New Xbox hardware...

[SurlyYeti]

Well time for some new Xbox hardware? How about the Xbox slim (http://
www.engadget.com/2010/06/13/xbox-360-slim-outed-by-italian-ad/) ? or
the Xbox Kinect (http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/13/microsoft-kinect-
revealed-project-natal-finally-gets-a-name/) ? I can see the kiddies
now moving all over the living room, looking like they got ants in the
pants.

-SY

USC - "Cheat on"

[Scott Fleury]

So far all of the Kinect games look to be HD upgrades of Wii games. The
menu navigation element is the coolest thing so far- not cool enough to
warrant a purchase for me.

The new design has some cool features, the built in wifi being the best
one. My current one is running fine (knock on wood)so no reason to
upgrade at this point.

-ZJ

-SY

USC - "Cheat on"

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[Scott Fleury]

MONSTER sale this week. If you haven't gotten Geometry Wars 2, Castle
Crashers, Shadow Complex, Trials HD, etc yet now is your chance.

Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week:

This weeks Xbox LIVE Deal of the week is 5 different deals with savings
of up to 50% off on previous Summer of Arcade titles:

Normal Price DOTW Price Savings
Shadow Complex 1200
560
47%

Trials HD 1200
560
47%

Marvel vs Capcom 2 1200
560
47%

TMNT Turtles in Time HD 800
400
50%

Splosion Man 800
400
50%

Normal Price Blow out Price Savings
A Kingdom for Keflings 800 400 50%
Alien Hominid HD 800 400 50%
Banjo Tooie 1200 800 33%
Bionic Commando Rearmed 800 400 50%
Bomberman LIVE 800 400 50%
Braid 1200 800 33%
Castle Crashers 1200 800 33%
Castlevania Symphony of the Night 800 400 50%
Contra 400 240 40%
Crystal Defenders 800 400 50%
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 800 400 50%
Magic the Gathering 800 400 50%
N+ 800 400 50%
Panzer General 800 400 50%
Portal 1200 800 33%
TMNT: 1989 Arcade 400 240 40%
Uno Rush 800 400 50%
Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment 1200 800 33%
Zombie Apocalypse 800 400 50%

[SurlyCheese]

If you have not seen the new Metal Gear trailer, it looks awesome!

http://www.giantbomb.com/metal-gear-solid-rising-trailer-e3-trailer/17-2659/

The Sony Fan Boys gotta be pissed that this is coming to the 360.

-SC

[Scott Fleury]

That looks cool. I wonder how the game will handle letting you cut from
any angle during fights. Probably a meter that builds up and goes into
slo mo mode?

-ZJ

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http://www.giantbomb.com/metal-gear-solid-rising-trailer-e3-trailer/17-2
659/

-SC

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[Benjamin Klein]

it definitely looks interesting.

Just looked at some of the videos of the Xbox Kinect. The lazy man in me
totally wants one just for the menu navigation. Sometimes, I'm not in the
mood to actually pick something up to navigate with.

The PS3 Move still looks gay.

-TB

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[Scott Fleury]

IGN reported yesterday that Kinect only works standing up. I haven't
seen anywhere else reporting this though.

Maybe they are only talking about games. Or maybe they are talking out
of their a$$. That seems like too big of a flaw for M$ to try to let
slide by the public.

Wait, we're talking about the company that signed off on the 60% fail
rate of 1st gen 360s. Never mind.

[SurlyCheese]

"Wait, we're talking about the company that signed off on the 60% fail
> rate of 1st gen 360s. "

That is why you should buy a PS3.

The Sorcery game for PS3 with the Move looks like it will be a blast
for kids.

-SC

[Scott Fleury]

And.....it is partly to mostly true. Ouch.

http://kotaku.com/5565777/xbox-kinect-does-not-play-well-with-couch-pota
toes?skyline=true&s=i

I'd be worried less about this sitting thing and I would stop asking the
"sitting question" if I had not been made to watch a movie via Kinect
while standing up.

On Monday evening I participated in a brief demonstration of how Kinect
could be used to control the Xbox 360 dashboard. This demonstration had
me standing in front of the Kinect and using both hand-waves and voice
commands to flip through menus on a TV and load applications such as
movie-watching and video chat. There were chairs at this demo, but they
were off to the side. I had to stand up.

The Kinect is superb at recognizing a standing player. It reads the
presence of your body, detects 19 or so key joints in your frame and
tracks your movement with magical immedicay. I had no more trouble
swiping through the Kinect menus than I did steering the car in the
Forza demo. Voice commands worked nicely as well, though I lamented that
the Kinect couldn't distinguish my commands from anyone else's in the
room. What I didn't understand is why I had to stand through all of
this.

I liked telling the Xbox 360 to pause a movie. I liked extending my hand
and dragging the movie's progress bar left or right, as if I was using
the Star Wars Force to fast forward and rewind. But, I asked the
Microsoft people running the demo, could I drag a chair over and try
this sitting down?

No.

"Sitting is something we're still calibrating for," one of them told me.