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Hardcore Offer Mixed Verdict At Xbox 360 Zero Hour
News for nerds writes "Next Generation magazine runs a quick report for the Xbox 360 Zero Hour launch event. According to avid Xbox fans joining the party in Mojave Desert, while games to be released in mid 2006 such as Gears of War and Ninety Nine Nights got positive reviews, the initial offers on 360 couldn't impress them as much." Kotaku has a pair of photo essays from the event.
It would. The article he linked to made the mistake of associating the terms first person shooter and third person shooter with the literary terms first, second, and third person.
Again, the term used in gaming is more akin to the grammatical use of first, second, and third person in refer to the placement of the camera. Both articles linked (by the grandparent and TFA) use the term wrong since TFA seems to think it means that the camera's closer than third person but you can still see the character so it's not first person.
Jeez.
"This is considered plagiarism."
Didn't the original Xbox and PS2 cost in the $200-250 range? I seem to remember something like $250 and then a rapid descent to $199 and then to $99.
... this thing's pricey. Color me a big-time skeptic.
So it seems brain-dead to charge $399 for a console unless you're just going to hardcore customers and leaving everyone else out in the cold.
With the PS3 allegedly at $300 I see a lot of reasons to sit back and wait.
Well, other than the fact that you have to give your kid SOME kind of snazzy Christmas gift and the Xbox is available. In that way, it seems like MS has really outmanuvered Sony.
But still
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