Itss been a long while since ive made a blog, and ive had lots of things ive wanted to write whole posts about.

-HD-DVD

this past week was the end of HD-DVD. something i was following closely. i have the HD player for the 360. it was good, had many problems. noticed it had many flaws. had a hard time reading the disks sometimes. also it was veryslow. fast forwarding was very hard at times, it just took a long time to process the function. i really dont care that it failed, i have a ps3 now as well, so i had both. but i do have about 15 HD movies. all really good movies, so i wont be trading them in.

im surprised all this happened so quickly. as soon as Warner announced they were dropping it, the rest of the dominoes fell. merely days later Universal and Paramount dropped as well, being the last 2 supporters of HD. then about a week later Walmart decided to go bluray exclusive, then finally Toshiba drops the bomb of not making them anymore, and that was the end of that. bluray is the better technology anyway. it wasnt better for quality, but it was better for speed and spacing. and now even microsoft is going to be releasing a bluray add on for the 360. :roll: they caved in quick.

-PS3

as some of you know ive recently bought a ps3. i like it, in fact im really impressed with it. the quality is great, user interface is very good, just like my psp. ive already customized it to my liking. ive even used the keyboard and mouse when playing UT3, and it is most impressive, once calibrated, it was just like playing on the pc.

at first i was very against the ps3, never liked sony. the only reason i bought a ps2 was for the exclusives. mgs, god of war, gta, otherwise i got everything on my xbox. the same was to be for my ps3. but im finding i like it very much and will probably get many games for it. ill still primarily use my 360, but i have a feeling ill use the ps3 more then originally planned.

its funny, everyone is saying 'the ps3 will rule in 08' and 'ps3 will start selling well in 08',all the while i laughed at them and theyre believing that on january 1st everyone will go out and buy a ps3. bu the truth is, thats practically what i did. i bout it on like the 5 or 6th on ebay for a great price. its the 60gb, and i couldnt be happier. guess i got owned. :( all well, now i have all 3 :)

-360

well today was microsofts GDC keynote, and as i expected, they had nothing. sure they showed a video for NG2, and it was great, but it wasnt enough. i was happy to see the June release date at the end of the video though. they talked about Fable 2 and the co-op ability. thats cool, just as long as we get everything that they promised to us in the first Fable this time around, ill be happy. there was no Banjo 3 showing, which is beginning to worry me, but i think theyre just saving that for E3.

they showed a teaser for Gears 2, and i really don think i could have cared any less. in my opinion, th 1st was an over-hyped piece of trash just like Halo. i have much respect for Epic because of Unreal Tournament, and i though that Gears had a lot of promise to it, but i know i felt verylet down. maybe its because im not a big XBL multiplayer kind of guy, maybe that why i feel the same way about Halo. im more of the story and single player experience kind of person, and i feel cheated by both games because all they did was really focus on multiplayer and not give a damn about the single player side of it. but i have played both games multiplayer, and i can say, that im still not impressed, especially with halos multiplayer. maybe i just don see it, but whatever. moving on...

i am starting to get tired off microsoft all together. 2 1/2 years and still no solution for the RRoD. i fear for my console everytime i turn it on. this is technically my 4th. 1st one dies 6 months after a day one release purchase. 2nd they sent to me in exchange for te 1st, this one was more messed up then the one i sent them. #3 survived for a lone time. i sold it to my cousins because i wanted to upgrade to the HDMI systems last september, most wouldnt count that one, but, 6weeks after i sold it to them, it died. so now im on #4, surviving since september, luckily. im really believing they dont care at all anymore, and we the idiot consumers keep eating up their BS. but i think theyre starting to see a decline with many people switching to ps3. so hopefully that will put their grapes in a vise and do something about it.

-wii

cant complain, loving it. playing MP3 right now, and addicted as hell. cant wait for Smash, and Mario Kart. want No More Heroes bad, other than that, its doing great. although sadly i dont think that will last unless they start releasing more appealing games. 3rd party support sucks, and i believe if No More Heroes fails in sales, 3rd party developers will be even less inclined to make new and original games for the system. so well see how that goes in the coming months.

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thats all for now i guess. ;)