Xbox at CES

[Queasy]

I'm watching the Microsoft CES presentation. I managed to start watching just as the Xbox portion came up.

Nothing too exciting unfortunately. They mentioned Halo Wars (demo on February 5th) and Halo3: ODST. Confirmed that Xbox Live Primetime is coming in the Spring and showed off 1 vs 100 again. Showed off Netflix and a windows mobile phone app that you can use to access your Netflix queue.

Now they are showing off Kodu which is a way to create games using a very simple programming language. They introduced a girl named Sparrow who created a game with the sub-heading "actual 12-year old girl". 😕 The programming language itself looks pretty cool and interesting though. Actually reminds me of the LEGO Mindstorms programming language.

 

[sonambulo]

Any release window for Kodu? It looks so cool.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: sonambulo
Any release window for Kodu? It looks so cool.

This Spring according to this article. Everyone keeps comparing it to Little Big Planet but I just don't see it. This is much more programming-centric than LBP.

 

[sonambulo]

Agreed. It's a poor comparison.

 

[erwos]

CES is so blah this year. The only damn thing I wanted to hear about was Sony's Blu-Ray mega changer, and that's been a total no-show so far. Some of the stuff about HDMI gaining ethernet and return-audio was cool, though - looking forward to only having to plug in power and HDMI to my consoles someday. 🙂

 

[Queasy]

Here is video of the Kodu presentation.

 

[mugs]

They missed their target demographic. Should have been an 18 year old girl.