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Hi My Cyber Kings (and Queens). Welcome to Ungrounded Gamer. A place where you can read opinions, and some facts about the videogames, music, media and technology as a whole. This is my first time posting a blog, so hopefully you will excuse it's randomness. Tonight, I'll post only one small entry, just to test the waters. It'll get better overtime. I promise. : )

I. Xbox------>XBOX 360. A Major System Evolves...againI was told that inorder to keep up with the game, one must be willing to change and adapt to change. The videogame industry is an ever evolving intity that will continue to adapt to its competition and keep pace with what the clients want on the market. The videogame industry also tops the music and movie industry. Although the lines that separate the movie, music and videogame industry are disappearing, this is not the biggest concern I have. My big concern about the industry is practicality.

I asked several people a very important had about the new XBOX 360: "Why?" The old XBOX model was great, but not perfect. There was not much needed to be changed. They could have just upgraded the system and its components. I asked several other people I know that play videogames all the time. They gave me various answers like "Too many people hacked the XBOX", "Too many people modded the hardware", "It's not economical" and my favorite that my mom( she's not a gamer) told me: "It's a business". I'm well aware of all the flaws of the XBOX. Yes, it was very easy to mod the system to make it play games that don't play on the XBOX like Grand Theft Auto. I even watched an episode of CSI: Las Vegas about a guy who hid thousands of dollars in codes on the an XBOX through a Prince of Persia game. But still, the vulnerability of being hack could have been addressed by upgrading the hardware of the XBOX.

I believe that the answer different people gave me about the XBOX is self reflecting. I did purchase a 360 from Gamestop a couple of months ago. When I purchased my first system at 16, I was so happy and excited that nothing else in the world mattered to me. Every friday after school, I would come home, play my videogames, and go to back to school on monday through thursday to talk about it with my nerdy crowd of fans. Those days are long gone. The older I get, the harder it is to impress me. When I bought my 360, I was happy. Not excited, because I couldn't find a reason why it was better than the older model. I consider myself an economical person. I'm just thankful that my XBOX 360 does not have the bugs that the first set of 360's had a couple of years before. I had it for a couple of months, and there are no "red lights of death". Otherwise, I would have been disappointed.

I purchased two games for my system: Halo 3 (of course) and Splinter Cell: Double Agent. When I turned on the 360, I had one of my friends to help me with it. The first time I used my system, I was happy about it, the second time I was a little happier. After I set up Live, I was extremely happy about it. All the features came alive to me. The machine is designed for hardcore gamers who love to game together. I can order games if I wanted to from the old XBOX, TV shows, new games and Demos. I suddenly forgot about the old system and it's old features. Any system that can cut on and off via controller, let alone come automatically with a wireless, has won me over.

Overall, change does not involve upgrading here, or there. Nowadays it involves competition, and the key is to be ahead of the game, not behind. Before I bought my 360, I felt that it's practical to upgrade what already exists. Now, I feel like there is no reason to upgrade something that is flawed when a better version can be created. If it includes impecable online features, and inclusive and managable online gaming, then I'm sold on it.