An Update about an Update
December 5th, 2007 by Anuj
So last night I noticed a dashboard update to the Xbox360 dashboard, which I thought was mostly pretty cool! Most of the changes seemed kinda pointless, but it did add efficiency and I’m always a fan of efficiency.
I guess they also took this time to unveil the new and highly talked about feature, which would be the “Xbox Originals,” which seems to be the ability to pay $15 for classic favorites on the Xbox and then be able to emulate their play from your hard drive instead of from your disk. If you ask me, this is a ripoff… you could find most of these games on shelves for under $15 bucks anyways, and you get no added features or support by downloading it, no 360 menus or dashboard options, no achievements, no content addtions or things via the 360Live system, not really anything new. I don’t really expect a whole new game with features that didn’t exist when the game was first released, but I expect some reason to pay for this.
Also, comparisons to the Wii VC are undeniable, but I think the comparison would be more fitting if you saw GameCube games on the VC for $15, and furthermore, it seems to me that Wii VC titles are a lot harder to come by, the prices are much more reasonable, and you’d actually have to connect another console to your TV to play these games, which, depending on the game, is reason enough (IMO).
Oh hey also, I got the Psychonauts theme which was awesome, and that’s probably the coolest thing about the new Xbox Originals update is that they are giving away themes for those things free instead of charging the dollar or two they normally might to especially rip you off. I’m sure it won’t be long before they add price tags to those things. But anyway, I did get the Psychonauts theme because Psychonauts is awesome. You can see it in the pictures I took with my cell phone above. But hey, you know what’s also weird, for some reason I’m getting my messages from other people in Spanish!
3 Comments Add your own
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Mike | December 6th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Don’t forget DivX and Xvid support. That is by far the best feature for me, now I can watch all my Battlestars, son! Also, anime. Also, porn.
Wait, not the last one.
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Anuj | December 6th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Ah yeah, so that’s why my Avatar episodes would play now! Yeah, that’s pimp as well admittedly. And yeah right “not that last one,” hehe.
Anyway though, an update about the Spanish on my console… WTF! So I called Microsoft tech support and the guy says what I’m talking about is impossible and that no such feature exists. Furthermore he was talking to me like I was some sort of dumbass lunatic as well. He says in a condescending sarcastic way “that would have to be a pretty sophisticated advanced feature.” I know how nuts it sounds, but I’m positive my friends aren’t pulling a fast one on me, because two random friends sent me the messages unknowing of the Spanish problem, and both messages were sent in English and received in Spanish. I don’t know what’s up but the photos are above as proof!
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Anuj | December 6th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Ok, turns out my jerk friends were pulling a prank. Fucking jerks.
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