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Now $60 instead of $50. MS can fuck themselves.
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MS insults hardcore gamers to please Kinect users.
WTF. I don't like Metallica.
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Pretty sure this will only interest Leo and Aspro.
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Fighting a giant ass monster in the middle of a football stadium is epic! When the boss dies you kick its head for a field goal.
Oh and the demo starts at a urinal. Honestly it looks fantastic.
MS insults hardcore gamers.
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/230934,microsofts-kinect-launch-laughs-at-sweaty-gamers.aspx
The Kinect launch event reveals a massive disrespect for enthusiast gamers that overshadows the actual tech on display.
Microsoft hosted two launch events over the last couple of days for the upcoming Kinect motion sensor add-on for the Xbox 360. Oddly, Atomic was invited to the lifestyle and consumer launch, which was... odd, to say the least. However, it did open a terrifying window on how a gaming giant presents its business to the rest of the consumer landscape.
David Wildgoose over at Kotaku Aus said it best during E3 - the Kinect is not for us. It's very obviously a low-end consumer device, not for the hardcore gaming set at all. Nonetheless Microsoft is pulling out all the stops to convince the public that this is a great gaming revolution, making gaming both simpler and more accessible than ever before.
And that's fine. The Kinect's not going to impact on our enjoyment of Halo: Reach, or stop us from griefing greenhorns in Red Dead Redemption's Free Roam (it's a victimless crime!). But what we do take serious exception to is the way Microsoft is promoting the Kinect, and what it says about their attitude to a market that, frankly, has delivered them profit piled on profit and a massive amount of console market share.
"Gaming's not just for sweaty thirty year olds in Metallica t-shirts," quipped Microsoft's regional entertainment tzar at yesterday's lifestyle event, David McLean. The audience of fashion editors and lifestyle doyens yukked it up appreciatively, but we couldn't believe our ears. That's it? That's what you're reducing a huge percentage of your audience to now - a one-liner gag to make the cheap-seats feel it's okay to waddle about in front of their television sets?
And it didn't end there - the presentation featured constant allusions to basement dwelling nerds and impenetrable control schemes. Which is fine if Microsoft's courting vacuous fashionistas now, but does the company have to do it at our expense?
It's a doubly galling revelation. For one, it takes the scales from one's eyes in regards to how Microsoft regards the gaming audience, and secondly it seems to give a flying middle finger to our community's ongoing effort to improve game ratings and censorship. There's a huge movement desperately trying to educate government and society at large that gamers are, in a very real sense, everyone; while Microsoft at least gets the age thing right, reducing gamers to the image of barely socialised troglodytes doesn't do anyone any favours.
Our major take away from the day is simply a bitter taste in the mouth at being the butt of a stupid joke to make the style-set giggle.
Please, Metallica sucks. I wouldn't be caught dead wearing a t-shirt like that, let alone sweating in one.
Nobody likes Metallica anymore anyway.
But this is standard, run of the mill PR drivel. Hard to take it seriously.
PS. Unless you have a HUGE, FAT, THROBBING stick up your asshole like the guys at Atomicwhatever.
Playing: Valkyria Chronicles, Uncharted 2.
Help me, help me to find my true self without seeing the future.
^ Yeah, that Atomic article is nothing more than an attempt to get people riled up so they click the link.
Because it's BIG NEWS! Super Mario All-Stars is coming to Wii!!! Woohoo!!!
Yeah, it kinda pisses me off too, but I will still buy it.
Goes to show you how out of the loop these suits are though. Yeah, Metallica hasn't been relevent since the early 90's there fellas. Most of their 30-something original fanbase would be embarrassed to wear their shirts anymore.
People are starting to come out of their homes & hold hands skipping down the streets.
By the way, anyone here check out IGN's top 25 list for 360 and PS3?
Not only is the 360 list a complete joke, the PS3 one is even a bigger joke! Just one thing that irks me, they chose Fallout 3 as the #2 PS3 game and Demon's Souls isn't even in the top 5! I'm sure more PS3 owners think Demon's Souls is much better than Fallout 3 because it's exclusive, it's unique, and it does something different. Also, what about MGS4? God of War III? Valkyria Chronicles? I like Fallout 3 but I'm sure everyone here would agree with me that it's not the #2 PS3 game of all-time!
By the way, Demon's Souls isn't even on the list!!!
Nor is Final Fantasy XIII. Actually, FFXIII isn't even on the 360's list!
Anyway, just thought IGN's lists are asinine.
Is Fallout 3 #2, hell no. But i do like it a tad bit more than Demon's Souls. Its almost even.