Hilltop

I'd take a modded original xbox loaded w every game, along with tons of music and movies

@The Albatross

I somewhat agree with you, but I think those hurdles are there for a reason. They want you to start on other panes, so you have to browse through to reach what you want. Admit it, something on those panes has at least once caught your eye....and if it catches your attention, there is a remote possibility that you will end up purchasing something related to the ad.

My gripe with the current xbox UI is the slow Guide. This is the menu that we are supposed to use IN GAME, and it is slow as molasses. Playing a multi-player game and trying to check a message is utterly ridiculous. Then there is the whole quick launch debacle, where a simple list of games can take upwards of 30 seconds to appear, at that is using a 20 gig HD.

Oh and PLEASE give us the ability to choose the sorting method when comparing games with friends, the whole idea of comparing games with someone, based on the chronological order that THEY played the games is about the dumbest thing Ive ever seen. Try comparing achievements with someone who has 100k+gamerscore, it will take you 5 minutes just to find the game you are interested in, if you are lucky enough to not skip right past it. Just make it sortable using the Y button: alphabetical, their chronological order, your chronological order, their score, and your score.

Just for anyone who doesnt already know, Amazon is giving $20 game credit with pre-order. I think Walmart also had a similar deal too.

chicken or egg.....

need software to sell hardware, need hardware to sell large volumes to lower price point, need low hardware price point to justify software development

havent you seen the commercials? beenverified.com

@taligent

nope, because that would only work for this single event

I really dont understand why a new post is required for each item. A live blog and an event summarization post which links into the live blog at the time stamp of the announcement would be a fine solution, but it would never be implemented since it wouldnt generate as many hits.

@taligent

You have to admit this system of live blogging and creating a new post about every topic, and then creating another post just to summarize the posts which were initially covered in the live blog is getting a bit redundant.

Its especially annoying, since the posts contain NO additional information over the live blog and are literally posted seconds after they appear in the live blog.

If anything there should be a way to exclude the redundant posts, not apple posts.

@mnhthebest

if you would have read the article "there's no noticeable latency when streaming 1080p video from the laptop to the larger display" or watched a few seconds of the video clip you would have realized there is not 2 seconds of lag

still a non-existent use-case for the product though

@Shokz

Pay attention to sales, Buy.com just had 12+1 XBL cards on sale for $28....this isnt rare, even Walmart had cards for $30 earlier this year. For less than $2.50/month, yes, a gold Xbox Live subscription is worth it for cross game chat alone.

Am I the only one who was really looking forward to Crackdown 2, but became extremely disappointed upon learning the entire environment is pretty much a reskin? The most fun I had in Crackdown was exploring and orb hunting, I cant see that being nearly as fun the second time around in the same environment.