Read the last line!!!<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/020626/tech_xbox_stocks_9.html">biz.yahoo.com/rb/020626/t...cks_9.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Already the production of Xbox components, has almost been halted for a month!!!<br><br>Could this be the first sign of approaching death??? It's not even 1 year old!<br><br>For some reason, I don't want the Xbox to die... I feel bad for people who invested in it. It costed so much to buy! It's unfair for the customers. <p></p><i></i>

...<br><br>I don't get it. but I hope xbox does die. Only so I don't have to buy the damn thing. <p></p><i></i>

It's just tough for new companies, even Microsoft to start making gaming systems. Sony and Nintendo have almost always had a bioply on it, and there is a lot of customer loyalty (I usually only buy Nintendo, but I recently bought an old PSX, but that was just to play some games (FFIV-FFIX, and some others, but I only buy Nintendo) <p><center> <img src=http://deragon25.netfirms.com/LightGuardian/tuna_11.jpg> </center> "I'm the greatest, and I can't possibly be beat!- Cassius Clay aka Muhammed Ali"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"- Robert Oppenheimer </p><i></i>

Seems a bit of a shame, but the X-Box was too big, and maybe too powerful for its own good. Developers can sometimes be bewildered by this, like they were with the N64. The price tag was also extreme, but nessicary. <br>Now for something which no one seems to have thought about here. If the X-Box is dying, will that mean that the games that were going to come out on it as exclusives, will go to other consules? Also, since there are not going to be many more X-Box owners if the X-Box is dead, does anyone other than me think this may mean we could see some of the X-Box exclusives already out (DOA3, Halo, Project Gothem Racing), on other consules, since I think those developers spent a lot of time, and money on those games, just for their system to die....<br>Of course, this brings the puzzel, that with the X-Box being the most Powerful consule, and some of these games hardly being possiable on some of the other consules, how will they be able to do that? Would they have to be cut down? And wouldn't this mean that gamers will be disappointed by lesser versions of games being released After the Better version? So many puzzels and problems that the X-Box's death will cause, but when they are worked out, it would be nice to see Halo and DOA3 playing on my Gamecube... <p></p><i></i>

I don't think it's impossible to port any of the present Xbox games to either the PD@ or the GCN.<br><br>We're talking 1st generation here... Maybe it's possible with some tricks to port it to GCN and some other tricks to port it to PS2.<br><br>I've seen pics of VF4 and Tekken 4 and they're gorgeous! DOA3 is very pretty, but I think it's not impossible...I think... ^_^ <p></p><i></i>

any game on xbox can be ported to ps2 or gcn. <p></p><i></i>

I didn't say it was impossiable, just very difficult, partically when you consider those games were made with the X-Box in mind. <p></p><i></i>

yeah, the X-box is almost like a portable comp. Id like to see Halo and a few others for GCN, I have a Cube and my bro has an Xbox, and I think it could be tranferred. <p><center> <img src=http://deragon25.netfirms.com/LightGuardian/tuna_11.jpg> </center> "I'm the greatest, and I can't possibly be beat!- Cassius Clay aka Muhammed Ali"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"- Robert Oppenheimer </p><i></i>

Hmmm, it maybe an early sign who knows. The console wars are fine by me as long as I get the deals. <p><img src="http://holyknight.homestead.com/files/lulutag2.gif"></p><i></i>

Tell when X-Box is offically dead or dying, so I know when to reserve my copy of Halo on GC! I played the game on X-Box a bit in HMV, and was loving it, so to have it running on my GC would make me a happy Bunni! But one thing. Does this mean microsoft are scrapping their ideas of making X-Box online, or have they done this already? <p></p><i></i>

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><b><i>Quote:</i></b><hr> yeah, the X-box is almost like a portable comp. Id like to see Halo and a few others for GCN, I have a Cube and my bro has an Xbox, and I think it could be tranferred.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>It could but it would require a re-write. I was at the MacWorld New York 1999 where they first unveiled Halo running on a PowerMacintosh (Actual Live renderings). The game was only slightly less pretty. But Bungie had done some simply amazing programming tricks to make a game look THAT good run on a 400Mhz Generation-4 PowerPC, with dual Rage 128's.<br><br>Needless to say some of the gamers in the audience were crying quietly and everyone was silenced by the beauty before them.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwny99/">www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwny99/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(The Complete MacWorld Streamed [No Download] Fast Foward to 53:40 to see Halo)<br><br>Or download just the Halo part (Recommended. Unfortunately it's missing Steve Job's introduction of Matt Seoll which is really funny. And it's also a really low quality video and made the beautiful 32-bit textures look really bad):<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://halo.bungie.org/movie1.html">halo.bungie.org/movie1.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Halo originally was supposed to be a Mac/PC game (probably Mac-first or even hybrid). That was also when the game was going to be a completely different game. A game with a plot, stronger characters, development for the characters, and a MUCH longer game.<br><br>And honestly being someone that has played and beaten EVERY Bungie game I can tell you that Halo was NOT up to the standards of Bungie. And was NOT the game that Bungie promised us. As the XBox version lacked many of the standard things that almost ALL Bungie products painstakingly included (Such as a good plot and characters) Luckily though they are finishing up the Mac/PC version though Microsoft seems to be subtly hinting them to slow down the development by forcing them to make another XBox exclusive.<br><br>And the XBox development is slow, painstaking, and expensive so they have to devote a lot to it.<br>The XBox version was completely rushed as they had to re-write the engine for XBox. So the game was incomplete and lacked MANY features and gameplay that the Mac/PC version had.<br><br><br>You can get your fix of Bungie Info.news.Rumors here <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://halo.bungie.org/">halo.bungie.org/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br> <p><div align="left"><small>Gloria<br>Honorifice<br>Pralium Facio<br><br>Animus<br>Gradior Quo<br>Prodo<br><br>In Excelsis<br>Precedo<br>Bellator<br>Decerte<br>Adversa<br>Incurro<br>Invadoria<br><br>Desideratus Fatum!<br>Desideratus Bellum!<br></small><br>Coming Soon: New Siggie.<br><br></p><i></i>

Another thing about X-Box being a PC, "with a Idiot friendly casing", as I once heard it phrased. My friend said the X-Box would do a lot better if Microsoft actually released Windows for it, long with printer etc. Though, I am not sure, but I feel that maybe this would not be the best thing for Microsoft, as they probably make more money with each PC brought than X-Box, but I can't be sure... <p></p><i></i>

..how is xbox portable<br><br>And Microsoft is stupid if they let Halo be released on the PC/mac. <p></p><i></i>

The thing hampering the X-Box is that Microsoft is inexperienced in console gaming. They just simply can't overpower Sony and Nintendo, the customer loyalty fo those companies are too strong (I almost didnt buy a PSX because it wasnt Nintendo, but Final Fantasy convinced me to) <p><center> <img src=http://deragon25.netfirms.com/LightGuardian/tuna_11.jpg> </center> "I'm the greatest, and I can't possibly be beat!- Cassius Clay aka Muhammed Ali"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"- Robert Oppenheimer </p><i></i>

With Oni as a standard, Halo says more! Oni sucks so much. <p><center>Schwule Mädchen - Sondereinheit<br>Schwule Mädchen - Kampfeinsatz<br>Schwule Mädchen - An jeder Ecke<br>Schwule Mädchen - In deiner Stadt<br>Schwule Mädchen<br>Wir sind schwule Mädchen </center></p><i></i>