Topic: What's MS' next move with the XBox 360?

[ReverendNoahWhateley]

This is probably the 2nd worst thing MS could have done in regards to Wii.  They've basically validated Nintendo's approach.  MS needs to come up with their own innovative technology instead of just aping the #1 guy.  That'll get them nowhere and spread more love for Wii.

(Sony has the distinction of the worst, They just ignored it until it fell 3 laps behind.)

Hey, Sony claims to have been tilting and tumbling from the very second they heard about the Wii's claim to fame.  They were innovators in the field of ripping off Nintendo.

[animecyberrat]

Yeah but MS has more money and more experience in ripping people off.

[Adrock]

I call BS only because, giving Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, I would think they were smart enough to know that the only reason the Wii remote succeeded was because it came with every Wii console that was sold since it launched. As a Gamecube peripheral, the concept would have failed miserably. As an Xbox 360 peripheral, I would expect the same.

Companies have modified controllers in the past. Microsoft did it with the Type S Xbox controller and Sony is doing it right now with the Dual Shock 3 (having previously done so twice with the PS1). That's not the same as asking your own userbase to adopt a completely new controller when the old one isn't broken.

[animecyberrat]

when the old one isn't broken.

Give it time you'll start seeing the RROD on the controllers too.

[Nick DiMola]

Further proof of the rumored 360 wiimote here.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Microsoft is still a generation behind Nintendo's disruption.

If they really wanted to compete, they'd have to show their Guitar Hero 5 with their own version of the Balance Board, a power glove, and one of those impact vibro vests.

[animecyberrat]

If you are talking about the Interactor, that wasn't made by Nintendo.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Neither is Guitar Hero 5, so what were you implying?

[animecyberrat]

all the other technologies you said they were behind Nintendo on, that one wasn't Nintendo.

I was merely implying that your implication that MS would be implicated in a ripping off of Nintendo's own implementing of said technology was inaccurately implied. 

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

But you forget it's MS' style to rip-off *and then some*.  Like copy the PS3 on all terms, then throw in something luxurious that's Xbox branded, plus a free Mountain Dew.

[animecyberrat]

plus a free Mountain Dew.

I'd buy it for that.

[Darkheart]

plus a free Mountain Dew.

I'd buy it for that.

He forgot to mention its Game Fewel

[Maverick]

Game Fuel was the shiznit.  It was like a delicious citrusy beverage wrapped up in the awesome that is Master Chief.

Don't be hatin' on the Game Fuel.  I wasted several moneys on twelve packs until my brain got tired of it and now I never want to have it again.  But it was fun while it lasted.

[animecyberrat]

I rob my parents penny jar every day to buy a MT Dew. I used to buy only Code Red but they don't have it in the 1Ltr anymore and if I'm gonna buy only 1 a day I might as well buy the big on cuz it last longer.

[animecyberrat]

What if they skip the motion controls altogether and make their next system full VR like that Xbox they had in The Island? Then they would be more than a step ahead of everyone else.

[Flames_of_chaos]

What if they skip the motion controls altogether and make their next system full VR like that Xbox they had in The Island? Then they would be more than a step ahead of everyone else.

Won't happen Microsoft is too busy trying to integrate Microsoft tech into everything and trying to turn this world into a Microsoft world, which will be full of malfunctioning tech.

[DAaaMan64]

If MS does do this, I think they will actually do quite a nice job of it.

[ReverendNoahWhateley]

Hey, any opinions on the retro Xbox 360 design?  Frankly, I love it.  It caused me to cast a gaze upon my current 360 like that of a bored lover. 

"Oh.  It's you, white thin-in-the-middle 360.  Is my bacon ready yet, or are you just going to stare at me all day?"

[Kairon]

I just realized that dwindling XBox 360 stock could be MS clearing the channel for a price drop. I guess we'll see come April.

[vudu]

Hey, any opinions on the retro Xbox 360 design?

Um, what?  This is news to me.

[Caliban]

Vudu, I believe that was an april fools joke from Xbox Live's part.

[Ceric]

To join this with the other thread.  Following Sony and Nintendo's lead.  It will be steam.

[ReverendNoahWhateley]

An April Fool's joke that makes their existing product look bad in comparison?  Okay, who's the fool supposed to be in this equation?

[Caliban]

You can mod it yourself.

[ReverendNoahWhateley]

I can barely put stickers on my plastic Guitar Hero controller.  I don't trust myself to do anything creative with expensive electronics.