Lord N on 16 January 2008
The 360's most prominent, highest-rated, and best-selling titles are, infact, shooters, sports games, and racing/driving sims. It does not have any prominent or genre-defining games when it comes to platformers, offstyle racers, jrpg's, fighting games, action/adventure games, puzzle games, etc. Two years on the market, and not a single platformer. This is a large part of the reason as to why its sales are decent in N. America while poor in Europe and zero in Japan and why it appeals only to core and hardcore gamers while failing to appeal to casual gamers at all. It would seem that MS would have thought to do a better job of making sure these genres were covered after two years.
About IE and WMP being bundled, comparing it to Wii Sports is absurd. Wii Sports is bundled with a console that's made by Nintendo. If MS made its own PC's and bundled IE and WMP, then this wouldn't be as big an issue. However, since it is clearly being done as an anti-competitive measure, it's become a cause for concern. Same goes for Windows. If someone wants another OS such as Linux, they have to pay more money for Vista, which they aren't going to use anyway.
Consoles owned: Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, PSP, DS, PS3
