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Xbox 360 Launches In U.S.
Well, it's here. Braving long lines and launch parties, and even jail time, those that were willing to pony up the time and money have their hands on the first player in the next-gen war. 360 impressions are available all across the web, with [H]ardOCP and Gamespot offering exhaustive experiences for the interested gamer. The BBC, as always, offers a bigger perspective on the launch, and Gamasutra confirms that Microsoft is in for the long haul in the games industry. From the BBC: "Sony and Nintendo are planning to unleash their next gen consoles during 2006, giving Microsoft an edge over its rivals. The software giant is virtually tied with Nintendo for second place, way behind Sony, in a games market worth $25 billion globally. Microsoft has ambitious plans for its new machine. It said it expects to ship up to three million 360s worldwide within 90 days. But the company has admitted that the worldwide launch of the console could mean shortages in the run-up to Christmas. The console is due to hit Europe on 2 December and Japan on 10 December and some retailers are also warning about limited supplies."
Just like the Dreamcast had, eh?
In short, people will wait for the next-gen offerings from Nintendo and Sony.
....... When will we see a LINUX distro for it?
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"Some gamers have gone to even greater extremes - like the man who robbed an Electronics Boutique store in Stafford, Virginia in the early hours of this morning. According to US website GameSpot, he held the store manager up at gunpoint and ordered him to hand over two Xbox 360s. Presumably ones with hard drives."
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Gee, Microsoft are really taking viral marketing to new heights here. Move over iLoveBees...
...I would like to see a TCO report between this, the PS3 and the revolution. I'm seriously thinking of investing in a game console.
I saw Israelis and Palestinians settling their differences and playing a nice game of Perfect Dark Zero together.
This is truly a groundbreaking new system!
/Got Gamertag?
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
It launched already??? Why haven't I heard anything about this yet?!?! The slashdot editors need to get off their asses and help hype this thing a little bit...
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Wow those guys really must be going without food
Or, according to the BBC's "bigger perspective," gamers were "queueing" around the block. Hah. Wankers.
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if you play a sony audio cd in it.. does it install it's rootkit?
what a tough decision..
we hate MS because their evil..
we now hate sony because their evil..
nintendo games suck because they're not evil..
what's a geek to do.
I really hope Insult the Comic Dog showed up at an Xbox360 line with a video camera...
I admit it--I hate this console because it's from Nintendo. It's true. There are some other factors, but I'll sum it all up:
1.) I hate that this is just Nintendo's lame attempt to further their platform into the living room. Nintendo sooo does not belong in the game console market. They make card games, for Christ's sake. Thank goodness Atari got their shit together and ran away with digital media via the 2600, or else Nintendo might have had a greater chance at conquering the living room. Right now, it's not looking too good for them.
2.) The first NES was just a 6502 home computer in a box. Literally, opening it up revealed standard home computer parts. That they duped an entire market into buying it astonishes and frustrates me. The articles I've read have stated that the SNES is still very home computer-like (it has the same processor as the Apple IIgs) but at least it's smaller this time.
3.) The name is stupid and personifies what I hate about this machine and its community. Nintendo's marketing drones, in trying to decide how they'd market to drooling middle school gamers, thought "Well, gee, they'll see the Super Nintendo and think of Superman!" And thus, a stupid market-drone name, Super Nintendo, was born.
4.) The game library will mostly just be Sega ports. Another reason I wonder why anybody ever bothered with the original Atari.
5.) It's more of the same. Same kind of controller as before, graphics that aren't as impressive as I was imagining "next-gen" to be. Even the shills on G4 were giving grades of "B" and "B-" to this thing. At least with the Sega Genesis, it has the appeal of being the absolute top hardware, and the Neo Geo will be absolutely top of the line. They have their markets to appeal to. Super Nintendo is in the middle here.
6.) Again, it's Nintendo just trying desperately to further their platform. What annoys me is that they'll use all their billions of marketing dollars to blast this into everybody's faces as hard as they can, regardless of the console's actual quality. Instead of letting the product sell itself based on its own value, as other companies do (a cliched example, but see Apple and its Macintosh...all Steve Jobs had to have a Mac say "Hello" to the camera, and everyone was SOLD on it), this thing is just a shareholder-driven profit grab initiated by managers looking for new markets to "get a hold on," and not a genuinely fantastic product from a company that actually makes games and game consoles and belongs in that market.
All laughs aside and I know some of these parallels are a stretch, but do you seriously think that Sony and Nintendo are a bunch of "artists" that are in it to create quality games and are not in it for the money? Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are all large corporations eager to make a buck at all costs.
If I don't like sports or shooting Nazi's...
What the hell is wrong with you, man?!
Fuck it
"What's the difference between an XBox 360 and a Mac?"
"Nothing, neither has games! HAHAHAHA!"
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Where are all these people that have $500C for a game system with no games?
You know that guy Dvorak... You know about his praise of the menus... Well... Lets just say they are really good menus.
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-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
Heck, I'd do it in a heartbeat. 10k will finish paying off my car, buy me a decent HDTV, pay for some computer upgrades, and get me another Xbox360. (With cash left over)
Seriously, anyone who WOULDN'T sell their 360 for 10k needs to have their head examined.