I'm important

Just finished watching the Microsoft CES 2010 press conference with the same excitement i always do after watching one of Microsoft’s press conferences. But i don’t get it, it rarely ever follows through with me, all these new features and the games rarely ever impress me as much as i would of expected. I am consistently disappointed by it, everything seems so cool and am always thinking to myself that this will be the year i use my Xbox 360 as one of my main gaming devices. But it just never is.

So what is it? Is it me allowing Microsoft to hype me up with their impressive presentation and PR speak? Is it me being genuinely impressed? Or maybe it is just some pre-conception i have  made about the Xbox 360 that it isn’t ever likely to be one of main gaming devices? Have i already doomed myself not to enjoy the console? Because i hope not, because even though the constant disappointment in the games may warrant it, there is quality content coming to that machine that i may receive better had i not already decided what the Xbox 360 means to me. I am always extremely optimistic about gaming, i am that person who has faith in things everyone else thinks will fail, especially when it comes to gaming, always looking forward to PC, PSP, and PS3 games, and am rarely disappointed, but i am the same with the 360, and it doesn’t work.

As an example, that new Retro Games room announced for the Xbox 360 and Windows PC is an extremely cool concept and it already sounds like they have leapfrogged what Sony was trying to do with Home with the arcade games for your apartment, which i thought was going to be one of the coolest parts of home. Then i think of the games, Splinter cell and Mass effect 2 – two games i am really looking forward to, but then the barrier hits again, i am going to buy them on PC. So that leaves Halo: Reach as the only retail game i may be interested in buying for the Xbox 360, so on the surface it looks like it will just be another year for the 360 and me, does that not warrant the pre-conceived conception about the console i explained above?

I’m still not sure what point i’m trying to make while writing this, other than what stops me from enjoying the xbox 360? Even as i post this, i am still very excited for the new additions to the 360 this year despite knowing the things i have said above. This can be received as ridiculous fanboy rubbish if you wish, i know how easily it could be perceived as. But that is not my intention, it is to ask the few people that might read this post on the various forums i plan to post it on, what they think my problem is. I only want to enjoy the console, i paid for it, and plan to continue investing into it.