Why PinoyXbox wins at life, and maybe Anicon too.

Rock Band 2's TV Ad uses AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock". It couldn't be more appropriate.

Once again our community has proven that no feat is too great. Last year the thought of promoting the Xbox 360 to a primarily Playstation weaned generation of gamers with closed-minded thoughts on believing that JRPGs exist on the PS3 alone and that 360’s die in 2 and a half days of use was pretty much our main goal to debunk. This year nobody really seemed to give a damn. The 360 had games, and they were f’ing gold. And the people saw it for themselves. The main glaring fact was that we had Rock Band 2 and, not that its bad, but the PS3 had Rock Band 1. Sorry for the quick dig on 360 timed exclusivity, but I’m making a beeline for RB2. I must say never has the Playstation 3’s penchant for late game releases and one-year-later games have been so obvious to the Filipino masses than today’s Anicon.

We live in a world where, believe it or not, the Xbox 360 has more JRPG’s than the PS3. Right now, we have, I believe, 5 JRPGs. The Playstation, “home to the JRPG”, has Enchant Arm. (and Eternal Sonata, you know, that game we’ve had for a year now) DMC4 is something we played months ago in our xboxes. You know, just in case people were wondering if the Xbox had Japanese action games. Niko Bellic has become part of our vocabulary (and our lives) and not just in Playstationese. And we’re poised to have exclusive downloadable expansion packs for it soon. We regularly play various japanese online fighting games that actually work, online. You know, hassle free game invites and all that.

I don’t think anybody who’s been to Anicon thinks the Xbox doesn’t have Playstation’s old exclusive games anymore.

Combine this with PXB’s spacious environment and friendly faces, where playing a game seems to just require a quick calling of attention to yourself when the last player is done, and you find yourself wierdly part of the community. A community you probably just met a couple minutes ago. With games where you don’t have to elbow your way around and wait behind lines to partake in. Our message was clear: “We want you to try our games and we want you to be part of our community”.

This probably sounds like too much hyperbole, but after an event like this I feel like someone needs to describe it so that people that were there will nod their heads in agreement and the people who weren’t there will understand what it was like to be there, in enough detail to convince you of the point and not just straight up tell you the facts.

The fact is, PXB’s “booth” was a resounding success, and the reason/s for that fact are all explained above.