| Saturday, February 2, 2002 |
18:42 - Hey, it's been a while since I made an Xbox post...
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... And that in itself is blogworthy.
I haven't seen any ads for Xbox games on TV in... oh, I don't know, several weeks. Maybe they've all migrated to other channels, but I certainly haven't been seeing them on Cartoon Network lately, which is where I spend most of my time. I also haven't seen any buzz about it on websites, or the news services, or in magazines.
Sure, the Christmas season is over now... but I remember the Xbox ads going on for at least several days after Christmas. So... does that mean Microsoft had simply miscalculated how many days remained until people stopped buying gifts? Or-- oh, wait! I know. They kept running game ads because kids would have received Xboxes for Christmas, but with no games! So they had to keep running the game ads, or else how would they know what to buy?
Well, that seems to be all over now, and it's only the beginning of February. I take that to be a very promising sign-- or at the very least, it's indicative of a pullback. It means the worst is over.
And primarily, it means I can watch TV in safety now, without the worry that I'd hear that black-surface-puncturing-in-the-shape-of-an-X crunching sound. The only place I have to worry about the occasional Xbox-flag-waving land-mine is over at Lileks.
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