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Prepping For The 360
An anonymous reader writes "The Xbox 360 launches on Tuesday, and ZDNet talks to some of the folks who are already prepping for it. John Dvorak also has commentary on the new console, and he seems to like it." From the Dvorak article: "Luckily Microsoft's Xbox 360 crew, and other game developers, are working on cool stuff that will cross over to PCs. When game developers retake their rightful place on top of the hill of progress, we'll all be better off. Needless to say, I am impressed by the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 explores new menu structures with a unique and pleasant GUI. One often-overlooked element that the Microsoft games group brings to the party is its unique GUIs that are unlike the folder/desktop metaphor that Xerox and Apple developed."
And apart from that, and Apple developed? Wtf? Is rewriting history just considered acceptable nowadays or what? Xerox developed it. JUST Xerox. Apple stoled from Xerox and refined. MS stole from Apple and refined. Apple and Linux stole from Windows and refined. Ad nauseum. Xerox are probably the only people who didn't steal their ideas straight from someone else and tweak it just enough to avoid getting sued.
My impression is that Slashdot editors are pushing the Xbox 360 fever to incredible hights. Every time I visit Slashdot, there is a story on the 360.
I mostly agree- though new console releases aren't that common (I don't remember this much pointless coverage of DS or PSP releases). The only effect of increased hype will be to make the system release more likely to be seen as a failure even if it does moderately well, and that perceived failure will later manifest itself as real failure. The hype dries up soon after the system comes out, and fence-sitting slashdot readers no longer see stories about the system every day or every few hours anymore, so they feel more justified in not purchasing one and that indeed it was all just hype.
How much do you think they're paying Zonk for this extra marketing? I'm willing to bet that at least Zonk and Taco, and maybe a few other editors, will have comped 360s arriving on their doorsteps within the next week or two.
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I detest console games and would much rather play them on a PC, so I'll wait for the X-Box 360 games to be ported. How long did Halo take to go from X-Box to the PC?
If you actually believe that you will be able to hook up your iPod through USB to the Xbox 360 and listen to music from it, then you are horribly lost.
Xbox/iPod integration? Yeah, and it runs Duke Nukem Forever.
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I'll prepare for it by remembering not to buy one.
/. seems to have forgotten this.
I'm getting a PS3. It will just be better.
I don't care how evil Sony Music is, (who has very little to do with Sony Computer Entertainment BTW), Microsoft is still the greater evil.
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