So I'm aimlessly browsing my MySpace, when it dawns on me that for a social network that gears itself towards people's interest, such as music, movies, comedy, etc. there really isn't anything on there for gamers. So I started thinking what they could possibly put on there that gamers would find interesting or useful. I came up with a couple of ideas. *Server status' for MMOs that people have accounts for on their homepages *The ability to put up pics of their MMO characters on their page *A profile, not unlike the Xbox Live profile, that shows their stats for all games on all systems *The ability to import their Avatars from their consoles (Get with it Sony) *Access to their friends lists and the ability to see if, and what game they are currently playing Add any of your suggestions.
Just imagine games that look really good now like Oblivion or R6 Vegas only filling up the center of the screen when the next nex-gen comes out. Wouldn't you feel like "...ugh. crap."?
This really bugs the crap out of me. Why is it that some BC (backwards compatible) games up-convert and go 16:9 (Doom 3, Star Wars Battlefront 2), while other don't (Star Wars KOTR 1 and 2)? That's really annoying. Playing the KOTR games as a square box in the middle of my 16:9 tv just takes away from the experience of the game. A couple of times I've deleted my saves from my hard drive and put the disk in again thinking maybe I missed an update somehow, but, of course, I got the same result. Anyway just wanted to vent.
I love my 360 im not complaining....but adding this stuff only only a year after its release is a little disapointing. This is a huge change believe it or not....and it is unprecedented in console history. Never has there been such an upgrade only one year after release. Usually, those upgrades are left untill the NEXT generation. People pointing out black and white tvs versus color tvs, or 06 hondas versus 07 hondas arent getting the point....those upgrades in those products are actually better compared to the upgrades seen from one genration of consoles to the next. You shuoldnt feel like you have to buy TWO consoles within the SAME generation. It would be more like Honda putting out a Civic 06, then 3 months later saying "oops...we forgot to add this feature...so here we present the Honda 06 version 2!"....i can guarantee you that more than a few honda owers will be unhappy about that. Thats more like what we are looking at here. If you are gonna make analogies, you have to think it through.menduco76
I see your point, but consider this. Why would Honda release an '06 2 when it would release the '07 a few months later anyway. One year is alot easier to wait to release something than 5 is. I imagine ( I said imagine, not know. I'm no expert.) that Honda would lose money doing that when comparing the cost to add whatever, and not making the sales (on the same car, maybe with a new ipod hook-up) to back it up. If MS sees that people would prefer the PS3 because of HDMI, a disk drive, or whatever is giving Sony the edge, it would benefit MS to do everything they can to compete and get people into their product. If a have a lemonade stand, and the guy down the street has lemonade with pulp, I'm gonna put pulp in my lemonade. you don't have to agree with me. That's just how I see it.
So. I just read over my post and noticed that in a couple of spots the grammer was kind of... ungood. I hate that. But in my defense, I was giving my daughter a bath while typing on my laptop.
OK. I can't sit back and listen to people complain and go back and forth over this anymore. There is speculation that MS (Microsoft) will redo the Xbox 360 with an HDMI port. Yes that will deliver the best in HD quality, bringing in the image at 1080p if you have an HDTV that will handle that. That's great. What isn't great is all these people crying about how people who already have a 360 are getting ripped off. People, MS is not screwing you over. Companies are allowed to update and better their product. I've seen people say that it wont be so bad as long as MS will let you send in your current 360 and have them send you the new one. That's like saying I should be able to bring back my '06 Honda and get an '07 just because they updated their product. Yeah, it kinda sucks, but so if that's the worst thing that's going on in your life than you really shouldn't be complaining. Besides, it's not even an official upgrade yet. When MS announces that they will do this, then I'll consider trading in the 360 I have now, and just paying the difference. Honestly, I don't even have a 1080p TV. Mine tops out at 1080i, so I would probably upgrade my TV first. I'm Morgan, and that was a minute. ...Wait. I'm not Morgan. (Not too many people will get that, probably.)
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