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09:19 PM
At that moment I remembered being amazed when SOCOM 2 got 7,000 people online. #xboxlive
08:50 PM
Well to all those 2 million folks who probably wont read this. GET SOME SLEEP! LOL! Don't be like me and marathon U2 for like...12 hours...
My eyes... #xboxlive
08:53 PM
09:03 PM
Well that's because you were playing a different game silly! You weren't clogging on the MW servers or whatever you online folks use!
As you can clearly see...I know dick about online games what so ever...I'm trying to get online on the PSN. I just like single player games. #xboxlive
08:50 PM
Seriously though, It kind of shocked me that the record is only 2 million. I mean, I get it, 2 million is a HUGE number, but I had always thought that there were a lot more people playing online on the Xbox. #xboxlive
08:51 PM
08:46 PM
2 million people used to be here. Now it's a ghost town. #xboxlive
08:40 PM
Sad to see P.T. Barnum is proven right yet again...
08:38 PM
08:34 PM
I took a look at the DJ Hero stuff too and was like "Meh..." #assassinscreedii
08:41 PM
08:50 PM
:) #assassinscreedii
08:57 PM
09:01 PM
I don't own DJ Hero. Last rhythm game from Activision I touched was last year. I'm all about RB2 now. :P #assassinscreedii
09:10 PM
09:20 PM
09:53 PM
I advise you, if you are a fan of the music game genre in general to give it a try. My wife and I have a blast with it, hell she's even better than me at quite a few mixes. #assassinscreedii
10:37 PM
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08:31 PM
man.
hey, why doesn't the nfl just play on a smaller field and with less people? that'd be an easier way to keep mom, and grandmom, from getting lost.
also, serious question: is this from EA sports freestyle or EA sports big? or did EA sports drop both of those sub-brands now? i mean, like, are they just relying on the customer to see the cartoon-like graphics and go, "oh, this isn't a serious, realistic sports game"? #maddenarcade
08:55 PM
EA will explain the sudden absence with "layoffs", a code word for "ritual sacrifice". Not that EA is evil, it's just secretly under Activision's rule. #maddenarcade
08:55 PM
08:21 PM
Mmm... Turkey and Pigskin (Drool) #maddenarcade
04:36 PM
now that's what i call breaking the street date. #projectnatal
04:55 PM
05:03 PM
Seriously. It's an f'ing travesty. How could people possibly rate the Natal higher than, oh I don't know... Solar Shingles, or the AIDS vaccine. #projectnatal
05:53 PM
this has nothing to do with Microsoft. as a whole they have done some great things. this is about Time magazine being a bunch of dweebs and prematurely stroking the wang of Natal as if its freaking out and changing the way we play games. stop being such a tool and read the POST.
TSK TSK NATAL IS NOT OUT YET .
AND TSK TSK, PS EYETOY SAYS HOWDY YALL. #projectnatal
04:36 PM
03:41 PM
Does anyone, other than dentist's offices, actually buy Time magazine? If there's one dinosaur that I thought the Internet age would kill, it's Time magazine. #projectnatal
03:12 PM
If Time had given this award out next year, jack asses would be saying "but it was invented last year!!"
It's invented. That you are unimpressed or unable to see the possibilities, is irrelevant. That you can't buy it yet is irrelevant.
Another one of the top 50? Tweeting with your brain. [www.time.com] that commercially available? Viable? Does that matter?
No. No it doesn't. Its cool. And even if it never sees the light of day. Even if it never works for all people. It's still cool. #projectnatal
03:58 PM
It's not that its not currently out and available to consumers. I'd wager most of that list isn't out commercially.
However as it stands there's no final Natal product at all, all we currently have is some press shots n some 'demos' of the device. Even Molyneaux admitted most of the Milo demo was canned, and is just an idea of what it would do.
As someone suggested it's like awarding a GOTY while its still in alpha.
