <b><i>already have a DVD player</i></b> before making your console purchase... buying a PS2 or XBox means money pissed away for functionality you didn't need, that goes completely to waste.

If Nintendo crams the functionality into their next generation console, that will be fine with me. However, I hope that they wouldn't let themselves go into a heavy per-unit loss doing so. Despite Sony's dominance, I feel completely confident about Nintendo's future... they don't sell consoles at a huge loss in hopes of making up for it through software, so there's little chance they'll get "forced out" of the console-making business to avoid loss. I'd be much more nervous about the future if I were an XBox fan, however. How long will Microsoft be willing to eat large per-unit losses, if the goal of being the entertainment epicenter of the world's homes doesn't start to pan out soon?

[E.T.]

Good point stevedperkins on where to play DVD's.
I continue[for some unkown reason] to buy new pc systems w/ DVD players, yet seldom, if ever use them for viewing DVD's.[ever try to watch a 2hr movie on a 17" screen?]
My new system does allow me to burn DVD's & has some great editing software, but I'm digressing....gaming platforms are best used for gaming , espcially when you have a DVD player included with your multimedia intertainment system, but thats a "have, have not" issue.:D

QUESTION: Originally, XBX had a few glitches w/their DVD read portion of console. I recall reading feedback about how some DVD titles wouldnt be recognized...but this is old news, right? XBX's play all DVD's w/outa problems now?

[The Buzz]

Well! Let me tell YOU young man that I have 2, COUNT EM' TWO, DVD players and they both work great! And you know else? HUH??? Mr SMARTY PANTS??? One's my PS2 and the other's the one I use on a regular basis...my Xbox! Never had any disc's that wouldn't play.

So I guess...I'm agreeing with the point of your post then...

Have to excuse me I FINALLY got my access to VGR back and I had to write SOMETHING!!!!


"Of course I love you...just keep doing that."

["The Game"Evolution]

And I keep both my consoles cleaned pretty much.Some of my DVD's simply wont play in my PS2.So I pretty much stick to playing DVD's through my DVD player.I only use it on my Xbox late at night if I dont feel like messing with my DVD/VHS combo player.

Plus the Xbox's DVD drive is ten times better than the PS2's.Plus the DVD remote on the Xbox is clearly better than the PS2's as well.

The PS2's drive is better? LOL! Thats funny.

[Gamer88]

Watching Blu-ray on a videogame console? How Stoopid!

sorry, felt the sudden urge to ressurect a old thread

[Tappy_Tibbons]

Blu ray will NEVER achieve the success of DVD so stop dreaming....oh...btw, lol, saw the commercial for TRANSFORMERS...BUY IT NOW ON DVD OR HDDVD...hahahahah

[Gamer88]

Blu ray will NEVER achieve the success of DVD so stop dreaming....oh...btw, lol, saw the commercial for TRANSFORMERS...BUY IT NOW ON DVD OR HDDVD...hahahahah

yeah I saw that too

har har

[Cuddly Knife]

Me too. D'OH!

And talk about digging through the archive, sheeeiiit.

And to stay on-topic, it was a much different story when it was dvd vs vhs. It was a new medium, or whatever. Now we just have dvd vs enhanced dvd.