I'm still just about on my first 360 but I don't expect it to last through the year. I'm already forced to resort to fancy trickery just to get it to start up and I've had both hard drives (one was a free one from Microsoft) corrupted, though they're both up and running again now. In terms of the games library, the exclusives, the integration of Xbox Live into games and the Xbox Live/Marketplace service itself I think the 360 is fantastic, but they clearly had to sacrifice a lot of testing to get the console out so early and the hardware is a piece of junk as a result.
Regarding EA, even if they don't specifically have advertising in Burnout it's likely their logo will still be plastered all over it. It was certainly everywhere in the Simpsons Game, including branding the helium tanks Homer uses to inflate himself. Going by Crysis and Hellgate: London all EA PC games now start up with an EA movie, the developer's movie, an nVidia movie, an Intel movie and the game's actual intro movie. There are still openings for sound card, physics card, network adapter, keyboard, mice and monitor manufacturers to get their brand in the startup sequence.
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