Next major round of titles starts coming around Feb. 14

Unfortunately for Microsoft, there's a fairly natural lull between the Christmas season and the middle of February since it takes a while to get new games done (or so I've read) and since most consumers blow their money buying things before Christmas leaving almost no disposable income to use on things such as video games until later in the first quarter of the year.

It would have been nice to see a few more launch titles, but it's much better that we get *good* games that are sold when done rather than crappy games that are pushed out just to meet artificial deadlines or demands of customers that just aren't happy with the few choices they had before.

You have just experianced the Microsoft plan, replace gaming console every year, but no backward combatiblity. Quite honestly I can't believe that, I have been dealing with microsoft for over 16 years and they have not changed this problem since they started producing games, OS's, or applications.
Welcome to the world of Microsoft,




GW

You actually bought one of those things? Hahahahahahahaha

You have a 360!?!?!?! wtf? Are YOU simply retarted?

Lol, the old Console vs PC war. May it never end, death to the unbelievers!

retarted?

 

My tart is quite good without the need for retarting thank you. I can't help it if you are a Linux penguinista with a reflexive hatred of all things not Open Sourced... 

Look, look, I love the OSS, but I do have a PS2 and GC. I guess there are, now, a few good games for the XBox--but for the 360?? Kameo isn't good enough to be worth.. how much? $600?

mmmmm........new fan stand........agglehhhh.......

Kameo isn't good enough

Kameo? Kameo????? WTF? Who even plays that beside anime geeks? oh wait...

wtf, you like Shiny Car Racer and Madden 2003 no 2004 no 2005 no 2006 this time its better honest?

wtf, you like Shiny Car Racer and Madden 2003 no 2004 no 2005 no 2006 this time its better honest?

Shiny car racer...LMFAO

I can't help it if you are a Linux penguinista with a reflexive hatred of all things not Open Sourced...

*chuckle*

You have just experianced the Microsoft plan, replace gaming console every year, but no backward combatiblity.

Every year, eh? When did the original XBox come out?

Xbox release date

Yeah, that would be 2001. Um, 2006-2001=5. So if I extrapolate right, 5 years=1year, correct?

Hmm, no backward compatibility? Ever checked the properties for many .exe files in Windows XP. Yeah, happen to miss that tab at the top that says "Compatibility"? I seem to recall that the Office suite allows users to save files in older formats too.

Perhaps you should think about what you say before you spew from your piehole.

-- B

I seem to recall that the Office suite allows users to save files in older formats too.

When Microsoft came out with Office 97 it saved in a format incompatible with Office 95. If you imported an Office 95 document into Office 97 and resaved it, it was saved in Office 97 format. So unless all users upgraded to Office 97, there were incompatibilities! It was not just a matter of upgrading your entire company to Office 97 but also any partners you shared documents with! I don't know if this was planned by Microsoft to force upgrades but their customers complained loudly! Microsoft was forced to quickly make a patch to Office 97 so it could save documents in Office 95 format and eventually a patch came out for Office 95 so it could read Office 97 documents! Having learned their lesson, for later Office releases they always included support for saving to older formats.

I'll probably buy the thing when the "killer apps" start coming out, those games you just have to have. Unfortunately I bet MS (and Sony, and Nintendo) are banking on that, and that's why we'll see more and more promising games diverted to consoles over the forseeable future.

Thankfully the future of turnbased games is pretty much secured for the PC. There just isn't that perception of (having an) attention-span when it comes to console gamers. Actually I find I inherently have less attention span when I'm playing on a console than when I'm sitting at a desk, something about my desktop PC makes me perfectly willing to sit down an kind of "work" at a game to get at the longterm fun. Even if you could plug a mouse into a console and play GalCiv II or whatever on it, I'd rather be at my desk.

Microsoft, whether they knew this would happen or not, has a very powerful card in their deck. It's called "Armies of Fratboys who will follow Halo-whatever-# over mountains and off a cliff if it comes to that".

It was an untapped market, because it introduced a culture of former "non-geeks" to competitive multiplayer gaming, and had the side effect of luring post-grads and pre-grads into the circle. Tons of kids with expendable cash, and a brand name seared into their brains. It is a gravy train like none other. And they can COUNT on people buying the 360 just for that reason. You can preach on about how utterly ridiculous the pricing and the release timing was, but it really doesn't matter. Rest assured that ( in the US anyway ) the XBox360 is WELL taken care of. There was no need to prove a killer app at release, the buyers PRESUME that it will come later.

Things might have gone differently four years ago, but they didn't. And here we are >.<