Microsoft has made it very clear this generation that they are all about breaking tradition. In the past, it was incredibly annoying to buy a launch console and still have it work six years later. Microsoft solved this problem by releasing a console that could randomly break whenever you turn it on. Who needs real games when I can roll dice just by pushing a button?
But those innovators at Microsoft didn’t stop with a combustible console. Microsoft’s latest thick slap of saliva in the face of tradition is the banning of third party memory cards on the Xbox 360. Luckily, Microsoft just decided this four years after the 360’s release. This ensures that a large amount of gamers have data and money invested in third party cards; it isn’t very fun to ream your install base unless enough people are bent over their consoles.
What will Microsoft break the functionality of next? I hear a lot of gamers are still using third party controllers. Fuck that shit. What a waste of Microsoft Points, also known as “money.” Maybe there’s some way that Microsoft can send out a patch that makes third party controllers wriggle over to the Xbox 360 in the middle of the night and push the power button until the console explodes.
