a winner is you

Just seen some people calling for Marcus Phoenix and Master Chief at the Olympics.

Now how awesome would that be? come on!

who is really wating for this? I couldn't care less I think, cause I don't see the need for a controller like that on the 360

Awesome! Very clever and creative writing and oh so true. Two thumbs up!

This would be the very definition of my nightmare scenario. I dislike motion controls greatly. I find it unappealing that I must gyrate all over the place to play a game, and I can only tolerate it for short periods of time. I pray the control is only optional for some games. I want the focus to be on a dual analog pad. I do not want to play dumbed down games with dumbed down controls.

I also am not keen on the entire Mii concept. The entire premise on the Wii is pretty superfluous. I think Microsoft can do better then Nintendo. Hell Sony is doing better then Nintendo. Home seems like a far more rewarding avatar building experience. Were Microsoft to produce a really good avatar with great customization, and the ability to upgrade the character through achievements we might be going somewhere. Then again Microsoft may decide to charge for what amounts to a purely superfluous feature.

Anyway I am not seeing any good in this if it turns out to be true. I am getting a little tired with this generations penchant for replicating what the other guy is doing. None of the manufacturers are innocent either. Nintendo copies Microsoft with the Virtual Console, and Wii Ware. Sony copies Nintendo's motion control concept, and copies the virtual avatar concept. Now Microsoft copies both Sony and Nintendo. All the consoles are getting far too similar.

Don't worry, I know pretty well how MS failed in conquering market segments in the past decades. I know pretty well why the only markets they succeeded in conquering are those where they didn't have to compete, and that they failed in every single one of the ones where they had to compete.

If you still believe that MS is not stupid enough to still try to go after Nintendo, waiting to find an unfair strategy to stall them in the meantime, then you are the one with zero knowledge about them.

Oh yes it sold decently, but not through normal sales, as it was basically given for free in bundles to inflate its numbers. Classic!

And yes, this one single choice of game in its genre for 3 2.5 years is really great and enticing to get the console for these games. 

Blue Dragon was there to give the console momentum, a foot in the door. It failed miserably.

You're right, I fail to see that, as I never saw MS do whatyou describe. I've yet to see them improve any of their competitor products. Perhaps you thought "adapt to the MS way". Unfortunately, most of the time, it isn't improving. In the OS space, where they have their monopoly, it used to work, giving theman unfair advantage and no need to compete. Unfortunately, that's also why they failed in all the other markets.

Except that none of their product with such losses are profitable in the present or the future.

But I guess being in denial makes you think a profitable FY is enough to make the XBox brand a profitable venture.

With billions of dollars in the hole? When the goal was to gain momentum and you end up with none?

When you wanted a good brand, and end up with a diluted one?

Yes, that's an epic failure, in my view. 

This will go down in the list of awesome add-ons, along with the Sega CD, Sega 32X, and 64DD.

Hey grumpy! Why would they fail? All they have to do is open their chequebook and buy every single half decent Wii game thats coming out in the next year and make them exclusive. Shouldn't cost too much since Wii games are so cheap right?

The reason? The architecture is similar enough to make an upwards port possible.