CNN's Game Over On The 360

An anonymous reader writes "CNN's Chris Morris has taken a look at Microsoft's new system. He calls the system 'good, but not great' in a fairly lengthy, well thought out piece. The article also has an amusing gallery of rejected prototype designs." From the article: "Admittedly, tastes vary - so you could easily find a game out this month that's a 'must have' for you. (We'll have a closer look at the launch games early next week.) But if you're looking for something that's ground breaking and sets the trend for the system (as 'Halo' did with the original Xbox), you're not going to find it."

What??

[jackcarter]

How can it not be great with 3 3.2GHz processors?!

Re:What??

[WormholeFiend]

How can it not be great with 3 3.2GHz processors?!

Not to mention the interchangeable faceplates! They make everything look faster...

Re:ebay?

[Hey Pope Felcher . .]

I believe this strategy is the current one being offered to Microsoft employees rather than stock options.

Needless to say the staff immediately plumped for the 360 and opted to sell short the Microsoft stock.

Wait...

[Saige]

That's right, just go ahead and wait until later to get one. Especially if you're in the Redmond/Bellevue, WA area. Don't go out and wait in line for an Xbox 360. Just keep on playing on your regular consoles. Really, there's no reason to get one. You really don't want it now. You want it later.

If you're thinking you're gonna go wait at Best Buy in Bellevue, you're not. It's not worth the trouble. Just pretend it's just another day, and don't go out.

Please wait? The fewer the people that go out, the better the chance of getting mine. And I'm already planning to take Tuesday off of work.

Is it me ...

[ToasterofDOOM]

... or do half of those concepts look like George Foreman Grills???

"It was the Humvee of consoles."

[sj88]

From TFA:

Even Microsoft admits the first Xbox was ugly. ("It was big," Xbox's Peter Moore said in August. "It was the Humvee of consoles.")

No, it was more like the Aztec of consoles.

Re:Couldn't care less

[Anonymous Coward]

Heck, I remember when consoles used to advertise how many colors they displayed and how many PCM sounds they could play at once... now it's all hi-definition, video-streaming, polygon-texturing, online-gaming shenanigans, and I keep thinking, "do I really need all that to play Llamatron 2112?"

Re:What??

[stx23]

Personally, I'm holding out for the R-Type faceplate.

Well that just goes to show...

[big daddy kane]

You can flood slashdot with stories about your product but you can't buy out the mainstream media... oh wait

Re:What??

[cluke]

Yeah, with that one the longer you hold in the power button the better it gets!

Re:What??

[chris_eineke]

Hell yeah! It'll idle at 100% instead of 99%. ;)

Re:Halo

[indigoid]

But people who sit down at a Microsoft product can generally use it immediately.

On behalf of the ~50 other people in my workplace I must respectfully disagree. :-(

Re:Yeah, sony is so dumb.

[cluke]

Sorry, too busy trying to kill that shaman with 4,000,000 other subsribers otherwise I'd have some kind of snappy reply for you.

Geez, there are four million and one of you and you still can't kill one shaman? Guess they really are overpowered!