Yesterday, as I mentioned earlier, I had the opportunity to participate in a chat on the XFire service about the big consoles. I think I acquitted myself rather well, actually. Brandon and Chris definitely had the best lines, but I wasn’t a drag on the proceedings. That’s something. Plus, I plugged these crazy multiplayer virtual worlds every chance I got. Cuz … what good is a console without a MMOG to play on it?

… Man I want to play FFXI again.

egmshoe: RedMage: So, whats the next big fad in gaming? We’ve seen the motion sensor now with wii, where do we go now?
[Slashdot] Michael: The ‘next big thing’ is already here: Massively Multiplayer games.
[Joystiq] Chris: Ever see eXistenZ? That’s what’s next.
[Slashdot] Michael: Now they just need to hit consoles.
(GDM/Gama) Brandon: not for me, but for you know…those people that like that stuff. I think that’ll be the perception among developers (and CEOs especially) to the extent that it’ll happen
[Xboxic] Niels: Huxley!
[Joystiq] Chris: You can’t argue with Blizzard’s money printing service,
(GDM/Gama) Brandon: MMOs killed my dog
[Joystiq] Chris: Was your dog a level 6 wraith?

For the sake of completeness, if you’re interested in the unsupervised chat they had alongside our little debate, that transcript is available as well.