Presidential Primaries, Hi-Def Format Wars, and RRODs. Oh my!
Ok, so once again I got busy and didn't get to make the posts in the last couple weeks that I wanted to. That's fine, here I am now...
Super Tuesday excitement is over, so I don't need to go over that much. McCain is pretty much set as the Republican candidate. That will be interesting, as the right can't stand him. What they don't realize is that if they did nominate someone too far to the right, they'd nominate them right out of electability. Obama has a narrow lead on the Democrat side, though superdelegates may keep Hillary out in front for now. It would be a sad day in democracy if Obama wins the most pledged delegates, but Hillary ends up winning through superdelegates. However, MSNBC's Tom Curry doesn't seem to think that will happen. We've still got some interesting months ahead of us here.
On to more important news :) Looks like HD-DVD is on its death bead. After announcements by Warner, Netflix, and Best Buy that they were backing Blu-Ray - Wal-Mart has landed what may be the killing blow to Toshiba by throwing their support behind Blu-Ray. That leaves few options for HD-DVD and Reuters is reporting that Toshiba is only weeks away from throwing in the towel. Obviously sad for early adopters, but for hi-def media as a whole, this will help boost adoption and let them focus on migrating people from DVD to Blu-Ray. It's much like politics. It's the point where a party nominee is established and they can stop fighting each other for the nomination and focus on running against the opposing party for the presidency.
On to local news - my Xbox 360 gave me the red rings of death for the second time, so once again it is off to Microsoft for repair. Luckily, it's covered - but I'm stuck this weekend without any Project Gotham Racing 4 to play. I could play my PS3, but.... well, actually, I just realized, I haven't gotten online with Unreal Tournament III in a couple weeks. Gotta jump on again. Unfortunately, gamers these days have terrible taste and UT3 is bombing. Hopefully there's at least something of a community that sticks around for a while. It's a sad day when Halo 3 breaks sales records and UT3 sales are only in the tens of thousands. Of course, Midway was pretty retarded to put UT3 up against Call of Duty 4 and some of the other games being released at that time. Seriously, though, buy UT3 if you have a PS3... and a keyboard/mouse combo to go with it. Yes, it supports keyboard and mouse. If only other console makers *cough - Microsoft* would let developers build in mouse/keyboard support to games.
Now, March... PS3 will really be giving me some love, then. MLB 08: The Show. Demo just went up the other day. Same basic mechanics as the last couple iterations (which means they're awesome) with some more finesse thrown in. Graphically, this is unbelievable - the player's faces finally truly do look like the real deal. You feel much more like watching a baseball broadcast than before. This is definitely a day one purchase. I'll try out this revamped Cardinals club myself before the season starts.