It is highly amusing that the only thing coming to the XBox Live Marketplace of apparent note is programming that may have but a handful of people interested. This is not to say that programs for bi/homo/trans-sexual audiences, or country-music fanboys, doesn’t have a handful of people clapping their giddy hands, but for what is supposed to be more than a gaming machine, the XBox 360 isn’t enticing the mainstream, or even attempting to compete with the programming on AppleTV.
This isn’t even a matter of exclusivity, if networks like Comedy Central are playing both sides of the fence. Why, then, is Microsoft incapable of getting real programming on the 360, unless they’re intentionally holding off because they expect IPTV to cover all TV-watching on the 360 in the near future? Is the current TV show lineup on the 360 meant only to be a placeholder, until IPTV arrives at the end of the year? I argue that such a move may be too late, since by that time, Apple may have come to its senses and rolled out an appropriate amount of programming for the AppleTV, instead of its current, incomplete offerings.
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