Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 20:12 GMT
Microsoft expects many Christmas trees with Kinect and Black Ops underneath

Xbox UK marketing boss Stephen McGill has Mirosoft expects there to lots of Christmas trees this year with Kinect and Black Ops under them, wrapped up all nice and with bows.
Speaking with CVG during Kinect’s launch event in London this week, McGil recons the offerings for Xbox 360 is a “better line-up” than its had “in years for Xbox 360 or any platform”.
“I think [consumer's] eyes are on Xbox and Kinect,” he said. “They’re on Xbox because the best place to play Black Ops is on Xbox 360 – it’s the only place you’re going to get that exclusive content first and that’s a big deal for gamers. I think Kinect is a big deal for gamers too and I think they’re interested in that too.
“I think there’s going to be a lot of Black Ops under Christmas trees and I think there’s going to be a lot of Kinect under the Christmas tree. [Kinect has] games like Kinect Sports, and while they are incredibly accessible, there’s a lot of depth to those games. Something like Dance Central… no-one will tell you that with their heritage – Rock Band and Guitar Hero – that it’s not the sort of genre that will expand core audiences, and I think Dance Central is going to be the same.
“And we’ve got some great entertainment services on Xbox 360 and Xbox Live that become even better with Kinect. So I think there’s something for everyone.
“Obviously we’ve got a great line-up of games for gamers – things like Halo Reach, Fable III, Call of Duty and FIFA – for this Christmas. We haven’t had a better line-up in years for Xbox 360 or any platform.”
He’s probably right. Black Ops has already been dubbed the biggest entertainment launch in history and early reports from the US indicate Kinect sold out rather fast during launch.


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#1
OrbitMonkey
12/11/10, 8:20 pm
As Hitgirl said “what a douche”.
#2
Erthazus
12/11/10, 8:21 pm
Sad Christmas to be honest…
#3
Dralen
12/11/10, 8:24 pm
Oh Joy.
Lots of little kids playing COD on christmas day…great christmas.
#4
night_tripper
12/11/10, 8:46 pm
@3 yeah lol oh how wonderful lots of little brats yelling and dropping f-bombs and racial slurs the perfect way to enjoy the christmas year yeah right
#5
Psychotech
12/11/10, 9:16 pm
because it never gets old,Last Christmas…
Paranormal Activity 0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH_X4mJYhxA
#6
Kuwabara
12/11/10, 10:41 pm
any parent who buys their kid black ops is fucked up.
#7
LordCancer
12/11/10, 11:04 pm
@6 vs what like spungbobs and barbies? kids these days don’t have alot of options. id imagine inbetween the drunken fits of rage induced by psychopathic parents off there meds could do worse then a copy of black ops but, hey, maybe im wrong and having your head shoved through a wall is what the christmas spirit is all about. on that note fuck christ and microsoft!
#8
tee_lau
13/11/10, 3:10 am
m$, why do u see cod as ur 1st party game???
#9
Crysis
13/11/10, 3:28 am
I would be much happier with Gran Turismo 5 under my tree than Kinect, i wouldn’t pay anything over $30 for Kinect, i just don’t want it, only thing i would use it for is as a mic, same as the playstation eye, difference being that the PSeye is actually $30.
On a side note, are Codename Kingdoms & Gears 3 the ONLY offcially announced upcoming 360 exclusives?
#10
freedoms_stain
13/11/10, 4:09 am
Not for me thanks. Although if anyone is thinking of spending £130 on me for Xmas that’d buy me a nice gpu upgrade
#11
Kuwabara
13/11/10, 6:20 am
fuck your mum u sad cunt. (lord cancer). May you get cancer one day. That’s for cussing christ. Also, my girlfriends cousin was a young sweet kid, but after his mum bought him a ps3 and mw2, all he did was play that game. His attitude changed, he was more agressive and learning shit from the older guys who play it online. He is 11 i think. So i know how games can fuck up kids.
