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So I said I was going to save the 360 rant for tomorrow, but I just had an experience that is making me change my plans. I'll write about how I feel about things like the hardware changes tomorrow, but for now I'm going to focus on how stupid people are (as if it weren't blatantly obvious).

I hope this has already been said somewhere, but to reiterate, to all you people setting up camp waiting for the XBox 360: YOU'RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO MICROSOFT'S HANDS! Now, I'm not trying to say that Microsoft has some vast conspiracy to take over the console market by artifically creating a media buzz about the XBox 360. And that's because they don't have a conspiracy. They have a business plan.

So the reason I mention this is because I just returned from a Best Buy in a suburb of Minneapolis, where at 7 PM there were already half a dozen people lined up in the freezing cold outside the door, waiting until midnight so they could get their hands on one of the 10 units that Best Buy has for sale. And for what? Sequels? That's what irks me about this launch: there aren't any games I want to play that will be available for the 360 tomorrow. Honestly, I'll play Quake 4 and Call of Duty 2 on my PC. So other than sport game sequels, what's left? Oh, of course, Perfect Dark: Zero. Thank you, but no, I will not be spending $450 to play the sequel to a crappy "sequel." I think I'll go play Killzone for $20 instead.