Xboxing

So Aleph, Abu, Dilettante and I were invited to a market research party, of sorts, where we had to play the Xbox 360 and provide meaningful feedback. Much fun was had but the general opinion was that the hardware is too expensive (Rs. 20,000 odd for the base version), there are too few games (which are also expensive at Rs. 1500 a pop), the controllers are way complicated and, as would be par for course for a Microsoft product, it hangs. That said, the game play does look good, the wireless controllers are a neat touch and Xbox Live can be a killer differentiator. Hopefully better sense will prevail and they won't use the brand ambassador they've chosen.

Oh, and they had a wicked good mango cheesecake for tea.

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Update:

So you can now pre-order an Xbox. Woot! Woot!

Go here, so to do.

Xbox India Home.