If anything The DS has more of a reason to use FB/Twitter.

Facebook status on DS: Just took a pantsu picture! check it!

Facebook status on 360: Just sitting on the couch playing Uno in my underwear.

To be honest, I think he's being clever here, airing his views without explicitly stating the 360. It's pretty obvious he knows about the 360's FB connectivity, but I don't think his bosses would appreciate him going on about why the 360 should have more desirable features than Facebook.

I mean, fuck, I can't play Farmville on the 360! WHAT WILL I DO?!

Idiot.

Truthfully, Facebook on the 360 kinda sucks too. It has no integration options. The only thing of value I see, is the ability to cross reference people on facebook and your friends list. To facilitate in adding people you may have forgot or didn't even know about.

But as it is, Twitter/Facebook and even Last.FM are kind of pointless because you can't have them running in the background. If they were a bit more intergrated then I could see how it would be better with the 360. But right *now*, all three services are pretty much pointless and a waste of time.

Douchebaggery at it's finest!

I dont ussually like when you oversimplyfy things jim and put them as your title but this time...DAM im let you away with this just this time..

I don't know why people are calling out Neustadter for being honest, fair enough he's a Microsoft employee, but making such a big deal out of this is exactly why most industry professionals keep their mouths shut.

This why we can't have nice things.

Ever wanted to see what an Avatar's foot in its mouth looks like?

Wut da fuk!?

You guys have Twitter! TWITTER! At least you can do cool shit with game-to-Facebook connectivity than fuckig Twitter!

He mocked another system for a function MS's own system has and had a presentation around at E3.

Words fail me.

lol

It's a case of the geek calling the nerd "lame."

As far as I am personally concerned, Facebook/Twitter/whatever on (insert game console here) is utterly pointless.

@ PEICanada7 at 11/03/2009 10:33
"Why doesn't Microsoft just give us a web browser on the 360, so we can go to the real FaceBook.com if we want to. "
It opens up all kind of support issues and headaches due to the fact that the browser has to support multitudes of plug-ins, etc It can destabilize the entire system or you could end up getting gimpy little browser with 1000 options disabled out the gate.

I personally like the idea of having dedicated app within xblade system and be able to access while you are gaming, etc. However, that also has other cascading issues for actual game you play while you access the xblade stuff, etc. We will see more memory and virtualization within future console products, I am assuming....

@ CtMythic at 11/03/2009 10:55
"I don't know why people are calling out Neustadter for being honest, fair enough he's a Microsoft employee, but making such a big deal out of this is exactly why most industry professionals keep their mouths shut."

It's b/c a lot of statements get used out of actual context and can "spin" into other things. if Microsoft and this guy are smart, they should keep their mouth shut and move on. This will just go away. If they make rebuttals and other statements, you will see this gets escalate out of control quicker than you blink your eyes.

"It opens up all kind of support issues and headaches due to the fact that the browser has to support multitudes of plug-ins, etc It can destabilize the entire system or you could end up getting gimpy little browser with 1000 options disabled out the gate."

There's no way it should destabilise the entire system if coded properly - it should be running in a sandbox. Supporting a plethora of different apps like Twitter/Facebook/Last.fm etc etc etc with their changing features will be just as much work as maintaining a browser for the 360. Bluntly, Sony manages to do it workably and it'd be a lot easier for Adobe to build a Flash plugin for the Xbox 360's architecture than it is for the PS3 or Wii's...

Phazer

Phazer

Fortunately, some people maintain opinions that aren't necessarily the official ones from the company they work for. Unfortunately, this person works for MS.
But all in all, the Facebook thing, like the Netflix thing and some others, make sense when you consider that MS's strategy is domination of the living room. Xboxes are only a tool for the job.

hahahaha what a tool

lol wow......I downloaded twitter and facebook to my 360 just to see and im probably not going to use them...I mean I dont use twitter in the first place since its stupid "hey guys im on the toilet pooping!!" ....I use facebook, but its just easier to use my laptop which is...oh look right here, 5 feet from my xbox...the dsi thing wouldn't be bad, i use my ipod touch to check facebook when im bored waiting for my class to start

rofl

Irony at its finest.

I believe you can update your status one facebook by texting it to a certain email address.
well facebook has a really good 'mobile' version that works on pretty much any phone with any kind of browsing capabilities ( I use it daily at work ) and you can't just set your status by sending a message to a specific email adress, you can even upload pictures in that way if your phone has email-support...