Skip to main content

Xbox 360

These days i have access to Microsoft Corporation's latest gaming machine, Xbox 360. I have been trying to log on to Xbox 360 Live for quite sometime but the unavailability of a networking wire always came in the way. So yesterday i took the initiative and got the wire from a store nearby. When everyone was sound asleep i set on the quest of playing a game online. I had all the required things for having a fun night of games with online gamers worldwide. I had the latest gaming console. I had the fastest DSL connection. I had Windows Live account and i had quiet in the house. I thought that i am on the road to success. But it was not to be so. Everything worked except for the damned EA Sports server. I could not connect to the EA server and thus could not get the online experience i was looking for.
Microsoft has done a great job at packaging a full entertainment unit in Xbox. You can play online games. You can store pictures. Download videos and movies and Drama series. It is all in one doorway to the world of entertainment. But in the end all the entertainment depends upon fast and furious internet connections and a lot of money. Everything costs money and loads of it. Little wonder that this online gaming phenomenon is little practiced in Pakistan on these platforms.
Xbox has two competitors in the market and both of them are way better in their own different ways. Nintendo has the new controller that makes playing a whole new experience and turns it into a craft. On the other hand Sony's Play Station 3 is sheer technological artwork. So much so that people waited for days in line to buy a single console.
One interesting aspect is that if you buy the components of Sony's PlayStation piece by piece and try to build a platform it will cost you a lot more than the console sold by Sony. The company had to price it down so that it could sell the consoles. The graphics chip alone in the console is worth more than the console price itself. Then again the consoles re in short supply and eBay saw consoles being sold at as much as 2000 US Dollars.
The gaming world is fantastic and gaming geeks are living in their own fictional galaxy on a high that keeps them wry of the world that they are a part of.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Learning Arduino 1

This holiday season I decided to gift myself some basic electrical components in the form of a Arduino UNO set from Elegoo. I have always had a desire to tinker with electronics and in gifting myself this basic set I am now starting on a journey to quench my inner electrical workman's thirst. I hope to develop this hobby as I move forward and will, from time to time, post about it here on the blog. As the journey moves forward I am sure to run into trouble and issues. But as they say you can not master anything without first being a fool at it, so I have decided to remain a fool at it until I am a little good at it. To start with, I do possess some elementary knowledge in electronics and electronic circuits. I intend to further my knowledge using the world wide web and following some very useful video channels on youtube. I will first start with some very basic projects to familiarize myself with Arduino and basic electronic circuits and techniques such as soldering. Then graduall...
Post a Comment
Read more

iPad 2

The new iPad is worth it's money. Sleek slender design is a plus and so is the light weight. I am not really impressed by the camera as the pictures with both front and back cameras are pixelated and very amateurish looking. It's handy in the sense that I can carry it around while making rounds and access patient information on the go. This makes life easier and for someone like myself this means much less paper waste. I think one added advantage is that I will waste less time on writing down all the information on a piece of paper every morning and will be able to pull it up anytime I want to do so or need to do so. This gives me more time to think and reflect on the patient and spend more time with the patient rather than time in front of a bulky computer. There are new apps I am discovering every day. However there is still dearth of good medical apps that have been modeled for iPad. This makes the productivity of the iPad a little less but still the benefits of having a w...
3 comments
Read more

Elections '08

Parliamentary Elections are just 12 hours away in Pakistan. Unlike all previous elections i have reached the voting age for these elections. Now i can use my right to vote to select a candidate that i think represents future and progress. I can be part of the democratic process. I can be a miniature vector of change or towards change. But i will not use my right to vote. that means i will not participate in the process of electing representatives who will rule my country and my fate for the next five years, even more if they get their way like this present dictator, Musharraf. In doing so i will loose my right to object to any actions of the 'elected', more so selected representatives of this country. but this can be debated and in most probability i will not pass from any opportunity to pointing out wrong doings and mischief in the character of those who lead my unfortunate country in the future. I will not vote because i know the outcomes of the elections have been pr...
Post a Comment
Read more