Letter to Microsoft

Dear Microsoft,
First off I have to say great start with the 360, but you getting close to messing it up. Why are you release a new 360 SKU? Your new system can not compete with the PS3, I see why you are releasing a new Hard drive, but why not just make all portable hard drives compatible with the 360. Or make a bigger one but ad it to the current SKU. If you think you must make a new SKU, put the new 65nm chip, HDMI 3.0, a larger hard drive and the HD-DVD drive. And let it all go for under $550. I know it's crazy but if you want to compete with the PS3 for the hard-core and Techies you gotta do it.
Next up Japan. All I can say is stop trying. It's a waste of money. The people over there are to loyal to Nintendo and Sony. It's easier to sell to first time buyers then to people that have bought a console from the same company for that last 3 consoles cycles. Focus all your resources on the US and Europe. You could maybe start thinking on China, it's only a matter of time before that market explodes.
I have to say I like what your doing with digital distribution. I think it's the wave of the future. I hope you stick by it for the long haul. One thing I think you should ad to the Video Marketplace is more Movies and T.V. shows obviously and maybe more of a Netflix way of rentals. Say $10 a month (twice that of Netflix) but say unlimited downloads per month. You have much less cost then Netflix because you don't have to pay for the DVDs or the shipping or anything else, just licensing.

Sexy Back

I hate the original song but it's still kinda catchy. Here is a better version for all the Microsoft fanboys out there.

Review: America's Army: Rise of a soldier (Xbox)

Ok, so I just got America's Army: Rise of a soldier from my friend the other day. I have only played though about half of the game and all I can say is that I am impressed. The graphics are what you would expect for a Xbox game. The only thing I didn't like was when the guys talk their body's move but there lips don't, not huge, just looks kinda weird. The sounds from the game are one of it's best assets, all the guns have there own unique sounds. You can tell what the enemy is shooting at you with just based on the sound of the gun. The gameplay is very fun. It's mainly team based, cause it's made by the army. But some times you are on your own. There are only two things I find wrong with this game. One the training you have to do is boring and kinda tedious. The other is that there is not to many missions to play. Once you have beaten the game you are left with the multiplayer. Which I have tried and it wasn't too bad. There just wasn't a whole lot of games to choose from and the ones that were there were hard to play in just because of the talent level of the other gamers.

Overall: 7 out of 10
Gameplay(cause that all that matters in my book) 9 out of 10

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Welcome to Phil's Video Game Blog (PVGB for short). On this blog I will review any video games I play, talk about what is happening in the video game industry, and post other video game related things I find on this wonderful thing we call the Internet.