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The website foundation.biz just went live with their redesign. It looks great except for one tiny element. Something just seems wrong about floating a button on top of someones nose. Above the face makes more sense to me.
Microsoft is bragging that Xbox 360 sales are still accelerating 6 years into its life-cycle. Well no shit, Sherlock. That’s what happens when you release a $150 accessory instead of a new console because the country is in a recession.
Don’t get me wrong, the Kinect is fantastic as is the Xbox 360. However, it’s on the verge of insulting to boast about “changing the tail” of a consoles life cycle when they’re squeezing every last bit of life out of a dying horse and holding the entire industry back in the process. The Xbox 360′s weaker processor with fewer cores is hurting both PC and PS3 gaming. Nintendo is on the verge of lapping Microsoft with their soon to be revealed Project Cafe. When it’s released next year the gaming industry will continue to code for the lowest common denominator, the Xbox 360. Had Nintendo introduced the Wii motion controller as an accessory to the GameCube they would have been able to claim a similar historical tail-changing feet, but thankfully they didn’t. Nintendo got away with releasing a weak console because they introduced a new genre with motion gaming. That isn’t the case with the Kinect. The industry reacted to the Wii by segregating them from block buster titles. The Xbox 360 is too big of a player for the same to happen again and the industry will suffer as a result.