#12
Phoenixblight
13/11/10, 6:48 am
@11
Sorry there is no evidence to support your claim. Maybe if the parents would just do what their supposed to do ie raise the child. He wouldn’t be ADDICTED to the game. Thats what that is, parents not stepping up to the kid and telling him No. Its not the video game making him act different its his choice to make his life about video games that is doing so.
#13
Chris2pher_Jack
13/11/10, 7:32 am
Yet another religious extremist, hoping somebody gets cancer simply because he offended you by ‘cussing’ your savior… Just for fun, I’ll agree with LordCancer’s last sentence regardless of whether or not it was sincere
#14
LordCancer
13/11/10, 9:38 am
god was a child raping sadist and christ and is disciples frauds. the virgin mary was an anal whore unfamiliar with the concept of anal leakage but, your mother Kuwabara is all to familiar. it was the drip back of your fathers shit stained seed that spawned your faggot christ loving ass. ill take cancer you can have your cross and ill pray to your faggot god for the chance to put you on it and baptize you in the fires of your religions self indulgent fantasy!
#15
OrbitMonkey
13/11/10, 9:46 am
Nope, no evidence here that videogaming makes you violent or abusive. We’re all such a sweet bunch
#16
LordCancer
13/11/10, 9:58 am
no none at all.
#17
Chris2pher_Jack
13/11/10, 10:38 am
I’m not religious, far from it, in fact i personally think it’s total BS, but don’t you thing you went a bit too far? Granted it is the internet, but many other sites wouldn’t put up with that kind of talk, i had a 24 hour ban on IGN because i said on one of their articles the word bullshit. Think the article was from when Insomniac were going multiplat & they said something like Ratchet may end up on the 360, (when it was all just rumors), despite the fact Sony owns that IP, granted it’s possible Sony could sell the Ratchet franchise…
#18
Kuwabara
13/11/10, 12:48 pm
(lord cancer) if i knew where u lived id fucking kill you cunt. Fucking atheist, worthless piece of shit.
#19
Crysis
13/11/10, 1:47 pm
@18, did you know that 99% of lethal terrorism comes from religous extremists? Religion: it give us hope when we’re desperate, but as a whole, it’s probably held us too far back, imagine life without religous conflict
I would like a world where we need no Military, put the money where it’s needed, ofc we all need to be safe, so put some of military money into policing & the rest into killing poverty, that evil bitch!
#20
pukem0n
13/11/10, 2:15 pm
Religious Wars – A bunch of grown up people fighting over who has the coolest imaginary friend.
#21
freedoms_stain
13/11/10, 2:21 pm
@18, for one so bent on defending the name of the man you seem oddly ignorant of his message.
Typical Christian then. In my experience anyway.
#22
LordCancer
13/11/10, 3:41 pm
YOU CHRISTIANS ARE ALL COWARD CHILD RAPING FAGGOTS.
#23
reask
13/11/10, 4:28 pm
Cmon Pat Is this kind of talk acceptable on a gaming site.
Maybe even a verbal warning.
I certainly would not want to be associated with this kind of talk.
#24
OrbitMonkey
13/11/10, 4:57 pm
@23 Sshh! I’m hoping it gets *real* so I can sell this whole link to CNN…
#25
manamana
13/11/10, 5:06 pm
Welcome to the Troll Club!
Makes me wonder where this website is heading …
#26
OrbitMonkey
13/11/10, 5:09 pm
@25 You’d be surprised at the lack of trolling on that actual forum thread o_O
#27
manamana
13/11/10, 5:21 pm
Yes, but the Taglist is fun! Sweeney Troll, The Walking Troll and Gone With The Troll
#28
LordCancer
13/11/10, 5:22 pm
id like to keep this serious, im about to die for fucks sake u bunch of cocks!
#29
manamana
13/11/10, 5:27 pm
*Always look on the bright side of Troll*
#30
OrbitMonkey
13/11/10, 5:29 pm
@28 Serious? No my friend, this is not the place for that.
#31
LordCancer
13/11/10, 5:31 pm
in that case since a coward christian is on his way to kill me for my last meal id like two mcdoubles a large coke and yummy mother fucking churro!
