Xbox 360 Launch: Success or Mess?

[lazyfatbum]

The launch is a definite success in America. But if I were the president of MS's game division i'd be putting 50% of the company in the development of Halo 3 and it's ad-campaign and 50% of the company in to R&D for new, exclusive franchises based on radical types of gameplay. MS needs a mascot and I dont mean Pit-Pat the pan-sexual marketing thing.

Nintendo has like 40 of them, Sega has Sonic, Sony tried and tried but their best mascot was actually Resident Evil characters and Final Fantasy and now, Metal gear Solid and GTA and MS has... a dead guy. Woo! Halo's okay but Halo is one genre, it has no spice. MGS has all kinds of gaming elements, Halo has one. Mario is usually a tour de force of the system's capabilities with every type of gameplay you could imagine, Halo has one. They tried and failed horribly with Blinx (Sonic's and Crash's bastard child who was raised by Mario) and then you have DOA which is a pretty suck boob-fighter and I seriously doubt Kameo is going to be eaten up by frat houses around the nation. As Smoke put it: "Oh I cant wait to play that game where you're a girl that turns in to a boxing plant!" So yeah, not gonna fly with MS crowd.

MS desperately needs a killer app right now if they want to keep all those customers they just got.