Tuesday, February 15, 2005

VGO Editor Says Ballmer Headlines are "AMAZING!"

Some more headlines following on the recently highlighted one.

Template: Headline (My comment) -Source

Ballmer: Xbox 2 'Amazing' (In other news, "Bush: Evil 'Bad'") -Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Ballmer: "Xbox 2 is going to OWN Sony" (Or Microsoft is going to buy them) -Xbox365

Ballmer *hearts* the new Xbox (I *heart* Huckabees) -Prodigious Gaming

“Xbox 2 is an Amazing Innovation” – Steve Ballmer (I could have sworn Nintendo Preisdent Satoru Iwata said that first) TeamXbox


Ballmer: Xbox 'can take Sony'
(...Out to dinner!) -CNet

Steve Ballmer Talks Xbox 2 (Wins the "straightforward" award) -Xbox Advanced

Xbox 2 expected to challenge Sony and Nintendo (Wins the "No duh!" award, despite tough competition) -GameShout

Ballmer 'bigs-up' Xbox 2 ('Bigs-up'?) -Ferrago

Microsoft CEO Pledges Xbox 2 Innovation, Makes Next-Gen Warcry (Spong shows some remarkable restraint) -Spong

Last, and definitely least: Xbox2 Blows Sony!!! (No comment) -Total Video Games

2 comments:

  1. The "Bigs Up" one had me laughing for a good minute. It's one thing to use slang, but if you're going to do so in a headline the least you can do is check to make sure you have it right. Big Ups yourself, as Ali G would say. For crying out loud. No respek anymore. No respek at all. ;)

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  2. Copy-editing:

    I think this first one is like one of those SAT questions:

    Ballmer :: Xbox 2 'Amazing' :: Nintendo


    Steve is getting on in years:

    Ballmer: "Xbox 2 is going to OWN, Sonny."


    This reads like that old Johnny Carson skit:

    Ballmer, hearts, the new Xbox

    (Three things that do not photograph well)


    Instead of shouts and jumps around like a monkey. I think the two are related somehow:

    Steve Ballmer Talks. Xbox 2.


    It's hardly innovative to make sequels to questionable titles:

    Microsoft CEO Pledges Xbox 2 Innovation; Makes Next-Gen Warcry


    I'm sure Sony execs share this opinion:

    Xbox2 Blows, Sony!

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