Everything is wrong, with everything you say. A hundred million people see it my way...
I was looking for somewhere to voice my thoughts on the status of the next-gen gaming systems, whose pending arrival and promises of HD-quality gaming/media center integration/total immersion has me salivating like one of Pavlov's dogs, when I realized that I had a journal/blog in which to post it readily available to me on the Internets.
I guess we'll start off with the XBOX 360. The original XBox was a running joke among my coworkers and I (except Phill, cause he was hardcore about it's release, and is one of the main reasons I own the damn system). The ginormous controllers, the console's tremendous size, and the fact that almost all of the launch titles (except for Halo) were pretty terrible, had almost certainly doomed the XBox to a short-lived existence. Boy, were we ever wrong. The system's enormous following restored many fans faith in Microsoft. Bungie's FPS epic, Halo, became THE must-own title. The connectivity offered by Microsoft's built-in XBox Live service revolutionized the online gaming scene, and gave future consoles a standard to meet for the future.
At E3 2005, the 360 was introduced to the public. I'm going to ignore the fact that they showed off the system on MTV a few days prior. That MTV thing was NOT an introduction, since you saw the system for a grand total of 10 seconds, while the rest of the airtime was filled with Star Wars/Burger King commercials and B-list celebs who wouldn't shut the hell up and let me see the damn system. For those of you that haven't seen it yet, the system looks like an XBox and a PowerMac G5 eloped and had an illegitimate love-child, a unique combination that has to be seen to be appreciated, and although the Sony fanboys knock it, at least it doesn't look like a George Foreman grill on steroids. The most appealing thing about the 360 has got to be the wireless controllers. The 9 foot cords on the original controllers were more than enough for the average gamer, and once they replaced the "Duke" with the smaller S controllers, those of us with small hands (and a faint smell of cabbage) had reason to rejoice. Then, Nintendo released the Wavebird, and suddenly 9 foot cords were not enough. Thank god someone at Microsoft 'got the memo' and decided that wireless out of the box was the way to go.
Coming around to Fall 2005, Microsoft will be the first out of the gate with the 360, and let me tell you I will be standing in line at midnight with the rest of my friends to pick up my own.
Tune in next time when we look the console that isn't a gaming console, the PS3.
I guess we'll start off with the XBOX 360. The original XBox was a running joke among my coworkers and I (except Phill, cause he was hardcore about it's release, and is one of the main reasons I own the damn system). The ginormous controllers, the console's tremendous size, and the fact that almost all of the launch titles (except for Halo) were pretty terrible, had almost certainly doomed the XBox to a short-lived existence. Boy, were we ever wrong. The system's enormous following restored many fans faith in Microsoft. Bungie's FPS epic, Halo, became THE must-own title. The connectivity offered by Microsoft's built-in XBox Live service revolutionized the online gaming scene, and gave future consoles a standard to meet for the future.
At E3 2005, the 360 was introduced to the public. I'm going to ignore the fact that they showed off the system on MTV a few days prior. That MTV thing was NOT an introduction, since you saw the system for a grand total of 10 seconds, while the rest of the airtime was filled with Star Wars/Burger King commercials and B-list celebs who wouldn't shut the hell up and let me see the damn system. For those of you that haven't seen it yet, the system looks like an XBox and a PowerMac G5 eloped and had an illegitimate love-child, a unique combination that has to be seen to be appreciated, and although the Sony fanboys knock it, at least it doesn't look like a George Foreman grill on steroids. The most appealing thing about the 360 has got to be the wireless controllers. The 9 foot cords on the original controllers were more than enough for the average gamer, and once they replaced the "Duke" with the smaller S controllers, those of us with small hands (and a faint smell of cabbage) had reason to rejoice. Then, Nintendo released the Wavebird, and suddenly 9 foot cords were not enough. Thank god someone at Microsoft 'got the memo' and decided that wireless out of the box was the way to go.
Coming around to Fall 2005, Microsoft will be the first out of the gate with the 360, and let me tell you I will be standing in line at midnight with the rest of my friends to pick up my own.
Tune in next time when we look the console that isn't a gaming console, the PS3.