MTV Xbox 360 Party: Worst Event Evar
The only thing of substance in last night’s Xbox 360 party was the segment on the new Perfect Dark game. I learned Perfect Dark is pretty, that’s it. Nothing else. I guess if you hadn’t heard anything about the new 360 you would have also learned:
- 360 is white.
- 360 can stand on it’s side.
- 360 has different face plates.
- 360 has wireless controllers.
- 360 can go online…
All of these factoids are unispiring or are so vauge as to border on useless. They left out all the meat, and failed to show the world anything other than “more screenshots”. Microsoft really dropped the ball.
As an aside, I’m a Scoble-whore, because I use the word Scoble in this post (forgive me). Hopefully, he’ll see this and let the responsible party at Microsoft know how badly they failed to educate and excite people about what should be their newest coolest product. You had tons of eyeballs, you had MTV, and you filled up an hour with the amount of information that could have been printed on a brochure.
Dan Lash Said,
May 26, 2005 @ 1:41 pm
I think you missed the point … Techies and gamers don’t watch MTV to get tech specs. And the “normal” people that watch MTV don’t care about them either. The point was to hype up the people that weren’t in on all the rumors, and didn’t hear about all the stuff that we’ve “known” about for a long time. They wanted the people who don’t even know what E3 is to wake up and get excited about the next Xbox.
tor Said,
May 28, 2005 @ 2:15 pm
I didn’t expect huge tech specs or in depth interviews, but I was looking for more than what was there. I know they were pandering to the lowest common denominator, but I give the masses more credit than MS and MTV did with their unveiling.