It is time to schedule November 12, 2006 as a day off work.  Today, Microsoft announced Gears of War for the Xbox 360 will hit store shelves on November 12.  I've got a Best Buy gift card all set aside for this game.  Hopefully Best Buy will take pre-orders, as I would expect this game to be gone about 1 minute after the doors open.

The spring update for the Xbox 360 dropped yesterday.  For a complete list of updates, go here.  Major kudos to Microsoft on a great update to an already excellent system.

I thought the PS3 price of nearly $600 was too rich for my blood.  I just can see having a Xbox 360 and a PS3.  That is nearly $1,000 in just hardware, not counting the nearly $60 a game.  That's assuming Sony will match Microsoft on next gen game prices.

 

Well, it turns out I'm not the only one that thinks the PS3 is too darn expensive.  A survey of Japanese gamers think the PS3 is too expensive, and will be holding out for the Wii.  Since the PS3 does very well I Japan, I think this could be bad for Sony.  I think there will be similar feelings in the U.S., but people will lean more towards the Xbox 360 than the Wii.

 

Read more here.

Brett's been posting some pretty good info on Microsoft's Xbox 360.  I think Brett is right on with his Xbox 360 review.  I would say that Call of Duty 2 is a killer app though.    Be sure to also read about downloadable demo games for Xbox 360.  That is one of the cooler features of Xbox 360.  I really love being able to play a demo of a game before I decide to purchase it.