#32
majicship
13/11/10, 5:32 pm
How fuckin’ moronic can (some of) you lot be? Jesus fuckin’ H Chrsit! Just look at what you write about each other? No wonder the online gaming fraternity is so fucked up. Why do people think it acceptible to be such dickwads to each other on the internet? This is why I am a single player campaign type person. I can’t stand meeting (some of) you lot online. Get a grip.
#33
manamana
13/11/10, 5:32 pm
I like to pick up the idea of a Tagsection:
1-800-Dont-Show-Your-Address-Online
#34
manamana
13/11/10, 5:34 pm
And I’ll add one of my favorites:
All your Trolls are belong to Troll!
^_^
#35
OrbitMonkey
13/11/10, 5:35 pm
@32 Careful mate. Bringing up JC’s name can cause quite the ruckus
#36
LordCancer
13/11/10, 5:36 pm
yes but then the coward christian would be left to bend over for his bishop and tell him about the mean cancer online who made fun of his mom and his daddy christ. let him come faggot. if he only knew he says? now he knows, so let him put his money where is mouth is fucking loser coward.
#37
LordCancer
13/11/10, 5:40 pm
@32 you must be some kind of flaming moron. people didn’t start being dicks to each other when al gore popped the web out of his ass. theres a long tradition of kain murdering ables you stupid fuck!
#38
manamana
13/11/10, 5:43 pm
KEEP IT CLEAN!
I think you guys need to cool off a bit. Take it to the Forums like TEA did, or go online(PSN/XBL) to battle it out, but keep this site clean.
Noone needs this childish shit.
#39
LordCancer
13/11/10, 5:46 pm
u mean like spit on it before you shove it in?
#40
CenoBit
13/11/10, 5:54 pm
What the f is going on here?
Hey guys, take your retarted selves out of here. I’m usually on the atheist part in this kind of “conversations” but this time LordCancer (who really has the worst, worst nickname ever) started the whole thing: Cursing someone’s God, is never cool, dude. And then of course the mighty Christian came to his God’s rescue and it got bad, fast.
Any moderators in here??
#41
LordCancer
13/11/10, 6:01 pm
fuck you too cenobit. i have every right to curse that faggot. im bashed over the head with it every year and every other station with some baptist asshole threatening me with eternal damnation. two psychopathic parents that beat the shit out of me at christmas time cause there drunken raging losers and here we go again another miserable fucking christmas. FUCK CHRIST and Fuck all the insufferable christians who turning that loser raping faggot life into a national holiday that gets kids beaten the shit out of cause there american fathers are grade a fucking losers! so fuck you all!
#42
LordCancer
13/11/10, 6:06 pm
ever hear of the zodiac you cock brained fuck face? i cant use my brithsign cause a bunch of sensitive cancer patients got one of gods fucked up plans? its gods a faults hes punishing them because america allows a bunch of homos to not be burned on a cross or beaten to death!
#43
madpuppy
13/11/10, 6:07 pm
Hey guys! whats going on? is everybody doing well? Lordcancer, I was looking for Tinkerbell and the great fairy rescue for my niece, what do you think I should get? the blue ray or dvd?
#44
LordCancer
13/11/10, 6:09 pm
@43 dvd.
#45
madpuppy
13/11/10, 6:11 pm
thanks, man, I was really having a problem deciding, you have saved the day once again!
#46
LordCancer
13/11/10, 6:12 pm
have a crab salad dude.
#47
madpuppy
13/11/10, 6:14 pm
I would much prefer a 50 of buffalo wings and a pitcher of Killians, man.
#48
LordCancer
13/11/10, 6:14 pm
man fuck you with that shit. keep fucking teasing me and it makes it all worse!
#49
madpuppy
13/11/10, 6:16 pm
hey, if I had the cash I would western union it to you so you could enjoy some sweet, sweet wings and some icy cold Killians!
#50
madpuppy
13/11/10, 6:17 pm
and the cash for the cab ride.
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