The 360 from a WIRED perspective

Chris Anderson, the Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine, keeps a blog called the Long Tail (in reference to some fancy schmanzy marketing wiz-hop and hoopla that, as far as I can tell, nobody really understands anyway).

More interestingly, however, is that he’s been lucky enough through his work to get his hands on an xbox 360 before most of us have started drooling over it (yes, I know, I don’t want one but damnit Jason want…). He doesn’t really talk about the games as much as he talks about using it as a Media extender and DVR device. Apparently it works pretty well.

He also talks about how this looks really good for Microsoft going forward in business terms. It’s a fairly interesting take on the situation, since I’m mostly used to hearing a bunch of babble about specs or 3D graphics or baseless claims of supremacy. Frankly, part of me hates the way the xbox is taking consoles away from the core idea (play…games…simply) and moving it towards a multimedia center, but part of me absolutely loves the idea, too.