He sits so his arms are resting on both armrests of his recliner, so that’s basically the position he’s in.
Different strokes and all that, I guess.
There’s a thread about this over in MPSIMS, but I thought it was worth mentioning in The Game Room as well.
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](Ocean Marketing's Paul Christoforo to Penny Arcade: Please Make It Stop [TEXT])
The email exchange is reprinted towards the bottom of the page. I’m very glad I didn’t give this company any money!
Yeah, it’s funny how all that exploded just as I linked to it. Fortunately, the douchebag in question is just some marketing guy that N-Control hired and has now fired, so he’s not a reflection on the product.
Nope.
I just wanted to thank everyone for their contribution (well, nearly everyone); I solved my problem with the controller by returning the Xbox.
Out of curiosity, what was the game that led you to wade in the 360-infested waters?
If at first you don’t succeed give up and go home!
It wasn’t any one game specifically. My buddy, Blue Elk, has an Xbox and in addition to a couple of his own new games, he was showing me various demos he had downloaded, the Netflix streaming in HD, the ESPN stuff available, etc.
I had thought that it would be a nice addition to my house: he and I and his son could play games together (something we have done frequently at his house), I’d have a chance to play various games that I liked with or without them, and the ESPN, Netflix and UFC stuff looked like it would seal the deal.
BUT
I didn’t like the controller (I never did at his house, but it’s different when you’re at home and trying to play a game for an hour at a stretch as opposed to just trying something out or taking turns.
The ESPN stuff looked like crap. Terrible picture, although the audio quality was good.
I can stream Netflix HD with my Blu-Ray player (I just had to run another CAT5 cable).
I didn’t want to get involved in spending $40-60 on each game. I have about $1800 tied up in my Wii, and I pretty much haven’t even turned it on in over 2 years. Sometimes I’ll play a racing game for 30 minutes, but that’s about it.
I did buy Battlefield 3 for the Xbox, but the controller is so frustrating to use compared to a keyboard/trackball setup that I couldn’t see myself playing it much if at all (the Xbox came with Halo Reach, so I had a chance to try a FPS).
I spent over $400 on the Xbox and a couple of games, and in 9 days I used it for maybe 3 hours tops. I spent $19 on Civ 5 GOTY + DLCs for my Mac, and in 2 days I spent 22 hours playing it.
It wasn’t hard to see where my money was going to be better spent. FWIW, I’m gonna take the Xbox money and put it in a fund for a new guitar amp. (New to me, anyway. I have my eye on a Marshall JCM2000 DSL I can pick up for about $600.) I’ll get many more hours of use and many more years out of the amp than I ever would out of an Xbox.
Bizarre about the picture quality. ESPN3 comes in clear as glass here.
Sounds like you weren’t really in the market for a game system though, so returning it was probably the right choice.
Comparing “$400 for the Xbox bvs $19 for Civ5 for the Mac” was a total apples and oranges though, and you should be ashamed. 
$1800 invested in the Wii??? What in the world could you have spent all that money on unless you are counting the TV and stereo and whatnot.