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Xbox Live please come in
Slowly over the past couple years my "normal" friends have started gaming again.
By "normal" I mean older guys who are typically married and even have kids. We grew up on Atari, NES and Sega hockey '93 (the move!). And by "gaming again", I mean that these guys are buying Xbox.
This holiday season was the "tipping point" for my friends. They've got Xbox 360, they've got a bunch of games and they're all on Xbox Live. We may even have enough to form a "clan".
It's great to score goals on them and knife them in the back. But there's a problem...
It seems that these "newbies" have created a tipping point for xbox live.
Starting almost immediately on December 25, it's been quite difficult to start-up an online game. The online waiting room gives a really long wait or times out, regularly. Games quit in the middle. It really sucks and everyone is complaining. "You'd think Microsoft could afford more servers" is the common rant.
This means a couple things to me:
> I should have purchased Microsoft's stock a couple months ago.
> The economy ain't so bad if folks are ponying $400 for xbox and games.
On a related note... how come people never mention xbox when they talk about social networking? My online friendships via email, AIM and Facebook are no where near as fun as knifing a buddy in the back in a game of COD4!
UPDATE: MS sold 4.3 million xboxes from September to January.
