This Week’s WTF — Microsft Kills the PC vs Console Idea

All we have is speculation pie sprinkled with some powdered rumor. Some say they brought in the best PC gamers, had them play lame games against console gamers and pretty much had results. The console gamers got their asses kicked — every single time. So that slice of speculation pie would lean toward Microsoft looking like a fool and not really wanting to publicize that.

XBOX with Facebook and Twitter — Winner of The Dumbest Console Idea Award for 2009

The basic notion of Xbox Live is social media for gaming and then some. No one actually goes on there to “catch up” with old friends. You go on there to shoot dudes with your buddies, demolish other gamers in some hella fun frag war or play some goofy games together. Occasionally there will be some kind of tournament or other gaming opportunity/contest to win stuff, then there’s all the other things we’ve grown accustomed to having with our gold memberships (beta tests, demos, movies, music, TV shows and the supremely awesome Netflix). Putting Facebook and Twitter into the the mix — well it’s stupid.