Xbox?

[Sami]

Dose anyone know if Cricket 2006 will be on XBOX as well or anyother cricketgame on XBOX

 

[brad352]

I doubt it- just get it for PC, console versions are absolute crap

 

[duffarama]

And on PC, we can acutally fix the game up.

 

[Sami]

ok

 

[duffarama]

That's why I think that Cricket 2004 shouldn't have been made for the PS2.
From Duffarama.

 

[brad352]

That's why I think that Cricket 2004 shouldn't have been made for the PS2.
From Duffarama.

1 reason- more sales

 

[duffarama]

Originally posted by brad352
1 reason- more sales

Yes, and more money for those lazy EA bug checkers.
From Duffarama.

 

[manojkumar_ms]

But still I think comsumers are not fool to buy Cricket 2006 for PS2 versrion after experiencing Cricket 2004 version. I will be buying PC game only, whether its Cricket 2004/2006, Fifa 2004 or Euro 2004.

 

[duffarama]

I always buy PC games now. I have given consoles the flick. My N64 is crap.
From Duffarama.

 

[Ritwik]

I don't think cricket games would be made for the X-box anyway. It just doesn't make business sense in today's global environment. There are the following reasons for this:

1. Many of the buyers of Cricket games are in India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka, where penetration of the X-box is zero. In comparison, PS2 sales have been pretty good.
2. The X-box is a very powerful system, and EA can't put in crap graphics and effects on an x-box game and get away with it very easily.

 

[duffarama]

Then why can they get away with crap graphics on PC? I don't like them too much.
From Duffarama.

 

[brad352]

2. The X-box is a very powerful system, and EA can't put in crap graphics and effects on an x-box game and get away with it very easily.

XBox Specs:

733MHz Intel CPU
233 MHz GPU custom-designed X-Chip
64MB Ram

Powerful for a console? Yes
Powerful? No

 

[duffarama]

Yeah, you are definetly right Brad.

There are alot of PCs out there that are more powerful than X-Boxes.
From Duffarama.

 

[Ritwik]

yep, thats true, what I meant was that X-Box is the most powerful gaming console commercially available.

See, there are a lot of 'if's' in PC's, like What if the directx version is not supported, what if the video card drivers are not supported, what if modem/sound card/gaming device is not supported and so on. In a nutshell, the developers have to work around all these problems and that always limits them somewhat from putting in really powerful technology.
There are no such problems with consoles, wherein the developers don't have to worry about making the game work with a huge collection of hardware and conflicting software. That's why most of the games released for the X-box have better graphics than and run better than they would on all except the fastest of PC's.

 

[brad352]

And they have to make sure most people who still have crap PC's can run it, or else they lose half of their bloody sales