I've been at the Best of Stuff - the gadget/hi-fi event - today. It was small and not particularly interesting - unless you especially enjoy demonstrations of media centres by overexcited sales staff - but it was obvious that the big story was HD TV. There were countless plasma and LCD TVs displaying sexy HD content, with Sky wooing crowds with HD footage of Liverpool's jammy Champions League win. Of course, the obvious connection here is with Xbox 360, with Microsoft betting that 360 will drive HD take-up in much the same way as Xbox Live helped broadband. You may have thought that there would be a stack of 360's at the event, especially considering the imminent launch. I only saw one.
It was running Call of Duty 2 and very nice it looked too. But the lack of other games suggests that rumours of an ever-shrinking 360 launch day list are not far from the truth. Let's hope we don't get rushed games just to fit in with the launch - my experience with Perfect Dark Zero suggests this could be one of those. Anyway, I can't wait to see a 360 game on a normal TV as this will be the experience of 95% of early adopters. But in the near future MS are expecting us all to upgrade to HD and after today's event I wouldn't bet against it.
