{"id":383,"date":"2002-10-29T00:10:18","date_gmt":"2002-10-29T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-383.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"games-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/10\/29\/games-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One room.  Two LCD projectors, throwing 2 x 3 meter pictures against the walls.  Two XBoxes.  Eight controllers.  Eight-way, split-screen, multiplayer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/halo\/\">Halo<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Holy cow, that rocked.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, Microsoft&#8217;s games division doesn&#8217;t automatically trigger my ethics reflex.  I&#8217;ve never had a problem with Microsoft producing games software, because there is so much other entertainment content out there, that the chances of them obtaining a monopoly position are vanishingly small.  The XBox itself concerns me a little, because there are fewer corporate adversaries in the console marketplace, and I can imagine that Microsoft&#8217;s ultimate goal is to have the it be the &#8220;default and only&#8221; gaming console.  (Likewise with their new mobile phone platform.)<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m happy enough with MS being a competitor in a healthy, heterogenous marketplace, but not with them having a monopoly position, or with them flexing their muscle against a smaller number of players.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I&#8217;m just trying to justify my desire for an XBox so I can play Halo?  These are the questions that keep me awake at night&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One room. Two LCD projectors, throwing 2 x 3 meter pictures against the walls. Two XBoxes. Eight controllers. Eight-way, split-screen, multiplayer Halo! Holy cow, that rocked. Oddly enough, Microsoft&#8217;s games division doesn&#8217;t automatically trigger my ethics reflex. I&#8217;ve never had a problem with Microsoft producing games software, because there is so much other entertainment content &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/10\/29\/games-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Games Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}