Don't let anyone else fool you; this is the reason we do what we do - free beer, and lots of it.
Wheeled into our office this afternoon by a special ops team of beer couriers was this £146 pile of Fosters on behalf of one Microsoft Corporation. Was it because of our gushing GDC coverage? No, apparently MS has a more specific reason for its generous gift.
"What would you purchase for £146...? (The price difference between an Xbox 360 and a PlayStaion 3)", asks the included Xbox 360-headed notice. "Well, for a start we thought you might like £146 worth of beer to kick start your weekend early."
Signed, "Jump in. Xbox 360. The Leader in the next generation of gaming and entertainment."
Sony - we need £146 worth of pork scratchings and kebabs. PRONTO!
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'Foster's: Australian for Beer'. (their US ad tagline)
Not.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."- General Sir Charles Napier
Damn... I was sort of considering getting a PS3 when I had the money, since I had many a good time with my PS2, back in the day, before the damn thing broke. But after all the things I've been hearing and now this... I'll take the 360 and a whole lot of beer, yessir.
How good of a weekend do you get for a Wii and the change from a PS3?
I don't know, but it sure buys a lot of painkillers for when your girlfriend decides to smack you in the face while trying to return a serve in Wii Tennis.
Something tells me the Promo directer is a fan of Fosters. He could have stacked that ten feet higher if he went with Miller or Bud Light. Not that I would have drank any of those.
But how much Vodka is it?
"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe Pardon me for sounding like a dick, but I'm playing the tiniest violin in the world right now-Dalton
Bounty wrote:Solid gold hookers with dandruff made of pure coke?
Who would want gold hookers? Wouldn't your penis turn green?
"There is no "taboo" on using nuclear weapons." -Julhelm
What is Project Zohar? "On a serious note (well not really) I did sometimes jump in and rate nBSG episodes a '5' before the episode even aired or I saw it."- RogueIce explaining that episode ratings on SDN tv show threads are bunk
To commemorate the Xbox 360's 1st birthday in NZ (which it now shares with Sony's PLAYSTATION 3), the good people at DB sent a special present consisting of many a beer bottle to GamePlanet's Auckland store. To be precise, $480-worth of beer, which incidentally is the exact price difference between the Xbox 360 (RRP$719.95) and the PLAYSTATION 3 ($1199.95).
The note reads...
What would you buy with $480?
(the price difference between the Xbox 360 and PS3)
(this is $480 worth of Export Gold to help celebrate Xbox 360's 1st birthday)
Forget booze. This is equal to about 300 liters of Pepsi. I'd take that AND the 360.
ASVS('97)/SDN('03)
"Whilst human alchemists refer to the combustion triangle, some of their orcish counterparts see it as more of a hexagon: heat, fuel, air, laughter, screaming, fun." Dawn of the Dragons
It's not a very popular beer here, not since the 80s.
