So if you're a serious investor looking to CNNMoney for current info on next gen gaming, I think you are being played. This reads like talking points straight from Redmond. Halo is indeed a killer application. That was when the XBox--the original XBox--shipped 12 years ago. Halo is such a hot property they are giving Halo 3 away for free with XBox live.
Kinect has had a lukewarm reception in the marketplace and MS is gambling that it is because not enough developers were ...
Angry Joe DRM rants led to 3,000,000 views
which led to
low information gamers understanding the problem
which led to
moderately informed Jimmy Fallon calling it out
which led to
low information gamer audience huge round of applause
which led to
soiled pants in Redmond.
Great job, Mr. Vargas.
You've got to feel bad for them. It's like they read Isaacson's bio of Steve Jobs and got all inspired to create something amazing, so they were doing their best imitation of a passionate visionary creating a reality distortion field to bring this great new vision of gaming to the world. Problem was that when Jobs' distorted reality it was in service of a vision that he genuinely believed would be amazing and liberating. Those poor men at Microsoft knew the weakness of what th...