Several months back I was in the local Future Shop and Blake (the only FS employee worth talking to) asked me if I was getting an XBox 360. I told him I would eventually and he said I should get a deposit down because they’re only getting twenty and 18 of them were reserved. So I put $50 on it and left it at that.
Cue to a few months later and we’ve got a big upcoming move (Mel’s current 2 hour each way commute is painful for me to think about, so I can’t imagine how she’s enjoying doing it!) and hidden expenses all over and a few of my clients are slow to pay me what they owe me and the 360 launches. We discuss it and decide I should just go in and get it anyway. The money will come and we’re not as bad off as we have been.
So I picked it up, along with Perfect Dark Zero and an extra wireless controller. It’s a nice piece of technology. The XBox Live interface is beautiful even without an HDTV to use it on. I easily set up the 360 to stream my MP3 collection over the network from my PC. Getting my digital music into the living room and onto the stereo has been something I’ve wanted for ages, so that’s all good.
PDZ is a good shooter, but it’s a console shooter. I’m terrible at using the console controllers to play shooter type games. I suppose I’ll get better at it eventually. I’m very much looking forward to DOA4 and some of the promised RPGs for the system.
For Mel we bought the XBox Live “Bejeweled 2″ and she’s already got us to #12 in the all-time high scores. We’d buy some of the other “classic” games online but they’re overpriced. I’m not going to pay $10 to play “Joust” on my XBox 360, and I doubt many other people will. I think they’d get a hundred times as many purchasers if they just microcosted it down to $1. Heck, make those games a buck or two and I’ll buy most of them. But at $10 each I’ve grabbed the one my wife plays obsessively on the computer and that’s it.
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