Next major round of titles starts coming around Feb. 14

Unfortunately for Microsoft, there's a fairly natural lull between the Christmas season and the middle of February since it takes a while to get new games done (or so I've read) and since most consumers blow their money buying things before Christmas leaving almost no disposable income to use on things such as video games until later in the first quarter of the year.

It would have been nice to see a few more launch titles, but it's much better that we get *good* games that are sold when done rather than crappy games that are pushed out just to meet artificial deadlines or demands of customers that just aren't happy with the few choices they had before.

You actually bought one of those things? Hahahahahahahaha

Lol, the old Console vs PC war. May it never end, death to the unbelievers!

Look, look, I love the OSS, but I do have a PS2 and GC. I guess there are, now, a few good games for the XBox--but for the 360?? Kameo isn't good enough to be worth.. how much? $600?

Kameo isn't good enough

Kameo? Kameo????? WTF? Who even plays that beside anime geeks? oh wait...

wtf, you like Shiny Car Racer and Madden 2003 no 2004 no 2005 no 2006 this time its better honest?

Shiny car racer...LMFAO

I seem to recall that the Office suite allows users to save files in older formats too.

When Microsoft came out with Office 97 it saved in a format incompatible with Office 95. If you imported an Office 95 document into Office 97 and resaved it, it was saved in Office 97 format. So unless all users upgraded to Office 97, there were incompatibilities! It was not just a matter of upgrading your entire company to Office 97 but also any partners you shared documents with! I don't know if this was planned by Microsoft to force upgrades but their customers complained loudly! Microsoft was forced to quickly make a patch to Office 97 so it could save documents in Office 95 format and eventually a patch came out for Office 95 so it could read Office 97 documents! Having learned their lesson, for later Office releases they always included support for saving to older formats.

Microsoft, whether they knew this would happen or not, has a very powerful card in their deck. It's called "Armies of Fratboys who will follow Halo-whatever-# over mountains and off a cliff if it comes to that".

It was an untapped market, because it introduced a culture of former "non-geeks" to competitive multiplayer gaming, and had the side effect of luring post-grads and pre-grads into the circle. Tons of kids with expendable cash, and a brand name seared into their brains. It is a gravy train like none other. And they can COUNT on people buying the 360 just for that reason. You can preach on about how utterly ridiculous the pricing and the release timing was, but it really doesn't matter. Rest assured that ( in the US anyway ) the XBox360 is WELL taken care of. There was no need to prove a killer app at release, the buyers PRESUME that it will come later.

Things might have gone differently four years ago, but they didn't. And here we are >.<

Yes.

You actually bought one of those things? Hahahahahahahaha

LOL

You have a 360!?!?!?! wtf? Are YOU simply retarted?

I just thought these two answers were great

But there exist another game for the Xbox 2. Fight Night Round 3. (So now there's THREE games for that console) Really good actually. (No I don't own an Xbox 2. A friend (who isn't very bright) does.