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Xbox 2 To Be Unveiled on MTV May 12
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft confirmed this morning that the Xbox 2 will be revealed on live TV on May 12. MTV will air a half-hour long special to launch the system. 'It doesn't make sense to unveil the product behind a closed door, at a trade-only event,' according to Microsoft corporate VP Peter Moore. 'We wanted to talk directly to the consumer first.'" More coverage available on GamesIndustry.biz and Press the Buttons.
Can someone explain me what importance this "Press the Buttons" blog carries. Thanks in advance
Top 3 reasons to release on MTV instead of allowing public near the box:
3) experienced gamers may comment on the gameplay instead of the pretty cut sequences
2) the BSOD occurences can be snipped from the 'live' broadcast
1) the prototype board which happens to have better specs can be hidden under the desk and empty xbox2 case
Phillip.
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This isn't directed specifically at you, this is merely a general observation, but anybody who uses the argument that MTV doesn't play many music videos to explain MTV's suckyness is a fucking IDIOT!
Why the HELL would you sit in front of the goddamn TV, switch over to a channel, and WATCH a goddamn music video marathon!? What the fuck is wrong with you?
You want to know why radio works? Because you can listen to it playing IN THE BACKGROUND. You could do something like read a book or clean the house, and you hear the music in the background. It livens up your activity, or relaxes you, or excites you. But it's usually not the primary activity during music listening.
You want to know why this won't work with TV? Because it's fucking TV! How many times can you watch the same music video by the same 5 bands you like (out of the 50 that you don't)? You'd have to be extremely lethargic or have way too much time on your hands to just sit there and watch fucking music videos! Music videos are nothing but commercials for a band's album. Do you really want a TV channel that plays 24 hours of music commercials? That's what it would be like! That's what it was in the early 80s! It worked then because flashy commercials with sexy singers and dancers were NEW and EXCITING. They're now neither.
If you have satellite or digital cable television, you probably have something like 20 or more TV channels that basically act like a radio, broken up by a genre. How many times do you go sit on your couch, turn the TV on and turn it to one of those channels? Probably not that often. Sure, they don't have actual video to go along with the sound, but they at least devote each channel to a specific genre. With MTV playing videos non-stop, you won't have that. It'll be an avalanche of multiple genres, consisting mostly of whatever genres would bring in the biggest audience. Why the hell would you sit through that? Why would you watch until the commercial, sit through the commercial, and then watch MORE music videos!? You wouldn't! That's why they don't do this on MTV! Because nobody in their right fucking mind would watch that crap!
MTV may suck, but it has nothing to do with the number of music videos they play. It's the fact that neither I nor most of you are in their target demographic!
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lol. do you play games?
the x-box is superior to the ps2 in every way, except for catalog. they make their online service a streamlined and full featured service for a moderate price, and everybody hates it. apple does the same thing for the ipod, and fanboys skeet wet sticky loads all over it and call it genius. wtf.
you're looking for a way to be special... unique, and I understand that. lol. you should go and find the next thing that no one's doing and jump on that bandwagon. get over it. computer kits for geeks is dead. thanks to microsoft and dell, everybody's doing it. games? everybody's doing it, buddy. Fanboyism? dude, you're even late for that.
lol.
there are two types of people in the world. consumers and producers. you consume... is what it sounds like. so the difference between you and the "retarded average consumer" you refer to, isn't much. cause even if your money isn't going to microsoft, it's going somewhere at least as foolhardy (perusing your thinkgeek account!). hope you like that t-shirt made for pennies in the third world.
this is like a blanket statment to fanboys and msft haters. you guys are really f*cking smart... instead of complaining about it... why don't you all start the msft killer? i'd love to see it; it'd be great entertainment. It would come off better than all this complaining. that's really gay.
oh yeah... the x-box does not suck. lol.
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Yes, I am saying XBox sucks, it's just a Halo/Halo2 playing device. Anyway...
Sony sells an official Linux kit for the PS2, and all you have to do to change a harddrive is pop off the network adapter and slide one in, no bullshit at all. And the PS2 has REAL USB ports that you can connect normal, USB devices to, no converter. Shit, in Gran Turismo 4 you can save pictures of your cars to any flashdrive (kinda gay application, but neat none the less). Also,
Check out the PS2 Keylauncher and see what people have done with PS2 homebrew software, it's amazing. You can install about 75% of PS2 games onto the HD and play with no mod chip whatsoever (HDLoader), also has FTP server, divix players, all sorts of stuff.
Look, I've never built a computer kit or breadboarded shit together, but I do have an MS in CS and I have built an the entire frontend of a PASCAL compiler from scratch in grad school (no LEX or YACC, not even an LL1 grammar to start with! With type checking, parameter checking, scoping, lex/syntax/semantic analyzers, all that good shit), so I do think I can hold my own in the dorky CS universe.
And you know what? Video games have never really been that much of a homebrew thing, but it's just the way Microsoft absolutely panders to the lowest common denominator that I hate. Please excuse the post-work rambling, tequila starting to take effect.......
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Likewise rather than coming up with something as entertaining as Zelda: Wind Waker or something as inovative as the Sony I-Toy, the X-Box trains young people to be psychopathic cop killers. Just go down to Wal-Mart and count the number of M rated vs. E rated (and sports titles don't count) games. In other words X-Box offers nothing but crap.
So... Just as MTV offers nothing but crap, X-Box offers nothing but crap. Therefore there is truth in that statement.