hello ...
maybe will repeat what i already said on another site ...
nice MOVE MS ... LOL ... but too late for the reputation.
this 1 do look better & the bigger upgradeable hard-disk is the best feature added.
it has wireless-n - making it necessary to get new routers for the usual 'boxes' that we get from our ISPs aren't compliant, hope it is backward compatible with wireless-g & still has an Ethernet port.
Oh GOD, if it is quieter that's also a big MOVE
with Kinetic, MS want to push more, but i'm sure the technology will be much adopted by actual owners than push new systems. with more than 50% fail rate on the old system, the new Xbox 'slim' would definitely have some sale & I just hope this time MS have better consideration for game developers by making it harder to hack/MOD (my main reason why i didn't like the Xbox)
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Now to those comparing PC gaming to console, it's pointless, i believe the PC remain the best platform for everything but i don't feel like any platform is better than another because it also depends on the software.
the PC has indeed better hardware but few games take advantage of this & quite soon we have upgrades that are underutilized.
I'm a PC & PS3 gamer, so you'd better think of all console owners of being mostly a two-platform gamer.
I have God of War, Uncharted, soon GT5 & a lot of great exclusive to the PS3 titles that makes it worth it, while i also play Diablo series & a few other more games on the PC so i hope you get the point.
The Xbox too has some cool exclusive that make their owners happy.
I just hate the console fanboys for they give us a bad face, i stated why i didn't like the Xbox360 much because of its unreliability & MS lack of consideration of developers, but if wasn't so i would have owned 1 also just for the exclusive.
Multiplatform games are better on PC where they are not flagrant bad ports. The mouse & Keyboard pretext has never been an issue, i don't know for Xbox, but the PS3 uses the devices for normal stuffs & if you want it in an FPS, we can use the different mappers around & play games with.
BOT:
Good luck to the xbox360 'slim', but still not so much to get me interested in, i shall check in the future though .. will depend on reviews & stability, for now i still believe that we get the best of gaming with a PC + PS3!
cheers!