The story of the kid with the wiped clean Xbox 360 has finally come to a close. This is what he got from MS after Bungie hooked him up something fierce.
- 1 Xbox 360 console (signed by original RT signers, new artwork by Luke McKay, signatures from Xbox 360 team, additional signatures from Bungie Staff)
- 1 Xbox 360 faceplate (signed by Bill Gates, among others)
- Devil May Cry 4
- Lost Odyssey
- Rainbow Six Vegas 2
- Gears of War
- Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom
- 2 ‘What’s Your Gamerscore?’ Bumperstickers
- Xbox 360 CD Wallet
- Signed picture of Bill Gates
I know the Bill Gates picture is nothing of great value game wise, but it must feel good when one of the richest men in the world apologizes to you. Personally, I am tired of hearing about this fucking kid. Take your new Xbox 360’s and encase them in carbonite or a safe deposit box.
Bill Gates had been interviewed many times over the last dozen-or-so years by the BBC regarding many aspects of his life and his business. This times things were a bit different however. For this time instead of asking them questions from BBC writers, they asked Gates questions from the gamers themselves in this video interview. Brilliant. Hit the jump for more »
It’s a pretty safe assumption that Bill Gates has an ego. If I was worth about 50 billion I would. CES is upon us and forth those of you who don’t know, its basically the largest electronics show there is. Past CES’s have been the spot for many a big announcement as well as the unveiling of some crazy shit. This is the last time that we will see Bill Gates speak at this event and a reasonable mind would have to expect him to drop a huge bomb. The whole HD-DVD thing is sort of a downer and may be a blessing in disguise by finally ending a format war. People are expecting him to make a huge announcement. As an avid Xbox 360 owner, I’m hoping he does.
Microsoft slapped together a Halo fan’s wet dream. More Halo and Microsoft material than you can sink your teeth into. All of this is being bundled together as an auction for charity (Boys & Girls Clubs to be specific). Here’s what you can bid on:
- The ONLY Xbox 360 Limited Edition Halo 3 console that has been personally signed by Bill Gates.
- The ONLY Limited Edition Halo 3 Zune 30 GB media player personally signed by J Allard.
- The entire Halo Trilogy: Two copies of Halo 3 (Legendary Edition and Standard Edition), plus the Halo Triple Pack for Xbox® (Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and the Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack)
- Xbox 360 HD DVD player.
- Rare special aluminum storage case with over $400 worth of accessories (two Limited Edition Halo 3 Wireless Controllers with an exclusive Todd McFarlane Collectable Figurine, Messenger Kit, HDMI AV cable, extra 120 GB hard drive, and a Halo 3 T-shirt).
At press time, the auction is going for $6,600. That’s a lot of cash to satisfy your Master Chief desires. It’s for a good cause, but damn. The auction ends October 4th, so if you have a hankering to get more Halo than you’ve ever had, get bidding.
So, I also watched they keynote last night. Looking back on it now, I feel it was a huge waste of an hour or so. I was expecting microsoft to really bring out something interesting. Xbox 360 related or not, I was just hoping for something. I think the IPTV thing was the most interesting part of the keynote, but even thinking back on that, I don’t see how this will provide anything that you’d really want to see over watching cable or satellite as it is now. On top of it, I’m pretty sure that because it’s microsoft we’re talking about, none of the content is going to be free.
We saw no hdmi or hard drive announcements. The only halfway interesting thing game related was the cross platform gaming, with uno. Although at first, this was kinda a cool demo, after thinking about it, it’s not really that amazing. Microsoft is most likely going to try to force pc gamers to start paying for live, across as many games as possible. Uno and Halo2 are supposed to be the first cross live titles, but I heard that Halo2 is actually not going to be cross platform multiplayer, only cross platform in the sense you can message each other via the 360 or pc. This is kinda stupid, but the alternative would surely mean that console users would be slaughtered.
It’s not all doom and gloom for microsoft, but Sony even announced higher sales during their launch than Microsoft had during theirs a year ago. Personally, I think this is mainly because of people buying the systems only to resell them, but it’s definately something that needs to perk microsofts ears up.
It made me think of a funny way to look at what Microsoft says about the number of consoles shipped. With the constant back and forth motion of refurbs being sent in and then arriving doa to users nationwide (possibly worldwide) it makes me wonder how many consoles are actually out there.
The only other part of the keynote I felt was worth commenting on was the whole “house of the future” crap. Bill Gates demoed a kitchen where rfid works in tandem with a projection or otehr type display to show you recipes and other stuff thats kitchen related. We saw this all a few years ago, and why it’s in the keynote I have no idea. Then we saw this bedroom with lcd panels on the wall showing weird random pictures and a webcam view in a picture frame. I just can’t shake the feeling that MS really has nothing new or interesting to show this CES, it’s kinda like they are unprepared or something.
I hope the next few days show us something better here.
So Bill Gates keynote just ended at CES. All I can say is… what a fucking waste of time. No announcement of HDMI enabled 360 or larger hard drive. They announced more about Live Anywhere, which we all already knew about. They just said UNO and Halo 2 will be playable as cross platform. Cool and all, but where’s the good shit? No fucking where. That’s where it is.
With the recent news from Sony today that they’ve sold 1 million PS3 units (Xbox 360 sold 600k in that same time frame), Microsoft better capitalize NOW on whatever they can, meaning HDMI and a larger hard drive. The longer they wait, the more they’re going to piss off their user base.
Just to remind anyone interested that Bill Gates’ CES Keynote Address is tonight at 6:30PM PST. It’s being streamed live here.
Expect announcements of the IPTV service, larger hard drive, and HDMI version of the Xbox 360. I wouldn’t be surprised if Bill talks about Halo 3 either (yeah, I went out on a limb on that one).
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