LOL The tagline should be "it's what inside that cunts..."

To be honest, I think I'd be more likely to jump on Sony's motion experience than Microsoft's. The Kinect is just too prohibitive to do things that you need extra buttons and stuff for.

As with all up-and-coming technologies, NOBODY really knows how well it'll do. Only time will tell.

Guess I have to comment positively and politely now. :(

@garfep: LOL Who are you on SM.net? :D And for the record, I mostly associate with EBC these days rather than SM.net. ;)

@VagEnthusiast: Yes, that's true. "Could" overheat. And some do. But when your overheat/critical failure rate is anything above a single digit percentage, you've got serious engineering and design failures. When those failures seem to carry over to every revision of your product over the course of several years, then…

@MikeLanglois: I don't buy it. I mean, yes, this is true for any system, but there's no way that the 360 would get such a bad reputation just because some people shove theirs into a cabinet or something.

@LunaEclDark: They are part of the trouble. Nintendo has a host of issues they need to iron out when it comes to online support. It's not like this stuff is prohibitively difficult. Every other company in the universe seems to get it right (more or less).

@NadaNuff: Every game generates a unique code for your system, and in order to play with your friends, you have to register each other on your system as "friends". If you don't, you can play with anonymous people, but they don't let you interact with them in any way except maybe pre-programmed text messages. And…

Kinect may actually be fun, assuming that the Xbox it runs on doesn't red ring itself, which is, what, 75% likely to happen?

Jesus Christ. Seriously. It's as if Microsoft isn't aware that it's possible to create an electrical device that DOESN'T overheat. They've had how long to fix the 360? 5, 6 years? MAYBE constant overheating would be acceptable back in 1970. I'm seriously blown away at how incompetent their engineering team is.

@Methusalah: Eh, MAYBE. It's just stupid that their "pick up and play with anyone" modes are always 100% anonymous. What if you play with someone who's awesome and you wanna play with them again? Nope. Never gonna happen. Friend codes are just stupid.

@fryght: Hm. Maybe I misjudged your post. Yeah I guess I can see your side of the argument. I suppose I'm a little too optimistic about Nintendo. :-\ They broke my heart these past several years, but I was immediately convinced of their recommitment to their old fan base after E3. I'll probably be a day-one 3DS buyer…

Well at least they're aware of how abysmal their online efforts are. I really hope they step it up. First step: NO FRIEND CODES. Geez...

I feel the exact same way as this post's author! It really did feel like Nintendo had abandoned the fans that had supported them throughout the years in favor of the quick sell to the "casual gamers". I was expecting more of the same crap from Nintendo at E3, but somehow, through some stroke of luck or fate, they…

@fryght: Troll alert.

@Wahrheit: Yeah, it's something like that. Apparently it makes it incredibly difficult to exploit things or intercept instructions.

@gurfinki: Fine, I was trolling. I'm man enough to admit it. Sorry.

@Deanb: Yup. Hell, the PS3 has Blu-ray capabilities, yet it's considered to be about the same as the 360 in terms of graphical capabilities.

@MadPretty: The only reason optical and magnetic storage media exist still is because it's practically free. I have a 16GB microSD card. It's freakin' tiny. Anything near or above 1GB will be just fine for any portable gaming, so this is nice to hear. :)