Oh my stars and whiskers! I'll be able to watch live TV, a movie, Skype, update my NFL Fantasy League in real time and play a game ALL AT THE SAME TIME! I can even use my TV as a wicked awesome monitor for Internetz! If I need to take a piss it'll even help me find my zipper!
*dramatic pause*
Oh movie quotes from the 1980s, you help me express myself so well
(I used to use this sample on my old mix tapes).
The unveiling, which I watched on ye olde XBOX360, started strong. No, fuck that. It was depressing. The entire event reminded me of a sad Sears photographer trying to make a sad, fat baby happy while a dour looking Mother glares at the photographer and sweats Crisco.
Okay, okay, to be fair, let me take a breath and reign in the snark. This is not a product that is marketed to me. None of the features revealed appeal to me (including but not limited to a Kinect that is always on, a Kinect - period, 8G of RAM, live updates to fantasy sports, the ability to watch live television, absurdist levels of multi-tasking, fuck a bunch of HALO, and interfacing with technology I have no inclination of owning). There was minimal talk of games except for three cash cows (Forza, Madden, and COD) which is to be expected and of course XBOX is gonna save some of the fireworks for E3.
Thinking about it rationally, I realize that my ire comes from feeling discluded. Reminds me of the time I broke-up with Playstation and started dating 360. Though, this is different, because before it was a matter of price and other factors. Now, I just feel as if they don't give a shit about gamers. And since I've started a relationship with PC gaming a few years ago, she's going to make the most of this opportunity to comfort me in her bosom whilst smirking at consoles and thinking, "He's all mine now and you're never getting him back. I have been doing all you might promise and more."
I should reserve judgment until the system comes out and games are revealed. Yeah, fuck that, I'll just save my pennies and buy some shit off of newegg.com for a fraction of the price of a new console.
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