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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."
Why would anybody want to buy an Xbox? It is no more than a closed PC where the consumer is no longer in control. We all know how unstable Microsoft GUI's are, and quite frankly, I rather like to launch a game from a simple MSDOS prompt than from a blue GUI. And why buy into new DRM technology? It just makes no sense to buy an Xbox when PC's are so cheap and offer more features and more games with more balance (CSS vs DeCSS etc.).
The '360 sure has a nice GUI.
I know, because 3/4ths of the '360 displays feature a '360, a cool looking LCD TV, and the '360 in its locked-up state at the GUI, because of some horrible internal error or overheat.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Wow, that was pointless.
Watch those idiots who rate every critical comment as trolling. ;-)
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So, Mr. Holier-than-thou, what do you squander your time on? Masturbating to pictures of Natalie Portman?
That is a worthwhile pastime, if and only if they are pictures of her Petrified with Hot Grits. (TM)
I think you are underestimating Microsoft...
They most certainly could operate this generation in the red and they most certainly don't need to innovate. If Microsoft just continues to throw billions into their XBox division then eventaully Sony and Nintendo will go bankrupt. Sony's video game division supplies most of it's profits, and Nintendo is purely a video game company. It's nearly impossible to compete against a state-approved monopoly.
Sorry for the blunt subject, but would you please take the time to look at the recent amount of xbox titles and imagine the marketing machine behind it? I'm being slapped in the face by xbox stories around the clock, and I've had enough of it.
So I decided right here, right now to start a small anti-campain.
DON'T BUY XBOX!!!!! IN FACT, DON't BUY ANYTHING COMING FROM THAT EVIL COMPANY, WHO'S INTERESTS ARE ONLY SELF-CENTERED AND TO WHOM YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A MAGGOT. I WOULD EXPLAIN ABOUT MICROSOFT'S MALPRACTICES HERE, BUT UNFORTUNATLY THE COMMENT SPACE IS IS NOT BIG ENOUGH TO EVEN GET ME STARTED. DEMAND RESPECT, BOYCOT M$!
Haa, that felt good..
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
WTF does Long Tail mean anyways? Sounds like something a fucking faggot would say when barking commands to his butt buddy fucking him in the ass.
saru mo ki kara ochiru
It must suck to be a hard core gamer and be an open source zealot...or is that an impossibility? I guess one could be a hard core Tux Racer fan, but the really great games are commercial (except bzflag, I'll give you that). Does the open source zealot just do without? Work on creating an open source console? Or just steal the console and games? Would stealing be ethically better than supporting closed source products? After all, if you steal it, it's free as in beer. As for the other kind of free, well, the word is that consoles are jealous of information and now want to be free too.
I'm glad I've got nothing against closed source products. Of course, I'm broke so I guess I'm still in the same boat as the other side. Oh well...
Isn't he also the one who invented the Dvorak keyboard? I honestly haven't seen one in person in my entire life.
I made the mistake of picking up an X-Box. (Really, I nabbed it for 40$ as a broken unit and replaced the cdrom for 23$)
Every game I've really wanted has been for ps2... at least where RPG's are concerned and the GTA series was always released first on Sony's side of the fence. No sir, I don't think I'll make the same mistake again.
I have to agree, when I first saw Halo I thought it wasn't finished. I borrowed Halo 2 and still wasn't impressed. It is a great game for the console itself, but pales in comparison to every equivalent PC title.
For me, a wait is in order, but I'm sure one of my friends will pick up the new xbox.
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
Yeah, people liking a subpar game machine because it has a pretty interface is just dumb. Thats like someone buying an MP3 player because its shiney and white.