Xbox Live Kachink ... Kachink

Xbox Live hits 6 million users ahead of schedule. You know that when Microsoft makes an announcement like this it's because they hear the dollars clicking over ... kachink ... kachink. But, it would have to be said that at the moment they are playing a game of who can demoralize Sony the most. As Microsoft and Nintendo move in to lay the boot in to their biggest rival and, one would have to say, their console Arch Nemesis Sony.

Do you think that more attention would be paid to gaming news if it was put together like a battle waged between monolithic enemies in a comic book environment rather than boring old ticker tape news feed? If Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are seen as heroes touting a different cause in a battle waged against each other to convert people to their cause of righteousness and all round goodness (the capitalistic cause of righteousness is, of course, to make more money). That each move in this game was portrayed as a monumental fight with "kapows, kabangs and kaspatches" rather than boring numbers.

Isn't gaming news at that point where you could report anything and most gamers wouldn't even take notice. Let's face it, release dates aren't taken seriously. Gamers probably couldn't tell you which gaming developers had gone out of business in the last five years and no one remembers numbers and statistics longer than five seconds.

Oh well, I guess, that this is just a pipe dream and gamers really do take notice of gaming news. If that is what gets your goat then you will want to know that 2.5 billion hours have been spent playing online through Xbox Live. (Yawn, who cares.) Or, to re-report this in a more interesting way, Microsoft Kapowed its arch enemies online gaming services to let them know that people had spent so muchh time playing games online that you couldn't even count them in dog years ... and that mean lots.