Topic: Play 360 at walmart....RIGHT NOW

[Artimus]

Does Best Buy have demos in Canada?

[KDR_11k]

I use only the index fingers for the shoulder buttons on ANY controller. That includes the Dual Shock. I just wish Sony had not defined the L1/R1 buttons as the primary shoulder buttons because L2/R2 are much more comfortable.

[Don'tHate742]

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Originally posted by: Shecky

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Originally posted by: MJRx9000
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051121/ap_on_hi_te/xbox360

"Gates said he's also expecting a new Xbox service called Microsoft Points, which lets people pre-pay for things like virtual armor or other game-related items, to eventually work with Windows Live, so people could use a single account to pay for offerings there, too."

Gah!

"Analyst Rob Enderle said the move to more closely link Xbox Live with Windows Live intends to bolster loyalty to Microsoft products. Microsoft 'can tie that stuff together so that you as a customer become wedded to the Microsoft platform for everything you do,' he said."



Edit: Not so subtle "hint"

Ohhhhh! Dave Chappelle Speaks!

[wandering]

Bump!

So, I finally got around to playing a 360 at Target. And while I was expecting a less-than-spectular jump from this gen, I wasn't expecting the games to look WORSE. 360 games in hi-def look about as good as an ultra-sharp, ultra-brightly lit portrait of your grandmother. Which is to say they look terrible.

This came as a surprise to me because I had really bought into the whole HD is good(tm) thing....and good it is...for sports broadcasts. But the fact that HD will suck for fiction has kind of just come crashing home for me. I just realised that I've been looking forward to Lord of the Rings and Star Wars in high definition even though I don't wear glasses to the movie theatre because I don't like seeing all the scratches and grain.

The only thing I could see while playing Call of Duty and Kameo were the thousands of little mistakes. This is in contrast to what I saw the first time I played Rogue Leader or Super Smash Bros...which was amazing, seamless, detailed virtual worlds that made me giddy just to interact with them. And after I got home and powered up my cube....I saw that the visuals of some these cube LAUNCH games still blow me away, while the hi-def blahfest that's etched into my memory still makes me want to gag.

So, count me out of the high dollar generation. I won't be getting an HDTV anytime soon.