Shhh ... No one here has seen MS' most played Windows 7 ad this past month features the Sony All-in one J Series. When they make it 24" I'm getting one. Don't need the Blu-ray drive though <g>.
I'm not big on Sony's gaming stuff anymore, but, have you see the new 52" BRAVIA NX800 Series HDTV, LED, 3D for less than $1600, woohooo! Sizzlin hot!
Edit: Not 3D. For another $1300 you get 3" of screen and 3D. I'll pas...
Microsoft would love to see Apple standardize on Blu-ray and increase the cost even more. Since there is absolutely nothing to gain except to eliminate this talking point in ads.
There's going to be nothing on Blu-ray except movies. No one is going to backup on it, distribute software on it, and movies, well Netflix says hello.
I'm not even sure why MS is running this ad. It seems to exist just to irritate Apple for some reason.
@major
I think they said it wasn't needed for gaming and HDDVD was better from a programming standpoint.
Blu-ray live file system has been in Windows for some time. Works great, just unnecessary. It's a glaring "talking point" to attack Apple with, that's about it. Blu-ray isn't doing much on PCs. In fact you have to buy Power-DVD or other 3rd party app to play a move.
Cheap hard disk storage has made Blu-ray a...
While I have no love for Jetta's, what's wrong with working in an office with a bunch of women? Good times brother ... good times.
Yea I have a 360S and seriously doubt that myself.
The Elite is pretty quite, but when playing a DVD too loud. The 360S is much quieter and not an issue.
Of course, install games on USB flash and the DVD will never spin.
But yea, you can hear the 360S DVD when doing a long read during games. Unlike previous models though, playing a DVD movie (does anyone do that anymore? :) it's not an issue, not even during quiet passages. Couldn't say that for the Elite I sold to get a 360S.
The 360 and Kinect must be doing well. :/
Kinect federates with Office Communications Server/Lync via Windows Messenger. Yeah, there's a lot of capability in Kinect, not just games.
See what happens when you get couch potatoes off the couch.
ESPN on Xbox is great, but until you get Monday Night Football or any live NFL games, an ESPN branded Xbox is not worth the effort.
It's all just opinion, personal preference and fanboyism as it relates to NT.
Really, in today's market, if you don't have the backing of a publisher willing to spend millions on marketing, it's going to be tough.
This was not the time to release new IPs or reboots. Even Castlevania hasn't done all that great.
You've got Halo: Reach, then Kinect, followed up by Call of Duty, then you have Christmas Kinect sales ...
Microsoft used Blu-ray in their Windows campaing agains Apple. and Blu-ray has actually gone nowhere on the PC. I had one, but sold it. Cheap HD storage ...
Probably because it's somewhat indirect based on the article. Motorola breached it's agreement with "standards organizations"
And to prove the charges excessive, it probably took time to gather information on what Moto was charging others maybe?
Well, I can't say that anymore. Echoes+ si definitely worth playing.
Don't do FPS' so Nuke Wateland is out, but I checked Echoes and Pew Pew on xbox.com and put them in the download queue.
Actually no. I still don't know what point you're trying to make? Now it's about how much they're spending on marketing? If it's reaching casual gamers for a casual product, that's pretty much what its meant to do.
How does that address the question of is MS becoming too casual? You're asking why? Why sell casual products to casual gamers? Then ask where are the games akin .... (assuming, hardocre games such as halo & gears, which made the 36...
Obviously people who say they don't care here don't mean it literally. They're on a gaming site discussing (when it rarely is just a civil discussion) gaming.
They usually state it as their opinion on the subject matter at hand. I believe they are in effect saying, my opinion on game sales is that they don't matter ... it's all about games.
"I don't care" has become a bit of verbal shorthand in our sound byte society.
Really? I thought PS3 was the clearly technically superior box that Xbox couldn't hope to compete with. It also has the best games that gamers want by way of exclusives. Plus, it comes with a pretty damn good Blu-ray player. Additionally, it had the humongous PS2 platform to leap off of. So who has actually beaten the odds here?
They both done well. Both have pluses, both have minuses. IMO there are only two clear advantages to the platforms:
1) PS3 ...
Yeah. It's senseless as both consoles have sold more than enough to insure neither is going away this generation nor will they be hurting for developers.
Xbox had a one-year lead, one can argue erased by the RROD fiasco, PS3 sold millions as a Blu-ray player, one can argue this expanded the gaming market. No matter how you look at it, it's a wash. Except for Japan, Xbox basically does not exist in any meaningful way there.
Interesting and kinda overkillish analogy.
You might be surprised to learn Windows 7 supported Blu-ray from beta. Vista does too mang.
Generic Linux does not equal GPL. In general, Linux does suck for desktops. That's why it's gone nowhere in any real sense on the desktop. Works great for appliances and such.
Whatever you do, never, ever research the origins of the original NT Kernel... <ggg>