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PLEASE TELL ME I HAVE A LEATHER JACKET WITH FLAMES GOING UP THE SLEEVES BECAUSE I'M HARDCORE BRO FUCK YEAHHHHHH
I'm gonna make my avatar look as wretched and ugly as possible, just to be different. Because I realize that most people are going to make their avatars as unrealisticly "sexy" as possible, because they're insecure loosers in real life.
Well, Menus at consoles tend to symbolize the respective consoles that includes them. As far as i know, the 360 is the first console that changes all its menus and leave the trademarked "blades" for something else...
While it is an important moment, it's not a phenomenon and stuff. Seriously. Face it, Microsoft, this won't reclaim Gate's first place of the richest man in the world!
Also o don't give a shit about avatars either. I have enough digital personas on Wii.
While it is an important moment, it's not a phenomenon and stuff. Seriously. Face it, Microsoft, this won't reclaim Gate's first place of the richest man in the world!
Also o don't give a shit about avatars either. I have enough digital personas on Wii.
Im assuming this is going to eclipse the moment when Sonic was announced for Brawl?
damn!
this is huge!
damn!
this is huge!
lol@hyperbole. every week, it seems, i have the urge to kick a video game exec in the balls. also video game movie directors.
Dear Non-Marketing Corporate Peeps:
Stop talking to press types! Don't you know by now that whatever you say will not be good for you?
Thanks
The interwebz
Stop talking to press types! Don't you know by now that whatever you say will not be good for you?
Thanks
The interwebz
Company exec who makes more in 1 week than most people do all year overly promoting his new company product. Nothing new to see here, move along.
It's gonna be a huge bandwidth cost to MS and I'll bet if XBL doesn't get deliberately taken down by MS then it'll be laggy as hell.
HEY JIM
Lets not knock it until we try it.
Lets give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt here. It could very well be the best thing since sliced bread.
/sarcasm, obviously
Lets not knock it until we try it.
Lets give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt here. It could very well be the best thing since sliced bread.
/sarcasm, obviously
"[W]e realize that for core gamers, they’re going to want their avatars to be a lot edgier, not as cute."
I can't believe this guy is serious. What core gamers want is not to have stupid unnecessary avatars forced upon them in the first place. They're annoying enough on the Wii, but you don' HAVE to create them to play games on that system. Microsoft, this is a terrible, horrible no good very bad decision.
It's foolish. If you really feel it necessary to basically copy Nintendo's cutesy thing, then do, but for god's sake don't force them down our throats. The people who are playing on the 360 do so because they like (generally) what it has to offer. If they wanted "avatars" they'd be gaming on the Wii. When you push something cute and cuddly on your audience like this it shows that you don't really understand who your audience is.
This is comparable to the design of the 360, which didn't allow enough air circulation and led to overheating. The new system had to be thin, thin thin because Microsoft was tired of having its system compared to a large toaster. So thin it was.... meanwhile the actual XBox gamers generally didn't care that their original system (XBox) was a big enormous brick. It generally worked quite well, it didn't suffer from overheating problems, every system came with ethernet networking and a hard drive built-in.
MS, stop trying to copy Nintendo and please take some time to learn who your customers are.
I can't believe this guy is serious. What core gamers want is not to have stupid unnecessary avatars forced upon them in the first place. They're annoying enough on the Wii, but you don' HAVE to create them to play games on that system. Microsoft, this is a terrible, horrible no good very bad decision.
It's foolish. If you really feel it necessary to basically copy Nintendo's cutesy thing, then do, but for god's sake don't force them down our throats. The people who are playing on the 360 do so because they like (generally) what it has to offer. If they wanted "avatars" they'd be gaming on the Wii. When you push something cute and cuddly on your audience like this it shows that you don't really understand who your audience is.
This is comparable to the design of the 360, which didn't allow enough air circulation and led to overheating. The new system had to be thin, thin thin because Microsoft was tired of having its system compared to a large toaster. So thin it was.... meanwhile the actual XBox gamers generally didn't care that their original system (XBox) was a big enormous brick. It generally worked quite well, it didn't suffer from overheating problems, every system came with ethernet networking and a hard drive built-in.
MS, stop trying to copy Nintendo and please take some time to learn who your customers are.
@ bookishboy
Man, you completely summed up my entire opinion on the Xbox 360. Does this mean we're soul mates?
Man, you completely summed up my entire opinion on the Xbox 360. Does this mean we're soul mates?
Actually, if 14 million people were to download it in the first day, it WOULD be the biggest thing, or at least piece of software, to hit the internet ever. Current record holder for most software downloaded in a day is a mere 8,000,000 held by Firefox 3.0
It's weird... I think "Microsoft" and "edgy" together and all I can seem to picture in my head is Brucie headbutting a wall.
Actually I think this very well MIGHT be the best thing that the internet has WOMAN HAVING SEX WITH A DOG>>>>>THE INTERNET IS PORN>>>>THE INTERNET IS PORN >>>>THE INTERNET IS PORN >>>> ....80% of ALL e-commerce is internet pornography.
its really quite funny that M$ thinks that its got ANYTHING to do with the biggest thing on the internet....
its really quite funny that M$ thinks that its got ANYTHING to do with the biggest thing on the internet....
I read about this on GI online. Was this excerpted from that, or was Destructoid at the roundtable interview?
I'm mostly interested in the Community games addition, but that's about it. The avatars are meh, at best.
I completely agree with the executives here. Nothing will be the same ever. All browsing, all searches, all porn will be directly streamed through Avatars.
You heard it here first/last!
You heard it here first/last!
"Edgier" = Emo, with a troubled past
"not as cute" = Men will still look like women
"looks and feels" = Tricksy Hobbits!
"not as cute" = Men will still look like women
"looks and feels" = Tricksy Hobbits!
"With that 14 million people [getting the update], it’s probably the biggest moment in the history of the Internet."
That's probably about right...Firefox 3 holds the record at 8 million downloads in 24 hours.
If the NXE gets downloaded to all the Live enabled boxes in a 24 hour period it WILL be the biggest download moment in the history of the internet and hold a Guiness record.
That's probably about right...Firefox 3 holds the record at 8 million downloads in 24 hours.
If the NXE gets downloaded to all the Live enabled boxes in a 24 hour period it WILL be the biggest download moment in the history of the internet and hold a Guiness record.
@Mig29
It could mean that. Do you sometimes look up at the moon thinking deep thoughts and wonder if there's someone else around the world looking up at it at the same time and thinking the same deep thoughts?
It could mean that. Do you sometimes look up at the moon thinking deep thoughts and wonder if there's someone else around the world looking up at it at the same time and thinking the same deep thoughts?
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