Others have also pointed out the technology isn't even new:
e.g the Zcam
[en.wikipedia.org]
[www.engadget.com]
Which 3DV was snapped up by MS early this year
[arstechnica.com]
And even if it's not an award for the tech but for its application, controller free gaming has been around since Eyetoy.
So yeah, the complaints are perfectly valid.
Also the Tweet by thinking thing is commercially viable. It's something that been worked on for many years, and will allow people with paralysis to communicate even if they cannot speak, or move their hand to write. It's kinda the complete opposite to natal ain't it. #projectnatal
04:37 PM
No ones talking about it being commercially available. They're talking about a finished and tested product. #projectnatal
04:49 PM
Do you really think that on-stage demonstration back at E3 (with the elephant painting and brick breaking) was completely faked? (obviously not, as the "bam! there's the underside of my shoe" gag was clearly (and painfully) not pre-rendered)
Do you realize how long it was after the invention of the airplane until a typical consumer got to use/fly in one? Years and years.
It has been invented. Will they continue to tweak it? Yes. Will they continue to develop it? Yes. Might it not catch on? Yes. But a mere patent drawing this isn't. It is as real as the Wright Flyer was. Moreso really. The Wright Flyer was a single prototype. Presumably, Natal is virtually in its finished form already. #projectnatal
06:56 PM
Well, I'm sure Natal existed in some form a few years ago. It didn't just pop up this year if we're gonna get technical like that. With that said, since Natal will get the chance to be appreciated next year I don't think anyone would question it's importance if it turned out to be worthy of praise as a great invention of 2010.
Time shouldn't be so quick to praise anything this easily is the problem. At least not before it's been through it's rounds. People differ with their views of Natal, if it was given a chance to prove that it was so great though we probably wouldn't be having this discussion. It's just too early, I think that's what everyone is getting at. #projectnatal
07:11 PM
"The vaccine is not approved for use yet, but it's the first to make any headway against HIV, and that's a start."
That's the problem with end of the year lists such as this. History is often unkind to them and doesn't operate on a strict time line.
It is often impossible to see an invention and instantly realize the potential. And even more difficult to predict whether that potential will actually be realized.
True 3-D control without any controller or device combined with voice, face, and tone recognition, could be a huge deal. It could truly change interactivity as we know it. Will it? I don't know.
Whether it deserves to be on this list or not is one issue. I don't know the answer to that question. I'm not aware of any inventions that got left off the list so I'm not in a position to say it doesn't.
I believe I was more addressing the primary argument over whether it was "invented" at all such that it could be considered for this list. As to that foundational question, I believe it most certainly has.
If we had to see the thing on the market and working perfectly to say it was invented, most of the things on that list (if not virtually all of them) would/could not be there.
Such as the AIDS vaccine. #projectnatal
07:22 PM
"Then why are they praising the AIDS vaccine?"
I stated in the post earlier that nothing should be praised before it's showed it's worth.
"Time shouldn't be so quick to praise anything this easily is the problem."
This isn't about Natal anymore, it's about Time's ignorance. It seems that if Natal is a success Time can come in 10 years and say "remember when we called this". If not, we'll never hear of it again. It's just Time's list that's the problem. If they're just going to randomly say anything is great with no coherent value to be seen who are they to rank it? A bunch of posers I believe.
I think now we've come to a common understanding that the list is bologna. #projectnatal
07:33 PM
Excuse the excessive second post, but I have something of another nature to address.
On the topic of whether or not Natal should be praised this year or next, I think it doesn't matter. Natal was patented this year, but I'm sure it was invented before hand. No one is going to care about the time it succeeds after it has. They're only going to care about it when it affects them, which right now, it does not.
The AIDS vaccine affects people now because unfortunately many people have AIDS, so it's hope.
An example of this is the iPod. The iPod didn't become popular for two or so years after it was invented, when did it become worth praising?
To me, the Time list should be about significance. Natal was unexpected and doesn't really fix anything, especially when put in context with some of the other stuff on the list. #projectnatal
02:10 PM