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November 15, 2001 Link to this post
Salon's selective
Salon looks at the Xbox launch... and sniffs its nose. It sees the entire console as uninspired, with Halo and Oddworld as the only standout games, but doesn't think they're enough:
In the console space, where the potential audience is in the tens of millions, the field is dominated by instantly identifiable, engaging personalities, intrinsically linked to their parent console. Nintendo has Mario; Sega, at the peak of its console dominance, had Sonic the Hedgehog. And for its own billion-dollar system, Microsoft leads off with ... a guy in a boxy outfit with a title for a name, his humanity masked off by a faceplate of tinted glass.
Come to think of it, for a Microsoft product, this is the perfect figurehead. It's also branding suicide.
We respectfully disagree. You can read the article for yourself... thanks to septimus for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 18:56:25 UTC)
