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matt247 on 29 July 2009

i got in. there's been lot's of videos of what it looks like already



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sinha on 29 July 2009

This update is awesome, and it doesn't even have the new 360 Games on Demand, Last.fm, Facebook, Twitter, etc. yet.

Basically at this point if you own a 360 with a decent-sized hard drive and are a Netflix subscriber and you still don't think Xbox LIVE is worth 10.1 cents a day ($40 / 13 months), then you are a fucking idiot who does not deserve to use our planet's limited resources.



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

yo_john117 on 29 July 2009
sinha said:

This update is awesome, and it doesn't even have the new 360 Games on Demand, Last.fm, Facebook, Twitter, etc. yet.

Basically at this point if you own a 360 with a decent-sized hard drive and are a Netflix subscriber and you still don't think Xbox LIVE is worth 10.1 cents a day ($40 / 13 months), then you are a fucking idiot who does not deserve to use our planet's limited resources.

I'd say I agree.

OT: I didn't get into the preview

Figures, I never win anything.



Sardauk on 29 July 2009

I was selected for the NXE preview but I didn't subscribed this time cause my 360 is RROD ...



 

Evan Wells (Uncharted 2): I think the differences that you see between any two games has much more to do with the developer than whether it’s on the Xbox or PS3.

ajaghvajagh on 29 July 2009

Guys, theres still hope :P Nelson's blog says they will send out emails until July 31 lol



 

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Munkeh111 on 29 July 2009

Still got two days to go, hopefully I'll get in



matt247 on 29 July 2009

The only thing I don't like is that you can rate games you haven't played and games that haven't even came out yet.



JaggedSac on 29 July 2009
matt247 said:
The only thing I don't like is that you can rate games you haven't played and games that haven't even came out yet.

I agree.  Maybe if we complain a lot on the forumss, they will listen.  Kinda makes the ratings almost worthless.

Also, I wish they would hurry up and add back movie browsing to Netflix.  They took it down shortly after the update went live.



matt247 on 29 July 2009

I looked at the female clothing and some of those items should be available for males too like the Fable clothing that was made for males in the game, but are available for female avatars. Why not increase the odds of getting someone to buy your item.



FKNetwork on 30 July 2009

My 360 just updated,

The marketplace is a LOT LOT LOT faster, instant for me now, a few other good features like ratings and quick launch also now includes indie games but the avatar marketplace is a ripoff and the rc warthog is missing in my marketplace!?

The veteran thing is weird too as it says I have been a gold member for 1 year when it's actually 3 years!?