What has my attention?
So,
Xbox made their announcement last night (12 am EST)...well, I guess today, because it was Sept 15th in Japan already. But anyways, they announced their release dates. Nov 22nd, 2005 for the North American Region. More information at
Major Nelson 's blog.
So anyways, Apple made the Nano announcement about a week or 2 ago. If you compare those 2 announcments, (it sounds bad), but the Nano is more on my mind. Maybe because what MS announced was speculated (and correct within like 4 days), for a month or so now. I came to almost BELIEVE the speculation. The nano, on the other hand, was a TOTAL surprise. There was speculation of a colored MINI, and that flash drives would be in the mini. BUT, no one expected the death of the mini and the birth of the Nano. The sheer surprise by Apple on that (which I must agree with Scoble, is a good design).
But, now throwing in PDC, Longhorn/Vista is on my mind.
What I find bad, is that I am an Xbox.com MVP, and without NO extra knowledge (I dont have any), I was not ammused by the announcement.
Oh, what REALLY REALLY annoys me, is that MS is yet to make a BIG announcement inside the states. They are an American company for god's sake. We have a game show in Germany for the pricing. We have a game show in Toyko for the release date. What was released on American soil?!?!? E3? That was NOTHING...a bunch of PR stuff. UGH.