subject: Xbox 360 Portable Device – Crazy Modifications or Get Ready For The Future? [print this page] Every Xbox owner has been going crazy in jealousy for the last few years. Sony has the PSP. Nintendo has the DS. Microsoft has the nothing. Are you ready to start putting all of those PSP and DS users to shame? Are you ready to make them jealous?
Right now you only have one option to turn the tables on your Sony and Nintendo foes. You would need to get a seriously modified Xbox 360. There are companies who sell kits, and do custom modifications to take an Xbox 360 and turn it into a laptop, or over-sized portable game player.
The laptop size is the ideal choice for now, since you must have the DVD player to play games. The laptop sized systems allow you to have your hard drive storage and all of the key features along with a good quality LCD screen.
If this sounds like a pretty scary solution, or maybe feels like cheating, then you need to start preparing for the future. Microsoft is about to kick the PSP and DS to curb.
They recently announced the next generation of Windows Phone 7 is going to integrate in a wide variety of Xbox 360 features including connectivity to Xbox Live. Yes, you are hearing this right. You are going to be able to make the PSP, iPhone, and DS owners look on with jealousy as you whip out your Microsoft enabled phone and start playing great games.
This is not a little suite of games like solitaire, freecell, and minesweeper, this is real hard core game playing right on a phone sized device. Obviously along with this innovation you will have players in the market create phones specifically designed to enhance game play.
Next time one of those PSP owners talks about their great portable game play just smile and tell them to check back with you in a few months. When a DS owner chuckles in your face, just nod and tell him the future is about to kick him down. When Microsoft decides to make a move, they do it in a big way. While they may be slow to the table, you can be sure when they arrive they are coming to impress and to take a big portion of the market share.
Microsoft has not been ignoring your pleas for a portable Xbox, they have just been busy laying the groundwork to make it an earth shattering experience, not another little hand held toy.
If you cannot wait, then go ahead and order one of the great Xbox Laptop mods. They work great and outperfrom any handheld device from Sony or Nintendo. They are just much too large to be considered a true competitor in the handheld portable gaming market.
The real Microsoft Xbox portable device is just around the corner. Get ready to make those other players in the handheld market shut-up. You knew Micosoft would not leave you hanging forever.
Xbox 360 Portable Device Crazy Modifications or Get Ready For The Future?
