Th!nkEmpire: I’m blogged out

Th!nkEmpire: I’ll get something tomorrowish

Th!nkEmpire: chewing around a few ideas

Gr00veMerchant: lol

Gr00veMerchant: yeah

Gr00veMerchant: I’m thinking about talking about the death of the Xbox 360

Th!nkEmpire: the death, eh?

Gr00veMerchant: yep

Th!nkEmpire: how so?

Gr00veMerchant: Cause of Death: Stupidity by not having the foresight to A.) Support a Hi-Def format fully and B.) Shamefully put their tail betwixt their legs and embrace Blu-Ray as champeeen.

Th!nkEmpire: ah

Th!nkEmpire: lack of hard drive?

Th!nkEmpire: integrated, at least

Gr00veMerchant: not so much that, I have a 120 GB hdd on my Xbox, and I have support for externals and flash drives and better still my pc rig.

Th!nkEmpire: hmmm okay

Gr00veMerchant: but to 1.) Not have some sort of hi-def drive built in or pumping money into HDDVD before it was way too late.

Th!nkEmpire: yeah

Gr00veMerchant: and now to turn their back on blu-ray after its success is just effin’ retarded

Th!nkEmpire: but, the lack of a hdd shoots the concept of provided a relatively uniformed platform for development, does it not?

Gr00veMerchant: the inclusion of a hdd at the sub-350 price point and a 120 GB hdd at the sub-450 price point shoots that concept to shit.  And worse still, they’ve still provided an option of a unit without a hdd, which impedes the progress of “next-gen”/now current gen gaming.

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