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                  Sega's Sonic Boom</font></i></font></b></p>
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              <div align="LEFT"><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The 
                Dreamcast is finally here. So stop crying about PlayStation 2 
                and buy one, says <b>Nick F</b>..</font></i></div><br>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="../../images/letters_new/h.jpg" width="26" height="39" align="left">ey, 
                so you've had a Dreamcast for 6 weeks already and you've probably 
                got more games for it than I do (I'm surviving on <b>Soul Calibur</b> 
                right now). You're pissed that <b>Shenmue</b> has been delayed 
                again, and you're champing at the bit to get your greasy, pizza-stained 
                hands on a Dreamcast Zip drive and a copy of <b>Biohazard: Code 
                Veronica</b>, right? Right? What the hell do you mean, "I didn't 
                buy a Dreamcast?" Come over here and let me kick your ass for 
                you. Alternately, sit down and let me explain to you, <i>slowly</i>, 
                the multitude of reasons you need to hightail it down to the store 
                and pick up Sega's spanking almost-new goody box ASAP. Brace yourself...<br>
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              <div align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You 
                could practically hear the silence on the Sony newsgroups immediately 
                following the Dreamcast's launch, or at least the sound of a number 
                of PlayStation fanboys (typically guys called "Highwind" or &quot;Squall_69&quot;) 
                munching their words. Almost amazingly, Sega is back. Even I have 
                to admit to being pleasantly surprised after my first Dreamcast 
                experience (see <a href="../../1.38/ph/index.html">my 
                old Console Wars article</a>) I wasn't convinced the console had 
                the power to survive even the whispers surrounding PlayStation 
                2. Since last Christmas, however, we've seen the Dreamcast go 
                from strength to strength, culminating (so far) in the almighty 
                <b>Soul Calibur</b> unquestionably one of the greatest beat-em 
                ups ever to grace a console. I wager <b>Shenmue</b> will drop 
                a few jaws even further when it eventually gets released, although 
                the jury's still out on those "revolutionary" Quicktime Event 
                gameplay mechanisms. It all seems a bit <b>Dragon's Lair</b> for 
                me (hey, I loved <b>Dragon's Lair</b> too, but these days let's 
                keep it on the Gameboy Color where it belongs)... The point, hotshot, 
                is that those memories of laughing at Saturn owners can finally 
                be put to rest: it is most definitely cool to be a Sega cadet 
                again.<br>
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                </font><font size="4"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 
                <i><font size="3">Reason #2: Sony is the new Microsoft</font></i></font></b></font> 
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                </font></div>
              <div align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Forget 
                Bill Gates (he's just a front), Ken Kutagari is the real anti-Christ. 
                PlayStation isn't just a games console anymore; it's a global 
                brand. Think Coca-Cola meets Microsoft (minus the Supreme Court 
                verdict) and you're not far off. This is the reason Sony just 
                <i>had</i> to call their next-gen machine PlayStation 2 (yawn) 
                anything else would be throwing away billions in free branding. 
                Sony currently enjoys the kind of market domination not seen since 
                the glory days of Nintendo. The name &quot;Nintendo&quot; used 
                to be synonymous with &quot;videogame&quot; (now it's synonymous 
                with  &quot;got Elvis-fat and lost the plot&quot;). The 
                increasingly-cheapo PlayStation is still selling in ridiculous 
                quantities, too: are people buying these things for their <i>pets</i> 
                now or something? Unless you want your grandchildren starting 
                their school day singing the theme from Final Fantasy XVIII, you'd 
                better put a stop to Sony's gaming Empire. Choose life, choose 
                a Dreamcast.<br>
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                #3: PlayStation 2 is vaporware</font></font> </b></i></div>
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              <div align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Didn't 
                you know? All those demos are really running on SGI workstations, 
                and that  &quot;controversial&quot; design (hey, I like 
                it) is lifted straight from the Sony Design Centre's 1983 manifesto. 
                But seriously, the PlayStation 2 isn't scheduled to reach US and 
                European shores till September next year - at the absolute earliest. 
                The Japanese machine may well make it out for March, but by the 
                time the real Dreamcast-killer software comes out you could have 
                had 18 months of genuine 128-bit gaming goodness for a comparatively 
                measly $200. That'll be the price of a single PS2 game (honest)!</loonystart></font></div>
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