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by Aaron Linde, Jul 07, 2008 10:47am PDTMicrosoft Xbox 360 product management director Aaron Greenberg has reaffirmed that the company does not see the Wii as a direct competitor to its console, explaining that Nintendo's customers may eventually "graduate to an Xbox 360 experience."
"I think that there's a difference in the type of customer that is buying the Wii," Greenberg told Gamasutra. "When you think about it, there's a difference between trying to be the number one console with nine year old gamers, and being the console that offers the most experiences from 13 to 33."
"I think for us, we don't really see the Wii as a direct competitor, we actually very much complement the Wii experience," Greenberg added. "It's obviously clear that we're going head-to-head with the PS3 in this generation. I think what Xbox will be able to do as well as the Wii is grow the market."
Greenberg's statements continue Microsoft's public snubbing of the Nintendo Wii. Last May, the company claimed that the Xbox 360 was the world's top-selling "high definition gaming console," a phrase that nicely excludes the Wii's substantial lead of 24.45M units against Microsoft's 19M.
"I think that a lot of the people that are buying that console today are not people that have generally bought consoles in the past, right? You see they're not buying games on it...it's almost like the same people that buy a karaoke machine, you know? They're not really buying it for games, they're just buying it as a novelty," Greenberg noted.
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Also have to give a shout-out to Mass Effect PC. I almost didn't pick it up because my friends who had it on the 360 weren't very fond of it at all (I questioned that a bit because they all finished the game... but all said they didn't really like it). But now that I work at EA I had the chance to get it for $10 and figured for that price review scores of 9.2 counted for something. I must say, I have been impressed. Not a huge fan of the inconsistent graphics and millions of clones, but the gameplay is far better than I'd thought (combat, particularly, which from my short time with the 360 version at my friend's house and my friends' attitudes towards the game- finishing it and seeming to relish speaking about portions of the storyline but generally stating they didn't like it- seem consistent with the controls and interface being better-implemented in the PC version)- and I definitely like the small touches and improvements that Deimurge made. Being able to control each of my squadmates individually and having more control over biotics makes a huge difference- I think without that Mass Effect's combat would start to have the same problems for me that I encountered in Hellgate: London's demo. Also, the new hacking minigame is a nice touch as well.
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