May 21, 2005
Microsoft's Allard Acting Lame
What do you do when your main competitor kicks your butt at E3? Well the Microsoft point man for the Xbox 360, Mr. Allard, starts to say graphics and sound don't matter any more like a politician who just lost a key nationally televised debate spinning lies in the media spin room. That things are getting "good enough." He makes me want to puke. And by the way, he bashes Sony for being "misleading" with its tech demos and says there is no way Sony will make a Spring launch. Someone a little defensive?I kind of put the 'does it look better?' secondarily. Not because it's not important, not because I don't think we're not going to have a system to do it, but because we're almost good enough. You know, years ago when we were making Xbox, there was this debate. People talk about the Blu-Ray DVD thing [now, but] they would come in and they would say 'what are you doing about SACD and DVD Audio?' Higher fidelity audio, dadadada. I'm like 'I couldn't tell the difference between vinyl and CD!' It's more convenient, which is nice, and I can play it in my car and I don't have to screw up tapes, but I can't hear the difference, do I need better audio in my life? [Discuss]
