RogueStorm

Downloading games + large removable hard drive FTMFW!

Yeah, expect to see Microsoft sell larger hard drives and move to digital distribution toward the end of the 360's life cycle. It reduces their operational overhead (fewer warehouses, no disc publishing, etc.) and they will turn a profit on hard drives as well. The video service is nothing more than a test bed for a full-on digital distribution system that will put their media control and server systems to the test. I bet you'll see a digitally distributed game before next Christmas from Microsoft that is a full-on game (not Arcade that is). There's a reason Microsoft made the hard drive removable this time and I'm betting that drive failure wasn't the primary reason.

This will complement my work issued BlackBerry well in my pocket.

I'll take one, please. Thank you.

The point I'm missing every time someone comes in and says, "My TV doesn't support 720p, but it scales to 1080i..." is this. If the PS3 downscales to 480p because it can't do 720p, how exactly does it matter if your TV takes the 480p signal and upscales it to 1080i? It's that like running a computer monitor at 640x480 and displaying it on a 20" LCD that has a native display of 1600 x 1200? So your TV can basically stretch a 480p signal to a 1080i display, that still equals a native resolution of 480p going into the scaler. Last I checked, a scaler simply "stretches" the input material to fit and cleans it up a little. You're still not getting hi-def textures and the detail that a native 1080i input would display. Am I not getting something here? Because this is a common argument on this matter so far

I will definitely use my 360 with some Gears for the graphical goodness!

Count me in!

Commodores, Easy

Seriously, can someone explain to me the seemingly cult following of this game? I'm just not seeing it. Reviews for the game were alright, but it never even came close to game of the year or anything anywhere I've looked. Guess I will have to rent it when it's BC on the 360.

I find it funny that this guy would compare the most expensive console to one of the most expensive meats available in Japan. Beef is very highly priced over there last I checked, and that's only when they're not refusing to import it because of a mad cow scare or four each year.

To go along with him though, I like to grill my own steak, not buy some overpriced crap with a flashy label or too much of something I don't want to pay for. It will be the Wii60 for me, thank you.

Yeah, but the day that Microsoft released "jewell encrusted media cases" with the Microsoft emblem emblazoned all over them in hopes that someone will press forward their poor pricing and marketing, then they will fall into the same trap that Sony has put themselves in here. More proof that Sony is sorely out of touch with at least the American consumer, if not Europe as well.