| Next Gen As a Media Center I had mostly ignored the next-gen consoles up until last week. I was over at a friend's place and he showed me some of the things he likes about his 360. He plays his stuff on a 17" LCD that he also uses with his computer, and runs it at 1280*1024. He can run games at that resolution - he showed me Call of Duty 2, something that I played at 640*480 on my computer (and it was still choppy).
He can download trailers and game demos and they're fairly quick to download. We're talking trailers in the hundreds of megabytes and demos that are I-don't-know-how-big. In any case, it's impressive and I'm sure it requires serious bandwidth. My family has DirecTV right now and we buy movies all the time. I'm sure that if we could purchase movies through our console they'd consider that too. It would also be nice to ditch our TV service since we hardly use it for anything besides movies.
At this point, I'm still holding out on a new console - we haven't bought one since the Nintendo 64 was cool and new. I don't have an HDTV and probably won't buy one for quite a while yet. But I'll definitely be watching the prices a bit now - a 360 might be worthy an investment even without being able to see the cool HD stuff once the price drops a bit. |
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| If you're going to wait anyway you might as well check out the Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3 as well, just to make sure you're getting the best of the latest console games for what your interests are. |
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