Not worth the magnetic tape it's recorded on.

Ye gods... did anyone else watch the MTV Xbox 360 Revealed show last night? They aired it after The Daily Show on CTV.

Go read today's Penny Arcade for a pretty good summation of my thoughts on it. It was a piece of garbage from my perspective. What little gameplay stuff they showed must have amounted to about an entire minute of the half hour 'show'.

It made the Our Colony video look downright jampacked with tech. The special was a bunch of 'celebrities' yapping about how they like to play games and generally being annoying. Some band called The Killers did a couple songs too, which ate up even more time.

The thing that drove me nuts was how much time both the MTV special and the Our Colony video devote to raving about the RING OF POWER, which is essentially just this glowing green light that goes around the power button. Much like the current generation XBox's green glowing light around the eject button. Woop dee frickin' doo.

Yawn.

At least I taped it so I could fast forward through most of it.

Here's what Gabe had to say about the MTV thing:

"So how about that Xbox 360? I am assuming that everyone watched the MTV show last night and I am also assuming that we all agree it was garbage. The important thing to understand here is that, much like Twisp and Catsby that show was not for us. When I say us I am referring to the hardcore. The sorts of people who perhaps downloaded a torrent of last nights MTV show. The sorts of people who had to call their cable company to find out what channel MTV was on. The sorts of people who had their Tivo or media PC grab the show for them so that they could watch it at their leisure. Last nights unveiling of the Xbox 360 was not for us it was for the people who were already watching MTV. It's true, there are human beings out there who watch MTV in the same way your mom might watch ABC. Sitting through show after show and watching as rides are pimped and celebrities are punked. Last nights show was for them and when you look at it that way I have to say I think the show was a success. I cannot imagine those sorts of people not being entertained for the entire 30 minutes by the flashing lights and famous people. Gaming is cool now. Isn't that awesome."

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What I'm Reading: Sentinel Digest, A.F. & T.A.I.
What I'm Playing: Lego Star Wars, Guild Wars, Ace Combat 5
What I'm Watching: The Dead Zone, Appleseed: The CGI remake