Garulon

"From there, I could see what my Friends list was doing, what they were playing, and what they were playing a lot."

That's really what Achievements bring to the table - you can see what your friends are playing. A whole bunch of your friends racking up Cheevements in Crackdown tells you more than most review scores would. GamerScore just really tells you how experienced someone is - someone with a

"Christ, if it weren't for Nintendo, we'd still be playing 3D games with our D-Pads"

Not this old chestnut again. Nintendo did NOT invent analogue control!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_5200

@4 "The developer didn't say the 360 had "advanced" threading capabilities. With single-issue cores and no out-of-order completion, there is nothing advanced about the 360's threading capabilities."

Um, that's SCHEDULING. With six hardware threads, the 360 is more advanced than even a spanky new Intel Core Duo which has four. And OOoe doesn't really matter if you're targeting a known architecture. Just get the compiler to schedule the instructions, yeah?

@29: "What about the autostart of the game when you insert the disc? Thats what most of have been asking for"

Uh? I insert a disc and it starts. What are you doing?

@30: Although i don't condone piracy, copyright infingement (copying games) is not that same as theft.

It's taking something without paying for it. Smells the same as theft to me.