Xbox 360 Boasts Greatest Release Schedule Ever ... Now What?

I've described this as the greatest year ever for video gaming, assuming of course you're an Xbox 360 gamer. Go figure, but Microsoft apparently agrees:

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2007will be a year to remember for Xbox 360 players â€“ a packed releaseschedule offers a wide range of incredible titles including exclusive,genre-defining games such as Blue Dragon (Microsoft Game Studios -MGS), Project Gotham Racing 4 (MGS), Naruto Rise of a Ninja (Ubisoft),Viva PiÃ±ata: Party Animals (MGS), Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation(Namco Bandai Games) and Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action (MGS), not tomention some of the highest scoring games of all time in the form ofBioShock (2K Games), Mass Effect (MGS), The Orange Box (EA) and thelegendary Halo 3 (MGS), all of which have already been released or areset to arrive before the end of the year.

From the end of summerto the festive period, Xbox 360 boasts over 60 new releasescontributing to a portfolio of over 300 high-definition titles.

Xbox360 continues to hold the record for highest games attach rate acrossthe globe, at 6.3 games sold per console. With life-to-date sales of13.4 million consoles worldwide this represents incredible softwaresales.

This brings up two related points, both of which are somewhat important to me:
1.Microsoft has maintained a list of original Xbox games that work on theXbox 360. Because this list has always been so horribly formatted, Icreated my own version,which is both nicer looking and more accurate. However, this month,Microsoft released another update to the compatibility list, so I'll beupdating my own list ASAP, hopefully today. Here's the thing: Now thatwe're two full years into the Xbox 360 life cycle, and there are over300 original Xbox games on the list, this month's update will likely bethe last I make to my version of the list. This topic just isn't asimportant now as it was two years ago.
2. With over 300 games nowavailable for the Xbox 360, there's simply no way I can give this topicthe ongoing attention it deserves. As such, I've decided to change theway I handle Xbox 360 reviews and articles on the SuperSite. Startingafter the holidays, I will not be writing full-length reviews as I'vebeen doing, but will rather write shorter write-ups, with ratings,perhaps through the blog. I'd like to change my coverage in the videogame field to focus more on two things: The few stellar PC and 360games that ship each year and the PC-to-360 connectivity features(Media Center, media sharing) that I've ignored so far. The weird thingis, I know some people will be freaked by this, while others willwonder what took so long. There's a lot going on here, but I still feellike no one really covers video games correctly. Too much of the"traditional" video game press is childish and full of profanity, whichhelps sell the notion that video games are not so much art as they areadolescent. I wish I could fix this, but clearly the industry is toofar gone.
Anyway. I play a lot of video games, and that won'tstop. Nor will the conversations about this. But I think it's time, twoyears in, to change the way this conversation is framed on theSuperSite. It's just getting too complicated and time-consuming to tryand do it all.