I'm a collector at heart, so knowing that there are video games out there that I can't conceivably play, because I don't own the console, tends to weigh heavy on my mind. Perhaps I'm posting this as sort of a future letter to myself, should I someday actually go out an get an Xbox (with the smaller controller, match. Or - as we should all think of it - the normal-sized controller.) Here's the complete list of games I would get... these are the current titles that speak to me, for one reason or another. As far as I know, they're all Xbox exclusives. Or at least marketed as such until the contract winds change.
Jet Set Radio Future (I'm a sucker for style games.)
ToeJam and Earl 3: All Funked Up (I hear it returns to the co-op Genesis roots.)
Superman: The Man of Steel (Obvious.)
Panzer Dragoon Orta (I remember playing the Saturn version in a TRU demo kiosk and being blown away by it.)
Shenmue 2 (I'd love to get into this one.)
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball (Just sounds too great to be bad. Right?)
But I guess I'm proving my point. There's not a lot of Xbox interest for me yet, although my list does subtract out any games that appear multi-console. For example, I would probably have purchased the Xbox version of Spider-Man the Movie. Still, six games isn't a bad Day One for a new Xbox owner, given that rumored game price drop.
What's great about civilization is that these are the things we can worry about.
